Brainerd News Briefs Half Summary of Local Happenings
Chas Kinkle transacts business in Minneapolis. Rev C Abel leaves Brainerd for Pine City. Miss Carrie Morrison returns from Chicago trip. Howe Co. failure in St Cloud with $24000 liabilities. Northern Pacific Bank hires Spencer as cashier. Library ball March 29 with special train. Forged checks case John Sullivan and Geo Veyett jailed. Revival meetings by Methodists and Congregationalists continue. Teachers exam draws several applicants. Cloaks offered at half price by Henry I Cowen. M E church skips service next Sunday. Mrs Theviot opens millinery in Staples. District court opens next Monday. New daughter for Rev Geo Rowe. Infant deaths and weddings noted. McKinley meeting at Minneapolis offers half fare. Y M C A aided revival efforts. Norwegian Danish Lutheran preaching Sunday. O E K M s officers visit. Slender gossip cases dismissed. Fire company gifts to member Paine for marriage. Dan Gunn mentioned as potential legislature candidate.
Fine Entertainment at Opera House Exhibition
The Columbian Scenic company presented an excellent Monday evening show under the city fire department. Stereopticon views of the worlds fair and Hawaii were clearly shown and explained, with scenes from the Burlington Route between St. Paul and Chicago also featured. A return exhibition may be scheduled in a few weeks.
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Columbian Scenic Company
Opera House
Fire Department
Burlington
St. Paul
Chicago
Soldier of Fortune stage play by St Francis youths at Sleeper Opera House
Tomorrow evening March 17 the St Francis Catholic Church youths present A Soldier of Fortune at the Sleeper Opera House with a 5 pm start. A J Halstead H C Stivers Rev Fr Lynch will give ovations, songs by Mrs H Theviot S F Alderman and J P Gardiner, and a large audience is expected. The cast includes Col Fitznoodle C D Johnson Cyril Clifford J C Hart Dr Fargo H J Linnemann Freddie Belmont Willis Snowball Agnes Belmont Mamie Carney Ida Lovewell Carrie Morrison Precilla Sarah Canan Manager Frank Gorenflo. The ad notes cloak sale and Ripans Tabules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Francis Catholic Church
Sleeper Opera House
A.J. Halstead
H. C. Stivers
Fr. Lynch
Freddie Belmont
As. Willis, Jr
Snowball
de Lents
Atkinson Ee
Somers
Agnes Belmont
Mamie Carney
Ida Lovewell
Carrie Morrison
Precilla
Sarah Canan
Frank Gorenflo
Township Election Results and Labor Wages News
The Dispatch lists township election results for Drxerwood Crow Wurga Sr. Marthins Dax Lawn Marie Grove Laxe Laxe and notes a Republican League Club meeting. It also reports Judge Hassell signing a wage payment order to distribute 50 000 to Minneapolis mill workers tied to the Gull River Lumber Company assignment and forthcoming payments through the Northern Trust Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drxerwood
John Brand
Robert Archibald
T. Sengohl
R. H. Morford
Harry Patterson
P. Brand
I. T. Leckleiter
P. Behlmer
Chas. Rasch
Crow Wurga
B .B Gibson
A. F
Knute Olson
Marie Grove
James S. Chrysler
Harry Porter
Nels G. Olson
M. F. Driver
J. B. Swisher
A. Hall
Orlo J. Dane
Laxe Laxe
Joseph E. Myers
George Thompson
Knute J. Nesheim
Herbert C. Hughey
Henry M. Bouck
Edward Drake
Hassell
Minneapolis
Northern Mill Company
Gull River Lumber Company
Northern Trust Company
Russell
Minneapolis Tribune
Local Transients and Notices From Gull River Area
Mr. Barney returns from the woods. Mr. Walker moves to Gull Lake on a rented farm. Mr. Landon and family visited from Brainerd last week. Martin Phillips plans a party for his schoolmates Friday night. Stanley Bros. contract to load ties on cars at nearby stations. A new section foreman replaces Mr. Johnson, who has served long and faithfully. The chapel car visited Gull River Monday but the event was not advertised and many missed the sermon.
