25 Sep 1891
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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1891
Page
1
A minutes dollar bank robbery has been reported from England. The recent state fair was a success financially, clearing about $8,000 over and above all expenses.
Present Balmacena of Chilli committed suicide by his own hand choosing death over capture. He preferred this fate to a halter, which would have been his end if his enemies had captured him.
The article urges the upcoming district Republican convention to adopt strong resolutions supporting protection of American industries and to avoid hedging on tariff policy. It emphasizes a firm stance on protectionist measures and party unity.
The Pioneer Press reports a Democratic exchange accuses Redfield Proctor of poor English while noting a strong Democratic party majority, implying widespread illiteracy among its members.
Ann Dupuis administratrix sues Northern Pacific Railway for 25000 damages over the death of Albert Dupuis a brakeman near Gallatin Montana who was killed when a brake chain broke as he tried to set a brake and was hurled from a freight car.
A playful satire notes effects described after the McKinley tariff era with balloons rising, elevators ascending, the sun shining, fruit dropping, coffee settling, ties crawling, rain persistently falling, and opium unchanged as a drug, in a Boston Traveler column.
A prominent writer argues for high duties to shield American industry, claims free trade is impracticable, and attacks Democratic policy as colonial. He praises the McKinley tariff for free sugar, reciprocity, and protection, urging Ohio to restore sugar duties to defend treaties and avoid hard times.
A new system of weather flags will arrive next week and start service. Flags displayed from the staff at the hose house indicate conditions with colors and patterns: white for fair, blue for rain or snow, white and blue for scattered showers, white with a black center for a cold wave, and black triangle for temperature trends.
The Brainerd city council met Monday with Aldermen Titze Towers McMurtie Johnson Ferris Fogelstrom Williamson Barber Bain and Lagerquist present. Minutes approved with a correction to a Sept 7 1891 record. Bills to J J Howe Co Lusk Bunn Hadley Spaulding Millspaugh Demeules and others allowed. August street payroll deferred, hose house note referred to finance committee. Liquor bonds approved. Council adjourned amid notes on local cheese and Arab swimmers.
A famed tiger and her cubs inhabit a rugged nine square mile tract near Nagpur. The tigress has killed seven men this year and wounded others, often stalking along rocky spurs where a cave shows her mark. She evades bullets while the Bengal Nagpur railway employes operate nearby.
A compilations of curious Brazilian funeral and wedding customs notes bright hearse livery for different ages uses scarlet nets and purple for the young, with no women at cemeteries. It discusses porterage duties, piano and safe moving by four strong men, and the need to bargain for delivery. It also mentions a Viennese sea sickness cure glasses, and lighthearted classroom definitions about topaz and halo from a grammar school.
State of Minnesota to Magdalena Robinson and defendants. You are summoned to answer the complaint filed in Brainerd within twenty days after service. The action seeks foreclosure of two related mortgages on property tied to Magdalena Schwartz and husband alias C Venziz, per records in 1881 and 1881 mortgage books.
Default on January 1891 interest and premium payments triggers full debt due. Mortgage dated November 1 1588 records show six hundred or sixteen hundred dollars due. Describes parcel of Block 170 Brain erd, 50 feet of west side, with sale at Brainerd courthouse October 3 1891 at 10 am. Mortgagee The Pioneer Savings and Loan Company, attorneys Emery and Davis.
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