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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1887
Page
4
A discussion on the land boom sweeping the nation, noting rapid value increases along railroad corridors, and warning that without solid fundamentals a crash could bring losses. It urges careful investments based on permanent growth and healthful market causes rather than speculative hype.
Henry Steiner a 31 year old wood carver of Lemon Street Buffalo vomited up a nineteen ounce sixteen inch eel after drinking whisky to cope with stomach pains. The eel appeared after his water from a fire hydrant due to frozen pipes and a night of dark drinking. The creature died after four hours in water and Steiner recovered with no expectation of lasting harm.
A speaker longs for distant climes and grand treasures but remains bound to spin and sew at home. She worries who will sew and light the household fire while her husband returns from the fields with children, offering a loving kiss and comforting words as rain dampens the room.
In Hepburn the Goss and Sons shop hums at rush hour with gossip and goods. Young William dreams of literature while John stays practical. Five years later a churchyard procession marks the grocer Goss as a saintly figure, and Will contemplates moving to London for literary chances.
Miss Dulcie Sykes, now twenty eight, hosts John Goss in Kensington after years of separation. He owns a large factory, built schools and a cottage hospital, while Dulcie muses on social restrictions and her longing for Hepburn. He aims to be a literary man and hopes for a future with her.
John Goss, a factory owner, offers Dulcie his mansion and a future, hoping she will accept. She remains distant, valuing pride over wealth, as three months pass without her consent. A near catastrophe at the mill heightens tension, then Dulcie lashes out as danger looms, ending with a violent clash and concern for John’s safety.
In a tense scene, Dulcie pleads with a wounded man as his life hangs by a thread. He thanks her for saving him and presses for a demand he cannot hide, asserting his control as she weeps and yields to his persuasive plea.
A Louisiana verdict endorses a so called higher law allowing relatives to kill a seducer without trial. The Shackelford brothers killed N C McNeely in Grant Parish after threats and seduction allegations. Jurors called the act not guilty, citing Governor McEnery’s cited approval of the higher law and endorsing ambush killings as lawful in these cases.
The fifth Health Talks lecture at the Philadelphia Times venue drew a strong crowd despite bad weather. Dr. De Forest Willard offered practical health guidance, covering burns bleeding hunger poisoning and first aid including treatment of burns sprains poisoning and fainting.
The passage recalls Whittier describing how Burns anthology volumes, gifted by a visiting friend on a New Hampshire farm, broadened his view beyond Friends' poetry and revealed poetry’s vast world. The anecdote highlights the power of cheap reprints and libraries to bring great works to those with limited access.
A Boston broker recalls a stranger tale about Commodore Vanderbilt. A young Boston man inherits $20,000 and seeks the Commodore at night, who urges him to invest in New York Central. The youth ignores the advice, pours the money into mining stocks, and loses it all.
A Augusta woman facing a baffling illness offered to donate her body to two prominent physicians for scientific study. After a signed deed of gift with her husband present, she suddenly recovered and later moved away, fearing grave robbers would exhum her body.
A jesting exchange at a Vinestreet resort leads two men to estimate a decades long whisky habit. They compute ten drinks daily for twenty years, totaling about 72 800 drinks, roughly 1 213 gallons and 36 barrels, before joking about giving the stomach a rest. The tale toys with arithmetic and exaggeration in a social setting.
Interview with Frank Pizley criticizes land speculation by eastern immigrants buying land at 1500 to 2000 dollars per acre to grow oranges and pomegranates in regions where such fruits are native. Old settlers deride schemes in San Bernardino Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties claiming town plots are stretched to accommodate populations far larger than local demand.
Readers can use mucilage coated leaves dusted with glass powder and fern storage in earth layers for winter greens. Ferns, mosses, and leaves arranged with cardboard and rice imitate ivory. White cotton batting letters, straw embroidery, and gilded berries offer festive touches. Floating leaf garlands and tall floor vases create ceiling extensions. Florida moss and ferns form a decorative base with sprays and fern bunches for corners and walls.
The Pall River Massachusetts cotton mills announce a 12 percent dividend. General Butler ranks among the largest stockholders in these mills.
Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers is easy of application and always brightens the beard. It colors to brown or black as desired, offering a simple solution for matching facial hair to style.
Russell Sturgies formerly a partner in Baring Brothers bankers dies in London. He leaves an estate valued at about £2,000,000, according to available reports.
A dated advertisement by Prof M R Barker of Minneapolis offers a nonoperative rupture cure with testimonials from patients across Wisconsin and Minnesota. The notice claims no consultation fee and immediate correspondence, urging ruptured individuals to visit or contact Barker at his listed Minneapolis offices.
Barnum quotes aside, a medical notice touts a cure for consumption and long train of diseases from blood disturbance. It lists consumption catarrh liver trouble kidney disease dyspepsia headaches scrofula and general debility as relieved by the discovery. Claim cites time tested efficacy and urges purchase from any druggist.
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