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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1885
Page
5
A brown maid on a doorstep winds a rusted key to a ticking clock held by a baby. The child asks why Time slows, and a grave voice muses that Time does not change though life gains duties and joys. The future will bring swifter moments as youth becomes old.
In 1850 Boston clerk Caleb Rochester finds a mislaid valise marked with his initials. Snowbound and stranded, he impersonates a learned professor, gives a praised lecture in S town, and wins Miss Lily’s regard, then confesses and requests another chance to meet her properly.
A judge recalls a reunion marked by a quiet parlor wedding where Miss Lily becomes Mrs Rochester. The judge then notes the boys’ Grecian looks naming them Phides and Praxiteles, though their real names are George and Rufus.
A New York tailor uses a lookalike to fit garments for Mrs Vanderbilt who is at Newport. The double helps demonstrate fit and movement for wealthy clients while the real Mrs Vanderbilt rests, with the tailor noting the substitute can mirror her posture and style.
The essay argues New York stands apart in America for wealth and social pull. It notes many fortunes from Chicago and elsewhere move to New York, where social life favors the rich, while many ten millionaires remain largely unknown to locals.
The New York Tribune describes a yearly planting method for strawberries using runners to establish new beds. It advises marking beds, selecting runner cuttings in July, and planting horizontally in light soil while keeping them moist until roots establish. It notes labor savings and stronger next season yields.
A Roman correspondent reports from Oberemmel near Treveri of a centuries old stone tablet bearing a prophecy tied to 1886. It links Easter with St Mark and Pentecost with St Anthony and Corpus Domini with St John the Baptist, suggesting looming disasters for the year. The forecast warns of cyclones earthquakes epidemics wars and widespread wailing if fulfilled.
The Commissioner of Education notes that in the South white enrollment rose by 297,185 and colored enrollment by 199,231 over the past two years. Public school expenditures in 1884 total $17,053,467, an increase of $2,232,495 from the prior year.
Visitors note a general debility among zoo inhabitants with lions, leopards, camels, and carnivora showing marked apathy. Superintendent Brown cites unprecedented sickness following a rapid temperature drop, detailing dyspepsia, poor appetite, and multiple fatalities among a wallaby, sea lion, and puma.
James B Hall the noted Texas detective traveled to Greene County Pennsylvania his old home after twenty years in the border west. Renowned as Red Hall he earned a feared reputation among rustlers and outlaws for fearless duty and sharp shooting. Hall served sixteen years as a detective and earlier rode with Texas Rangers including McMullen's Rangers during the Civil War yielding a record of many arrests and scars from border encounters.
Three wanted outlaws rode into Fort Worth but fled toward the Territory when warned of a detective's presence. Hall pursued, halted them within miles of the state line, using threats and persuasion to secure arrests and even compel surrender of their rifles. He bears a neck scar from Ben McCullough.
An 1817 born inventor once famed for the Buckeye fire extinguisher ends in chronic alcoholism as an aged pauper at a California almshouse. The piece traces his rise from Indianapolis merchant to inventor, patent, and varied fortunes across the U S before decline.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat correspondent describes the shooting of Sarbee Bearhead a full-blood Creek about 25 who killed Okilissar two years earlier. A Light Horse squad hunted him for days crowd gathered 150 witnesses directed by Capt. Phillip Ralford two guards fired at close range as Bearhead refusing to surrender faced death with nerve. The piece concludes noting the Muskogee nation's laws vindicated.
A witty note claims Mrs Langtry pays her husband a monthly salary to keep his distance. The remark suggests many wives would welcome similar apartness terms, though for different reasons.
The Rev F G Gange at Bristol recounts a deacon’s request to visit a gravely ill parishioner at 11 am. He finds her better but offended by his unpreparedness as she secretly cleans and dresses, then returns in fine attire while he waits in the room.
An art connoisseur relays alleged method of making cheap auction house oil paintings. A Chicago artist, ruined by drink, reportedly spreads canvas, paints twenty similar pictures in a day, sells each for 75 cents, and profits from cheap frames that soon tarnish.
The description explains the cause of consumption through scrofula and skin eruptions and asserts Dr. Pierce's Colden Medical Discovery will vanquish the disease in the blood. It claims the remedy can cast it out of the system and notes availability from all druggists.
Reports indicate strong Republican activity on the northern and western frontiers of Spain. The dispatch highlights renewed military movements and local efforts to support defense. No casualty figures are provided in the readable text.
A Victorian style advert promises Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures catarrh when used faithfully. It urges urgency, warns against neglect, and claims widespread success with all druggists carrying the product.
An ad describes Dr Pierce’s Viewsant Purgaliy Pellets as tiny mustard seed sized pills praised as a superior vegetable cathartic for liver stomach and bowel disorders. They are sugar coated in glass vials and marketed as pleasant safe and reliable by druggists.
The Charles A Vogeler Company defends its rights against imitators of St Jacobs Oil and promotes Red Star Cough Cure as a safe, effective remedy. Courts in the United States and England upheld injunctions and damages in similar cases, underscoring the companys standing in commerce.
The New York Evening Post recalls Cardinal McClosky as a peaceful, uncontroversial leader who avoided division and preached charity. His death draws wide respect from men of all creeds, reflecting a lasting, gentle influence.
The Times-Star reports a new cough remedy named Red Star Cough Cure drawing wide interest. Officials from Maryland endorse it and Delaware’s chemist calls it pure and effective. Hospitals in Philadelphia and beyond report remarkable results. Priced at 25 cents a bottle, it is described as purely vegetarian with no narcotics.
The Philadelphia Times reports Miss Tennessee Claflin’s marriage in London to Vis conde de Monsterradi. The ceremony at St Mary Abbot's Kensington was private with only family present. Her husband, an English gentleman named Cook of Cook & Sons, holds nobility from a large estate. The text also notes the Brazilian emperor subscribed 15000 milreis to aid Leon Julio Cesar’s steering balloon test.
A large number of French Canadians are seeking employment in New England factories, highlighting cross border labor movement and regional labor market demand.
For dysteraa and indigestion and general debility in all forms this preventative against fever and ague is recommended. Caswell Hazard Co New York makes the remedy and druggists carry it widely as the best tonic for fever recovery and general weakness with no equal.
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