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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1893
Page
3
A metal ship ladder with platform and handrails folds compactly against the rail. It can be lowered to any angle between horizontal and vertical, keeps steps horizontal at all angles, and secures to the deck or waterway. The ladder serves as a gangway to piers or pontoons and adapts to tide changes while remaining light, durable, strong, and inexpensive.
Reported here is an exhibit in the electricity building showing electric cooking gear. A disk heater heats enamel plates to power ovens broilers griddles and irons with base costs around 60 to 77 dollars. Proponents claim electricity offers comfort economy and avoids combustion losses versus coal and gas.
An advisory notice urging readers to contact B. F Johnson & Co. in Richmond Virginia for guidance on finding profitable work and improving financial prospects.
If you have lost your appetite it will return to you if you apply to a druggist or general dealer who sells Hostetter's Stomach Tonic. This full tonic restores vigor, digestion, and regulates the bowels, liver and kidneys, with protection against malaria and rheumatism.
An early ad extols Cee's Cough as oldest and best. It claims superior quick action and reliability and invites readers to try it, citing a painting from ancient Egypt and a king’s command to memorialize his exploits.
Hap per s Weekly describes Alaska natives during salmon runs. Canoes and drying racks color camps as tribes fish for winter, while trade and cannery work shift communities to permanent summer villages. Census crews struggle to count dispersed natives.
A Cincinnati Times summary on how the letters J and W evolved in English, noting J’s rise during the Commonwealth era, earlier rarity, and the double U’s emergence from V and its eventual fusion into today’s W. It traces typographic practices with examples like wet and weather and observes multiple historical forms of W.
As officials hesitate, ink erasers face suspicion after a New York mayor forbade an effective erasing solution used in a city department. German interest grows over a new paper that allows ink to be erased with a moist sponge, though the invention has been refused a patent and declared unlawful.
A dialogue notes two women discussing precautions against an epidemic. One replies she had her husband prepare a will, as reported by La Tribune de Geneve.
In a refined drawing room a budding romance grows between Hyacinth Vane and Alan Branston. He professes deep love and asks her to marry him under the lime trees, as Lady Rosedene guides a match meant to be true love rather than social alliance.
A romantic scene unfolds as Dawn agrees to marry Hyacinth after he declares his love and asks for her hand. He pledges to live for her, even risking his life if she refuses, and she answers with a tender yes. The moment is described as blissful, like Elysian minutes on a summer breeze.
Alan Branston seeks Hyacinth Vane in marriage to the daughter of Francis Vane, a solitary scholar. Lady Rosedene approves, while Hyacinth and Alan press to gain Mr Vane's consent. The father trembles between a child beloved and a woman grown, cautious yet hopeful for love.
A young couple seeks a late marriage with a yearlong postponement. The guardian agrees after lengthy argument that the wedding should wait until the end of next year. The groom looks forward to time with his bride and a hopeful future. (To Be Continued.)
A reflective piece contrasts the legend of Texas cowboys with modern urban life. It laments the decline of chivalry as a Texas swagger is challenged by everyday conductors and police, questioning the fate of classic frontier heroes in a changing world.
A new method guards artwork by placing paintings in an airtight glazed chamber with a visible aneroid semaphore inside. As Sprengel pumps remove air, the indicator stays hidden. any leak exposes the semaphore signaling vacuum loss. The system aims to prevent atmospheric damage to priceless galleries in England.
A shop conversation and butcher anecdote illustrate how hurried luncheon orders ruin meat. The narrator argues that management faults, not cooks, cause dissatisfaction with food, noting the waste from rushing meat and the likelihood of tough results at table.
A writer warns young officers in India against keeping leopards as pets. He recalls a subaltern’s leopard in a bungalow where a guest faced a frightening encounter and a servant fled. The animal later bit its owner in play, who kept a skull and skin as a souvenir.
A roundup of incidents across Minnesota and nearby areas includes gypsies stealing a wagon and harness from Peter Nelson in White Rock and a valuable team from O Bengston near the Dakota line. Deserter John Landrum from Company H is arrested at Granite Falls and taken to Paul by the U S marshal. A fatal fire injures a three year old child in Main Prairie Stearns county. Pfeif employed by J Kennedy at Foreston Benton county is jailed for arson. Raderaker brothers indicted for manslaughter in the Woysha killing. Ernest Poppits Augusta and R Ziglin Waconia indicted for running a blind pig. both plead guilty, fined $100 and license $500.
Fire destroyed Charles Clark residence at Kerkhover with $600 loss and no insurance. Three fur coats stolen in Montevideo with no clues. Brakeman William Peller lost a finger during car coupling at Owto m a ca. Seventeen year old Charles Smith accidently shot himself at Miller’s ranch. A body found south of a pond near Hutchinson by Charles Brumdice and Dove Louis during a hunt. A thief remains at large. A Windom train accident narrowly avoided when depot workers rerouted a car back to the main line.
