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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1888
Page
4
The piece notes the humor in politics this year as it mocks demo-sane rhetoric while pockets fill from profits tied to sugar and Standard Oil, as cited by the Brooklyn Union.
A Burlington Hawkeye editorial quotes a free trade advocate asserting a suit of clothes can be bought in Ireland for $6.56, arguing cheap clothes drive Ireland’s prosperity and humorously advising workingmen not to move there.
Sixteen percent of 106 New York Republican clubs with roughly 5000 members say 1506 members voted for Cleveland four years ago. In Rochester a Harrison Campaign Club formed by 120 veteran soldiers who previously voted Democratic.
A claim that Democratic tariff policy would shift about 500 million dollars annually from American labor to Europe for European labor payments, predicting immediate adverse effects on workingmen and urging attention to the policy’s consequences.
The article compares debt changes under protection and free trade. Great Britain public debt fell from 3 875 000 000 in 1878 to 3 680 000 000, a drop of 195 000 000 in ten years. The United States declined from 2 256 900 000 in 1878 to 1 154 000 000, a decrease of 1 102 000 000.
The text notes Republicans in the region fare well and resist losing a respected leader. It says Democrats initially used the Mills bill as a campaign weapon but now dodge the consequences of that move, likening it to a boomerang returning to haunt them.
The New York Press depicts a split between Confederacy and British backing versus American nationality and heroic citizens. It asserts a reserve power in American nationality that has always surged in crises and prophesies future triumphs like Bunker Hill in 1884 and Yorktown in 1888, urging unity and readiness.
The Boston Globe warns that American infant industries pay 60 million dollars yearly in dividends on stocks owned by Englishmen, notably railroad stocks like the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul. It argues English ownership funds steel rail duties, and lifting the duty would shift revenue to English stockholders while harming U S steel workers.
German American voters in Ohio and the Northwest are deserting the Democrats. German newspapers like the Staats Zeitung, Cincinnati Volksblatt, and Freie Presse argue for protective tariffs. They cite Mills bill limits on sugar and rice, linking them to higher prices and political leverage. They praise American protection and note German sentiment favors Harrison and Morton.
A list arguing for protectionism, citing United States patriots like Washington and Lincoln, link free trade to secession, English origins, and British competition. Claims protectors built a vast manufacturing base, expanded the home market for farmers, increased land value, reduced national debt, and kept the treasury solvent, while criticizing free trade as harmful and foreign. The piece concludes with a final assertion that it is uniquely American.
The article details Senate and House actions: a bill on homestead entries allows appeals for drought relief, expands contiguous land rights, and lowers double minimum preemption to 1.25 per acre, with passage noted. It covers Judge Gifford in the House, a Yankton & Missouri Railway bill, and tentative adjournment plans for elections in November. It also notes the Hale resolution on General Benet’s circular, post office classifications, and ongoing adjournment discussions with dates cited as October 10 and 16 in various branches.
Captain Peter Mantor of Mantorville dies. Zumbrota gains Duluth and Southern rail access. Austin to issue bids for sewerage system. Over 600 cars of livestock pass Brainerd on the Northern Pacific in five days. Indemnity lands near St. Cloud prove up amid Judge Sleeper order. Benson sinks pipe to depths of 671 feet hoping to strike water. Walter M. Oulton killed near Austin on a Kansas City road after a attempted train ride. William Charles McKenna, Waasa county treasurer, seen at his sister’s in Rice County. Sabin threshing engine explosion kills Rudolph Bose, injures P. H. Collier. A 12-year-old near Montevideo severely injured by a cow kick. Kasota junction freight crew accident injures Joe Chase. Alex Young faces grand jury on larceny charge after alleged theft from steamer Big Stone City. Steamer Menomonie sinks near Winona. Lake Pepin storm wrecks raft boats Ten Broeck and Nettie Durant. Rushford fire causes $10,000 loss, $8,000 insured. Fred Rossmuel ler arrested for bogus check on Fergus Falls. Sheriff Cradle of Wabasha detains Charles Colberg for stolen property. Burglars seize John Wimmer’s trunks then target Preiss & Wimmers, stealing $600. Prairie fires threaten Fergus Falls flats. dry weather worsens conditions. Rev. A. G. Wilson leaves Glencoe for Spokane Falls to serve there. previously served in St. Paul, Granite Falls, Red Wing, and Spring Valley.
Senate will take up the tariff bill Monday with Senator Allison expected to back the senate substitute. The bill may be paused if informally linked to the general deficiency bill, with Republicans predicting passage within about three weeks. House prospects on the Soo and Southwestern Railroad bridge bill face opposition and delay after elections.
George Alford Townsend recalls vice in Virginia during a tour. He describes two hours of overheard talk about card games in Leesburg and villages where young men ride to genies for late sessions behind a curtain with tables for cards. They drink harsh whisky and wager money until late afternoon before riding home.
