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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1894
Page
3
A Whitneyville man, Hennessy, sees a mink seize a duck in a brookside thicket, rescues the duck briefly, then the thief escapes with the bird amid a splash. The duck dies from neck wounds. the mink vanishes, leaving the scene as onlookers react.
The piece of stone under Ward's Washington statue on the subtreasury steps bears an inscription noting that George Washington took the oath as first president at Federal Hall on April 30 1789. The relic was preserved when Federal Hall was demolished and placed to mirror its original position.
Miss Jinks laments failing to convince her father to trade their squire piano for an upright. She praises uprights as stylish and fashionable and notes his anger. Miss Binks claims her father agreed after her appeal, joking about uprights making less agoise.
In a witty exchange Algie says he rides the elevated train uptown. Cholly asks why and Alfie replies it keeps trousers creased for sitting, a humorous take on urban transit habits.
An old time advertisement notes teething for babies with a curing claim. The copy urges care and relief for infants with a soothing syrup marketed by Mrs Winnslow.
The note urges buying coal before storms hit, framing it as a money making move. It stresses securing fuel ahead of winter weather and the financial benefit of timely coal purchases.
An advertisement for Hegeman's Camphor Ice with Glycerine promotes this preparation as a cure for chapped hands and face tender or sore feet chilblains piles and related conditions. Sold by C G Clark Co in New Haven Connecticut.
In Tennessee authorities report the arrest of 106 suspected moon shiners during a mountain still hunt. The operation targeted illegal distilling practices and illicit liquor production with participants and locations largely unnamed.
In a brief exchange Van Pelt orders oysters, Waiter protests. Van Pelt insists the Number One order is missing the letter R. The scene highlights a minor miscommunication over a restaurant order.
A humorous exchange where a German customer owes ten cents to a druggist and offers to pay the debt to the clerk instead. The gag hinges on the pharmacist accepting the small amount to settle the bill and the German’s confusion over the item jodoform.
A poet drinks deeply of inspiration and writes a flood of verse. The poet sits and pours out thoughts in a lengthy, flowing poem that showcases personal struggle and creative release.
Ferguson debates a standard phrase with Judge Lockitt about settlement terms implying ten dollars or ten days as the possible concession in a legal matter. The exchange frames a flexible but bounded approach to a dispute.
The Home Life Insurance Co of New York offers a policy combining protection and investment with guaranteed cash surrender and loan features. Profitable agency contracts are available. For details contact Frank F. Loomis, Manager Northwestern Department, 306-9 Pioneer Press Building, St Paul.
Chapley jokes that marriage requires finding a bigger fool, while Ethel Knox counters that in some cases even that is hard. The exchange shows playful witticisms about matrimony and marriage proposals.
An old advertisement offers a hundred dollar reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists F J Cheney & Co of Toledo as the remedy maker and cites endorsements from West Truax Watpina, and MakvinN wholesale druggists in Toledo. The cure is described as internal, with testimonials available, price seventy five cents per bottle, and Hall's Family Pills at twenty five cents.
The article lauds a college right tackle famed for headwork and awareness during games, highlighting his tactical approach and leadership on the line.
Genna confronts Nita after a cruel scheme wrecks a painter’s career. Nita gloats while Genna cares for a dying lover, hides his death, and faces a harsh city night. Genna's devotion ends with loss, sacrifice, and a bleak farewell.
A crude two piece crank bicycle built from a thick tree frame and nails and screws. The front post and backbone rely on two rusty hinges. A rider described as a triumphant darky uses the contraption to ride down hills and push it back up, likened to a king with 10,000 men, claiming no danger of runaway on steep grades.
A Chicago Tribune piece extols the setter’s scenting power, detailing how trained dogs distinguish live, dead, and wounded birds while chasing at speed. It describes instant scent detection, precise pointing, and differing responses to each bird state.
The Great Salt Lake varies in dissolved solids from 19 to 20 percent by weight with common salt making up about 15.74 percent in a sample from August 1855. The Dead Sea contains a higher total dissolved solids content, with a sample from 1110 feet depth at 16.6 percent and common salt around 7.55 percent. Though Salt Lake carries less total solids, it holds more salt by proportion than the Dead Sea, whose chief solid is magnesium chloride. Desert News.
Napoleon advised the nineteen year old Ambassadress on diplomacy and conduct in Portugal and Spain. He urged humility reserve and dignity, caution in judging customs, and prudence when the Queen of Spain questions the empress and princesses. The Spanish Queen tested her with fashion questions.
