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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1886
Page
3
A verse narrative contrasts a ballroom romance with a lasting bond. A man seeks a carefree revelry while a favored maiden imagines true devotion, while champagne and flowers mark fleeting gaiety. The speaker questions whether passion can endure beyond society’s festive years.
The president of the Stability Bank learns cashier Brooks is missing in Canada after a late departure to Detroit. A plan to declare a defalcation is set in motion, with a detective and Chicago expert auditing the books. Brooks later clears himself, returns from Windsor, and reveals his identity to a grateful acquaintance.
A tense exchange has Detective Graham from Chicago revealing his identity to Tam and Serméné in a Brooks matter. He declares the race ended for now and warns that Brooks is becoming too clever for the moment.
Sally and Seth plan a midnight elopement aided by a ladder and a romantic scene. A sudden window reveal exposes Sally’s father, and Seth is rescued by a strong family intervention. The couple marries in the usual fashion afterward.
Practical tests show a two foot coal seam yielding 70 000 bushels per acre or 44 800 000 bushels per square mile. For 144 square miles this equals 556 000 000 tons. One thousand miners produce about 1500 tons daily, needing 516 years for twelve miles square. Cherokee Crawford Bourbon and Osage hold coal belts about seventy by twenty miles.
In Venango County Pennsylvania oil strikes sparked excitement around a red schoolhouse. Speculators offered 75 000 for the acre but directors held out to 100 000. No well sunk yet and only 500 dollars currently assigned to the lot and building.
A New York Tribune correspondent argues that large tubers tend to produce a better long term average yield than small seed potatoes. He notes tuber size influences disease transmission and emphasizes selecting vigorous, healthy shoots for propagation.
An essay on feeding corn to hogs and cattle in farm practice. It argues corn should be a component of a varied diet including clover hay and bulky provender rather than a sole staple. It warns that corn heavy feeding makes pork costly and stresses balanced rations for health and productivity.
The article notes hens lay fresh daily and offers two tips to prevent spoilage: eat or sell fresh eggs promptly. It explains no method preserves freshness beyond two to three months, mentions salt or coal ash storage, and details a lime water formula to store eggs at 35 to 40 degrees, yielding edible but not fresh eggs after six months.
A local horseman explains that a horse raises its fore feet to relieve strain on delicate shoulders. He notes the instinctive balance in stalls, with higher front than back, and says the pose also enhances appearance.
Garden writer David N. Morgan explains a celery storage method using a ball of cotton wick to bind the end stalks. He winds the wick around successive plants without tying, allowing the wick to unwind after lifting the celery for future use.
A letter criticizes farmers for allowing bushes and weeds along public highways and on farms. It argues removal is cheap and beneficial, noting neglect increases taxes and reduces productive land. The author suggests mowing the roadside to improve appearance and prevent grass from taking over.
The writer calls on farmers to mow up to their fences and clear weeds along boundaries this year and in years to come to improve appearance and productivity of every inch of the farm.
A historic suggestion advocates paying a girl starting at age ten to perform sized tasks, supervised by a mother, with earnings spent on wardrobe items like stockings or gloves. The plan aims to teach budgeting, ambition, and pride in labor, scaling duties and pay as she grows.
A list of practical health tips from a family doctor including digestion aid from nuts with salt, milk that stands too long becomes butter, beeswax and lard on rusty flatirons, changing sewing positions to test posture, hot lemonade at bedtime to break a cold, vinegar soak for tough beef, soda for sick headaches, strong coffee to remove onion breath, hot water before meals to prevent nausea, well ventilated bedrooms to prevent morning headaches, fainting first aid, salt water sponges for night sweats and fever, beating eggs with salt, sage tea on the scalp to stop hair loss, egg yolk to remove spots from fabrics, and hot plates removing white varnish spots.