The report notes Minnesota retail grocers forming a state organization while local crimes and accidents unfold. Olaf Bensen reports the theft of a team with buggy and harness near Stanton. A fire at Berrisford's cracker factory in St. Paul damages property worth about 30000 dollars. Additional incidents include robberies at The Farm in Granite Falls, a trampling injury in Barnesville, and barn fires near Redwood Falls.
A warrant is issued for Ephraim Cotter of Anoka on an assault charge against Gust Oleson, but Cotter remains at large. Fire destroyed G. C. Winchester’s barn at Warren. loss $300 with no insurance. Burglars stole small items from C. H. Bennett’s Pipestone drug store. Hans Hanson, 19, near Duluth, accidentally shot himself fatally with a revolver. The Franklin mine near Virginia resumes with full crew. shipments to Cleveland and Hale mine shipments from Biwabik restart this week. An incendiary burned Michael Craemer’s separator at Eden Valley and about 200 bushels of wheat. Village merchants switch to cash-only after Oct 1. John Schwietzer of the Mankato Soap Factory voluntary assigned to H. Robel. assets $5,000, liabilities $3,700. factory leased to Fish & Stanley. Bear hunters Joseph and Henry Rademaker found guilty of manslaughter in the second degree for killing John Wolasin on the Chaska Waconia road. sentence to be set later.
The blaze consumed I Bubis’s barn and fine poultry house in Winnebago City with losses around 600 dollars, including eighty fancy bred chickens. Insurance covered 300 dollars, and authorities suspect tramp involvement. Western Electric plans a 20000 dollar electric light plant in Rochester, expected ready by Christmas, to be pushed rapidly. C Tobey of Sauk Center seeks postmaster job at Sauk Center as J M Thomason’s term ends.
Thomas Bryan of Burnside survived a runaway incident where his Red Wing horse team dragged him two blocks. Charles Bergmann, sixteen, was killed by a Great Northern freight train at St. Paul. James Irwin, an ex-convict, escaped Moorhead jail and hospital escapee guard sleep. Officer Lex of St. Cloud fought a tramp gang with shots fired and three suspects jailed. Vicar General Bauer of St. Cloud narrowly escaped poisoning. He is temporarilly
A man at St. Augusta near St. Cloud swallowed carbolic acid instead of asthma medicine. Emetics were administered promptly, saving his life though his throat and stomach suffered severe burns.
Ethel Sherry alias Mrs Whitman jailed in Duluth for forstory. William B Mitchells store at Sheldon burned loss 2490 insurance 1700 suspected incendiary. Judge Thayer rules against Russell Sage in Hastings Dakota land grant suit. Five year old son of T N Rector drowns at Garden City in Watonwan river. older son almost drowned saved by mother. Rev Father Englebrecht bond forfeited 1500 in Laverne district court over criminal assault charge. Two men rob Swede on Omaha deck in Duluth fled with 30 watches. agents witness capture. victim returns items to police.
The Wichita real estate twins William and Edward Stites and two paired schoolteacher twins wed partners who matched in love, dress, and timing. The four twins share a house, two babies, and equal status, causing comic confusion as townsfolk greet whom they suspect is “papa.” A hotel scene with twin waiters foreshadows further mixups.
E G Gardner a traveling salesman recounts a large Indianapolis audience during a Grand Army encampment last week. At the Bates house he placed a silver dollar under his glass to attract service but a waiter allegedly lifted the coin and vanished with it before serving him. Gardner waited and paid extra to finally eat.
Uncle Caesar recalls spotting a boy in the Southern Meetinghouse yard with his back turned and jaws moving as if gambling. He approaches and asks for a taste of a watermillion, only to discover the figure is not Augustus but a different youth, proving the boy’s sly nature.
A Civil War writer recounts a failed prank as a corporal near a cemetery by the picket line. He tried the headless horseman rumor on a cautious guard who, smoking a pipe, warned he would put a head on any man who comes tonight without one, hinting at the origin of a slang phrase.
Three attractive girls ride the Sixth Avenue elevated from Forty second Street and attract leering attention from two young men. One girl sketches her admirer, spurring his embarrassment as the car shifts to a different carriage. The scene ends with his hasty exit and the others laughing at the discarded pencil fragment.
In a Cornhill Magazine inspired scene forty dairymaids competed with churns to a timer, each watching for a deliberate pace over a butter making challenge. The lesson echoed that haste ruins speed as the churning stayed calm and steady.
The Pearl fishery on the Arabian coast yields an annual sum just under 1600. Great Britain received 10 057 600 letters from America last year. The exchange prompts discussion on scheduling payments and weekly calls over Saturdays.
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