The fragment recalls a witty exchange from Harper's Bazaar where Mrs Newed laments and Mr Newed vows to wear his pie failure as a bulletproof breastplate and display it in a museum. The dialogue hints at humorous social commentary.
A Chicago Inter Ocean report quotes a parent anxious about an ailing daughter. The speaker describes exhaustion after a short run on a wheel, seeking medical input for persistent symptoms and endurance failure. Her doctor is questioned about possible causes and treatment.
Oliver Wendell Holmes rejects a young aspirant seeking a private secretary post. He explains scarce openings, denies editor duties, and offers practical guidance: write for a major paper with one signature, seek recognition, and persevere despite limited opportunities. He ends with kind advice and signs as O. W. Holmes.
A French engineer suggests strengthening vulnerable telegraph pole bases by clearing soil, applying hot tar, and encasing the section with glazed earthenware semi cylinders. An annular waterproof layer fills the gap, potentially extending poles' life beyond decay.
The chief of the bureau of ethnology in Washington sent two scouts to southern Arizona to study the Papago Indians. They are nomadic and peaceful, living mostly on cactus fruit and wild berries, with small cattle and fowl holdings, lacking government rations, and needing irrigation to make their barren land productive for subsistence.
The piece notes Paris daily papers with large circulations including Petit Journal 1 45 million, Petit Parisien 800000, and Figaro 120000. It cites 1890 census reporting 10000 writers in journalism and remarks on the profession's respect and notable editors like Vacquerie and Brunetiere.
A cautious mother instructs her children to avoid folding arms and instead cross them behind the back. She argues this practice should widen the chest and promote better posture rather than diminish it, claiming it is as beneficial as the common folded-arm stance is harmful.
If you are held captive by the enemy you have yourself to blame because you did not check their approach in the outset with Hostenter's Stomach Bitters. Tackle them at once with this pain soothing nerve energizing blood departing specific and you will experience speedy relief. Nervous, bilious, dyspeptic, liver and neuralgic complaints yield to it.
A New York Weekly excerpt notes tariff reforms affecting cooking rules. Mrs Slimdiet Jane and Mr Starboarder discuss lower sugar in pudding while salt becomes free, highlighting price and policy implications for households.
Salzer's Northern grown seeds promote strong market gains for growers. Send a 2 cent stamp to John A. Salzer Seed Co in La Crosse Wisconsin for their wholesale catalogue.
A comic exchange recounts a girl noting a monkey riding a dog at a circus. Her mother asks how it happened, and the girl explains the monkey strapped to his legs and bent over, nearly touching the dog’s ears, amusing as a boy on a bicycle.
A New York Herald report profiles a shrewd corner newswoman at Forty second Street and Seventh Avenue who runs a stand under a Broadway store. She sizes up customers, evicts unready buyers, and chides a reluctant stranger for not paying, insisting honesty saves her from rheumatic strain.
The Our Lady shrine in Mexico City closes the canopy over the high altar. Pillars, seven tons each, rise from polished Scotcheranite, three feet in diameter and twenty feet tall. The altar is due for dedication on Guadalupe Day December 12, and full completion will take nearly two more years.
The Washington Post notes that announcing a first kiss at the altar could prepare guests for the observance. It recalls a recent wedding where the kiss drew snickers from a polite crowd and mentions prior surprises when the couple began the new marital rights.
In a New York Weekly snippet a mother advises her daughter on marriage to a rich single son. The daughter dislikes him, but the mother notes the man is an only son with a wealthy father who could remarry if widowed. The exchange twists expectations toward marrying the father.
A reader insists that calling a convicted police captain "a good man gone wrong" is inaccurate and argues he is inherently bad, having been exposed as such. The comment challenges language framing in crime coverage.
A New York Ledger recounts a Spanish legend where a chess game decides Columbus's fate. Queen Isabella delays the king's move to influence the game, and America's discovery hinges on the move chosen, while a separate Rome anecdote involves Henry VI’s divorce and a language of courtly folly.
Heo confronts his wife with contempt as he recalls their union as a bargain. The wife shows a flicker of softening resolve, insisting on a brighter view despite the strained arrangement.
In a clipped exchange a woman shows a new party dress from Varies Latest fashion and asks if wearing it in public will prove she is a lady. A man mocks the vanity, suggesting the visible gender will be obvious regardless of clothing.
A clerk argues about sending a bundle while Mrs Hicks-N refuses, preferring to carry it herself. She offers to send the change instead, prompting a discussion on who should handle the delivery.
A fragment notes the phrase a criminal lawyer is understood by people who know all about lawyers, implying specialized recognition among informed readers.
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