Townsend Messenger Schedules To Towns And Rail Routes
The Townsend Messenger lists trains and departures: Townsend to Canton trip on Tue Thu Sat at 10:00 AM with 12:15 PM return, daily to White Sulphur Springs leaves 7:00 AM arrives 4:00 PM, Bedford to St Louis via Mont on Tue and Sat, West via Northern Pacific 11:30 AM, East 9:00 AM.
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Townsend
Canton
White Sulpher Springs
St. Louis
Mont
Bedford
Norther Pacific Railroad
Sa.m
Townsend Lodge Regular Meetings Schedule
Townsend Lodge No 6 holds regular meetings on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays each month at Masonic Hall Broadway Townsend. Sojourning brethren are invited to attend. Officers J W Semaar M W C A Warrice Recorder W P DeRemer Financier
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Townsend Lodge
No. 6
Masonic Hall
Broadway
Townsend
J. W. Semaar
M. W
Town and Valley news in a bustling rural window
Town and Valley column covers ranch prospects with hay yields and water, local social events, weddings, sermons, and business ads. Mentions Odd Fellows, Miss Mamie Whaley, Lizzie Scott wedding to R H Barclay, canal work, cattle shipments, stage line sale, seeds, and shade trees urging local growth.
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Mamie Whaley
Lizzie Scott
R. H. Barclay
Jacob Mills
M. E
Townsend
Montana Iron Works Ad Promises Fast Coal Mine Machinery
Mine owners and machinery users are urged to read the Montana Iron Works advertisement on the first page. The firm claims reliability and financial strength to fulfill contracts, quick delivery from Butte to Castle or Park districts, and promising price and quality. A trial order is suggested. Six horses haul the Springs coach across the full distance. No shopping this week as households clean. Missouri valley farmers are reassured about sugar beet markets and land value.
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Montana Iron Works
Butte
Townsend
Castle
Park Districts
Springs
Proposals Sinking a Shaft at Gold Dust Claim Park District
Sealed bids due by noon June 1 1891 for sinking a shaft 5 by 8 feet clear 200 feet on the Gold Dust claim in Park Mining District Jefferson county Right reserved to reject any or all bids Apply to O T H Allen Superintendent Townsend Montana for particulars
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Park Mining
Jefferson County
O. T. H. Allen
Townsend
Montana
Townsend News Clip Highlights Local Visits and Promotions
Mrs. Frank Lowrey of St. Louis travels west to Marysville to visit a sister unseen for twenty seven years. Notables include Frank Sutherlin departing Idaho Stage Co. coach for home, Add Turner returning from the east with horses, James L. Moore visiting Townsend from Neihart, and Mrs. Harvey shopping in town. The town notes promotions, real estate bets, and a dental visit, plus a push to subscribe to The American Farmer and The St. Louis Republic. The Missoula Land Office opened on April 20th.
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Frank Lowrey
St. Louis
Marysville
Frank
Will Sutherlin
Faber
Idaho Stage Co
Add Turner
Townsend
Bellview
Chateau County
James L. Moore
Neihart
Jim
W. W. Harvey
George A. Maloney
Northwestern
Castle
Wm. G. Ross
Gunder Iverson
Robinson
Bert Ford
Twifford Company
Helena
Gordon G. Watt
C. A. Wilder
Gold Dust Closed Down At Summit Mining Area
The Gold Dust mine has closed and the employer discharged workers. Shaft work will continue to 200 feet depth with bids accepted until June. Summit shows three shifts and 12 feet of ore in drift. Ruby reports 18 feet of paying ore but is idle. James Burk claims a rich copper find near the Summit. Mineral Hill Company sinks 200 feet on the Corn Cracker under a new contract.
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James Burk
Mineral Hill Company
For Sale A Ranch and Dairy Operation in Townsend MT
For sale a productive ranch with fencing open water a large barn sheds and a dairy friendly location twenty five miles from Montana markets within one mile of post and express offices and two hours from two cities. Potential buyers may earn for cash and start dairying immediately. Also a $200 reward offered for information on John Stone who arrived in Fort Benton in 1871 aboard the steamer Far West. Mrs E Stone of West Philadelphia seeks any leads. Church directory notes M E Church services and Sunday school.