A historical public health notice warns buyers to inspect tins for bulging or sunk ends as signs of quality. It explains the canning process, stresses vacuum seals indicate safety, and cautions against solder residues and air pockets. Emphasizes buying from reputable exporters and vendors to reduce poisoning risk.
A New York observer defends plain beauty over cosmetics and mocks the artificial look. He argues fashion, late hours, and lavish living degrade youth, noting Parisian makeup as too perfect to seem natural. He cites Saratoga and Long Branch as examples amid Vanity Fair’s culture.
Encouraging strict confidence with husbands and patient listening to confide in wives. Emphasizes punctuality in engagements, reciprocal faithfulness, and avoiding disputes. Advises careful economy and clear monthly expense records to improve finances and respect.
The text urges wives to cultivate love and attentiveness, manage the home, improve attire, avoid gossip, and cooperate with husbands and servants. It advocates strong affectionate bonds, pleasing appearances, and mutual concessions to foster lasting marriages and moral family roles.
A Charleston arrival recounts the terrifying quake with roaring sounds, collapsing walls, fires, and panicked crowds while asking for water and safety. She describes homes ruined, people wandering in night clothes, and animals crying, yet notes small absurdities like an elderly man staying to bathe and a woman sprinting with cap and stockings.
The article argues humorous topical songs rarely earn profits, thriving mainly in theaters with expert performance. Sentimental songs, by contrast, perform well at home, enduring audiences and broad sheet music sales, making publishers profitable.
Philadelphia owner J D Jones donated a natural tunnel in Scott County Virginia to a railroad, enabling a Bristol Tennessee to Big Stone Gap Kentucky line. The 988 foot rock passage through Stock Creek, 480 to 592 feet high entrances, unlocks coal iron ore lumber and marble wealth in the region, with a project budget of at least 500000 dollars.
John Randolph recalled a tale about Phidias to mock a colleague Sheffey a former shoemaker who criticized the sandals of a statue. Phidias altered the statue after the shoemaker’s remarks and mocked his expertise with a Latin line let the shoemaker stick to his last. Randolph then cited Anna Hawley disappearing after dressing as a man.
Local advertisement extols Red Star Cough Cure as a safe prompt remedy that drives away summer colds and coughs, claiming reliable results with fast action and no side effects.
The brakemen on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad demand a 40 percent wage increase. If the demand is not met a strike will result.
Editor of Corvicatia Fox Ob server Mr G P Miller suffered a severe attack of rheumatism in his left knee making stairs impossible. After several applications of St Jacob's Oil the pain vanished and the knee returned to normal. The General Grand Council of Royal and Select Masons concluded its second triennial convention with elections of officers including G P Pickard Louisiana G G M George W Cooley Minnesota G G I M A B Senior Ohio G G R W Frank H Bascom H M G Rev J W Barnum Massachusetts G G chaplain John Coburn New York C G C of G Henry S Orme California G G G of G Bradford Nien Tennessee G G steward.
The article highlights a proposed civil service rule giving honorably discharged soldiers and sailors the legal preference. It notes the Fort MacLeod Gazette editors reporting no massacre by Indians in the Northwest as claimed by Manitobian.
In the throes of rheumatism the illness is inflammatory and hard to prevent. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is touted as a safer, more effective remedy to check progression and neutralize the rheumatic virus in the blood. It is claimed to aid neuralgia liver complaint indigestion chills fever weakness and kidney bladder inactivity and sleep and appetite.
A crude quip targets Dr. Feil and his old school pill use. The satire contrasts his large pills with Dr Pierce's sugar coated pellets as quick liver and stomach remedies. It also mentions Bernard Baer’s ailments and claims miraculous cures, urging readers to send stamps for a medical association facsimile at 663 Main Street, Buffalo.
An advertisement praises Pistre's Favorite Prescription as a potent specific for chronic female weaknesses. It touts Dr. Pierce's Diseases Peculiar to Women treatise, 160 pages, offered for ten cents in stamps, via the World's Disorder Medical Association at 663 Main Street, Buffalo.
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