New Spring Stock at Abeles Bros Store
The latest Spring Stock arrives this week featuring the largest line of children's suits at Abeles Bros with prices far below competition. C. B. White's also lists a full line of T. L. Blood & Co paints just received.
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C. B. White’s
Ables Bros
Childken
Abeles Bros
Competiton. Ts
T. L. Blood & Co
C. B. White's
Bredferd
Bed Rock
C. B
Deerwood News Highlights Local Events and Meetings
The Deerwood area reports mild weather impacts on lumber operations and a minor injury to Rob Roberts. Rev Dahle of Duluth to give a sermon in Scandinavian on April 1. Miss Mary Erickson wed a man unnamed. school reopening April 26 with Frank M. Cook as teacher. Searles of Aitkin visits Thursdays. Deerwood election turnout 51 voters amid calmer partisan tone. A new comedy troupe offers a free show praised for local talent. Brainerd Fire Department calls a meeting April 2 to elect chief and aides. An ad invites readers to browse new spring dry goods stock from Henry T. Cowen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deerwood
Rob. Roberts
Dahle
Duluth
Mary Erickson
Frank M. Cook
Cook
Searles
Aitkin
Critte
Thermopylae to Hot Springs and a stretch of bargains
The notice recalls Leonidas and the Spartans at Thermopylae and notes Hot Springs in Arkansas and South Dakota as health resorts. It advertises travel tickets via the Burlington system, urges readers to contact W. J. Kenyon for information, and promotes a rash of local commerce from clothing stores to farm land for exchange. It also highlights Northern Pacific low round trip rates to California with stopovers and a San Francisco midwinter fair in 1894 offering travel deals via St. Paul and Duluth.
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Lhermophie
Mountin Pass
Greece
Leonidas
Dr. Johnson
Earth
Heaven
Thermopylae
Hot Springs
Arkansas
South Dakota
Northwest
Mississippi Valley
St. Louis
Burlington
W. J
Kenyon
Gen
St. Paul, Minn
California
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
San Francisco
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
Portland
Missouri River
Chas. S. Fee
Minn
Abeles Bros Clothing Store Opens Amid Spring Stock Boost
Locals celebrate Abeles Bros as they unveil new spring dry goods while Congdon’s promotes wagon varnish and re varnish services. J R Smith Insurance HQ in Sleeper Block Room 2 offers reliable fire coverage.
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J. R. Smith
Reliable Fire Insurance
Oysters and Omission Prompt Husbands Gag
A Poughkeepsie tale reports a husband pressed a guest for more oysters after his wife warned there were only twelve total. The guest declined while the wife fumed, later asking why he urged more when none remained. The punchline reveals the husband forgot the kitchen shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Market Street
A Chinaman Joke and a Vexing Physics Paradox
From the Melbourne letter a Chinese joke about a store sign yields a sharp rebuke after a misread advert. The second item presents an unresolved impetus gravity problem: a cannon on a moving train fires backward at 60 mph, asking whether the ball lands as if dropped or moves differently. The note is attributed to the Louis Globe-Democrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne
Louis Globe-Democrat
Vengeance on Cortland Street Marriage Plot