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Montana
J. C. Kerley
Messexcen
Townsend
John Stone
Fort Benton
Far West
Sixty-third Virginia Regiment Mounted Infantry
E. Stone
Badd Street
West Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Meet The Townsend Lodge And Pansy Sale Notice
Community notices include Townsend lodge meetings at 2 30 PM on the first Wednesday at the M E Church with Mrs E H Goodman as president and a pansy sale by Mrs D Hoover starting May 1 offering 25 for 1. Cash orders via Mes xxorr office. Also report of Robert Weiger shot on Main Street after a disturbance. authorities suggest possible near bagnio involvement. Read the Messenger for Park District mines updates.
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M. E. Church
E. H. Goodman
Prest
R. M. Vacoux
Ree. & Cor
Mra. D. Hoover
Mrs. D. Hoover
Official Directory of Montana Officials and U S Agencies
Official directory listing members of Congress and state officers for Montana including Governor Jos Toole and Secretary Louis Rotwitt, with a long roster of department heads, district attorneys, land district registers and receivers, and U S assay office personnel. Contains names such as Thomas H. Carter, Henry J. Haskell, Geo M Bourquin, Sam Gordon, and W. D. Wheel.
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Thomas H. Carter
Jos. K
N. Harwood
Chi
Supreme Court
Wm. J. Kennedy
Montana Board of Stock Commission Officials List
A dense roster of names and titles outlines members of the Board of Stock Commission, district judges, Meagher County officers, and related state posts. The document lists officers such as R. President G Stuart Fr Minnis Vice President Huntley Helena Secretary Harrison Helena and many others across several counties and districts. It ends with a note urging readers to subscribe to the Messenger and share the paper with relatives in the east.
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Board OF Stock Commission
G.stuart
Minnis
Huntley
Helena
R. Bb. Harrison
Notes on Doctors and Medical Matters Across the Era
A digest of medical opinions and events: Dr Koch’s lymph patent claim under German law. Dr Snow notes rising cancer death rates. Mackenzie criticizes large hospitals for germ virulence. death of Dr Sullivan Warryey, homeopathic pioneer. Bearts and Pieq claim goat blood aids consumption. Dr Eccenes links disease danger to carelessness. Havana physicians inoculate newcomers in Cuba against yellow fever via infected mosquitoes with 52 cases tracked and low mortality.
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Koch
Snow
Sm Moret. Mackenzie
Sulllivan Warryey
Newtonville
Mass
Harvard Medical School
Das. Bearts and Pieq
Nantes
France
R. G. Eccenes
Tur
Havana
Cuba
Art gossip and notable purchases in 19th century circles
Miss Aree Barry, an armless Swiss artist, paints with her toes. Philadelphia dealer P A B Wipinenr bought 87750 dollars of pictures at the Seney sale in New York. Brooklyn patron Seyry rates Cazin Knaus Inness Israels as top living painters. Plans to erect a Gericault statue in Paris progress if finances permit, aiming for September 26 1891. Baroness Bornscum gifts Hebraic art to Clancy museum in Paris. Paris buyer Cavenaro hosts dinner celebrating The Angelus with a commemorative medal.
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Aree Barry
P. A.B. Wipenenr
Philadelphia
Seney
New York
Seyry
Brooklyn
Cazin
Knaus
Inness
Israels
Roven
Gericault
Natuantet Bornscum
Strauss
Clancy Museum
Paris
Cavenaro
Brief Alliances and Quick Weddings Across Cities
A series of rapid marriages and relationships described from various U S locales. A 27 year old in Lake County Tennessee marries a widow with seventeen children. In Louisville Polly Ann Collins twelve years old weds Jesse Donahue a 33 year old widower. A Sturgis Michigan rival’s dress suit theft delays another marriage. In Atchison a couple quickly wed minutes after license and ceremony.
