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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1892
Page
3
The piece notes women gaining acceptance as public speakers in politics and society, acknowledging past voice issues and predicting improved training and opportunities at colleges. It mentions a female Indiana college contestant's recent victory and the public’s demand to hear more from her.
A St. Louis Republic recounts Representative Donnell mocking his water spaniel that frequents ten Fredericktown saloons. The dog drinks beer on demand, then quits for days, and finally is taken home after a night of drunkenness. The tale ends with plans to send the dog to Dwight if the behavior continues.
About a month ago Bob Montgomery and partners left Death Valley with six burros on a prospecting trip. Dave Henderson cites Jim Maitland’s 10 year pie venture in England, while noting West Point grads and the chasm between a lieutenant and a brigadier general.
A peculiar admonition lists strict self restraint avoiding public praise, petitions, subscriptions, visits, lawsuits, gifts, or any actions that could invite acknowledgment. It cautions against social, legal, health, or artistic engagement and ends with a stark reminder to avoid death.
A beggar and a ragamuffin newsboy attract an old man’s attention on a bitter day. The boy donates pennies to the beggar before the man gives both boy and beggar a quarter, moved to tears, then repeats the act with passersby. Kate Field's Washington reports the scene.
The ad shows Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder as larger and fuller than rival brands Royal and Taylor's One Spoon. It claims lower adulteration, safer ammonia free formula, and greater economy due to stronger purity and better results.
Rochester hosts a state convention for Minnesota firemen while St. Paul marks the Loyal Legion’s seventh anniversary. Reductions in drought risk mix with crop prospects as a cyclone devastates southern Minnesota. Casement notes include numerous drownings and accidents from Faribault to Mankato, a Crusen-Lent damages verdict, a jail term for a Delano marshal, and a push for a Staples area court meeting.
Rev Upkyke resigns as pastor in Aberdeen. The ninth Knights Templar conclave met in Yankton. Mrs Ost of Prairie Center dies in lightning strike. Loucks becomes acting president of the Farmers' Alliance after Polk's death. County auditors meet in Watertown to discuss office duties. A baby born near Bossko. first white infant on Sisseton reservation. Henry Dukos dies by self harm in jail. An 11-year-old dies in Flandreau from gasoline fumes. Norman L. Gifford in Yankton with a railroad grading outfit bound for Yankton to Norfolk, Neb. Auditors adopt uniform accounts and protest new burdens. Mitchell High School commencement held. graduates named. Street exhibition of the manly art in Hot Spring causes excitement between two journalists. Good Templars elect officers at Redfield.
Karl Nelson pleaded guilty to embezzling 12000 from the Grand Forks bank. Judge Thomas sentenced him to five years at hard labor in Sioux Falls. The court convened at Valley City, and proceedings continued there.
Reports list multiple fatal incidents from Wisconsin including a Kennickinick farmer struck by lightning, a Eau Claire woman dying at home, and a Fall Creek wagon incident. Other items note a Navan cheese factory fire, a Watertown rail fatality, and stockholder meetings for Beaver Dam Lumber and LaCross Theater. কয়
Wm. Bain the abductor at Independence is released on $2,500 bail. William Humphrey, a wealthy farmer near Brush Creek, dies of heart disease. James Murray, a farmer near Lawler, suffers a concussion after a hayload fall. Moville near Sioux City suffers a major fire destroying 22 businesses and residences with about 90,000 dollars loss. The Iowa Union Medical Society meets in Cedar Rapids with many physicians presenting papers. Rock Island Railroad shops contracts in Des Moines estimated at 125,000 dollars. Mason City notes three hot days boost corn prospects. A lightning strike near Sinsinaw Mound Academy injures Reverend Father Burke and Fred W. Carberry. Coleman and Ryan, Chicago safe blowers, face arraignment for thefts in New Albin and Dickeyville post offices. the watch mailed from Houston to a Chicago mistress is identified.
At Edinburgh on Wednesday afternoon the Earl of Haddinton presented Robert Stuart Farquharson with 100 guineas and a gold watch. The gifts were subscribed by his corps as Farquharson, a Light Dragoons survivor, had three horses shot at Balaklava and was a Russian prisoner for over twelve months. He served fourteen years in the Light Dragoons and has since 1882 earned a pension in the Scotch Yeomanry.
