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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1889
Page
3
A collage of quips and jokes on marriage, manners, and everyday misadventures. Bits range from wry sayings about husbands and cannibals to puns about music, fashion, and social conduct, ending with a tale of a Friends Meeting friction and a cheeky moral.
Orin D. Vance of Caribou Maine reports 405 bushels of potatoes from one acre with 313 115 bushels of large potatoes. The Country Gentleman recommends barb wire fencing with ditch and bank to guard and drain. Houseplants need controlled watering, and tobacco or strong odor in hen nests helps deter lice with sulfur as option. Dust baths promote cleanliness in fowls.
A collection of home tips on heating with salt bags and pork pig feed, beefing up soil, humane child-rearing, and kitchen convenience. It urges winter farm work, careful spraying of fruit trees with Paris green, and advocates modern utensils, comfortable seating, and efficient chores to ease daily labor.
A circulating paragraph claims English locomotives lack headlights bells and guards stand at mile intervals. In fact most engines use two or three lights for destination cues while whistles remain common on crowded lines. Guards appear mainly during royal trains. drivers must blow a sharp whistle at tunnels and curves per board of trade rules.
Absent mindedness is a temporary suspension of memory where the mind focuses on a present thought and obscures past records. It may be seen as a mild form of insanity and is tied to individuals with great mental power, illustrating the link between genius and madness.
The report quotes Gen Crook labeling Sirtine Bull as an arrant coward while noting his notoriety as a ladies man who has received marriage offers from white women and numerous requests for his photographs.
A young woman tells of illness, scandal, and longing at Silver Brooks as Dr. John Brownlow treats her mother. Misunderstandings and pride threaten happiness until a garden meeting leads to confession, reconciliation, and a wedding between the narrator and Dr. John.
Mr. Ingalls describes the railroad accident sensation as impossible to describe. He says no time to pray, nerves strained, breath held, waiting for shock impact to reveal the damage or further danger, in the moment after the crash.
A London bishop visits a charitable boys’ home in the countryside and asks the lads if they are comfortable. The leader finally speaks, complaining that the milk is worse here because it is squeezed from a beastly cow, not bought from a clean shop as in London.
The writer criticizes a universal editor ethos and argues that a dull mediocrity serves no purpose. They claim the Devon breed is no better than others and note its limited popularity. With fierce farming competition, farmers must specialize to achieve success.
A Dundee Weekly News account tells of a 55 year old woman arrested in Jersey for living as a man. On arrival from St Briene the captain noted male attire. medical staff confirmed a female passenger with slight brain concussion. In St Helier she used the name Louis Hermann and kept up male disguise for decades as a world roaming courier with language skills and broad knowledge.
The Albany Georgia News recounts Representative Reed of Putnam joining a legislative committee inspecting an asylum. During a night of investigation he paired with a resident woman who, after a brief exchange, realizes he is part of the committee and notes the difficulty in distinguishing inmates from lawmakers.
A New York World cable reports Prince Francis Hatzfeldt's London romance with Miss Huntington continues with outings and plans for marriage. The main obstacle is settling loans from creditors pressuring for full repayment, leaving the engagement amid tense financial demands and parental firm stance.
Captain Kotzabine recalled a 1851 quarrel between Bush and a strong neighbor in Chicago. Bush sued for damages, the rival compromised by deed of a Washington Street lot now worth far more. Bush refuses $100,000 offer. Bush still owns the lot. The conflict ended with a costly settlement and lasting title.
A French stationer claims to have invented an ink that will fade from paper in seven days leaving no trace. The idea would revolutionize politics and love letters, letting messages vanish and papers regain their original value. Orders secretly would flood in for this fortune making ink.
The Stratford on Avon vicar defends a large reredos amid opposition, arguing the church is God’s house even as he acknowledges financing from Shakespeare’s memory. London Truth reports the digressive defense as candid.
Mr Cleveland of Madison avenue in New York grows heavier and walks to stay fit. He moves slowly, rarely smiles, and remains solemn even in theaters, while others ride in carriages. His prominence in town life is noted as his weight and demeanor define his daily presence.
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