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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1885
Page
4
A wall grows between a married couple as neglect and indifference widen their life apart. The man focuses on work and gain, the woman endures silent sorrow. Small faults and unkind words lay the foundation of the wall, severing affection.
Dolly Thornburn and Dacre Farleighstone duel hope and fear aboard an ocean liner bound for Liverpool. A storm test, a kiss stolen, and a vow to marry after America triggers a dramatic romance. Ten days later Dacre survives a wreck, returns to New York, and discovers Dolly has married into chance, while Niagara awaits their hurried nuptials.
A March feature recounts oyster capacity with a humorous European prima donna anecdote. In New York a famed singer orders oysters for one, expects a hundred, then tips servers as dozens of shells are presented. She ends up sending back shells and requesting another hundred, leaving waiters astonished by American oyster abundance.
The piece discusses Pixey Winter in New York and critiques social dancing culture. It condemns late hours, carefree debutantes, and the neglect of guidance for young women. It argues for responsible role models, stronger morals, and the need for women to shape men’s futures through dignity and self awareness.
San Francisco Alta recounts Ellen Terry and Watts, her artist husband, separating after Watts’s family objected to her as an actress. At a family dinner Watts urged her to dress to best effect, and she appeared in a circus like tights, spangled and form fitting, revealing her figure. The couple did not stay at home together after that.
Sixty thousand New Yorkers use roller skates and over five hundred manufactories operate in the United States selling 40 000 pairs weekly. The business provides employment for 200 000 men.
In St Louis Sunday Sayings Chang explains his engagement to an American woman living with her wealthy Kansas City family. He notes her height, wealth, and entertainment during their first meeting, and recalls a letter from her father confirming the engagement and his intention to become a tea merchant after marriage.
Gen Warren P Edgar recalls Col William H Lytle during a Tennessee raid near Shelbyville. Lytle threatened mutineers with cannister fire, forced knapsack duty, and led troops with fierce courage. Lytle was wounded at Carnef ar ferry Virginia and Perryville, later killed at Chickamauga.
This excerpt extols peaches as delicious wholesome medicine and urges ripe fruit as a regular meal component. It recommends apples oranges lemons pomegranates and berries for digestion fever and constipation and favors watermelon juice over pulp for fever and kidney care.
Philadelphia letter notes guard to F A Drexel's grave near Mrs Drexel's tomb. Night watchman patrols the marble slab as wealth and status spark protective measures after burial. Drexel estate valued at about nine to ten million, with three daughters Elizabeth, Catherine, and Louise as heirs. Widows' and heirs' fortunes highlight social protection practices in elite funerary rites.
A Boston broker James Deshon, famed for wealth yet living in frugal quarters, is sued by Lillian Walker, a New York widow, for 100000 dollars claiming he promised marriage and a dower. He denies the betrothal, alleges blackmail, and the case heads to the coming court term with expected spicy details.
Washington pities Gen. Grant amid reports of a cancer in the mouth likely caused by decades of heavy cigar use and tobacco chewing. Comparisons to Judge Kelley and Senator Ben Hill highlight the severity and grim prognosis, with Grant possibly facing a long agony similar to Hill's final days.
A young woman elopes with an older lover after her 18th birthday set for marriage. She stays with a farmer’s wife who persuades her to return home. The lover curses when plans fail. the girl quits the match and returns home, with parents’ guidance urged as best for her happiness and welfare.
The bone trade is a major nationwide industry. Ox four feet yield a pint of neats foot oil, and no bone is wasted. Shin bones ship to Europe for knife handles at 40 per ton, thigh bones fetch 80 per ton for toothbrush handles, fore-leg bones 30 per ton for collar buttons and parasol handles, with sheep legs used for parasol handles. Boiling water yields glue, bone dust feeds livestock, and unusable bone parts become bone black or fertilizer to enrich soil.
The writer Edmond About planned a fatal ending for his novel Germaine, about a young consumptive girl in love, published as a feuilleton. Empress Eugenie urged him not to kill the heroine, and About agreed, sparing Mae in the story.
Grant’s boyhood riding prowess at Georgetown Ohio shaped a lifelong equine passion. At West Point he excelled in riding and risky jumps. In Mexico a daring ride saved his life. In the White House his Arabian horses, gifts from the Sultan of Turkey in 1878, drew admiration and public interest in New York after arrival. The Sultan’s gifts included a dapple gray and a jet black Arabian. Damages from a horse’s kick cost Grant 312.
The writer muses on widows, arguing they should be plump and untroubled after loss. He contrasts dramatic depictions of grieving widows with a practical view that a widow has “the best of him” and faces life with fewer worries. The piece reflects on marriage, resilience, and social perceptions of widowhood.
In India Buddhist convents house young nuns who wear similar robes to monks and shave heads by sixteen vow to virginity and vegetarianism while chanting for the dead. Separately in Detroit a tramp fell from a moving train, the severed head discovered and trains halted as investigators searched for a coroner’s verdict.
A Brooklyn health chemist certifies a new vegetable cough remedy, Red Star Cough Cure, as harmless yet effective for colds and coughs. A leading medical journal warns mothers about morphia in some remedies and cautions on improper use by children. In Parliament Gladstone notes no immediate Afghan papers to be laid before war credits vote. US treasury to form a three member committee to count cash and securities during the treasurer transfer from Wyman to Jordan, with readings starting April 30 and likely to take three weeks.
The 321st birth anniversary of William Shakespeare was observed in Stratford on Avon with town decorations and bells. Visitors gathered as the Shakspeare window, donated by American visitors, was announced for placement over Shakespeare's grave, with plans for a dedication by James Russell Lowell and an illustrated seven ages of man display.
The Baltimore American notes a nationwide free distribution of an 1855 St Jacobs Oil Family End Book of Health and Humor. It features humorists like Bill Nye and Derrick Dodd plus ads for St Jacobs Oil and Red Star Cough Cure. Promises original content free of narcotics and opiates with endorsements from health boards and authorities.
An 19th century advertisement extols Dr. J R V Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as the best known remedy for consumption and related lung diseases, urging readers to send two stamps for the complete treatise and offering a pamphlet on his Extract of Smartweed for diarrhoea cramps and colds, with cure claims for secret drains in thirty days. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N Y, is listed as the submitter.
Dairymen are urged to use Wells Richardson and Co’s Improved Butter Color claiming it increases butter value by several cents per pound. The product is described as pure, harmless, easy to use, tasteless, odorless, and yields a golden richness. demand is said to be rising nationwide. Also promotes Allen’s Lung Balsam as a safe, opium free remedy for coughs and consumption, available widely.
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