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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1891
Page
3
Poem reflecting on laborers and rich alike facing mortality. Geroge E Powell Chicago Inter Ocean line imagines a world where fame wealth and status fade when all lie six feet under. The verse stresses shared fate beyond social class.
In Upper Burma near the Trawaddy headwaters, Captain Charlton and Lieut Redvers join Burmese traders to trap a dacoit gang. After a perilous night voyage in a Burmese barge, they unleash rifles, capture the gang chief, and escape downriver to safety at Talo. The raid reveals a feared robber boss and promises calmer times.
A narrator recalls near encounters with dacoits and choosing to honor a promise to release a criminal. Redvers’ forecast proves true as small bands linger in riverine hideouts but avoid traders, who return to confident, prosperous trade along Munni pore’s river.
A circuit attorney recalls how confinement at the jail reforms arrestees, noting most inmates become calmer and look refined after months of confinement. He cites the case of Sanders the dog catcher, whose pale, orderly appearance helped him secure a lighter two year sentence instead of life.
The Detroit Free Press notes birds show remarkable lifespans. A swan and other species reportedly reach a century or more, with sea eagles living 104 years after capture and vultures over a century in captivity. Parrots and ravens also exceed 100, while magpies may live long in the wild. Canary ages differ by captivity.
The empress of Russia educates her two grand duchesses Xenie and Olga with personal supervision while the empress’s attendant and lady of honor attend them. The emperor also teaches his sons music and dancing, cherishing a simple life and secrecy about private affairs. He favors the cornet a piston.
The Havana Henry Clay cigar, often wrapped in gold or silver foil, sells for 1.25 in retail. A maker notes true cost cannot exceed 25 cents with top materials, while a $1.00 cigar costs about 15 cents to make, leaving ample profit even after stamping and boxing.
The incident starts when Mrs East drops a bluing bag into pulp at her husband’s English paper mill. The unusual tint creates shock and a closed deal to London. Public demand turns it into a novel craze and a fortune follows for the maker.
A 14 year old boy from Hooks town Pennsylvania went to a fox trap and found a large wildcat. He struck the animal with a club when it sprang free breaking the trap chain and lunging onto his chest. He held ground and killed the wildcat with the club.
The Boston Transcript notes the Elberon name likely sprang from L. B. Brown the landowner at Long Branch shore town. It claims a wordmaker twisted Garfield related lore into Elberon, a name now familiar to everyone.
A Pall Mall Gazette excerpt notes that an adult man has about 1 400 square feet of lung surface and the mucous lining would cover a vast area if spread flat. It states a man breathes eighteen times per minute and exchanges roughly 3 000 cubic feet of air per hour.
A farming note warns against seed adulteration and shares expert tips from J J Gregory on maintaining seed vitality. It discusses baking inferior seed to mix with good stock, proposes graded seed standards, and covers germination rates for onions cabbage corn beans and peas with advice on soil compaction and storage to improve results.
Indiana Farm urges frost-protection for early fruit bloom. It describes a method using a shallow pit filled with chips to create smoke and heated air to lift warmth through the orchard night, smothered with earth once started, to prevent frost damage to plums and pears.
Good Water and Salt for Stock advises providing cattle with ample running water and salt. It urges a under-shed salt box for self-service, noting cattle crave salt and will suffer on dead water. Salt two to three times weekly in warm months is essential alongside food and water.
The Strawberry Crown Borer can not fly and relies on legged movement. Grubs live in plant crowns from June to September, so transferring plants from infested beds risks spreading borers. Careful plant selection and ground work is the best defense. one season of corn or potatoes may rid land. No effective insecticide method is known.
The article advises spraying apple trees with Paris green if rain does not follow the first spray, using not more than one pound of poison per 200 gallons of water and keeping mixtures well stirred. It emphasizes careful operation with copper solutions, windward position to avoid inhalation, and secure poison storage, then briefly notes assisting chicks from eggs with mixed results.
A farmer recalls peeling shell from a hatchling after two hours of careful work to save a chick valued at five dollars, later becoming a rooster sold for three. He emphasizes subsoil quality, drainage, and fertility as crucial to successful farming and warns against sandy soils.
The article warns that sheep suffer more from long wet spells than other animals. It advises keeping flocks on dry ground to prevent diseases like foot rot and other ailments caused by exposure, urging protection until spring rains end.
The article argues that poor roads waste money and harm farmers who must move loads through mud and ruts. It contends that good roads would boost farmers' profits by reducing costs and improving efficiency.
The piece argues that forcing cattle to travel long distances for water harms them. It urges farmers to invest in on-farm water solutions rather than let stock stand in mud or endure cold winds, noting high borrowing costs to fund water delivery.
Advice notes stock farmers should vary feed to restore appetite. A mess of cooked turnips or similar fare can improve a sick animal more effectively than medicine, and a dietary change should be tried first.
Practical farming tips cover turpentine in poultry water to prevent gapes and hawk protection by guinea fowl. It discusses peach orchard cultivation, ash use, soil tips, stock care, and onion and carrot culture. A New York Sun piece recounts De Wolff Hopper in disguise as a servant to attend theatres amid Quaker constraints.
The Cincinnati convention opened with prayer and a hymn as 1500 delegates debated forming a new party. Ignatius Donnelly sparked a clash over slating committee members and a five minute speaking limit. The platform backed universal suffrage, silver coinage, land and tax reforms, government control of communications, direct election of officials, and a national central committee with plans for a 1892 convention.
After a recess the roll of states was called to select three national committee members per state. Taubeneck of Illinois was chosen chairman by acclamation amid cheers. The list names Taubeneck and dozens of delegates from states including Arkansas California Florida Iowa Indiana Illinois Kansas Maine Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska New York Ohio Oklahoma Texas Tennessee Wisconsin West Virginia Wyoming District of Columbia and others.
The Ohio delegation at the National Union conference adopted a report by a five member committee. It recommends a state convention to nominate candidates and local tickets to be nominated in all counties.
Delegates from Kentucky attending the Cincinnati convention crossed the Ohio River to join the movement in the old commonwealth. A full state ticket was chosen and the platform reflects the People's party principles with a broad appeal to rural voters.
A friend recalls John Boyle O Reilly known for a prisoner habit to walk three paces forward then three back. The habit mirrored galleys convicts who dragged chains and marked a constant restlessness after release.
The New York Times notes growing novelty in frozen desserts. Mushrooms may be ice cream moulds and brown bread ice cream with French peas appears common. A chef served apparent raw lamb chops of ice cream, startling guests until the hostess revealed the truth with her fork.
An old Russian ex-sea man recounts a steel rod climb to inspect a church steeple cross in New York. He tested the cross with a jackknife, found it to be wood, and earned his first five dollars ashore after the crowd cheered his discovery.
A dialogue quoted by the New York Press shows tension over favoritism and forgiveness within a family. The daughter asserts she was the favorite, while the father implies he could have forgiven her if she had married someone other than the “blasted idiot,” revealing strained relations and sarcasm.
An 19th century style ad promotes Syrup of Figs for kidneys liver and bowels with a 50c and 1.00 bottle price. It urges witty parting bows and cautions about moroseness recommending Allen’s Iron Tonic Bitters from J. P. Allen, Druggist St Paul Minn. The copy compares life changes to taking a cold bath and emphasizes avoiding fevers and headaches.
A vintage advertising rhyme traces Castoria’s use from infancy to motherhood, noting its continual role through a child’s illness, early years, adolescence, and into motherhood with its continued gift to children.
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