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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1892
Page
2
The Townsend Messenger lists advertising rates at 1.50 dollars per inch per month. The paper is published every morning by J. Kwaro, editor and proprietor, with the issue dated Friday morning April 8, 1592.
A discussion on why soft musical tones travel farther than loud noise. Cremona violins from 1600s possess purer tone, outlasting newer instruments in distance. Children's voices carry farther relative to size, aiding communication. curious note on human voice and nature. An anecdote from Castine and York is included, plus a quip about dueling absurdity and a Paris cafe incident involving Marmont.
An assortment of anecdotes: a preacher visits criminals at the Tombs noting a burglar’s meek sigh that it was only a boardinghouse, a nervous actor mocked by cabbaged hecklers turns it into wit, Emerson quips about Clytemnestra and eye-glasses, and a stray map offer ends the fragment.
Pape Agwest promotes superior pianos while Cuauxcer M Derrew accepts a presiding invitation at Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania for a Welsh singers gathering in May. Patti praises Niagara's winter beauty and dreams of a grand scene. Prof F Nichols Croven, age 83, famed for Kathleen Mavourneen, remains lively. father of thirty three with four marriages. Christius Nilsson returns to Sweden as wife of the Spanish ambassador Count de la Casa Miranda, a royal arc from farmer’s child to grandee of Spain.
A collection of railway facts from 19th century sources notesGermany has ten thousand locomotives and Chicago sees 1,256 locomotives pass a crossing daily. The Central Pacific reports sixty miles of snow sheds while Buffalo street car lines feature a single crossing. Arkansas mortgage plans funded at Little Rock seek six million dollars for a state line, and English railways show class travel preferences with thirds in third class. The Oriental Express 18 remains unoccupied Fridays, as Thirteen club members ride free to protest superstition.
The column notes stage life and odd facts from London and Paris theater worlds. It mentions Ricuaro Mansfiriy learning authorship, critics rough on his Don Juan, W J Province misrecognizing friends from the stage, Mag Janz Harpo’s Paris fire loss of 80000, and Joan Madison Morrow’s London death at eighty. It adds rerarting costs at the London Lyceum, about 500 pounds per run, and a 100 night profit around 50000, with the most expensively mounted piece at 850000.
A collection of jokes and quips from late night gatherings and papers. It includes a exchange about warming by fires versus buying coal and wood, a wife who never has the last word, a labor problem solved by letting the wife handle it, and a comical classroom reply about crossing from Dover to Calais on horseback.
The piece notes Commandpen Coadwick praising the Saratoga school ship drill as equal to Annapolis style training. It highlights Freshh soldiers’ extensive bicycle experiments and remarks on Major Peter D. Vroom’s imposing figure. It ends with reflections on naval and British army history and pace of Civilizaton.
Over 300000 orange trees were planted in Mexico last year by California planters. Washington saw 4 percent sawmills active with a daily capacity of 1,421,000 feet. Sonora coal deposits in San Marcial valley may total 69,000,000,000 tons of high quality fuel. U S exports in the last year surpassed all previous records with value over 100 million dollars. Worldwide paper production reached 4,000 manufacturers producing 0,900,000 kilograms annually with periodicals consuming 300 million units and growth in the sector steady.
The article lists wealth and titles of European rulers and nobles. It notes the Austrian emperor's annual salary of 3 750 900 dollars, the Russian czar's vast inherited income, multilingual Sir William White, a German term for chronic smokers, and introduces Bravanes and Danmore the earl of Danmore linked to a South Carolina bank project with five million pounds capital. It also mentions Prince Ironster, son of Mexican emperors, born in Washington.
A historical note discusses social conditions across the empire and Britain. It cites widow rates in India, London workhouse births, deer forests in Scotland, the Irish Parliament’s long existence and 1801 end, divorce actions in Scotland, and parasitic bladder worm transmission from certain animals.
The greatest heiress in Rome is Princess Barberini Colonna with an estimated fortune of 10 million dollars. Miss Aurun B. Powanins, traveler and Egyptologist, nears a civil list pension in England. Mrs. Grimwood’s fund, started by the Princess of Wales, totals 5 500 dollars. Lady Ruscent of England appears famed among Thames boaters for skill with thePers and driving tandem at age 22. Mare Danidre Zaconori in New York receives the Sian’s Grand Order of the Shefaeat for the Turkish compassionate fund, with documents in Arabic.
The Jersey Bulletin advises that better the scratcher, the better the layer. For winter laying provide exercise and ample feed, especially shell material. Confinement requires about nine square feet per bird inside and twenty five square feet of yard space. ground bone meal boosts shell quality and nutrition.
Coughs colds throat chest and lung troubles are promised relief or money back. Sufferers from la grippe report speedy recovery. Free trial bottles at J R Weston’s Drug Scene Langeville fe and sh.
W EK buys Colum bus Before the Council at Salamanca etching for the exposition. Geneva painters craft a 51 by 945 foot Bernese Alps panorama for Chicago costing about 300000. Sketched from Menvlichen summit 6600 feet high. Young women sculptors Shine Mies Rideout at eighteen and Bliss Jana Bracken at twenty one show notable talent.
A Million Friends and a million more rely on Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. Trial bottle free at J R Weston’s Drug Store. Large bottles guaranteed to perform or money refunded.
A Detroit newspaper advocates a American side canal bypassing Niagara Falls to connect lakes Erie and Ontario with a ship canal to the Hudson. Estimated cost ranges thirty to fifty million dollars with payback from freight savings and expanded western markets. The plan envisions vast growth in lake and maritime commerce, lower prices, and strategic advantages in war and national development.
If you lack energy try Electric Bitters. The remedy acts on liver, stomach and kidneys to restore function. For grippe weakness and headaches it offers speedy relief. One trial convinces you this is the remedy you need. Large bottles only. RB Westen's Drug Store.
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