20 Mar 1885
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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1885
Page
1
Reports on General Grant's health with a physician's cautious outlook. Also listed are: the Bismarck reform school plan, prison labor, and Sioux Falls assignments. various political appointments, indictments, and retirements. and Nebraska and Dakota local incidents including fires, lynchings, and court actions.
A collection of practical tips and recipes including celery use in pickles, a horseradish mustard sauce for beef, blanc mange with jelly centers, curry beef, reheating fowl in gravy, cabbage fried bits, and a pear dessert with gelatine. Also decorative wall fans and tips on proper room arrangement and pe rceptive observing powers in children.
A Des Moines ruling holds the governors suspension of the auditor as ministerial not judicial, allows a judicial inquiry into charges against Browne, and sustains the statute’s constitutionality while overruling the plaintiffs demurrer on all points except that issue. The prosecution contemplates quo warranto or appeal.
A desperado Bill Todd was arrested and jailed. Dick Rogers and followers attacked the county jail firing from inside. Rogers and three others were shot and fled. Troops from Fort Union and Company H Santa Fe militia mobilize as guards surround the jail amid mob threats.
A London health exhibition warns that a dangerous fashion of deadening skin with bismuth to keep a pale complexion may spread from actresses to upper society. The note claims bismuth powder causes nail disease and skin roughening, with repeated washing hindered by pigment. It cites antique cosmetic practices as harmful over time.
Farmers are urged to keep annual records and open new books on January 1, with daily entries for key transactions. Build fire safety into farm life, insulate structures, and store ashes properly in a brick or stone receptacle away from buildings. Preserve ashes as fertilizer and season firewood in advance. Do not use green wood and keep ice house filled to protect ice crop. Head of household should join farmers’ club and engage in discussions. winter is a harvest time.
Minnesota items report Rev. W. T. Boutwell’s serious illness. C. D. Perkins named judge in the Thirteenth district with W. C. Rice as a commissioner. John T. Whitaker dies by suicide amid dipsomania. gamblers flee Winona. new insurance tax aids fire departments. Macalester College appoints two professors in science and Greek literature. Other notes cover seduction settlements, fire losses, arrests, and ongoing political appointments in Minnesota.
John Proctor, a western lumberman, saves a downed tramp and helps a struggling town. After a fire destroys stock and a theft scare, he protects the vulnerable man and later promises him work and a place in his yard. The tale blends hardship, charity, and frontier grit.
Describes attic wall beds in a barn dwelling at Ingleside with sleeping rooms built into exterior walls, thick plaster, stair access to some beds, and straw and feather mattresses. A parlor bed uses wooden doors. curtains close wall openings. An American toiled with haste before bed and bath.
Galignani's Messenger notes Queen Victoria's banquet service in St George's Hall includes buffets of plateaux cups and candelabra in precious metal. The collection features a solid gold lyre bird and a lifelike tiger's head from Tippoo Saib with historic ties to George III and Hyder Ali. The jeweled lyre bird yields an annual income of about £1 000.
An English Devonshire estate sold for 8000 pounds after an 18000 pound earlier asking price. Wheat averages have fallen to 12 1/2 pence per bushel in places, fueling alarm among territorialists. The Globe mocks Land Restoration, the Tory organ, suggesting land may become free soon.
A young man, rich from gold dust and a planned English return, defends a watcher with a stranger in Tarrangower. In a night clash by eucalyptus, they fight over a purse, each near death, ending with the thief found dead in a creek and the narrator returning to a hopeful home life in England.
Onions are sliced and boiled ten minutes in three waters, then drained and fried in butter or beef drippings. Stirring often, they are seasoned and served hot as directed.
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