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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1885
Page
1
A Brooklyn Eagle correspondent recalls witnessing the execution of two hundred Taeping insurgents in Shanghai. Rebels lined up, chatted, and joked as they faced beheadings performed by an executioner with a long blade. The tale ends with the laughing storyteller meeting the blade himself.
A sensational account links the Dauphin Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to a disaster at Paris. Torrential rain and a fatal crowd crush in a public square left 132 dead, including a woman to be married the next day. A heroic rescue followed as a man carried a bride through the panic before she perished.
The Iona Literary Club of Union Mill New Jersey presented Romeo and Juliet at Bath Hall. A lamp mishap caused a moon to swing and catch fire. Juliet fainted, patrons shouted fire, and the cast evacuated as the blaze was put out. Juliet died from the incident, ending the production.
The 1669 blue laws of New Haven impose fines for attracting maidservants without parental consent. May 1669 court records report Jacobeth Martine and Sarah Tuttle punished for sitting close, embracing, and kissing for about half an hour, witnessed by locals.
A poem by Sarah D. Hobart from The Current celebrates resilience against despair. It contrasts chains and burdens with hope, urging the heart to rise as sunlight, birds, and joy return. The speaker vows to reach a holy place of victory by facing fate with strength.
A poor wife yearns for elegance and status in 19th century Paris. When her husband cannot afford a dress and jewels, a friend lends her a diamond necklace. She borrows it, dances in splendor at a ball, then returns home to weariness and repeated hunger for social ascent.
A lost necklace drives Mathilde and her husband into ten years of poverty and debt. They replace it with a fake worth 500 francs. When Mathilde meets Mme Forestier again, the truth surfaces and a life of hardship ends in quiet dignity.
A controversial tale recalls Angel the rat catcher at the county hospital and a later slaughter house display where he killed hundreds of rats with swift neck twists and head clashes. He appears a misfit by looks yet excels in his grim trade. The Sacramento Record Union notes he killed over a hundred at Gerber Brothers slaughter house after an earlier hospital display.
A Detroit grocer warns a friend that cayenne pepper sold for restaurants is often adulterated with rice flour and husks. He demonstrates by dusting pepper on notebook paper to reveal red lines painted with red lead. The anecdote highlights food purity concerns in the trade.
A Berlin correspondent spoofs Unter der Linden and reports on the emperor’s frail health, German manners, and city life. He notes scarce verdure for lime trees, bustling streets, and cafés with heavy dinners, while praising Berlin’s vigor, art leadership, and the American social scene.
A witty patron in an uptown cafe laments standard bartenders as mediocre and forgetful, contrasting them with the rare, skilled bartender who truly serves. He recalls how a poor bartender disrupts stories, misremembers orders, and lacks cordiality, calling a good bartender a jewel. The speaker notes the best he knew has retired.
Two Chicago men visit an uptown barber shop on a sweltering day and clash with local staff over what counts as hot. The boss and foreman compare city heat norms, joking about 98 and 124 degrees while winter cold is measured at 20. The chatter ends with a shot at New Yorkers, praising Western manners.
July Century recounts Lee's defense during the seven days of fighting. He notes delays by Jackson, missteps by Huger Holmes and Magruder, and McClellan's retreat as managed. Lee asserts numbers misrepresented, praises McClellan's siege plans yet credits Confederate execution and claims superior strategic intent overall.
A 70 year old Louisville man was harassed by a large swarm of house flies last Sunday. The insects settled on his forehead and bites swelled his eye and caused pain. Doctors feared possible poisoning from any matter transmitted by the proboscis. Recovery appeared uncertain.
A Beacon opinion notes an astute critic claims Sarah Bernhardt shows forty years in the neck and shoulder area. The piece mocks aging with a playful, worldly take on cosmetic fixes and the inevitability of time visible at the head’s base.
A collage of short notes on culture and science includes San Francisco shirt washing habits, New York potters field burials, a Fourth of July brass band parade in Falver, and tobacco export gains from Petersburgh. Also covered are grasshopper fears in California, excused legal exemptions for settlers, and a science-infused survey of human voice, attendance of German debates, and rising alcohol use in Germany.
An essay contends that suicides and murders stem from a mix of causes including infidel teaching, economic stress, insanity, heredity, and drink. It notes many perpetrators show melancholy and urges preventive measures with Warner’s safe cure as endorsed by Dr. Dio Lewis and Rochester Democrat.
Minnesota St Paul and Minneapolis markets report wheat mostly steady near 80 cents a bushel for No 2 and No 1 hard, corn around 43–44 cents, oats 27–33 cents, rye 48–56 cents, flaxseed $1.19. Mess pork about $8.87, lard $6.25, butter 14–20 cents, eggs 11–12 cents. Prices shown for cash, No 1, No 2 and other standard grades with variations by city.
J. M. McCann of Bridgeport West Virginia, a renowned poultry writer and large chicken raiser, claims that mixing St Jacobs Oj with dough fed to poultry sick with chicken cholera can restore health in those able to swallow. He warns that saturated pills forced down throats will cause birds to flap and crow.
A fish pedlar on Beaubien Street was repeatedly kicked by his rawboned horse after a fall from his wagon. Eyewitnesses and police records show persistent abuse, and the horse finally retaliated, kicking the pedlar and wounding him severely. The crowd witnessed the dramatic animal justice as the man recalled why he beat the animal. Detroit Free Press reports the incident along with revenue figures and other brief notes on Gladstone, Parnell, and a New York buyer of a Tadousac residence.
An illustrated excerpt contrasts labor between men and women and promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women's ailments. It notes a Montana murderer captured in Emerson, Montana. It also mentions Delicate diseases and a 10 cent request for a medical treatise from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association and reports Omaha’s gross earnings increasing by $50,000 over last year.
A health claim links liver torpor to diseases from impure blood to asthma and skin issues. It touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as the quickest, gentlest remedy. The note adds Congressman Mills fights Prohibitionists in Texas.
The New York Tribune notes light colored butter sells poorly with many lots moving at 8 to 10 cents. It recommends using Improved Butter Color by Wells Richardson & Co of Burlington VT to achieve a pure dandelion hue that resists turning red or rancid and helps improve and preserve butter.
Mr. D. P. Kittridge a flour merchant and longtime Mower county resident died after a prolonged illness from consumption.
Advert says Perry Davis Vegetable Pain Killer cures rheumatism with directions. It claims ninety nine cures out of a hundred and urges trial, promising no harm.
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