Townsend Messenger notes and town items from April 21 1893
The April 21 1893 Townsend Messenger highlights local notices and anecdotes. Ads list rates and publishing details while items report boxing hype between Dempsey and Mathens, a Pennsylvania labor clash, Cheyenne fire bug youth, Pennsylvania Sunday laws enforcement, Missoula A O U W gathering with 30 new members, and a colorful Bozeman fish story from Rev Warren claiming forty fish in thirty minutes.
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Bun
Bozeman Courier
Warren
Press voices critique Blounts action in Hawaii
Leading papers condemn Blount the commissioner to the Sandwich Islands for lowering the American flag over the Hawaiian capital by order of Stevens. They say the flag should not have been hoisted but call the act high handed and suggest annexation should await wider public support.
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Blount
Sandwich Islands
Stevens
Montana Farmer No 1 From Great Falls Edited By Perry
The Montana Farmer issue No 1 from Great Falls is edited by Washington Maoney, a seasoned practical farmer. It offers practical, binding friendly content for farmers and stock raisers with poultry notes and household appeal priced at 50 cents a year. Maj W W Alderson, editor of the Bozeman Courier, was Republican nominee for Meyer but lost by a small margin. the GOP ticket won overall and he urged party duty in a sharp sermon against blind obedience.
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Montana
Great Falls
Orange Perry
Washington Maoney
Maj. W. W. Alderson
Bozeman Courier
Meyer
Butter quality and price in Montana prompting outflow
The Montana Farmer laments poor butter from darymen and notes many makers produce subpar butter. He argues good butter sells at fair rates, but supply fails to meet demand, costing farmers about one hundred thousand dollars annually as money leaves the state.
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Montana
Montana Baseball Salaries Set At 100 Dollars A Month
The Montana league has fixed this seasons salaries at 100 dollars per month. The writer notes baseball pay has fallen from earlier eras when players earned more than first class bookkeepers and argues high salaries demand high admission fees, threatening fan interest aside from horse racing.
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Montana
Last American Mormon Temple Dedicates After Forty Years
The Salt Lake City temple, built at an estimated cost of six million dollars, required forty years of labor by many workers. The editor notes it is a remarkable edifice and suggests a trip to see it, praising Mormon zeal despite adversity and referencing a prophecy of Christ's second coming that did not occur as expected.
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Salt Lake
America
Crist
Earth
Features of Argentina’s Central Government Compared With the US
Don Juan S. Attwell notes in the New England Magazine that Argentina’s president is elected like the US leader but serves a six year term and cannot be reelected. The president’s power over appointments is broad yet decrees require counter signing by a cabinet minister. Cabinet members can debate in the legislative bodies but are not members. Congress holds U S style powers including uniform provincial codes and life tenure for federal and provincial judges barring impeachment.
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United States
Don Juan
Attwell
New England
Senate
Army
Navy
House
France
England
Chile
Congress
Poor Presidents and Wealth in the American Presidency
The piece argues wealth does not define presidents and surveys early leaders. It notes Washington as wealthy, Adams and Jefferson with diverse fortunes, Madison and Monroe comfortable, Jackson poor at birth, Van Buren facing poverty, Lincoln and Johnson with limited beginnings, Grant modest, Hayes modest, Cleveland tough early life, Harrison from a solid but not rich family, and that an aristocracy of wealth has emerged.
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White House
Washington
Cleveland
Adams
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
Jackson
New York Recorder
van Buren
Johnson
Lincoln
Grant
Hayes
Harrison
A Blow to Slavery and the Africa Partition
Henry M. Stanley notes that European powers have dealt the first effective blow to the African slave trade with colonial control of the east coast. British and German forces guard Zanzibar while steamers traverse the coast and inland rivers. Maj Wissman Boorchert Williams advance on Tanganyika Victoria Uganda as the Brussels conference enforces anti slavery norms.
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Africa
Inner Africa
Henry M. Stanley
Harper's
Zanzibar
Maj
von Wissman
Lake Tanganika
Herr Boorchert
Lake Victoria
Capt
Williams
Uganda
Musical signaling hypothesis gains practical trial for fog and night
A theory that pure singing tones can reach far distances is tested as a new marine signaling system. Four notes pose questions on direction while two denote southeast heading, using a keyboard and speaking apparatus for ships, lighthouses, and coast points to prevent wrecks.
Noted forger uses Grant name to gain freedom
George Lewis, a colored former Ninth Cavalry member, forged a pardon with President Grant’s name to escape. He was later caught as he left the penitentiary and faced charges of forgery and obtaining money under false pretenses. His elaborate scheme included a $20,000 raised draft and a secure plan to flee. He claimed memory of Washington signatures and operated from the prison office with outside contacts.
