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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1891
Page
3
In Paris a grand building rises as laborers toil. A boy and a aging worker dangle from a beam when the platform fails. The youth releases the other, falls to death, saving his comrade. Elizabeth Akers credits selfless courage in this Harpers Young People tale.
A British expeditionary party aboard The Swallow struggles to land for water and wood near the Peiho river in 1860. Lieutenant Garnett leads six soldiers ashore as villagers confront them. A violent sea and rising wind trap the cutter and force a perilous return to the ship.
The cutter fights to reach open water as a hawser parts and the anchor holds, then drags toward shore. Hunger, fatigue, and fear mount among nine sailors and soldiers while Chinese onshore grow furious and battles rage in a tense, perilous night at sea before a fragile escape.
The crew of the cutter finally reached the ship at ten p.m. to a cheering reception as they emerged from a long, taxing ordeal at sea. They were weary but alive, given hot soup and warm bunks, while the two officers remained unusually quiet in the days that followed.
A marksman famed for precision hits five bull's eyes in a row at a shooting gallery but fails to hit the target as the proprietor reveals the steel disc behind the wall. The crowd watches while the gambler pays for cigars and boasts of further bets.
A Chicago railroad worker arranged a marriage on his regular run with a designated Miss Parker later Mrs Elliott. The service paused the train briefly at a station where her parents lived as witnesses joined by a minister. The couple now reside in Chicago in a furnished home with gifts from passengers and crew.
An aspiring youth named Sandy pretends to be a burglar by sneaking at midnight and alarming his parents. The kitchen search follows with a father and mother armed with poker and tongs. Sandy finally reveals his ruse by declaring I am the man.
A letter compares New York dining rooms with country presses noting soft rolling lounges and banished stiff chairs. It argues ten years may erase prim dining-chair rigidity as rooms evolve from strict feeding stations to entertaining spaces, urging more comfort in furnishings.
The remark suggests that if women permit friends to enjoy themselves in their own style, everyday obstacles and social friction could lessen. It frames personal freedom as reducing behavioral barriers and improving shared experiences.
A con artist hawks a supposed fraud detector at a crowd in a waiting-room. He tests bogus gems with a liquid that exposes fakes, then fails to sell as attendees fear exposure. The fakir exits laughing, revealing the stunt was a cold coffee ruse to scare the room.
The tale recalls a Chicago chef baffled by a Kentucky breakfast request from Henry Watterson and a street rug peddler mistaken for a past buyer. A woman questions the peddler about selling a rug she remembers and accuses him of being the wrong man, exposing a lifetime mistake.
President of the Police Commission discharges O Hoolahan after a jewelry store burglary in his district. O Hoolahan testifies he met a man planning to open a shop who later committed the theft valued at about $5000. A separate tale remarks on a landlord who rented a waterlogged cellar to a clerk, joking about champagne.
An overheard exchange at a Metropolitan concert shows Uncle Wayback puzzled by the fiddlers tune while City Niece tries to explain a symphony and Beethoven as a great German composer. The light dialogue captures a small moment of cultural amusement.
A quote from the New York Weekly notes that high ticket costs could push performances to be presented in English, reflecting public concern over accessibility and language in theater.
A staged dialogue shows a union organizer offered bribes to strike May Day for a factory. A young wife recounts a mishap turning her hat into a fashionable wreck rescued by a stylist, prompting humorous admiration from her husband.
A humorous caption from Munsey’s Weekly shows a crossing sweeper requesting two cents for cleaning a crossing and a pedestrian replying with comical logic about paying the boy who did the cleaning. A stern parent questions a man named Audacious George about his vast credit and plans to marry the daughter.
A magistrate convicts a prisoner of robbing a man in a lonely street while leaving a gold watch as the sole item. The prisoner questions the watch, then offers an insanity plea. The excerpt also includes stray comic snippets from period sources and a boy delivering a letter for a penny.
Miss Palisade conveys news that her brother suffered the loss of two fingers. Miss Brainy from Boston notes the pain was minimal but mocks the idea he cannot tie his own necktie again, reflecting a clothier and furnisher exchange.
A witty exchange from the New York Sun notes a husband and wife wearing the same pants and jokes that the union will not last. The old beau Martin is now married to the wife, prompting amused commentary on loyalty and fashion.
A playful exchange reveals a boastful rival remark and a witty comeback. A character muses on giving up the girl if a rival looked like the other, while a London style banter shifts to a quizzical historical aside about Rome’s foundation.
A Paoli Georgia family recalls a cat that refused all others after a boy in the family died. The cat visited the door each morning and mourned at the boy’s bed for two weeks before disappearing. It was later seen in the graveyard near the grave, returning only for food. The tale, cited by the Savannah News, highlights the pet’s grief and loyalty.
A newspaper man, waking to news of the night, recites a parade of events from war with Italy to political indictments and scandals. The conversation shifts to a local incident as Mrs Brown’s possible separation looms, ending with the man’s confession that he printed little beyond a local divorce rumor.
In a richly decorated club room a tense scene unfolds as Harold Washingby and Jack Seltzer clash over a monocle fueled bit of bravado. Harold fires his paper-cap pistol harmlessly into the air and the pair soon join forces for a high stakes croquet game, a club record moment.
The terrors of the shipworm in wood are described with examples from the Florida reef and an 1862 wreck. The teredo bores into piles and hulls, honeycombing wood and causing collapse, while palmetto resists. A giant six foot teredo exists in Sumatra.
W S Caine reports from Chaityagir where Buddhist architecture from 400 B C to 400 A D remains. The Sanchi tope stands as a central dome 106 feet wide atop a circular 120 foot platform, surrounded by rails and monasteries on a hill 300 feet high.
The Hawaii Gazette recounts the birth of Kalakaua in 1836. High Chiefess Haahee Elainu abducted the infant Onuakaha to thwart an adoption plan by Liliha Madame Hoki, while Liliha later guided Kalakaua through astrology predicting a significant future.
In Paris, sculptor Aime Millet raced to the Patrie office with novelist Paul Duplessis to stop a doomed Countess in an upcoming Patrie serial. Millet’s father had bet ten louis d or against her survival. they hurriedly replaced an African story and saved her by revising the chapters, returning with the Countess saved and Millet's debt settled.
In a lively exchange quoted by the Pittsburg Bulletin, Mrs. OToole An and Mrs. ORourke discuss Bidelia’s future. The joke turns to Bidelia landing a job opening an intelligence office, a surprising yet hopeful turn for a girl deemed too foolish to come in when it rains.
A fragment from a 19th century page mentions prices of soap and clothing, patent remedies, company incorporations, a potential Rock Island to Havana road project, and medical ads. It includes St Louis & Northern incorporation filings, a $1,000,000 capital stock plan, and an address for Dr. Frank Powell in St Paul Minnesota.
An old advertising copy touts Castoria for babies children and misses and promises relief for headaches. It mentions Garfield Tea guaranteed with money back if unsatisfied and praises Dr Johnson for his Johnsons Anodyne Liniment as a noble gift.
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