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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1887
Page
3
A butcher's boy saves Dolly, sleepwalking on a roof, by catching her before a fatal fall. Years later he returns as a successful man, asks to see Dolly, and they reunite with a vow of faithful, loving devotion in the voice of their youth.
Rome despatch reports no final decision on the Knights of Labor with claims of withdrawn condemnation by the pope though not approved. Henry George says the pope has not condemned him or Dr McGlynn. Military note: dispatch from Fort Huachuca reports a severe earthquake in the Huachuaca range with aftershocks and smoke from a volcano summit in the Whetstone range. An exploring party will be sent out.
A fragment reflecting tears and longing for a lost beloved. The speaker laments a dreamlike separation and searches for meaning beyond a wildered memory. The lines convey grief, yearning, and intimate emotion in verse form.
Bridgeport residents recount how travel and communication have transformed over generations from sailing vessels and stagecoaches to steam boats, railways, telegraphs, and telephones. The piece argues against rolling back advances, warning such laws would provoke a legislative backlash to restore modern conveniences now enjoyed.
From the London Referee a defense of English travelers abroad and a note on money terms. The writer argues English visitors often cause their own uncivility and shares positive experiences in Spain. He traces the word sterling to Easterling coins from Germany cited by Camden and King John era coinage.
The King of Prussia via Moltke presses for capitulation after Sedan. Napoleon I offers to surrender personally. Wimpffen fails to secure favorable terms. French forces become prisoners of war, arms handed to German authorities, officers released on oath not to fight Germany. Captives moved by rail to Saarbrucken and other regions.
An account by King the aeronaut describes balloon landings in Georgia and Virginia provoking farcical scenes. A praying old lady, panicked locals, a meat bag on the trail, and abandoned fish illustrate amusing misadventures, including near- shootings by illicit distillers and Afro-American responses to the spectacle.
A St Louis Globe Democrat correspondent reports Kalakaua revived the hulahula dances at his coronation anniversary and birthday festival, excluding foreigners. Native performances followed late at night, described as lascivious and debasing, with missionaries once uniting to suppress them.
An aged writer argues that the rituals and displays around death terrify more than death itself. He describes solemn scenes of mothers, wives, and children, mourners, and a dark room lit by candles as amplifying ghostliness and dread, making one feel already dead.
A Portland Oregonian piece recalls a young woman named Sarah in a bygone rail journey. She resists handing over her ticket, misinterpreting her father’s caution, until a kind elderly passenger guides her to surrender the pasteboard at the end. The tale ends with her safe passage.
T C Crawford writes from London to the New York World about how in the United States a simple thank you carries no hint of servility, while in England the phrase marks a class expectation for tips. He notes all classes from news dealers to newsboys, bootblacks, and servants routinely hear thank you as a tipping cue, with only a few elites using stilted forms like Thabnks.
Wetterlind, a man described as crazy, held a top story room in Goteborg for over a week. He fired on approachers, killing one man. Firemen tried drowning him out, then shields and electric dumbbells failed. Police built a barricade and besieged the house until starvation weakened him and he was seized. Several others were wounded during the stand.
A Mississippi figure from the late House era, Col John Allen, recalls his first congressional campaign against Republican Green Chandler. An elder worker recounts Chandler delivering a strong speech until Allen rose, quipping and dismantling the rebuttal and winning the crowd.
The record lists grain and farm commodity prices for cities including Chicago Milwaukee and Minneapolis with values for wheat oats barley flax seed timothy seed and dairy goods. Prices cover No 2 No 1 hard northern and other grades of wheat along with corn oats rye flax and clover seeds and dairy items in cents and dollars.
A letter notes the customs district New York as a scene of ongoing evils from the old promotion system, while a dining party for President Cleveland and George Bancroft features Jacqueminot roses and notable guests. Reports recount Indian agent J T Gregory bringing $30,678 to Ashland bank, a revivalist attack on Mme Sarah Bernhardt, a Minneapolis ax murder, a fatal shooting in Jackson Mississippi, and Ira Brown of Chicago endorsing Bt Jacobs Oil as a permanent cure after three months of rheumatism.
Mr T J Murphy of 6f Debavoire Place Brooklyn says sciatic rheumatism was eased by St Jacobs Oil. The product is sold by druggists and dealers everywhere.
Charles J. Faulkner Democrat wins U S Senate seat in West Virginia with 48 votes, three above threshold. Born in Martinsburg, he is 45, a lawyer and Thirteenth circuit judge, reputedly from an old aristocratic family with strong political ties.
By persons who, attacked by a mild form of rheumatism, neglect to seek prompt relief. Sub sequent torture is prevented by an immediate resort to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Slight exposure will begat this ag malady, where there is a predisposition in the blood. It is not difficult to arrest the trouble at the outset, but nearly impossible to eradiate it when matured. Ben Brunswick of Minneapolis, who shot himself a few weeks ago, will likely die from the effect of the shooting.
An 19th century health blurb urges diligence to avoid loss of life and promotes Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery as a speedy cure. It claims the remedy can make a new man of you and spare lingering disease, warning that health neglect leads to irremediable outcomes.
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