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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1890
Page
4
No. 56 arrives from Staples at 8:45 a.m. and heads to Duluth at 9:15. No. 55 runs west to Staples at 5:45 p.m. The freights carry passengers but are not reliable for regular service, as they may be abandoned without notice. Also noted are local visits, transfers, sales at Day's closing out, births, and community notices from Brainerd.
The next quarterly payments of water rental are due between July 1 and July 10. All rentals must be paid at the company office on or before July 10 or supply will be cut off. Ambrose Tighe, Receiver.
Northern Pacific Railroad offers round trip tickets for all points within 300 miles at a single fare for travel on July 3 and 4. Returns are valid until July 7, inclusive. This promotion covers the railroad line and aims to attract holiday travelers.
A special train from St Paul arrived at 4 35 PM with Weyerhauser syndicate members including Weyerhauser Sauntry Musser Davis Laird and Pillsbury. They inspected the Gull River plant site and the Rice Lake site with owner props to move the mill to the city if accepted. The party stayed overnight and returned to St Paul with Weyerhauser and Davis boarding the special.
The Gun Club results from Wednesday show McClenahan scoring 12 under 111111101111001-12 and Ingersoll 7 with 000111111000010-7. Weetfall matched 12 by 017101111011111-12, LaBar 7 with 100101110010001-7, Atherton 10 on 911011011001111-10, Hoffman 9 on 001110111100101-9, and Manton 9 on io ses pes 0110001111101901-9.
Northern Pacific announces a new timetable starting June 15 1890 with sixteen daily through trains eight each way on the main line and branches and 108 local trains west of St Paul Ashland and Duluth across 3800 miles of track. Pacific Express departs St Paul 8 24 am Chicago 5 30 pm and arrives Tacoma 0 50 am third day with Portland same day.
The Brooklyn Eagle derides the new shaking hands custom as absurd though it wins social adoption. Women lead with a rigid extended arm and a poised bow while men grasp the hand like a ladder rung, then release and end the ritual. The practice, first seen in Punch, has spread to New York society at McAllister hall. Additionally, notices outline Knights of Pythias travel plans for the Minnesota Grand Lodge Biennial Conclave in Milwaukee, July 8–12, 1890, with special trains and a detailed programme from July 7 to 12.
The longest day lengths are listed for multiple cities: London and Bremen about sixteen and a half hours, Stockholm eighteen and a half, Hamburg and Dantzic seventeen, St. Petersburgh and Tobolsk nineteen, Tornea nearly twenty two, Wardbury Norway from May 2% to July 22 with the sun never setting, and Spitzbergen about three and a half months. notes include a fragment mentioning Philadelphia and Canada with a shorter day.
The Episcopal church women plan a lawn festival on church grounds Thursday evening July 3 with open air or Guild Room refreshments and music for all. Also advertised are Day’s closing out sale shoes and May’s nut cream plus a brief corporate filing for Standard Lumber Measurer company with incorporators John L Smith James Rhodes and Edward Hazen. A $2.50 plow boot is offered at $2.88 at Day’s sale.
Excursion fares from all stations to all stations within 300 miles on the Northern Pacific to be sold July 3 and 4, good to return July 7, plus July 3 to 7 excursions to Milwaukee returning July 20, $13.82 from Brainerd for Knights of Pythias encampment travel. Also Brainerd ads: pants at 1.39, harness repairs, Plastico coating, heavy mules for sale or exchange for lumber, large selection of ladies Oxford ties, lunch baskets, cemetery lot work, whips, ice orders, baby hats, trunks and valises, money loans, cheapest shoes, and a store closing sale at cost on hardware and more.
J. J. Kennedy & Co. announces a large invoice of Odd Pants and spring bottoms in plain and color variants. Prices are reduced to compete with current market rates as buyers are invited to call and examine the selections.
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