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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1893
Page
2
Towns end Messenger reports a Butte Silver Bow mine fire suffocating nine men with one survivor badly burned. It notes a new Montana fish law banning May and June trout fishing with fines up to 100 dollars. Also details Barre parish accounts with Father Van de Ven suspected of misusing funds for the parochial school debt.
Discussion in Butte centers on smoke from mining and its toll on residents. Advocates argue abatement is essential, noting arsenic and sulphur fumes and estimating $400,000 to disperse smoke, a sum a wealthy city could easily spare.
George W. Irvin, mineral land commissioner, returns from Washington to Butte and reports strong support from Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith for the northwest miners in the mineral land dispute. Smith asks Irvin to draft a precise statement detailing the situation for the department. Irvin is convinced Montana and other mining states have a friend in Smith and that valuable lands along the Northern Pacific will stay in miners’ hands.
News from Helena Independent reports the death of David Wright on April 1 near Carrolton Missouri at age 72. Born in Tennessee in 1821 he wandered through Iowa Missouri Colorado and Montana where in 1846 he discovered Grizzly Gulch near Helena after a grizzly encounter. He returned to Missouri in 1865 and died in Carrolton.
A bold advertising offer from Pacific Publishing Co of San Francisco promises free life size framed crayon portraits to anyone sending a photograph. The claim stresses high quality and wide reach across the United States and Canada, inviting readers to request full details by writing for the company’s ad.
Reports note 1 535 horses deemed suitable for 1893 04 in India for army use with 15 hands minimum height and no piebalds. Berlin vaccinates glanders suspects with mallein yielding strong results. Indian government sources from Australia and South America for horses, Calcutta price about 135 dollars each. Gen Walker’s baton relic from Nicaragua era survives in San Francisco official custody.
A collection of curious notes describes beauty marks in Borneo elongated ear lobes a Sicilian skull a Samar beehive tradition and a Guatemalan marriage custom. Dresden glassmaking chambers Elizabethan footwear and a late 19th century restitution by English charities to depositors in Balfour cases are also mentioned.
A Millersburg farmer drills seventy five feet to finds a four foot coal seam of high quality. Asia Minor yields large coal deposits. Victoria reports 635000 ounces of gold in the previous year, up 41000 from 1891. Alabama mined 4300000 tons of bituminous coal in 1891, rising to 5272000 tons in 1892. Central Queensland totals 100000 ounces of gold with ore averaging per ton. Gold leaf production becomes 400 in value using 45000 sheets per inch.
The report cites Cerny coffee drinks, a post office stamp licker invention, and a first successful trial in Philadelphia of a pneumatic mail tube. It notes Liverpool glass factory uses glass bricks in boxes floors shingles and a 105 foot smokestack. Other items include distilling alcohol from sweet potatoes and a horse drawn sweeping machine in Germany.
A whimsical portrait of Mrs Matitpa Hustixepos the English New Orleans matron with seven husbands since age fourteen. Obituary for Duanes Croxta aged eighty eight the last Lafitte era participant said to have died in Chambers county Texas. Confederate era figures Jerf Davis to be reinterred from New Orleans to Richmond with plans for Hollywood cemetery.
J B Wilson of Sharpsburg Pa says he will not be without Dr King's New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds after it cured his wife who faced pneumonia following a La Grippe attack despite other remedies and doctors. Robert Barber of Corksport Pa reports it gave him more relief than anything for long trouble. Free trial bottles available at J R Weston Drug Store.
A set of London and other observers weigh how European tensions hinge on the lives or wills of Francis Joseph the German kaiser and the Russian czar. The czar remains a public mystery while the young German emperor shows restless energy and readiness for war. The piece contrasts their temperaments and notes Alexander III’s devotion to family and domestic happiness.
A New York hospital treated a woman with typhoid fever but a unique skin condition appeared. Star shaped figures covered her body and were traced to marks made by her mother using a cork with five needles, rubbed with kerosene as fever prevention.
A Notes and Queries quote shows language trouble near the Rigi. A hotel posts that at sunrise a horn will be blown, followed by a wine list remark that wines offer little hope to travelers.
The Brooklyn area holds about one million buried residents in cemeteries such as Greenwood Evergreens Cypress Hills and Holy Cross with Washington and Lutheran cemeteries spilling across the city line. Interments average four thousand yearly but may rise to six thousand this year due to a choleraic outbreak. A Sunday last summer saw 600 funerals with last arrivals after dark.
A southern regional phrase traceable to an 1840s race on a Richmond area track. Bob Poindexter owned Pizarro a bob-tailed bay gelding who unexpectedly beat all rivals, sparking the line that “That beats Bob Tail.” The anecdote recalls the Rider and Driver source.
A sharp class moment features Charley Beale questioning gravitation. The teacher challenges texts, Charley imagines a world with no attraction as an apple falls, and then exclaims a surprising home run idea.
The era of strict supervision by mothers and maids ends as upper class English girls gain freedom to walk alone in London. They may shop visit attend lectures travel by train and attend services without a chaperone though Hyde Park remains restricted for some. A few independent maids still guard walks with pets as a minor exception.
The old veterinary surgeon Mr Flinders and his wife reside in a large house opposite. Onlookers remark they are very wealthy and recently celebrated a golden wedding there, as reported in Punch.
A vintage ad promises free trial bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery for coughs colds and throat chest issues. It touts relief or money back and notes La Grippe sufferers recovered quickly. Sample bottles are offered at J R Weston's Drug Store with a free trial at the store.
A promotion extols Electric Bitters as the leading pure medicine among tonics, suitable for stomach liver and kidney ailments. It claims to cure sick headache indigestion constipation and drives malaria from the system with guaranteed satisfaction.
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