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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1891
Page
3
A reflective verse fragment urges timely tribute before death, arguing that true praise unspoken during life is lost to death, which hears no obituary or requiem. It emphasizes the value of speaking kind words now rather than after passing.
A confidant narrator recalls falling in love with Susy Arnold, a coy, teasing beauty. After months of hesitation he attempts to reveal his feelings during a tense visit, hoping for a decisive sign. A sudden moment of contact and a playful secret lead to a wedding proposal-like moment and an engagement of sorts.
A loquacious passenger vents about chronic train delays and blames the railroad. A quiet, injured stockholder reveals personal losses from accidents and sparking on the line, arguing the road ruined his life while the other man stays silent.
The New York Times notes a fashion shift from garish tennis outfits of eight to ten years ago to more restrained summer wear. Designers favor plain gray or pale tones with bright cords at belts cuffs and collar. a featured gown shows a stone blue wool dress with a plaid wash silk blouse and shirt cuff sleeves.
A New York letter recalls clergymen including Dr Rainsford ejecting a muscular disruptor from a meeting. A second bully returns with a companion as the rector considers removing them. The first thug threatens the other and warns the minister, saying they can clear out the roughs and will fire him out if needed.
A brief, indirect anecdote describes a young man visiting a Dwightville girl who prefers an early departure. She hints at showing a sachet bag before he leaves, and the interaction is noted with a wink at discretion in the Binghamton Republican.
A lively New York Sun extract features a bootblack and a messenger boy in a street corner dialogue about fighting and restraint. The bootblack explains he once intervened to help a victim and sustained a black eye, while the boy learns a brave person avoids violence.
An insurance agent visits a shop with a large account book and learns the proprietor has only nine hundred dollars at home. The dealer insists stock is worth eight thousand dollars, while the agent misreads him as a tax collector. The tale ends with the man choosing to return home before the baby wakes to avoid trouble with his wife.
During a spiritualist session Foster the medium produced a striking vision for Mr. Brown then over sixty. The old man with a masklike face listened as a female form claimed to be his mother blessing him and promising reunion. Brown, smiling, noted he would meet her soon and even share tea that evening. Tableau.
A comedic scene shows a father scolding his son for losing overshoes while the boy claims he was busy with marbles. A servant asks about readiness for Mr Nexdoor, and the father frantically seeks his hat as the moment of departure approaches.
Mrs Flash and Mrs Showy spar over fashion, each craving the newest bonnet while Mr F consents. A pharmacist named Tam is questioned about his experience and diploma before he sells a pound of borax.
A candidate under examination by four professors becomes anxious and forgetful. One professor rants that he cannot quote a Scripture passage correctly. The candidate retorts that he recalls a passage from Revelation mentioning lifting his eyes to behold four great beasts, highlighting his memory under pressure.
A rough tramp asks a woman for clothes or he will freeze. She offers an old coat from the back yard, noting it came from a tramp who tried to bully her servant and died in the alley, leaving the coat behind.
In a Washington Post account Willie Wishington jokes about avoiding slang around ladies after an incident at Miss Pepperton's. He recalls remarking Anything you say goes and notes she pressed his name out slowly to confirm understanding.
An Austin man rushed into Justice Tegener’s office declaring Colonel Jones must be bound for peace. He blown threats and vowed to shoot if he found him after dark, prompting a request for a million dollar bond and a tense local standoff.
In a humorous exchange, Georgie mocks Mr Dedude for lacking a direct point while Mr Dedude deflects, noting his sister’s incision on college talk. The dialogue twists around the phrase infernal long time coming to the point, revealing a playful family banter about timing and clarity.
A brief quip from Il Mondo Amoristico about a tailor asking a customer if married and noting a hidden pocket to stash loose change. The cutter jokes about shared marriage and secrecy.
A humorous exchange shows a nephew declining a party due to a toothache and an uncle inviting him in morning dress, with references to Karl and Fritz pawning swallowtails. The caption notes humor in Kate Field's Washington and a jest about the Seventh Regiment.
A young lieutenant ordered his men to fire on a marching detachment during a sham battle. The detachment, on the same side, faced no harm as blank cartridges were used. The officer asked why the detachment was fired upon and the reply cited seeing his tailor and butcher at the head and in the ranks.
A wealthy man asks for an extravagant edible display for a portrait. After he leaves, the artist quips he will visit Charley Smith's to sketch his free‑lunch counter. This exchange hints at social satire and ambitions around consumption.
Tims asks if anyone laughed at a Springer tale as Jingle recalls one man who laughed throughout the story. Jingle identifies that man as Springer, prompting light back-and-forth banter about the incident.
A father and son quarrel over a lost pocket-book containing a roll of bills and many checks and securities. The finder may keep the money if the papers are returned. Bertha Bulion’s father sees the ad, after a large paid notice financed by Bertha.
A hotel clerk recalls travelers who religiously attend church on Sundays despite bad weather. One salesman missed a week’s orders but rose early after a late arrival to attend services and then secured his best week, claiming luck followed the sermon’s points.
