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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1896
Page
3
Helen Mitford accompanies Mr. Jones to Rivers Meet and a cliff road ride where pride, attraction, and danger mingle. She finds thunderous beauty, questions love and marriage, and faces a perilous New Cut crossing as their tension and mutual fascination unfold amid stormy skies and looming cliffs.
A St Paul woman woke to a burglar in her room and chose to let him take valuables rather than risk her husband being shot. The incident contrasts with a New York case where a somnambulist was killed by a homeowner. The article weighs courage and prudence in fraught moments.
A correspondent reports a Paris exhibition of hanging described as barbarous. A man in a blouse with a red muffler hangs by a cord, convulses with music, and remains in the pose for thirteen days before burial and eventual return to life. He endures sedation and ether with no food.
In Jacksonville Vermont a jelly works received about 100000 pounds of apples last week, roughly 2000 bushels worth about 160 dollars at 16 cents per 100. Daily ground apples total around 600 bushels producing 2000 gallons of cider steamed to jelly with a steam evaporator. Boiled cider is made and bottled in quart and larger containers. about a dozen workers are employed at the jelly manufactory.
Letter writers accuse The Washington Post of plagiarism comparing a cartoon verse to Oliver Goldsmiths lines. The Cleveland Leader quotes Goldsmith passages showing similar imagery and phrasing.
Mr Gratebar urges Philip to keep a cheerful view as a duty to himself and others. He compares cheerfulness to a lamp that dispels gloom and inspires others to light their lamps and proceed with greater joy.
A writer explains that cultivating the upper soil layer breaks capillary attraction, reduces moisture loss, and creates a mulch that slows evaporation. Looser tilth lets roots access air and water, so farmers should cultivate after irrigation to conserve moisture and prevent surface crusting.
The commentary notes that losses from rough handling outweigh any gain in wheat quantity, leading to an overall drop in flour produced from a given weight of wheat when milled. It predicts an increase in by products such as shorts and bran as a result.
A Chronicle correspondent details a cheap gate design using seven 1 by 3 by 12 boards and one 2 by 3 by 4 for hinges. He explains assembly with cross braces, maintaining square accuracy to prevent sagging, and proper nailing pattern for stability.
At a German experiment station sixteen inch boxes filled with sandy soil were treated with the same fertilizer amount at varying depths. Unfertilized oats yielded 10 ounces, full-depth fertilization yielded 47% ounces, half-depth 52 ounces, and one-quarter depth 60 ounces. Conclusions stress surface concentration with limited manure and that deep tillage without added manure lowers yield. Deep tilling is best only if soil is rich throughout.
Rural New Yorker presents a simple sizer device built from a 2x4 frame with narrow leather strips and canvas coverings to separate small potatoes from larger ones. Potatoes roll over gaps set by the user, falling into a bag at the bottom. The device aims to replace strenuous hand sorting.
The article notes a bumper but poor quality clover seed crop this year with Chicago quotations from 4 to 8.25 dollars per hundredweight. Prime seed is scarce and priced by last year’s crop, while current year seed may fail to reach top quotations. Two samples valued in Chicago recently offered 4 and 4.25 dollars.
Experimental results from the Nevada station show cutting wheat at the dough stage yields more flour and less shorts and bran than harvesting at full ripeness. Straw strength improves when cut earlier, as the practical farmer has long believed.
A Weed Holder designed by a Georgian is described. It features a smooth hickory piece eighteen inches long and four inches in diameter attached to the plow beam by two arms. The arms are bolted loosely to allow movement and to let the weight ride over obstructions. An adjustable furrow pin keeps weeds aligned to be fully covered by the plow, pressing tall growth down into the furrow bottom.
A strict selection system guides growing onions for seed. Bunching onions use potato or white and yellow varieties planted in fall trenches four to five inches deep, three to six feet apart, with spring harvest. Seed sowing occurs in September or October. For sets, seed is drilled in spring in fertile, stone-free soil at fifty to sixty pounds per acre to yield uniform small bulbs. Barletta seed at twenty-five to thirty pounds per acre suits pickling onions sized from three quarters to one and a half inches.
A. G. Cochran of Saratoga County New York explains that coarse materials like leaves and straw do not absorb gases, coal ashes absorb moisture and can top dress, and the best is dried muck which absorbs odors and serves as fertilizer though obtaining it may be difficult. He notes muck becomes effective after saturation with slops or barnyard drainage.
Practical guidance urges hog killing efficiency and shelter for tools, warns against planting unsuitable crops, notes fall as busy but beneficial for spring planting and worm control, highlights sowing soya bean at the Ohio station, and compares black and green soy varieties for seed and hay.
Deacon Goodman consoles a boy who has lost ten cents. The boy explains he lost it while matching pennies. Goodman replaces the money and asks how it happened, noting the boy’s effort with pennies and tying to Yale Record in the exchange.
A Detroit Free Press cartoon blurs fact and satirical note about ostriches swallowing rocks to aid digestion while a man endures hardship and feeds rocks to his landlady as a humorous contrast.
The Nez Perces and visiting tribes revived an old marriage custom at Lapwai during the Fourth of July. Young men dressed in bright colors carried white willow canes and marched in a circle while an owl-like chant and drumbeat drew maidens from tents to choose husbands. Maidens selected husbands and led them away, leaving rejected suitors to despair, as reported by the Portland Oregonian.
