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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1896
Page
3
An Ohio move toward electric executions sparks pushback from electrical firms worried their machines will be viewed as killers. The piece recalls New York's struggle to obtain an alternator and notes the Auburn execution use, hinting at similar procurement tactics for an Ohio plant.
A kind woman asks Perry Patettic what he would say to a steady job and he replies that he could not repeat to a lady what he would say. The Cincinnati Enquirer presents the humorous exchange highlighting social restraint and humor.
In a Detroit Tribune item a suitor seeks his beloved’s hand with no objection from her father yet faces an obdurate dad. The youth remains hopeful only if the girl can wed without paternal opposition, amid a restrained frontier romance tone.
The Home Life Insurance Company of New York seeks energetic local agents familiar with the area. Policies offer guaranteed cash value and loan privileges annually. Special territory and favorable terms available. References required. Apply to Fred F. Loomis, general manager, 806-9 Pioneer Press Building, St. Paul.
Detroit Free Press notes a confusing display labeled X on six quarter tickets. The writer suggests X may indicate a new raise from three to four cents per ticket.
A Washington Times quip on Kurdish and Armenian violence appears alongside a report that 691 tramps entered the Winchester workhouse in eight weeks, with 163 discharged soldiers among them. The British Museum library gains a series of Church of Scotland liturgies.
Distorted limbs swollen joints and painful muscles pale the life of sufferers. The famous Kickapoo Indian Remedy promises relief and a life without unbearable pain. Adults and children may find relief by trying this widely advertised tonic and tonic style remedy.
In Noelcombe a tense episode unfolds as Helen Mitford escapes a pushy suitor. Mr Jones pursues help with watch and purse, but Helen walks five miles to Noelcombe unswayed, aided later by a carrier. At Carnation Cottage she reunites with Aunt Elizabeth, while local class tensions simmer around Sir Adolphus Jones.
Noelcombe was a small fishing hamlet similar to the described home of Philip Enoch and Annie, but its single narrow street winds upward after clambering. The fragment sketches a quiet coastal scene with characterful locals and a hint of hillside access.
A Washington Star item recounts a dentist called to extract teeth from a dog named Madge belonging to a Michigan senator’s wife. The dentist, surprised to learn the patient was a dog, charges three dollars and notes he would avoid such work unless it is his own pet. Also included are home storage tips for vegetables and a short note on crop report revisions showing mixed results in Tennessee, with corn and cotton declines and other crops wavering.
A nervous young minister fills a vacant country pulpit while a local paper recounts a widow’s eerie room history. She describes deceased relatives and macabre curios in the house, claiming spiritualist expectations, old skeletons, and bones in a cupboard as she bid him good night.
A hundred or more spectators watched two women in Manhattan Beach during a heavy storm. They rushed to shelter from hail as it pelted the boards, then returned to enjoy the hailstones as if they were candy, boasting about the novelty versus Kansas storms.
A group of seventy full-blooded Sioux visitors halted in Chicago and, upon seeing a job lot of golf stockings, broke into a war dance and displayed notable joy, while Chicago’s sights failed to excite them.
A Cleveland manicure operator markets her business with a card claiming nails are beautified and made most magnificent and highly polished as anyone ever witnessed. The ad invites readers to compare results, aiming to boost credibility with assertive, sensational language. The item reflects period marketing rhetoric.
Mr. Gaswell confesses he is not himself at breakfast, prompting anxious dialogue with Mrs. Gaswell in a Pittsbur Chronicle Telegraph snippet. The exchange centers on personal unease and domestic concern.
Idaho reports total precious metals output with gold valued at 5,201,629 and silver at 1,960,383. The brief notes state Idaho ranks fifth in production among states, highlighting the mining sector's impact on the economy.
The article argues soil fertility depends heavily on vegetable matter. It notes that barnyard manure improves physical and chemical soil conditions, retains water, aids drainage, and releases unavailable fertility. It warns exhausted soils worsen drought effects and flood wash, urging barnyard manure or grass roots as substitutes even in the West.
A brief note describes simplifying building frames by laying a two inch plank on a stone foundation to form the floor supports and uprights. By spiking planks to the sill and frame, no mortising or tenoning is needed. The method suits small buildings and could apply to barns as well.