W J Green of the Ohio Experiment Station compared transplanting onions with sowing seed in 1888–1890. Transplanting doubled yield in some cases, produced larger uniform bulbs, and ripened 3–4 weeks earlier. Pompeii prizetaker and white Victoria best. Danvers Wethersfield and Michigan least gains. Extra labor offset by reduced weeding time and lower production costs.
Farmers favor clover seed as the deepest fertilizer, noting an acre of good clover sod holds about three and a half tons of roots near the surface containing roughly one hundred pounds of nitrogen fifty pounds of potash and over twenty five pounds of phosphoric acid. Planting clover with spring grain or on last fall sown grass can sustain soil fertility and yield better hay, with light harrowing helping seed germination as frost ends and spring rains aid rooting.
A Canadian dairyman found that feeding tomatoes to cows increased milk flow. After frost he gathered tomato vines and green fruit, which ripened and were consumed by cows in a pile. Cows entered the barn full and udders distended, prompting scientists to study the milk-boosting element.
A Jersey Bulletin correspondent discusses horn scraping to encourage inward curves in cattle horns and notes its slow process and need for even application. The piece then shifts to seedless fruit, noting that cultivated practices can yield seedless varieties like the Zante currant and seedless grapes, with propagation through cuttings and layers.
The Christian Intelligencer states a dairy man in England provides horses with butter milk instead of water. Each horse receives a daily ration year round and, after eighteen months, the practice is said to work very well and is unlikely to be changed.
A measured note extols buttermilk as beneficial for animals and humans, reducing corn feeding needs and maintaining healthy flavor. It claims buttermilk aids horses and contributes to pork production in the United States, while an Irish saying links it to strong men.
The New York Tribune notes creamery butter is not always perfect. Poor keeping due to incomplete separation and oversouring yields spongy texture. Some creameries approach dairy butter solidity when cream is properly washed and checked, improving keeping quality.
A farmer’s guide to treating sick fowls suggests mixing remedies into one quart of water. For cholera add a teaspoonful of liquid carbolic acid, for indigestion five drops of tincture of nux vomica, for debility alternate nux vomica with tincture of iron, and for leg weakness a tablespoonful of phosphate of soda.
Sheep are the most delicate feeders among domestic animals and may go off feed in warm weather. They can digest whole grain better than other stock except poultry, and a portion of wheat bran with whole oats will lessen the danger of becoming cloyed.
The text asserts careful plowing and thorough harrowing partly replace liberal manuring by preparing soil to absorb atmospheric nitrogen and rainfall. It notes these practices hasten chemical changes that render nitrogen in organic matter and potash more available, unlocking fertility from insoluble forms.
Half of egg failures come from hens being overfed and fat. Quarantine purchased pigs or poultry before farm mixing. Green weeds feed manure and plow under to improve soil. Shade trees and fruit in poultry yards. Protect runs with brush piles to deter hawks. Plant strawberries now to beat dry weather. White sage and alfalfa lead honey plants in the west. Delay fruiting in young trees or thin fruit to avoid damage. Potatoes’ value vs wheat varies by price and soil. Alsike clover seeding needs fewer pounds per bushel than red clover. Seed sizes differ but some crops thrive with minimal cover.
A New York Sun column notes a town mother who photographs her young son as Cupid, Fauntleroy, or choir boy, earning about $500 a year from selling his pictures, though she does not need the money.
A fashionable Washington residence hosted a visitor admiring handsome photographs when another caller arrived. The hostess warned the admirer to leave, joking she had lost too many valuables that way, then hurriedly gathered the photos and moved away.
Advertisement notes Hood's Sarsa parilla relieves tired feeling caused by climate season life or overwork and promises great nerve mental and bodily strength. The copy urges readers to get it for relief.
A humorous portrait of Nellie a high school pupil who mocks proper speech using funny words and adverbs her aunt calls out the misuse of language and the overuse of the word very Nellie claims to defend good English while regularly bending grammar and style.
An actor recalls a London fencing-master whose two sons, like their father, were towering fighters. A burglar enters at night and is fought by all three. the eldest misreads threats, the second attacks everyone in the dark, and the father arrives with a stick to end the struggle, revealing the old master defeated the intruder and his sons. The piece then lightly diverges to joke about Lord Tennyson and milk from the Isle of Wight.
A town drunkard explains his change after seeing his children playing in the garden. He recalls buying whiskey for medicine, then attempting to drink, but choosing water and vowing never to drink again after his baby’s death and his wife’s plea. The tale ends with him begging to be excused and pledging sobriety.
A method for making a long lasting whitewash is described using lime, grease, and water with coal tar as a substitute. The process notes hot water curing and references soft soap ideas, claiming treated tree trunks held up after multiple rains.
A farmer in Pennsburg Pennsylvania keeps a fully tame fox that clears barn rats as a terrier would. Reynard hunts rats efficiently and, when idle, follows his master about town like a well behaved dog, freely roaming streets without being bothered by dogs.
The advertisement promotes Hos tetters Stomach Bitters as a defense against travel sickness and climate influences. It claims relief from colic cramps and dyspepsia and asserts efficacy against malaria kidney trouble sick headache and biliousness.
All are urged to buy Syrup of Figs a top family remedy and a $1.00 bottle from leading druggists. The ad promotes Dobbin's Electric Soap as a money saving cleaner and warns that credit from a lie lasts only until truth is known.
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