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George Lewis
Ninth Cavalry
Topeka
Corret
New York Times
Lewis
Washington
Friends
United States
Grant
Smith
Virginia
Leavenworth
Richmond
Lew
Gen. Grant
Kansas Penitentiary
Global quakes strike in January and February across Zante Samothrace NZ and Afghanistan
Earth tremors spread widely from Zante to Samothrace in late January with total destruction reported on the Greek island. A February 12 quake hit New Zealand causing little damage but strong shaking in Wellington and Nelson. A severe Afghanistan border quake near Quetta warped rails at Chaman and split the earth along the old frontier seen by Afghans as a sign against British expansion.
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Old World
Zante
Samothrace
Grecian
New Zealand
North
South Islands
Wellington
Nelson
Afghanistan
Quetta
Chaman
Khojak Ridge
Allah
Dr Kings New Discovery Promises Relief for Coughs
A promotional notice offers Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a money back guarantee. Sufferers from la grippe are said to recover quickly. Free trial bottles available at J R Weston s Drug Store. Large size bottles offered.
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J. B. Wilson
Clay Street
Sharpsburg
Dr. King
Robert Barber
Cooksport
J. R. Weston
la Grippe
Bucklen
J. B. Weston
Vanity and curiosities from mid century towns
An elderly Beverly resident slept in the same corded bed for ninety years. A Alton collector bought an 1804 gold dollar for 71300 in Chicago. A Philadelphia normal school expelled two women for a staged flirtation with two visiting youths. A man recalls banana skin slips by women and men alike.
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Beverly
Alton
Chicago
Philadelphia
Interesting notes on coast land and odd facts
The piece notes scarce land on Coney Island, cites Grony Hattenvsan Jones as a Mississippi colored person, describes BurraLro as a free agency of direction, claims southern Oregon endured its worst storm for tree loss, asserts Calgary as the most valuable railroad town, mentions twenty five cent beer, and explains the origin of tabby cat from Bagdad’s Atab street in silk manufacture.
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Coney Island
Grony Hattenvsan Jones
BurraLro
Oregon
North America
Calgary
Alberta
Atab
Bagdad
Hungarian Traveler Aims Foot Route To World’s Fair
Yue Industria of Puno announces Antonio Bom, the Hungarian traveler, arrived to visit the fair after leaving Buenos Aires in August with a plan to walk to Chicago for the exposition. The German emperor plans to send a collection of jewels and ornaments gifted to his family to the fair. Martha Stone of California seeks space at the fair to endow a women’s business college and showcase pampas plumes in a pampas-gras pavilion to fund her project.
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Yue Industria
Puno
Peru
Antonio Bom
Luenos Ayres
Chicago
Europe
Martha Stone
California
Well Known People And Their Varied Roles
Mrs. Dx Wirt Tatmaoer handles her husband’s pastoral and social duties and all lecturing interests. Joax H. Puaeren, Standard Oil magnate, was fined one hundred dollars by Judge Beach for dodging jury service. Ma. Joux D. Lockrrrnten owns substantial ground used as a winter skating area. Prof. E. B. Barsann of the Lick Observatory spends extensive time on telescope work and calculations whenever skies are clear.
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Dx Wirt Tatmaoer
Joax H. Puaeren
Standard Oil
Judge Beach
New York Supreme Court
Joux D. Lockrrrnten
New York
E. B. Barsann
Lick Observatory
Work and Wages in 1891 World Trade Reforms
The city of Seattle will provide tools to idle workers seeking city jobs and will compensate fairly for city work. US statistics show over one fourth of global gold and over a third of silver mined in 1891 came from the United States. Massachusetts wages average £1 10s to £1 1s in England’s cost of living, implying higher living costs in the US. Belgian Congo officials plan to import Chinese laborers, drawing mixed opinions from English observers about integration and potential failure.
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Seattle
Wash
United States
Cannot
D. Wiiomt
United States Bureau of Statistics
Massachusetts
England
Congo
Tax measures around the world in brief
Great Britain earns 21,200,000 yearly from revenue stamps on patent medicines. Russia plans a duty on foreign goods moved between ports. Victoria imposes a five percent tax on income from property by nonresidents. France considers a ten centimes per 1000 francs tax on time bargains on the Bourse, expected to raise 12,000,000 francs to offset liquor tax reform deficits.
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Great Britain
Victoria
France
Electric Bitters Leads in Pure Medicinal Tonic Claim
A promotional statement touts Electric Bitters as the leading pure medicinal tonic for stomach liver and kidney ailments. It claims to cure sick headache indigestion and constipation and to drive malaria from the system with guaranteed satisfaction on each bottle.
Terms of the District Court in Park and Meagher Counties
Judge Frank Henry of the Sixth Judicial District sets court terms by oath on December. In Park County the schedule includes the second Monday in January the twenty fourth day in April the third Monday in June and the second Monday in November.
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Frank Henry
Sixth Judicial District
Park and Meagher
Park County
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