Thousands of barns lack gutters letting rain wash manure piles and ruin richness. Solid timber gutters are strong but costly. V troughs tend to leak. Coat interiors with concrete or sand tar mix to seal. Replace wooden supports with iron straps bent by blacksmiths and screwed to barn sides to keep gutters closed.
An old saying among crop observers is that no good crop fulfills all expectations and no bad crop is as bad as feared. The text notes that hopes are rarely fully realized and fears are usually disappointed, with justification often partial.
A method to reinforce stone fences by top poled construction. One stake set firmly in the ground supports a cross lattice bound with stout wire to hold poles in place. This design resists displacement by livestock and reduces stake loss.
The farm cart features a drop-axle for double the body depth and greater capacity. It is useful in moving young animals, with a rear double-door design held by stout hooks for easy access to the bottom. The cart is described as extremely handy though the text is partially garbled.
Millet can be grown on any reasonably rich soil but prefers warm, rich land with some gravel. Prepare ground, sow in the North when soil warms around early June. Use three pecks per nacre for hay, half that for seed. thicker sowing yields finer hay. Cover with a harrow, German millet for early sowing, Hungarian for later. Cut for hay when blossoms fade, wilt briefly, turn two to three times, form cocks, air for about three days, then store. Millet can be hard to cure. good fodder for horses or cattle, but ripe seed may injure kidneys.
Texas Farm and Ranch notes onions may be grown from seed sown in September or October with adequate moisture. Seed should be drilled before or after a rain, require only one fall cultivation, and the crop will form bulbs in spring. Heavy fertilizers and hen droppings plus wood ashes boost bulb size.
A St Cloud GA veteran Milton F Sweet credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for restoring his health after war service with NY Company GQ. He suffered heart disease and nervousness. six months of pills built his nervous system and blood, prompting widespread recommendation among comrades in Stearns County Minnesota. Notary James R Jerrard swore to the affidavit June 12 1896. Pills sold by dealers or mailed 50 cents a box six for 250 from Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
J. L. Sticht’s study in St Nicholas details how soldiers in the English, American, and Austrian armies used ornamented powder horns from 1755 to 1760, with 1,800 horns in active use. Each horn bore the owner’s initials, and inscriptions echoed liberty and valor. Horns fell out of use after 1848, often shortened or engraved over and lost.
A Chicago Post excerpt centers on a suitor Harold pressing a marriage proposal to a woman to balance a perceived family slight. He jokes about “pulling” the father’s leg to equalize misfortune, while she hesitates, revealing a strained family dynamic and a comic undertone.
List of patents issued to Northwestern inventors in St. Paul and surrounding Minn. towns incl Hans Bakke and Ole Nordley of St. Paul plon Henry 8 blood Park Rap ids Minn planter Richard D. Cody Winona Minn washer for tool posts Walter H. Gripman Sioux Falls lathe attachment Harris K. Harrison Pomme de Terre Minn potato plant er Julius Henning Minneapolis Min fire proof shutter Alfred A. Kinne Minneapolis Minn oil stove Eugene Lemay Mendota Minn potato dig ger Philip R. Martin Buffalo Nay tension device for grain binding machine Thomas H. Williams Doland S. D. check row potato planter filed by T. D. Merwin patent lawyer 910 911 912 Pioneer Press Building St Paul Minn and Washington D C.
A revolution in ship ventilation is near as electricity enables a full ventilation system unseen before. Previously each fan required its own steam engine and large space, with unsuitable spaces, but now an electrically driven horizontal fan with motor can be placed within a deck and beams.
Claim No-To-Bae cures tobacco addiction and restores vigor. Over 400000 cured, sales through druggists with guarantee. Free booklet and full example mail to Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or New York.
A servant notes that few people are content with their best qualified work as painters wish to be musicians and musicians wish to be authors. A businessman mentions an exception, recalling a young man who has done the same thing for years and seems satisfied with it.
An excerpt from a playful dialogue contrasts a mock obituary line about Peaceful Peters with a quip from Languid Laurence. A school scene follows where a pupil challenges the word opaque after a teacher asks, and a student notes no such thing since X rays.
