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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1885
Page
4
A poetic speaker laments comparing her charm to others and asks how to win his favor through deeper love. She notes his growing wisdom and distant thoughts, wonders if another deeper love exists, and resolves to simply love him more despite heartbreak.
A veteran cavalry escort travels through Arizona’s Apache country where Apache fighters hide on a dry plain. Captain Arthur Burnham and his son pursue Zidda an Apache youth after a daring capture and a tense night camp. The group fights through rocky terrain near Fort Apache sustaining casualties but driving off the attackers.
In a scorching gorge pursuit, Jack Burnham flees Apaches on a swift mustang. Zidda the Apache sacrifices his own chances to swap cloaks and save the boy, claiming the water cup as motive. Captain Burnham withdraws as the chase ends with the fates of riders unclear.
General William T Sherman writes to Secretary of War E M Stanton praising Arion P Howe of Waukegan Illinois wounded at home from the Fifty fifth Illinois. He recalls Howe delivering a cartridge request under fire and notes the lad carries a notable musket calibre fifty four. Sherman endorses Howe for national instruction framing him as a promising candidate for a future institution.
A New Hampshire storekeeper, wavering on whisky and morphine, is lured by local youths who trap snakes and other creatures outside his store. As he gazes at each animal, he weakens not, until the rattler coils around a lamp post, prompting him to retreat inside and take a morphine powder. The youths retrieve the reptiles while he returns and remarks on morphine’s wonders.
Excerpts from Stanley's New Volume urge African exposure limits and temperate living for European men. It argues head coverings, lighter clothing, and a strict daytime ban on stimulants, with evening indulgence advised to avoid fatal heat and disease. The author frames restraint as essential for survival and honor in the tropics.
A 68 year old man, sent from Scranton for an eye disease, underwent a dramatic tumor removal through the right facial bones. Surgeon J E Garretson oversaw a full skull base operation using a circular saw to remove the right cheek and jaw bones, with arteries secured and the cavity later filled and prepared for an artificial jaw. The procedure, though risky, aims for recovery with no unfavorable symptoms expected.
M de Lesseps assures shareholders no alarm as he cites 1860 Suez attack to argue Panama Canal prospects. He notes about 20,000 workers on site and lists yearly death tolls, showing mortality lower than public fear suggests. European deaths are detailed by month through March 1885.
A deceased Massachusetts bank customer left a ledger at Cen ter Savings Bank detailing deposits from 1855 onward. The balance rose from $91 in 1855 with additions of $35 in 1856 and $20 in 1856 December, plus $8 in 1860 and $30 that June. By Sept 1 1880 she withdrew $100, leaving $156. the July 1 total reached $1,075 with about $320 in interest.
Ex Minister John A Bingham of Ohio who served in Japan for thirteen years speaks in San Francisco about Japan under Emperor Tenno. He describes the Daimyo system ending, Japan advancing from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, and warns of European influence in foreign policy while noting potential U S gains in silk and Pacific trade.
A Cincinnati reader recalls a London woman lured to Utah by Mormon promises. On arrival she is forced into polygamous marriage, becomes a third wife, and endures deep despair before dying content in faith. The account contrasts with Eastward travel noting prairie sweet grass perfume.
The Philadelphia Press notes an increase in dead branches and brown shrivelled leaves across many trees this summer. Officials say the losses are due to winter frost rather than drought, with damage observed around Fair Sears Bee, y ae uare, and Wagner Free Institute areas.
A period voice warns that insanity has risen 40 percent in a decade and that uric acid in the blood from kidney failure fuels brain damage. It cites Rev. E. D. Hopkins’s recovery after a cold caused long illness and praises Warner's safe cure as preventive and curative.
A columnist urges boys and girls to start scrapbooks capturing places people and scenes as a lifelong habit. It cites Pepys and Madame de Remusat for vivid historical detail and highlights routines like memory verses by Frederick Robertson and multilingual study by Franklin. It contrasts German birthday customs with American youth habits to promote healthier, happier homes.
A Newton couple reads the Bee and is moved by a poem about Yaacob Strauss. The wife, who has lost two children, cries as the verse contrasts a child's busy mischief with parental weariness. The piece notes a pure touch of nature in simple verses.
At the hospital’s triennial dinner the Treasurer lauded the Royal Family for aiding the hospital. The Queen and other royals are listed as patrons, with generous subscriptions noted 50 pounds from the Queen, 25 pounds from the Duke of Edinburgh, and 3000 pounds from Miss Matilda Levy among others.
Market report from Chicago Minneapolis St Paul Milwaukee shows wheat prices for No 1 hard No 2 hard and No 2 red varying from 64 to 81 cents with spring types listed. Oats corn rye flaxseed and animal products including butter eggs pork and lard quoted with ranges and cash prices in the cities.
The famed oarsman Edward Hanlan, once world champion, praises St Jacobs Oil after using it for arm and limb pains in Australia. He states it gave reliable relief and urges others to consider the remedy, presenting his personal experience as strong proof.
The Synod of Dakota session witnessed the dedication of McCormick Hall at Pierre University. Dr Gansee of Chicago and President Blackburn addressed attendees. Professors Wilber Hitchcock and Miss Grece Dickinson were unanimously confirmed, with Wilber and Hitchcock holding strong credentials.
A Boston suburb hotel built two years ago for childless couples faced a moral test when an infant’s cry shattered the quiet. Nine couples once sought privacy but by year two children appeared in seven of ten suites, prompting mockery toward the owner who was urged to rent to bachelors.
Ex Governor English of New Haven supplements his gift with 10000 to extend a park road from East Rock to Indian Head and Orange street, completing the Farnam drive system. A separate 1000 is donated to bridge a deep gully between East and Snake rocks. George W. Hunter of Echols County Georgia is shot and killed while corraling cattle in an ambush.
A pulp magazine style advertisement reel touts Kidney-Wort as a combined cathartic and tonic curing obstinate piles and constipation. Personal testimonial by James F. Moyer of Myerstown credits the remedy with relief after years of failed treatments.
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