A dialogue shows Mr. Harlem Heights accusing Mr. Uptown Bou levard of consenting to his daughter’s marriage to Cortland Street after ten years of opposition. The retort frames the marriage as personal vengeance, claiming the husband will gain a mother in law. An accompanying anecdote mocks an artist who laughs at a client's attempt to shorten a mouth in a portrait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlem Heights
Uptown Boulevard
Mr. Cortland Street
Cortland Street
San Francisco
Sale of Katz Bros. Insolvent Assets Set for Brainerd
Assignee Werner Hemstead will offer for sale on March 14 1894 at 2 pm at the warehouse behind Kinkele's Saloon Brainerd Minn the bulk stack of hardware and book accounts of Katz Bros insolvents. The sale follows a Minnesota Crow Wing County District Court order dated April 7 1894. Cash to the highest bidder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pisa
Minnesota
Crow Wing
Fifteenth Judicial District
Isidore Katz
Harry Katz
Katz Bros
C. M. Patek
Kinkele
Laurel Street
6Th Street
Brainerd
Minn
Werner Hemstead
State OF Minnesota
County of
District Court
Charlotte D. Roberts
John N. Roberts
15Th Judicial District
Front
Sixth Streets
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Larson & Walters
Cross Creek Lehigh Coal
N. P
Rostad, Bank & 69
THE
Straton House
Fifth Street
UNION
Bishloride OF Gold CO
Brainerd, Minn
Front Street
W.J. Bain
OPIUM
B. White
IU. White
INO
Brainerd Dispatch
Crow Wing and
Cass Counties
N. H. Ingersoll, F.W. Wieland
Editors and Proprietors
Crow Wing County
H.C. Srivers
Journal
Ingersoll
Sanborn
City Hotel
Sorenson
Cale Block
Ifront Street
D. M. Clark & Co
P. G. Kelehan
Perham
Friends
Chas. Kinkle
M. E. Church
J. H. Koop
Twin Cities
Rev. C. Abel
Pine City
Con. O'Brien
J. W. Koop
Muack
McFuadden Drug Store
Wn. Hack
Crown Point
Ind
E. O. Webb
Harold
Spokane Falls
Mrs. E. M. Westfall
Geo. Redding
Oliver Burnett
Rich Prarie
Morrison County
M. J. O'Leary
Otto Reinhart
Chenquatana
St. Cloud
Northern Pacific Bank
H. J. Spencer
1St National Bank
Northern Pacific
J. N. Nevers
N. P. Library Association
John Sullivan
Geo. Veyett
Chiperfield
Methodist
Congregational
West
Edmands
L. S. Kotch
J. C.huntington
W. F. Roberts
Minerva Rowell
Staples
Miss Pierce
Little Falls
Gertrude Kerr
Belle Wilson
Cora Palmer
Gull River
Bertha Prince
Olive Knebett
Clara Small
Gertrude Congdon
Irene Lowey
Barbara Gibbs
Henry I. Cowen
Maggie Johnson
LaCross, Wis
J. R. Howes
City
N. McFadden
Grand Rapids
Fred Davenport
Rainy Lake Country
Geo
Rowe
Jane Hodgdon
Williston, N. C
George
Financial Statement
Wm. Francis
First
Second Congregational
10Th and
Oak Streets
Norby
Wadena
Mary ©.Taylor
O. KE. 5
EK. Elson
Tonnneson
J. F. McGinnis & Co
Royal Arch
Charm
John Borden
Mississippi
B. Frank Durgan
Grove and
Tenth Street
A. R. Vallquist
Norwood Street
L. M. Robert
Book and Ladder Company
Jacob Paine
Deer River
Democrat
Dan’l M. Gunn
Dan
Itasca County
Dan Ginn
Henry I. Couen
Republican League Club Meeting
Republican League Club
Municipal Court Room
State League
Barney
Mr. Walker
Gull Lake
A. Barre
C.F. McDonato
U. S
Brainerd Fire Department
D. McInrosa
Henry TL. Cowen
Fort Riply
J. R. Suers
Sleeper
Henry I. Coney
Henry I. Cones
Congdons
Congdon’s
McFadden Drug Store
F. G. Sundberg
Hoffman Bazaar
D. M. Clark & Co's
Sherwood
Poughkeepsie News- Press
Dhyaself
Leon E. Lum
JR. Smith Agency
Manchester Five
Manchester
U.S
Greenwich Ins. Co
New York
Royal Ins. Co
Liverpool
Orient Ins. Co
Hartford
Northern Assurance Co
London
Queen Ins. Co
America
Per Ora
Pees, 27
Hagberg & Lagerquist
Grocers
Hagberg & Lagerquint
Odd Fellows’ Block
Laurel and
D. W. Whitford
Sixth Street
P. M. Johnson
Prop
Qdepeun
Dean Camel Niginéd
Bon Ton
T. Mikmaster
Lumbermen’s Supplies
E.G. Smedebecegg
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