In the Northwest, fur coats from Lampher Finch Skinner of St. Paul Minnesota are renowned. Despite many poor garments, local merchants know these coats as celebrated examples from an established firm.
A brief ad style snippet contrasts optimism for a flying machine with a playful comment and recommends trying Casearets to regulate liver and bowels, presenting a light promotional tone.
An OCR fragment touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup claiming to ease teething pain and colic. It advertises a 25 cent bottle with phrases about soothing, reducing inflammation, and curing wind colic. The excerpt also contains a quoted literary line about love and discernment.
A compendium of witty quotes from major papers. A Washington Star jab about female telephone operators ends with a misanthrope remark. The Detroit Free Press notes a long walk from Oshkosh to Chicago. The Philadelphia North American jests that De Limbe is polished for rubbing elbows with the best.
The article recommends forming a long narrow ridge for potatoes after soil cools, covering with several inches of earth and vent openings every 15 to 20 feet. Close openings in severe weather. Freeze protection includes a foot or two of horse manure on the earth and a top layer of corn fodder bundles to shed rain and curb deep freezing.
Practical farm guidance covers rye cropping, pasturing, painting buildings with genuine lead, profitable woodland use, tool upkeep, streamlining drainage, turnip disease in Michigan and its burn- tops remedy, timing corn harvest, winter walking orders, improving stock feeding, and new wheat sowing with corn stubs and harvesters proving useful on wagons this fall.
Reral Host-Well bids farewell to readers, hoping for a reunion next summer as winter recovers. Detroit Free Press notes town lot hope for rest and recuperation during the season.
A vintage advertisement extols Cascarets Caidy Cathartic as a pleasant age defining medical discovery. It claims gentle positive action on kidneys liver and bowels, cleansing the system, dispelling colds curing headache fever and constipation. Sold and guaranteed to cure by druggists with price options 10 25 50 cents.
In a Labor Day procession two mottoes appeared close together, one urging to see cream and dance at night, the other calling for more of life’s necessaries. The North Star fur coats are described as made from selected skins by skilled workers, with repairs offered if defective, produced by Lanpher Finnch & Skinner in St Pan.
A Chicago Tribune quotation notes men laboring beneath the street as part of city infrastructure. The exchange explains the railway company elevates its tracks, linking workers to civic project activity.
An advertising passage extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for rheumatic conditions and claims relief for stomach issues kidney trouble dyspepsia debility liver complaint and constipation. It urges persistent use for the listed ailments.
A collage of quirky quotes and ads from a period paper notes ostrich rock swallowing and a landlady, praises Piso's Cure for chest diseases, a diver spotting giant fish in Lake Quanapaug, a London physician touting bard elder for rheumatism, and casual lines about a dead old woman. It also mentions Cascarets, a McGinnis-low reference, and Alabama jail counts.
A Cleveland period ad proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure a guaranteed cure for catarrh and constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous membranes, promises strength by constitution building, and offers $100 to any case not cured plus testimonials upon request.
A new novelty in electrical bottling uses a bottle-filler operated by a button and electro magnets. Bottles are filled through pipes with liquid, valves controlled electronically, and flow starts and stops automatically. It promises faster operation, no waste, and uniform fill heights with minimal human attention.
A new house sleeping room features white enamel woodwork and brass bed frames. Walls display a colonial patterned paper with deep pinkish lavender ground and white motifs. A mossy green rug anchors the space, lavender ribbons top muslin curtains, and lavender, white, and olive accents appear in chair cushions and dresser cover.
In murky rural talk Mrs Casey recalls a tense encounter as a goon man raises a hand in fear during a lifetime, Oliver observes a rough man with a cleaned shave. She asks about debt and the "tin dollars" owed, while mentioning a godly man named Jawn and lingering trouble.
North Star fur coats are made by Lampher Bloch and Skinner in the Northwest region. The coats are guaranteed for one year and sold in Austin, Minnesota.
A physician boasts of removing a bullet from a man's eye without destroying sight. The Cheerful Idiot retorts that the speaker has performed that trick with a gun many times. Indianapolis Journal.
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