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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1890
Page
3
A narrator explains how a man named Tom can buy candy for him by simply entering a shop, while women wait behind a long line. He discovers the staff serve him first, prompting him to send a friend to purchase for him. A Pan American congress committee backs a steamship subsidy.
An ad touts Salvation Oi as the greatest cure for rheumatism neuralgia and injuries with a price of twenty five cents. It also parodies a conjugal catechism asking what is the duty of a married man and urges keeping Dr Ball's Cough Syrup for children.
A prominent Detroiter denies a New York rumor he was swindled out of 400 dollars. He recalls meeting a lottery picker who offered him a valuable book, then bought tickets and drew a watch, calling the bunko tale false and vowing to pursue those who spread it.
A series of accidents across Minnesota and nearby states includes derrick collapse in Ortonville fatally injuring Frank Mueller and injuring Al fred Westergreen, a motor vehicle incident injuring Miss Bannah Edmunds in Minneapolis, and Martin Peters of Wilder losing a leg after a freight train incident in Windom. Robberies and arrests are noted in Faribault and Austin, while a Polish youth, Joseph Chevialowski, is arrested in Chicago for an 1887 murder. Fires destroy stores in St Charles and a farm house near Volga, with arson suspected. The Ulmer quarry explosion injures several workers, and Grindstone Buttes in Nowlin county promise a new industrial resource for grindstones, with potential railroad development between Pierre and Rapid City.
The piece reports Red Cross aid efforts for North Dakota destitute, triplet births in a local family, a serious injury by a broken pitchfork, a double homicide and suicide near Fort Yates, and farm labor figures on the Grandin farm. It notes seed wheat relief pledges, a threshing dispute ending in a near fatal shooting, and seed wheat funding developments with 300,000 bushels promised by elevator interests.
Palmyra voters will decide the license question at the upcoming election. The Madison city treasurer accepted two silver certificates raised to ten dollars. A Neenah court case charged Mrs Anton Nelson with pointing a pistol at Peter Jenson and fined her five dollars plus costs. Lucius Clark of South Bend Indiana proposes buying Neenah street railway and switching to electricity. Duane Green of Hebron Jefferson County is believed to have died by his own hand. friends think his body lies in Hebron Pond. W H Cochran of Centralia claims rotary saw improvements enabling 150000 feet of pine lumber daily. Fond du Lac youths arrested for robbing William Schultz of twenty dollars are Charles Pierson, Doc Mullen, and Tim Glenn. The case of C L Coleman, La Crosse lumberman, for logs cut on public lands yielded a verdict against him. Mary La Mere of Wausau was found guilty in Madison federal court of opening letters not addressed to her. sentenced to sixty days in jail and a $50 fine. Black River Falls attorneys declare the license vote void due to April first Tuesday requirement. Northwestern switchmen in Milwaukee struck to aid Chicago colleagues. demand granted, yards calm. A 20-year-old woman with a 2–3 month old baby left the baby with a landlady at Shipton hotel and did not return. Gustav Hueather of Racine Junction inherits $8000 from his late father abroad. he has a wife and two children. Two Racine County youths, George Browning and William Hanson, duel with pistols in Walworth County. Hanson shot, Browning escapes.
Senator Hutchigan abandons business plans to resume law in Ottumwa. Iowa leads in corn and literacy while Magazines per population rise. Rev. David J. Perris receives a $10,000 salary call from New York. Sheriff Deamond has sent six to the insane asylum with more pending. In Bloomfield a chair‑fight ends with injuries from a stabbing. Liscomb wreck delays all trains on the Iowa Central. Morrison Bailey, once Waterloo resident, dies by suicide in Wisconsin. Andrew J. Davis, wealthy Ottumwa dry goods pioneer, dies at Butte. Cedar Rapids youth Frank Mills missing. he recently wore his father's gold watch.
John Willis, a widower from McLean County, married Effie Pinkston. A wedding supper drew many guests, but a heated religion debate led to disputes. Effie refused to stay and walked home at daylight, leaving her husband behind.
Congress debated proposed splits and taxation changes affecting South Dakota and Nebraska. Senate and House committees advanced land and Indian affairs bills, including settlers on indemnity lands, relief for Crow Creek, and timber culture repeal, with several amendments and appropriations discussed.
A Washington Post satire recalls Adam and Eve as fortunate, contrasting their simple life with modern woes. Eve’s temper, fruit trees, and lack of letters are mocked to suggest a “monopoly on unadulterated comfort.” The piece parodies domestic bliss and gendered behavior.
Practice and theory must go together. Theory without practice is idle speculation, but practice without theory to animate it is mere mechanism. In every art and business theory is the soul and practice the body. The soul without the body is a ghost, but a body without a soul is a corpse.
A fragmentary verse by Mary Ann Gifford speaks of unseen archers, golden boughs, and a tale of two youths. Love, memory, and vanished visions drift as the summers fade and distant waves echo past troth and joy at the shore.
A veteran pastor recalls twenty years of ministry filled with funny scenes at weddings, visits, and sermons. He recounts peasants paying in peanuts, a groom answering vows with baptismal covenants, a dog at a wedding, and comic interruptions in prayer. The piece ends noting a balance between humor and responsibility in a minister's life.
Saturday review recounts ancient Egyptian mummified cats 2000 years old being found in a cat cemetery. Modern fellah ships twenty tons of tail waggers to Liverpool for use as fertilizer. Cats once divine, buried in shrouds, now fetch about 3 pounds 13 shillings per ton for guano.
A 1872 tale from Charleston recounts a German shoemaker whose heir left a box with two bottoms containing $135 and silver. The box passed through a widow to a grave memorial at St Bethany Cemetery. The story, told by Mrs Eggers, highlights the saying there is money in geranium pots.
An amateur trapper in Lebanon Center Connecticut trod upon a squat trap and found a bizarre, hairless animal about skunk size with feet and tail like a skunk but an unclassifiable body. The creature appeared scorched and was dead, prompting bewilderment among locals and reporters at the Hartford Courant.
A convalescent named Winnie Greenup thanks Dr Pyll for care that restored her health. He seeks a fee beyond money, but she insists her father, Papa Greenup, handles the accounts. The tale closes with the doctor plotting a paralyzing pill for the father in his office.
The text states gold values per volume, from a cubic inch to cubic yard, valuing gold at 18 dollars an ounce. It traces gold stock from 427 million dollars at the start of the era to 57 million on discovery, then rising to an estimated 6 billion dollars in use. All gold could form a cube 26 feet on each side.
TaMaGno the great tenor earns 100000 dollars for 50 performances with eight free seats per night. his brother in the chorus makes 17 dollars weekly. The Rev cautions the younger brother about reckless career. A Toledo Blade exchange notes a sad view of aging women and promotes Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe remedy.
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