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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1890
Page
4
D. M. Clark & Co offers carpets rugs mats oil cloth trunks and grips in a broad home furnishings display. Shop early for best selection and price.
The Water Co. office has moved to Mr. Paine's plumbing shop on Main street, north of the passenger depot.
Local items report residents visiting Minneapolis and Staples, political notices for the Fifth district Democratic headquarters, upcoming Gorton's New Orleans Minstrels shows, marriages, social events, and community updates including rail and school matters. Cemetery and insurance notes, trainer and professor news, and a tragedy near Fargo with a man’s suicide at a sanitarium.
The Weyerhauser group arrived in Brainerd to inspect a potential site for mills. Members included Frederick Weyerhauser and F C Deuckman with M G Norton M D? Norton of Winona, Peter Musser of Muscatine Iowa, Wm Sauntry of Stillwater E Rutledge of Chippewa Falls and H C Davis. They studied the dam and river works and took a boat trip eight miles to view log storage. No location was fixed yet as bonuses were rejected and a decision awaits their return home. They planned to stop at Little Falls and St Cloud.
At Daving Park, Brainerd Business College beats High School 18 to 11 in a baseball nine innings game. Girls from both schools cheered guiding plays while Prof Gerrity treated spectators. Herbert Maughan of the High School sparkled in field and bat. rematch set for next Saturday.
A noon Tuesday safe robbery at Smith and Demeules Insurance in the Sleeper block nursing cash of 64 dollars and 40 dollars in checks plus an unendorsed city order. The safe was opened and the cash box removed. no clues to the thieves have yet been found.
The Northern Pacific Beneficial Association reports year ending June 30 with receipts 88451.95 expenses 83211.78 a balance 5242.17 assets 63840.79 liabilities 52645.14 treated patients 13276 including 1680 Brainerd and 1169 Missoula. employe deaths 9 Brainerd 10 Missoula 35 elsewhere. 12855 discharged as recovered. benefits paid 12671.02 up 5859.95. Cass county plots changes in teaching staff and a satirical note on chemistry of human origins. Democratic Legislative Convention in Little Falls nominates Geissel Hemstead Stivers Sheets Price. Also a minstrel event and a livestock stray notice from Brainerd.
P T Barnum proposes displaying Egyptian royal mummies in Europe and America to attract a million dollars. He offers government relief to loan the relics and guard the tombs, arguing the display would astonish visitors and highlight lost ancient embalming art.
The article urges daily brushing to keep scalp pores open and hair healthy. It warns against scratchy combs, notes a school practice of 100 brush strokes, and advises regular washing with a touch of ammonia or borax in water for cleanliness.
A Savannah News item reports a humorous episode at a stamp shop. An elderly man bought a dollar's worth of stamps and, after damp fingers touched the sticky backs, wore them on his head to prevent sticking. The stamps clung to his scalp, tearing skin, prompting a hasty exit to seek shampoo.
Botanist McCarthy of the North Carolina experiment station argues that seed merchants should provide a real and definite guarantee of seed purity and vitality. He notes the high stakes for buyers who invest in seed, fertilizer, and land, since worthless or misidentified seed ruins crops and finances. He cites European seedmen as already offering such guarantees.
This essay reflects on aging from ancient times to the modern era, noting Barzillai’s poverty and lack of comforts versus contemporary improvements. It admires progress such as eyeglasses and better living conditions, argues temperance and healthful habits can ease old age, and cites Dr. Holmes’s antic as a humorous modern contrast.
A notice from Oak Lawn two miles east of Brainerd states four heifer calves strayed around Sept. 6. Three are spotted red and white, one is all red. A liberal reward is offered for the return or information leading to recovery.
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