Humorous Jokes From Various Newspapers
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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1892
Page
3
Men of Other Lands and Distant Talks From 19th Century
The article surveys figures abroad including Rochefort the French editor and politician who was wounded in seven encounters, Cuana Noo governor of Shan tung who died deeply in debt, and Boulanger’s tax busts causing market reluctance. It notes China’s emperor studying arithmetic, France’s president’s high salary amid receptions, and Baxnewitz’s death in a German town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tweerr-Tunre
Rochefort
Cuana Noo
Shantung
France
Boulanger
Paris
Jenk
Tur
China
Tum
French Republic
Viere
Groorars Baxnewitz
Distmarck
Industrial figures show diversified early factory outputs
A Traverse City plant produces 1 259 hames daily for collars and harness gear. American artificial teeth production nears 49 million yearly with export needs for colored teeth. The planned Thames tunnel under London costs 4 455 000 and spans 1900 feet. Cleveland Iron Trade Review notes many U S locomotives now export abroad, with ten months to Oct 31 1871 valuing exports at 1 83 473 pounds versus 253 pounds the year prior, up over 520 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traverse City
Mich
America
Thames
London Bridge
Andsea River
Cleveland Iron Trade Review
The Farm Animals
The piece notes training methods for four colts and observations on cows, teeth development in livestock, and buying cautions. It emphasizes keeping stables warm and ventilated to save feed costs, and cautions against selling inferior stock, urging careful assessment of quality.
Interesting Facts From a Fragmented Transcript
A corpus of odd notes mentions bananas as a proposed source for frons and a call to compare language speakers. It warns that excessive telephone use harms hearing and exertion. Musk antelope odor is described as fatal at close range. The text also notes shifting material use from white ash to oak for carriages.
It Should Be In Every House Johnson King’s New Discovery Ad
J B Wilson of 871 Clay Street Sharpley, Pa claims King’s New Discovery cured his wife after La Grippe near Pneumonia and other remedies failed. Robert Barber of Cooksport, Pa says it helped his Long Trouble more than anything. Free trial bottles at J R Weston’s Drug Store. Large bottles sell for 50 and 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.B. Wilson
Clay Street
Sharpelerg
Jr. King
Robert Barber
Cooksport
Dr. King
J. R. Weston’s
Ostrich Farming in Cape Colony Prospers Exports
The American Agriculturist notes about two hundred thousand domesticated ostriches in Cape Colony. Each bird nets around forty dollars annually for owners. Fences, often stone or wire, enclose flocks. Plucking yields about one pound of feathers per eight months, with farmers harvesting sixty at a time to protect birds. Eggs number from eighteen to twenty four with shared incubation. Incubation boosts feather quality, fewer eggs spoiled by artificial incubation. Feathers exported over thirty years total about twelve hundred tons valued at over fifty million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Cape Colony
Themelves
Judge and Guard Spark Comical Train Alarm Tale
A popular judge on a Great Western line accidentally alarms the guard after waking to the train not stopping at his station. The guard jokes he will adjourn the judge’s court someday. A separate note explains white-feathered chickens among the Rucuyeoue of western French Guinea, saying whiteness is prized and linked to ancestry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Pen
Pulp Production Figures and Odd Animal Anecdotes
The document cites 1901 New York daily output at 3,250,249 pounds with gains across several states. Massachusetts 1,564,108 pounds, Pennsylvania 1,097,600, Ohio 147,000. Wisconsin and Maine show large increases, while U.S. total pulp output in 1891 stands at 2,055,097 tons with significant growth since then. It also recounts a Newfoundland dog and crab chase anecdote and ends with a health ad claiming Electric Bitters improves liver, stomach, and kidney function and a claim about looks and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Massachusetts
Venneylvania
Oho
Ohio
Wisconsin
Maine
United States
Toledo Blade plans a million sample copies push
The Toledo Blade announces a winter campaign to mail a million sample copies nationwide to readers who do not currently subscribe. It asks readers to send names and addresses by postal card or letter, any quantity, ensuring accurate addresses of people who value good reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo Weekly Blade Free
Toledo Blade
United States
The
Blade
Toledo
Ohio
Worldly Weekly Miner Premiums Offer at Low Rates
The Weekly Miner promotes cheap subscriptions with free premiums. Six months for one dollar includes a choice of dominoes or colored American Statesman art with autograph. a year plus two dollars offers both pictures. Also mentions a San Francisco firm seeking to sponsor trips to the Columbian Exposition for Pacific coast youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Minga Pesuienine Co
Dalle City
Montana
San Francisco
Chicago
The
Woods
Great History Company of
They Include Such Favorites as Silver Leaf Poplar
A brief line noting selections among favorites, highlighting the Silver Leaf Poplar as a featured plant in a garden or horticulture listing. The fragment suggests a catalog or promotional note emphasizing notable cultivars.
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Fanoie
Cumso
Pangle
Johnny
Washington Star
Hungry Liggins
Fara
Indianapolis Journal
Cholly van Wyck
New York Herald
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Tarren
Goshen
Guinea
Trench Guinea
Taper
United
J. RB. Westen
Miner
Gan
Phieem
Ayer
Frank Teson, Jr
West Fourth Street
New York City
J. C. Ayer & CO
Lowell
Mass
Ted
Rhea
Ecets
Helena, Mont
Lombardy Poplar
Gilead
Houghton
Smith
J.G. Pickering
Caotsea
West Main Street
Norse
James S Drewer
A. C. Carson
Lower Broadway
Sanden
SELT
Rcy
DR. Sanden
Sanden Electric CO
Cer
Third St
Second Ave
South
Minneapolis, Minn
Americar
ST. & Washington Avena
Cinchinati Ghc
Sewe
Eldredge
Ced Iil
Sauiegye Wat Nako «& Sey
Slomreccss
Festery and Waslesals
Sividae
Bread
York
Gelena
T. Hausir
A.J Davie
Seoctated Barts
Missoula
General Banking Bexiness Transacte
Pletea
Eruse Srs
Ie Laws of
Api.al
Ne. Cayee
WM. J. Cruse
WM. J. Sweeney
Thomee Crese, John Fagan
Act
Sec’v
Tremeurer
Een J. Crome
Wiliam
Geners
Trustoees
Onied States
Kerepe
J. W. Schaaf
Townsend Weat Market
Broadway
Spruce Sis
Cech
Ptis
Cary la Sereml
Onder
Coats
Jzauis
Peter
Ber
Demorests Magazine
Mrwences
Bae
Scieat
Amrionn
Hamar
Nea
Fu Peat
Lome
Jdat Tupeea Cretents
Tee Scientific America
L. Huntley & Co
L. Huntley & Go
Chicaco
Dr. Hinge
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