Brainerd News Briefs Highlight Local Events And Incidents
Local notices report births and marriages including Mr and Mrs W H Mantor welcoming a new boy and Alex McPherson with wife celebrating twins. Headlines note real estate activity, fire incidents at Willard home and Northern Pacific paint shop, law changes on spring shooting, and upcoming Maud Granger troupe at the opera house. Also covered are a moose capture near Aitkin, railroad project revival, and community notices from W C T U and local trades.
Davenport manslaughter trial marks month in district court
The March term opened and progressed with the Davenport manslaughter case occupying the first three days under Judge Stearns. Davenport, charged in the John Polly killing, was acquitted. the Polly son Charles was also shot. The jury verdict not guilty drew mixed reactions. Beaulieu arrest case dismissed. Mooers note suit verdict for Mooers. Judge Sleeper presided earlier. other matters included Whitely v Mississippi Water Power & Boom Co. and a goods sale notice from M L Swartz.
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District Court
Myron Davenport
Stearns
Sleeper
Davenport
John Polly
Polly
Charles
Pollys
McLaughlin
Holland
W. A. Fleming
D. S. Mooers
Mooers
Surkey
Whitely
Mississippi Water Power & Boom Co
Gardner
Spencer
Forsyth
Searles
Fleming
Graham
Spencer and
Doran
Brainerd
City of
15Th Judicial District
C. B. Sleeper
Camp
Courtney
Halladay
John Willis
Scaries
Taylor
Wm. Shontell
Elopement Fallout Shocks Hebrew Community in Minnesota
The Minneapolis Spectator reports a 15 year old Miss Hattie Jacobs wed to L. Metzger a young jeweler amid family opposition. The Pioneer Press notes the couple plans twelve months separation with Jacobs parents resisting reconciliation. Metzger laments the lack of acceptance and considers drastic measures.
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Minneapolis Spectator
Hattie Jacobs
L. Metzger
Brainerd
Pioneer Press
Leopold Metzger
Mollie Jacobs
Wisconsin
Metzger
Timber and stone bids and local ads from the Mississippi
The notice advertises 500000 feet oak timber 20 to 30 feet long with top width, paying 9 per thousand feet, plus 1000000 feet Norway or white pine in 16 or 24 foot lengths at 6 per thousand, and 1000 tons of stone at 7.50 per cord. Also local ads for wallpaper hay tobacco and a verse from the St Paul Globe.
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Mississippi Water Power & Boom Co
Brain erd council names police chief and sets mayoral election
The Brain erd Common Council appoints Peter Mertz as chief of police with March 22 1587 effect. A special meeting fixes April 19 as the mayoral election date and appoints ward clerks and judges for voting at four ward locations. The notice also lists tobacco and clothing ads embedded in the public notice.
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Michigan
Frances E. Willard
United States
Brainerd
City of Brainerd
Peter Mertz
A. E. Tartar
Sleeper
Wanted: Pat O'Brien Civil Engineer Last Heard in Brainerd
Civil engineer Pat O'Brien and survey party reportedly passed through the Goge bic Iron Range of Northern Michigan in 1872. Last heard from in Brainerd. A DeLacy Wood Sauk Rapids. Westfall's offers clothing gents furnishings boots hats trunks and more. Ambalema Lichter Deutscher Rauch tobacco at Smith's.
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Pat O’brien
Gogebic Iron Range
Michigan
Brainerd
A. DeLacy Wood
Sauk Rapids
Westfall’s
Parochial Mission at St Pauls Church Starts March 27
St Pauls Church announces a parochial mission beginning Sunday March 27 with holy communion daily at dawn and evening prayer and instruction at 4 PM. Daily mission services and a sermon at 8 PM led by Rev James A Gilfillan and Rev Charles A Cummings. Seats are free and the public is invited.
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St. Paul’ Church
Chas. A. Cummings
New York City
England
Trinity Church
Wall Street
Brainerd
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Louis Stii
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Ireland
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Efront St. Bet
Ween Sgth
Ceneral Land Office
Additio
Laurel and
Sixth Streets
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W. McFadden
Seymour
Sherwood
Towne-Mcfadden Bloch
Brainerd Dispatch
Crow Wing County
Cass and
Itasca
N. H. Ingersoll
F. W. Wieland
Editors and Proprietors
Minnesota
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Marter
Fred Merritt
D. J. Knox
Aitkin
Maud Granger
John Milem
Bay Lake
A. J. Collins
Monley
Tennis
Keep Bros., Grocers
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C. T
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A. S. Nutting
J. O. Church
E. W. Lynch
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Minneapolis
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Alex McPherson
W. C. Hayward
Iowa
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H. Closterman
Butte City
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Opera House
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Willard
Northern Pacific Works
Duluth Herald
Herald
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Prof. Clark
Boston
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Clark
J. C. Flynn
Little Falls
Lucy Perley
Minnehaha Falls
Mr. Flynn
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la Crosse
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F. L. Matteson
Willie Jones
Count Pulaski
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Phillips
Main Street East
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Long Prairie
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Herman
Brown's Valley
Webster
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Sarah E. Derby
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H. Rosenblatt
Sixth Street
C. H. Ireland
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N. F. Warner & Co’s
Khurum Lodge
OU. H. Hoyt
Lakewood Cemetery
Edward B. Linnen
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Glyndon
Abbey
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Co
South Carolina
Oscar
Edison
Voegtlin
Dazien
Wm. Smith
Jay Wilber
Aitkin County
M. L. Swartz
Beaulieu
Gus Beaulieu
A. O. Narrow
Narrow
St. Paul
A. S. Marshall Beaulieu
L. J. Cale
Leo
Smith’s
Smith Sells
Star Tobacco
St. Paul Globe
Faro
Westfalls
City Hose House
P. D. Davenport
Robert Caughie
Jas. Murray
C. E. Smith
Second Ward
Wm. Steele
D. E. Slipp
5. Crandall
C. D. Johnson
Walter Davis
Third Ward
C. D. Thurston
J. McDonald
P. G. Fogelstrom
W. B. Kenyon
H. M. Newell
John B. Stetson
Day & Meagher’s
Cornerstone
Smith’s Tobacco Store
L. J. Cale’s
Pat O'Brien
Jarvo
Ambalema Lichter Deutscher Rauch
Tobak
Esver
Arbuckle
Kirk’s
National Yeast
Royal
California
M. L. Swatz’s
Jas. A. Gil
Fifth Street
Villard Hotel
A. L. Horrman
Westfall
Royal Baking Powder Co
N. Y
S.& J. W Koop
Charmo the West
Cats
C. H. Wier
Crow
Crow Wing
George A. Harris
Lydia A. Harris
Lillian M. Hewes
Said
A. Whitely
Crivil
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M. McFadden
Court House
Bralnerd
Charles Conway
Sadie Conway
Oliver T. Wyman
Register of Deeds
State of
St. Paul and Northern Pacific Railway Company
Lave & Dopae, Attorneys For Mortgagee
Minneapolis, Minn
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Chicago
Chang
Wil Lines
Des Moines
Albert Lea
Fort Dodge
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D. T
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Pa Ae
S. F. Boyd
Gen
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M. Roberts, E
Hartley Lock Front Street
W. A. Smith
A. Fleming
Fernald
Frater & Fernald
Attorney AT Law
Ribbel
E. Herbert Stanley
Pernie Degara, Front Ane Brainerd
Eene
Nevers & Spaulding
Ambermen’s
7Th Street
Post Office