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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1885
Page
5
Poem excerpt urges turning inward to foster love and service. It condemns envy and prying about neighbors. It imagines happiness arriving with mutual help, reducing strife as life grows full of affection and shared felicity.
Miss Meredith and Miss Moseby discuss a quiet rift between Ralph Meridith and Lilian Moseby after a Washington birthday sociable. Ralph, hurt by alleged engagement to another man since childhood, retreats from Lilian as gossip and pride collide, while aunts urge apology and reconciliation.
Ralph Meridith confronts Miss Moseby and Lilian Moseby about engagements and love. He admits jealousy and seeks forgiveness, then declares his love to Lilian after a tense moment. She responds with a playful warning before accepting his kiss and commitment.
Governor Boutwell has lived in Groton fifty years. He came to Groton on March 5 1835 from Lunenburg after leaving Brookline where he was born in 1818.
Practical household notes include fruit cake with detailed ingredient ratios and steps, home made candy, Everton Tarry and Boston Baker Brans preparations, pork and apple dish, beef curing with spiced salt, plus an anecdote on dehorning cattle advocating polled breeding over horn removal.
Acknowledgment of a premium butter specimen winning first prize from the North Western Dairymen's Association credited to Mrs. McKinstry of Winnebago City Minnesota. The report praises Minnesota's dairy potential and notes the Des Moines Register's favorable comment on the state as a future rival to Iowa and Wisconsin in imperial butter.
The piece notes praise for koumiss as beneficial for lungs and attributes benefits to its alcohol content. Prof L B Arnold counters that koumiss is a humbug, saying milk sugar forms alcohol and the drink is essentially an alcoholic stimulant. He suggests a sweet milk rum punch would be healthier.
A set of baby recipes describing arrowroot based porridge with milk, arrowroot jetty, and Blancmanor variants. Instructions cover quantities for milk water arrowroot sugar salt, cooking times and serving with cream or powdered sugar, including molding and serving cool.
The essay argues for equal physical education for women and men, stating that proper training strengthens the body and life, enhances offspring potential, and supports broader race advancement. It contends that both sexes contribute to physical, intellectual, and moral progress when given equal opportunity.
An article by Robert Bruce in the Live Stock Journal quotes an American view praising the cow as a mortgage payer and farm changer. It lauds the cow as the mother of beef and a driver of agricultural wealth converting grass into hard cash.
The piece urges self care to avoid restlessness and disease, recommending purgatives or doctors for a clean liver and balanced bile. It contrasts staying on a farm with migrating for a better home, stressing pure water and air, timber and fuel, and the slower rise of land value over rail convenience.
The speaker urges starting a small garden project next spring with an easy method. They promise to try, noting limited space and a bed that should measure about 12 feet, aiming to avoid overextending beyond their capacity.
A German town Telegraph piece advises on building a 8 by 25 foot strawberry bed for 250 to 300 plants. It explains planting pistillate and perfect varieties together, hoeing regimen, weed control, and mulching after frost. It notes berries appear in May or June for about 25 days and yield for 14 15 months from planting. It also suggests adding raspberries blackberries and grape vines if room allows.
London correspondent discusses English snobbery and America’s prosperity rooted in freedom education and equality. Also Kansas City officer notes tornado season safety steps including dugouts and shelter positions to minimize casualties.
The piece blends reminiscences of William Demarest the Harper Brothers cashier whose firm paid artists well and fostered a strict but kindly persona. It compares him to a Tim Linkinwater figure, recalls a Europe trip on paid leave, and notes his quiet return to work and eventual full pension. It also shifts to Bismarck, describing his restrained, soft voice and measured delivery despite his imposing frame.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph argues Russia may seek foreign war to unify the nation and quiet Nihilism. It suggests imperial rulers hope to rally patriotic spirit to protect home interests, even if not to conquer England, noting prior failures by relatives.
A coroner's inquest in Philadelphia found death from a patent cough syrup containing morphia. Dr. Sam K. Cox of Washington endorses Red Star Cough Cure as purely vegetable and free from opiates. The piece also recounts a mistaken visit by Mrs. Gladstone to Lady Codrington and a dramatic rebuke over British policy deaths in Egypt.
An advertisement urges readers not to ignore heart disease and promotes Dr Grave's Heart Regulator. It claims thirty cases proved its value and offers a free pamphlet from F.EB in Cambridge Massachusetts.
Former Oregon senator Nesmith, confined in an insane asylum for about six months, is reported to be regaining health with prospects of full recovery. In a few weeks he may return home. He previously owned a large Willamette wheat farm and helped neighbors by inviting them to harvest from his granaries without charge.
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