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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1891
Page
3
A Nashville recollection tells how Tom Felts met his chestnut sorrel horse after ten years. Bought by Dr. Walton, sold to Teasley, then passed through several owners until Felts found his former steed rubbing noses on Buena Vista Street, recognizing him after a decade.
The Weeky Pioneer Press offers one year of delivery plus a complete Revised Encyclopedia Britannica for $7.50. Subscribers receive twenty octavo volumes with seven thousand fourteen thousand columns and eight million words, plus four thousand biographies and color plates. No delivery charges, ships to distant friends, and continues the current subscription for one year.
The piece argues physicians now treat consumption as a germ disease caused by tiny bacilli entering the body via food air or skin. It claims German Syrup loosens kills expels and heals the affected lung tissue, making consumptives germ proof and well.
Four men fish on Grease Wood Creek near Independence Rock when Dan is bitten by a rattlesnake. Doctor Ray administers whisky and borax as a supposed cure, Dan becomes drunk, and the party returns to camp where the serpent is revealed to have bitten only a wallet.
Paris police report an extraordinary attempted murder case. A woman and her father stand charged with poisoning her husband, cab driver Lombard, by melting lead into his ears. The motive was property, with the couple married two years. A lamp and ladle used in melting lead were found.
A New York medical student who faced nightly taunts from a stout beggar learns the man’s mystery when assigned his dissection. He discovers a bone growth in the neck that prevented head movement, explaining the beggar’s stiff neck before the body is mounted in the student’s room.
A Washington theatre employs a professional claqueur described as a dark skinned athletic man with a large mouth and gleaming teeth. His infectious laugh fills the top gallery during summer light opera and minstrel shows, often drawing more audience laughter than the performers. He collects 25 cents per night at the box office.
A brief mock exchange claims Briggs died from hard drink after a cake of ice fell on him. Dobson questions the origin of the habit and Briggs answers with surprise.
Advice on proper horse stables stressing light ventilation and clean bedding. Describes window placement, box stalls, air flow, flooring choices, and bedding options to extend horse health and work life. Includes unrelated dairy test results on fat content in skim milk by Wing and Smith.
Curiously marked Belted cattle resemble Holstein Frisians but are smaller, averaging about 1000 pounds. Their white belt contrasts with solid black quarters, forming a striking herd appearance. They are claimed to yield up to 10 000 pounds of milk yearly, appealing to both dairy farms and family settings.
Mr Otto Hehner president of the Society of Public Analysis reports 86 of 148 imported butter samples analyzed over twelve months contained margarine adulteration ranging 6 to 85 percent. He notes shippers use chemists to calibrate unsafe adulteration levels and urges frequent analyses and broader Margarine Act enforcement to deter fraud.
In a series of tests at the Cornell station eleven trials measured the relative value of different methods in raising cream from milk. The article reports experimental results and evaluates techniques tested for cream yield.
Bone spavin is an incurable disease though early care may reduce pain and save usefulness for years. Foment the joint with hot water, then blister. rest the horse, allow moderate pasture exercise, and remove inflammation before blister. Keep the system cool with medicines like epsom salts in one pound doses as needed.
A newspaper exchange notes that a true general purpose horse cannot exist combining all possible horse duties. The piece argues value lies in mastering a specific quality or set of related abilities, with a horse being most valuable when it excels at one task rather than trying to do everything.
The author outlines a practical feeding plan for chicks using milk, wheat, scalded oats, potatoes, and corn, with a morning and night schedule. It also stresses sowing clean seed, treating smutty wheat with blue vitriol or brine, drying heavy wheat, and avoiding sowing wheat in the same field twice in succession to prevent smut and balance rotation.
Experience in California and other settlements shows fruit growing is highly profitable. Settlers in the South or West are advised to plant apples pears cherries quinces grapes and small fruits as soon as land is cleared and prepared.
The article stresses constant cleanliness in the home dairy. It notes butter quality depends on meticulous attention to many small steps and the person must observe perfect care in each operation to earn a price from outside buyers.
A reader cites errors in the Sept 3 Tribune-Sir report on the Washington ACS meeting Aug 18 about carbonate of ammonia in baking powders. He argues ammonia remains in bread and accuses the article of misrepresenting participants and positions, naming Dr McMurtrie and Royal Baking Powder Co. claims.
In June a parlor full of eleven hopeful suitors awaited Abbie McGilway, heir to a modest household. Her rise from college graduate to honored alumna draws male admirers, each seeking a fortune tied to her famed essay How to Keep House on $10 a week.
A Paris court case shows that in France a husband remains responsible for supporting his ex wife’s parents if they become destitute. The code predates modern divorce law and the ruling required continued alimony to the former mother in law. The man appealed and a higher court recently released the lower court’s judgment.
The piece praises Ivory Soap advertising art for using top illustrators like George Wharton Edwards and E. W. Kemble, noting signs of signature names in ads to come. It also comments on various patent medicines and tonics such as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Allen's Iron Tonic Bitters and Syrup of Figs, extolling their supposed health benefits.
An old advertisement line recalls Castoria as a remedy for every stage of childhood from baby to Miss. The jingle emphasizes trusted relief across generations with a recurring Castoria reference.
A 3 inch display ad from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. promises a free book and lithographs if you identify a unique word each week. The slogan hints at one word appearing with “Crescent” on their products, suggesting a promotional cipher. Contentment is valued over money in the closing lines.
The Richmond Dispatch notes how Mrs Madison a wealthy planter widow faced ruin through her son Payne Todd once living in the White House and later squandering fortune in Europe and Virginia He lived idly after his father and mother presided over Montpelier finally dying of typhoid fever two years after his mother.
The Princess Charlotte, daughter of George IV, wrote a will leaving all to a teacher who kept it. The executor corrected her attitude with a book on speaking calmly. She later claimed to have read it and to have profited, threatening to scratch the attendant.
An organ grinder in the city uses two trained monkeys to stage a betting trick in front of saloons and the City Hall. Bets from spectators and owners convert nickels into dollars, drawing a large crowd for nearly an hour as coins flow into the musician’s coffers.
At the Criminal Sessions Court in Samara six peasants were tried and imprisoned up to four months for attempting to dispose of four women by interring their bodies and floating them down the Volga in a rain rite. The case exposes a belief that sending the dead of a drunkard to the river will bring rain.
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