A frail rose blooms by the wayside until a ragged man with sins looks on. He bends to cradle the flower as a crystal tear falls, speaking of a heart once bright like the rose, now faded by woes. From the New York Clipper.
A poem fragment recounts a patient lover who delayed confession of love for about a year or more. The impatient beloved sighs that if the suitor were another person named Steves they would have married long ago.
In a Brooklyn to Greenport night ride a conductor recalls a perilous chase on Long Island. An unseen engine behind gains rapidly, but a clever plan oiling rails with kerosene halts the pursuit, preventing a collision as the Ben Franklin derails herself.
A brief history notes Kensington now Beilih Ct as early tinware origin town with Edward Patterson introducing the trade around 1740, later brass and harness buckle production, then Knowlton’s corn popper invention of 1857, and first US bird cages in 1848 by G Gunther in New York City. It mentions price cuts, industry trusts, and nine US bird cage manufacturers.
A detailed account of the English throne used in coronations of Great Britain rulers. The old oaken chair bears centuries of use, with a rough sandstone seat claimed to hold magical power. Legends tie it to Stuart and Tudor eras and to biblical Jacob.
A Brooklyn Life quip depicts a nervous passenger asking why the train runs so fast while the conductor reassures there is a rotten bridge ahead and they want to cross with little strain. The exchange shows a humor tone about railway danger.
Ricketts says the wedding to Miss Munn is indefinitely postponed after she wed another man. Amos B. Carter of Elam Pa celebrated his 80th birthday, father of twenty one children. His wife died long ago, and a tombstone inscription reads Some have children and some have none, here lies the mother of twenty one.
In the house Mr Balfour dismissed a push to fix the dissolution date. He argued that business, even if expedited in the Lords, cannot permit dissolution before June 29 or 30. Rumors in ministerial circles say Lord Salisbury will not reveal a new programme, relying instead on Home Rule denunciation.
By local applications they cannot reach the Sicensed portion of the ear. Deafness is caused by an inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When inflamed you have rumbling or imperfect hearing. when closed, Deafness results. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh. We offer one hundred dollars for any deafness case (caused by catarrh) cured by Hall's Catarrh Care. Send for circulars.
The piece cites cases of people briefly declared dead after hanging who later revived or survived. It references Juetta de Belsham, Obadiah Walker, a Swiss victim, Ann Green, John Green, and the tale of Half-Hanged Maggie, illustrating persistent myths and recorded anomalies about judicial executions.
The article highlights Algeria’s vast desert area of about 330,000 square miles, with half in the Sahara, being reclaimed through artesian wells begun in 1837. More than 13,000 wells, 75 to 400 feet deep, feed reservoirs that irrigate plantations, reclaiming about 12,000,000 acres, nearly 19,000 square miles, half Kentucky.
In Belgaum a man charged with murdering a child for its cheap silver bracelets and anklets received a death sentence. He did not deny the crime, offering to have his stomach cut open to prove truth, but the judge declined. The ruling was confirmed by Bombay High Court.
Rumors spread by religious fanatics claim government agents will kidnap seven boys for sacrifice to a water deity as a reservoir is planned. Believed especially by lower classes, mobs have attacked suspected emissaries. Police efforts aim to quell the unrest.
Dentists face the difficulty of matching false teeth to natural teeth. Tooth factories provide rings with 25 sample teeth ranging from near white to olive. A single sample usually nearly matches the patient, allowing the dentist to fit the teeth by applying at the factory.
The eminent slugger Pete Jackson drew praise from English sports circles at the Derby. He is celebrated widely and fashionably, with a final honor suggested as a meeting with H R H the Prince of Wales.
The 14 year old son of John Treevalley was struck by a passing freight at Ner sey and died after leg amputation. An advertisement promotes Allen’s Iron Tonic Bitters for loss of appetite. A morristown burglary at the Acme meat market ended with the intruder shot in the leg and captured.
The notice asserts that the true laxative principle in Syrup of Figs provides a permanently beneficial effect, while cheap vegetable extracts and mineral solutions sold as medicines are permanently injurious. It identifies the California Fig Syrup Co as the manufacturer.
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