Last April H G Andrews aged thirty married Nina Kalger of Leon Iowa. They moved to northwest Iowa then separated with Kalger returning home and Andrews going to Illinois. Divorce followed and he later confronted Kalger’s brother and shot him in the left side with a revolver. the wound is serious and may prove fatal.
The Earl of Southesk narrates a Saskatchewan expedition where a fox evades two hunters by cunning. After pursuing another fox, McKay and the narrator lose him on a featureless white plain. The fox dives headfirst into a hidden badger hole beneath the snow, unseen until the moment the chase ends.
Fire damages Brooks Bros elevator in Gilley Oak and destroys 2000 bushels of wheat. A rear block fire on Third street involved shavings oil and kindling, quickly put out. A prairie blaze threatens Eldridge near Jamestown Calhoun County. Northern Pacific aid dispatched. Also report: Platt county bonds missing after attorney J W Coates carried 240000 in new bonds to Jefferson City and St Louis. Manitoba Railway transfers Great Northern assets. new Great Northern elevator project underway with capacity 1 700 000 bushels.
Instructions describe creating a creamlike dressing for eggs with butter vinegar mustard and salt. Includes tomato sauce with onion bay leaf parsley butter flour and seasonings, then stewing a hogs head with dressing and walnut catchup, and ginger nuts made from molasses sugar shortening ginger salt and flour baked into marble sized pieces.
A Prairie Farmer column argues farmers face hard work but gain much from country life. It praises sunshine, flowering trees, gardens, and animals, urging appreciation of beauty, growth, and sharing happiness with others. It notes a Prentiss grape vine growing three inches daily in proof of thriving plant life.
Caton proposes a safer lantern design for barns to prevent fire from kerosene or lard oil lamps. He describes substituting coach candles in conductors' lanterns, filled with sand, yielding about twelve hours of light, with less spill risk and greater stability. He suggests farms and public stables adopt the lantern and consider banning kerosene, noting no patent is taken and others may use the idea.
An essay from Breeders' Gazette on farm thrift and the stubborn habit of Indians summer husking. It notes cows and steers scan fodder for missed ears while farmers persist in manually husking to hard labor, urging reflection on time, progress, and ancestral folly.
Loge cabins described as strongholds of love and health with Coon skins nailed to doors, lauded as happy homes of noble people. The text claims Warner's Tippecanoe Log Cabin Sarsaparilla and other Log Cabin Remedies reproduce simple cures that sustain green old age.
A late nineteenth century tone reflects on Charlotte Corday as a brave peasant girl who killed Marat to end his bloody revolutions. The piece contrasts her act with the era’s murders, praising “Warner's Log Cabin remedies” and the return to simple trusted cures as a moral uplift, framing Corday as a world changing heroine and Marat as a symbol of ruthless zeal.
In Sam Lewis's examining trial for a murder attempt on Jack Dalbey, Dalbey's threats to Lewis are cited as basis for self-defense. Dalbey rises, is able to be up, and the trial venue in a colored church turns into a public, moralizing scene with praise for Sam as a preacher. The crowd disperses amid a lighthearted church-side joke about Tebber.
The two sisters left heirs property worth £280 in 1862. The executor, with archbishop approval, lent £56 to Michael for his education and allocated £16 for alms and £23 for masses. He plans £4 more for alms and the rest as masses. Rome approval is sought for past disbursements and proposed disbursements. the archbishop and cardinals sanction the steps, noting such expenditures honor God and aid the testator's soul.
A Harper’s piece recounts revival of aged health formulas tied to Warner’s safe care and Warner Observatory founder H H Warner. It previews “Warner’s Log Cabin remedies” including sarsaparilla for blood and liver, hops and buchu for stomach, cough and consumption cures, hair tonic and rose cream, plus plasters and livers. The tone favors old time herbal cures over modern medicine.
Senator Chandler's committee report favors a bill to restrict allotments of lands to Indians under the severalty act and the 1888 appropriation act. It seeks to end speculative land dealing and ensure Indians are the beneficiaries of allotments. Mrs. Sidney Smith, wife of a Pennsylvania railroad agent, was found dead in Chicago from gas exposure, suicide linked to despondency.
A work train with Italian laborers on the Chicago and Atlantic Railway at Kuntz Indiana was struck by a fast train while taking water in a tank. Three Italians were seriously wounded though not believed fatally. Thirty five to forty others suffered cuts or bruises but none seriously. The accident underscores dangerous conditions during road repairs.
South German papers report police warning of an anarchist plan to kill Emperor William during his journey from Munich to Vienna, prompting a revised route. The incident underscores heightened security as the imperial itinerary is adjusted for safety.
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