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Lake County
Tenn
Louisville
Polly Ann Collins
Jesse Donahue
Polly
Wru
Atchison
The Mystery of Growth and Hidden Change
A reflective meditation on growth from seed to plant and from baby to adult. The author argues no one watches growth in real time, whether for flowers mushrooms or people, noting the unseen moments that mark transformation and the limits of observation. The piece cites botanists and mothers, pondering how change eludes precise timing.
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N. Y. Ledger
Elephants as Workmen and Odd Snippets from A Montana Ledger
A collage of notes on elephants as essential labor in India and Abyssinia, plus humorous quips about society figures and a Montana license collection notice. The elephant’s usefulness, a brief campaign transport tale, and assorted jokes mix with a legal reminder that Montana license payments must be made within ten days to avoid collection actions.
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India
Theodore
Abyssinia
Bombay
Montana
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The
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Janes W. Tare
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Ndgie Weston
Brethers
T. H. Auces
N. G
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Robert Weiger
Main Street
Park District
Official Directory
United States
Wilber F. Sanders
Thomas C. Power
William F. Furay
Weed
J . Sullivan
Benton
District of Montana
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James Hi. Mills
L. Geo. O. Eaton
U.S
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Geo. W. Sprowle
Bo,rd
Joseph Shineberger
Red Rock
Rumney
St Clare
C. Wallace Taylor
Chateau
Joseph Scott
Miles City
Glendive
John Ielenberg
Deer Lodge
Granville Stuart
Fort Maginnis
E.G. Brooke
Whitehall
R.s.buford
Virgina City
David Fra
Lewis and Clarke
W- H. Hunt
Silver Bow
J. McHatton
D.M. Durfee
S&s. Marshall
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Tome
Madison
J. Galbraith
Gallatin
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Frank Henry
Yellowstone
Omer and
Dawson
Geo. R. Milburn
Chateau, Cascade
Fergus
D. H. Benton
William Parberry
John A. Woodson
KE. H. Goodman
Charles T. Rader
Chas. E. Wight
B. W. Badger
J. C. Tipton
N. B. Smith
Ren. D. Gardner
James Chamberlain
W. E. Tierney
William Mueller
Ed. Sayer
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Edward Cardwell
Gus E
Poole
Peter Greene
J. C. Twohey
W C. Whaley
Dudley Halford
Chas. E. Stevens
D. McNeill
Alexander Gilliam
William E. Dean
Frank Harlow
H. M. Parker
John Murray
John F. Sheehey
William V. Meyers
Cupid
Charlotte
Johnnie Chaffie
Johnnie
Miss Totling
Miss Simcoe
Miss Dimling
Upper Broadway
McCarthy & Jobb
Proprietors
Ed. L. Huntley & Co
L. Huntley & Co
First National Bank
OFI
T. Hauser
A. J. Davis
W. Knight
Cashier
T. B. Kleinschmidt
Ass't Cashier
Union Pacific
General Railway and Steamship Office
North Main ST
A. E. Veazie
E. V .Miae, Gen’! Agt
W. Eckles
Gen’! Freight and Pases.Agt
Lake City
ODELL
Odell Type Writer CO
Fifth Ave
Chicago, Ill
Thos. Cruse Savings Bank
Helena, Mont
Thomas Cruse
M.J. Cruse
J. Sweeney
John Fagan
William J. Cruse, William J. Sweeney
Europe
Great Northern Railway
Montana Central By
Great Northern
Minnesota
Wilmar
Sioux Falls
Duluth, Watertown & Pacific
Minneapolis
ST. Paul, Duluth
West Superior
Sioux City
Chicago
Boston
Atlantic Express
Pepart
Depot
City Ofice
North Main Street
Toledo Weekly Blade
Writcom
Blade
Oliver
Money Maker
T ‘ Blade
Boulder, Mont
Thomas Bayse
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