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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1885
Page
3
Poetic fragment recalling a future face to face with those who love us. Images of mists lifting, daybreak over orient meadows, and heart to heart truth emerging as shadows disappear. A reflective meditation on recognition and clarity beyond present obscurity.
A reflective verse speaks of endurance through gloom and loss, urging hope as a dawn that follows the darkest hour. The poem notes sunshine friends, cherished dreams, and scattered treasures, asserting sorrow holds a seed of hope and a sunrise remains somewhere in the world.
Owen Glenn defies a storm and moral lure to light a lifesaving beacon for a ship in distress. Annie, the seaside village girl, accepts his proposal as a reward for his selfless act. A abroad letter honors the deed, and the couple’s wedding is set a year hence as news of the beacon’s life saving feat spreads.
The French government sent Houdin to confront Arab marabouts in Algeria. He exposed tricks by plucking mind games from sorcery, made a pistol misfire, and demonstrated real power with feats like an apple on a knife and a smoke vanish. The crowd fled in awe as Houdin’s tactics undermined marabout influence.
A practical guide explains fainting symptoms and first aid, advising the person to lie flat with feet raised, loosen clothing, and ensure breathing. The piece adds anecdotes from the era about manners, prayers, and a Kiddie reflection from Harper's Young Folks, along with light sketches of Indian jugglers and seeds traveling in spring.
A fragment from a children’s page in St Nicholas features a playful dialogue where a maiden wishes to be flowers. The daisy, buttercup, clover, and rose reply with cheerful guidance about life, youth, and treasure, in a lilting refrain.
A survey of how seeds disperse by wind wings and water via dandelion plumes milkweed and thistle, and by animal fur with burrs and hooks. It notes balsam catapulting seeds, sweet coverings in fruits, and the spread of European weeds and dooryard plants near human settlements.
In Savannah a tense crowd at the depot led to a knife duel when a lean man faced a portly colored man over baggage. The attacker swung a razor, but the other man blocked with a palm strike and fell away, saying the move had been learned in Jamaica. The scene ended with the assailant hurt and the crowd dispersing.
Times reports Mr. W B Butler halted artificial chicken hatching at Trinity Place after a fire cost 2 500 hens. He notes winter raises are profitable with 1.5 to 2 pound birds in ten weeks and prices from 1 25 to 1 50 per part. Warm weather collapses prices to 20 cents per pound or less.
A rambling set of anecdotes recalls eclectic justice in Utah Wisconsin and Colorado. Stories include sentences for crimes ranging from intent to hung juries, stories of cash only courts and crooked under-sheriffs and a milkman delivering writs.
An inventor, Mr. Erick S. Bruce, demonstrated electric lighting on balloons using a captive balloon and interior lamps to flash Morse coded signals over wide areas. The display, which began two months ago, aims to extend exhibitions for a month despite gas flammability issues now overcome.
Minneapolis St Paul and Duluth reports list grain prices including wheat oats and corn, with No 1 hard and No 2 cash values, corn at around 42 to 43 cents, oats 25 to 32 cents, along with butter eggs hay and rye prices and ranges for market buyers and sellers across cities. The note shows daily variations and bid ask ranges for several feed products.
Mr 8 W Benerman of Philadelphia bowed to rheumatism and could not dress or undress but found relief with Jacobs Oil. He states the result was wonderful if not miraculous and attributes his cure to the ointment after years in the wholesale hardware trade.
A historical note claims Boston gambling dens are protected by heavy doors and watchmen while electric alerts warn of intruders. The piece also mentions attempts to lure readers to patent medicines and claims various medical cures in advertisements. It references Port Arthur dynamite, Pfizer remedies, and testimonials from Richard Pfaff and Justus R. Bell.
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