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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1891
Page
3
A New York World verse extols rural life and Mother Nature, inviting city folk to abandon smog and squalor for calm content on farms. The poem paints blooms, bees, haystacks, and orchard shadows as symbols of peace, urging a return to nature’s home.
Jenny, alone with five children, cares for ailing neighbor and her two orphaned children Wilhelm and Madeline after finding the dead mother. The fisherman returns from a bad night at sea and agrees to raise the two orphans alongside their own children, trusting God will provide. The scene, poignant and stark, echoes Hugo's moral passion and ends with the couple promising to share their limited sustenance.
A Detroit Free Press item recalls a Woodward avenue girl fond of slang who asks her money loving father to fund a lakes voyage. The mother doubts funds, the daughter insists, and the family quips about expenses as the plan unfolds with humor.
The article surveys tropical sleeping on hammocks and mats, portable char poys in India, matting in Japan, low bed stead details in China, German beds with large up pillows, and England’s shift from four post to iron or brass beds. It notes English beds as the largest, and ancient Greeks Romans used frames rather than flat beds, while Egyptians favored a couch-like chair with hollow back and seat.
Mr. Oberlin Smith spoke at the Franklin Institute proposing electric propulsion for future ships. He described rotating armatures on the screw shaft and storage batteries along the hull as ballast to power motors for long Atlantic voyages, with generated current from coal or other fuel for loading operations and radar-like work.
The twelve rules once hung in colonial kitchens shaped New England character. Profane no divine ordinance. Touch no state matters. Urge no healths. Pick no quarrels. Encourage no vice. Repeat no grievances. Reveal no secrets. Maintain no ill opinions. Make no comparisons. Keep no bad company. Make no long meals. Lay no wagers.
This piece urges farmers to treat each farm as an experiment station and to read widely in agricultural science. It argues for small, controlled field trials to test crop varieties and soil suitability, plus practical benefits from sheep farming including steady mutton income, wool value, and efficient wintering to reduce losses and build wealth.
A leading dairyman notes that simple, regular feeding often yields good results, favoring practical common sense over heavy reliance on scientific balancing of diets. He argues that nutrition aids a naturally good cow, but cannot create milk capacity where none exists, warning against overfeeding rich rations. American Dairyman references support.
Wisconsin authorities inspect silos to locate weak points amid rat burrowing and freezing concerns. Nine silos show damage from rats and weather, with recommendations to grout bottoms, vent weather exposure, and shield stone structures. wooden silos face less frost risk.
In Phrenological Journal a mother teaches Jack to stop turning everything wrong side out. After a morning of fussing and fretful conduct Jack is ordered to wear his garments right side out. The story frames a lesson that there is a pleasant part to events and a less favorable part, and one should choose the right side and act accordingly.
Fowls with roup should receive a dessert spoonful of castor oil at night and then eat warm cooked food with daily additions of cooked onions. Pulverized charcoal in the food, kerosene nasal injections, and occasional turpentine are recommended. Keep birds in a dry draft-free area and remove eye swellings with lancing if needed, washing with carbolic soap suds and applying sweet oil with carbolic acid. End plan notes mixed success.
Miles Purvis suggests setting out strawberry plants in rows or a matted one foot wide bed. A plot one rod by four rods can feed a family, with crescent as a favored all round variety. Use well drained, richly manured ground, avoid waterlogged crowns, and apply mulch between rows after frost.
Mrs Partington laments three mortal weeks of illness detailing the left brain, heart, thorax, and achloroform morbus as she endures a sequence of ailments with wry humor. The passage blends medical jargon and mock gravity to satirize common nineteenth century remedies and afflictions.
Guidance on feeding hogs cattle and sheep, emphasizing regular light feeding and grit for poultry, plus using leaves from beets and turnips for livestock. Notes an amateur Maine beekeeper stung after loose overalls failed. Also highlights merino sheep as weed destroyers aiding late-season corn, acting as scavengers in fields.
A Kansas innkeeper recollects Big Jim, a ruthless border figure, who vowed to shoot any intruder and hold land by force. A squatter family arrives in a wagon and a small girl’s plea moves Jim to despair, revealing a softer, fearful side and sparking a plan not to kill. The tale ends with Jim moved by the girl’s voice and questioning his own brutality.
In Detroit Free Press, Thomas P. Montfort recites a tale where a dying girl comforts her grieving father with visions of a beautiful Heaven and a past home. The story reveals Big Jim’s deep remorse after protecting settlers and burying the girl on the prairie, a turning moment toward gentleness.
A look at school nicknames shows boys assigned enduring sobriquets based on peculiar traits. Examples include Bones for Jones brothers, Duodecim Snails from a Latin mispronunciation, and The Rats for Ratcliffe and brothers. Some pupils accumulate forty to fifty nicknames, while others earn single vivid labels like the Broomstick or the Thug.
The piece outlines stamps origins from Great Britain in 1840 and Brazil 1843, the United States 1847, noting 211 issuing countries and yearly mail volume around 50 billion letters. It highlights leading nations by letters mailed, value of canceled stamps, and quirky country notes such as Monaco and Stoffaland.
Dr Solon reports a case where an amateur hypnotised a guest, provoking extreme excitement, speech loss, catalepsy, and violent convulsions. The subject later sang continuously for days, spiked by high fever, before gradual recovery after two weeks of sedatives and rest.
An 19th century reader commends August Flower for relief from biliousness and chronic constipation after trying many remedies. The testimonial from Jesse Barker of tumboldi Kansas lauds the medicine as life changing and urges wider awareness of its benefits.
A San Franciscan hunter bought a caged wildcat from a mountaineer for thirty dollars. The hunter aimed from a cabin window as the animal strained at its tether. The rope broke when the shot opened, and the wildcat vanished into the forest. Also mentions a Minnesota woman editing a country weekly and praising The Burlington route for ladies travel.
An antique advertising verse traces Castoria’s use from infancy to motherhood, noting the remedy’s appeal for child illness, adolescence, and feeding mothers. The slogan emphasizes continual reliance across life stages with a catchy, period voice.
A contemplation on retirement from business as a mistake for the unemployed and the value of the pen as the silent mouthpiece that preserves fleeting thoughts. It argues that those without occupation may feel retirement differently and emphasizes permanence through writing.
George and Naomi share a quiet, melancholic moment. He reveals sadness in his eyes and blanched cheeks while she notes the world’s gloom. He tries to ease her sorrow as she complains her new shoes pinch painfully like thunder.
A fragmented 3 inch display advertisement appears weekly from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co offering a Crescent word puzzle where each new word is unique. The ad promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment with period style moralized marketing and quotes about truth, humility, and social commentary.
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