The article recalls Tennyson’s distaste for Venice due to lack of English tobacco. It notes his settlement at Twickenham after marriage, early friends like Speading, Carlyle’s meeting with the couple in Cumberland, and their Italian journey with a noted dinner at a Lord Russell reception. It mentions the dowager Lady Tennyson’s musical interest and a birthday concert at Freshwater near his death.
An ancient Willowby resident defends his Civil War conduct claiming a ordered retreat was prudent. A visiting military man asks how fast the retreat was and the reply notes they would have thought someone was sick if the doctor were after him.
A well known Califormian in Paris angrily refuses to pay an overcharge by a cab driver. The driver flees with the luggage while the man curses in broken English, shouting Goddam and Rosbif as the chase ends with the Frenchman fleeing in fear.
Mrs Eva L Evans of Harris Iowa details two doctors mis diagnosing her eczema as ring worm before using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. After twelve boxes since June 1895 she reports full relief with no recurrence since August 1895. Her father also benefited from the remedy. Notary public confirms statement. Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY promotes pills as blood builder and nerve restorer available by mail or local dealers.
The piece notes Americans traveling in first class and staying in top hotels draw scrutiny from French shopkeepers who display their finest wares for these mostly well off customers. It observes a strong year for American shopping despite a general mood of decline in the United States.
A humorous dialogue reveals how the Theosophical Society fractured when members insisted on reincarnation. Beeswax notes the split as factions worshipped too strongly with incarnations of Cleopatra and Plato causing endless disagreement.
A brief exchange in Puck humor notes a wife anxious about an unnamed worry last night and failing to recall it this morning. The joke hinges on memory lapse and domestic concern presented in lighthearted fashion.
A traveler recounts a former Richmond driver described as a lively character and body servant of a rebel general. He offered odd but surprisingly accurate recollections of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, joking that they were rebel generals and that their graves grow larger each year.
A Michigan bicycle dealer introduces a two by five foot home trainer that simulates road riding for hands arms legs and eyes. It weighs about fifty pounds and helps bicycle schools by removing the need for teachers to chase errant wheels.
A young customer visits a shop to buy gloves. The shopman asks for his size, and the boy replies with a witty quip about growing up and needing adult gloves. The exchange highlights his self perception and humor.
A brief exchange opens with a cheerful greeting and a survivor of the morning scene offering to help. The dialogue hints at job seeking or small tasks as a practical matter in a bustling town. The scene captures everyday commerce and neighborly aid in urban life.
An angry exchange questions the authority behind a possible death sentence. The dialogue describes unchecked power with phrases like clothed with despotic power and dressed to kill, attributed to a Detroit Tribune item.
A stout youth and a stout girl mock modern furniture comparing a white bamboo chair to steel braced support. She declares the chair strong enough to bear sixty pounds per square inch, and they sit to prove the test in a light exchange from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item notes a daughter leaving music lessons as she graduates early. The dialogue humorously contrasts a piano lesson count with her current status, highlighting the humorous tone of local press snippets.
An advertisement claims deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and asserts only constitutional remedies can cure it. It offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh deafness case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and invites readers to send for free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo.
The gipsies maintain their family color throughout Europe while Hebrews keep the same complexion despite being dispersed for 2,000 years globally.
An old Sterling Remedy Co. ad promotes No-To-Bac as a life changing tobacco quit aid. It claims men gain weight, regain vigor, and become strong again with a guarantee from druggists and free booklets. Over 400000 cured is cited to bolster credibility.
Statistics show Great Britain's naval expenditure per person is almost twice that of any other nation, highlighting a stark disparity in defense spending.
A notice invites buyers of forty acres in Mason county Washington to receive employment at $1.50 a day to meet living needs. Land on Whidby Island Washington is also for sale at low prices with easy terms. Each purchaser gets one free railway ticket. Address R E Workman Grand Central hotel St Paul Minn.
A brief dialogue snippet from Brook lyn Life features two speakers lossie and sister stick trading a sharp, teasing exchange about endurance and humiliation in a casual, confrontational tone. The fragment emphasizes humor and insolent banter.
The exchange reveals a lighthearted humor about marriage and travel as a couple discusses plans and the possibility of an overseas honeymoon, anchored by playful banter between the pair.
The Home Life Insurance Company of New York seeks an energetic local agent with strong connections. Special territory and liberal contract offered. Cash value and loaning privileges guaranteed in yearly policies. References required. Apply to Fred F B Loomis, general manager, 8000 Pioneer Press Building, St Paul.
Quote from the savage warrior records the Amazons refusing to march before regular troops. The text notes the new uniforms fitting atrociously in the back, reflecting a satirical or critical view from the New York Press.
A returning traveler and friend joke about Paris lodging misnaming Hotel de Ville as Hotel de Vea and then settling at Hotel de Ham and Eggs, as humor in Harper's Bazar signals.
Roastey taunts Osbin for avoiding half measures, joking about not doing things by halves.
Detroit Free Press quotes a humorous exchange about gendered nicknames in cycling culture with LT embracing biking and costume while T resents the term wheelwoman. The piece notes shifting attitudes toward women in sport.
The Albert chapel and the Round Tower of Windsor castle along with the state apartments have been reopened to visitors. A separate note claims the United States consumes about 4,000,000 bottles of picbles weekly.
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