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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1892
Page
2
Town newspaper item shows publication details with editor J C Kweiny and town office location Townsend. The fragment notes the paper published in the morning edition with privacy matters and masthead style.
The article discusses a Tribune suggestion to alter the gold silver ratio by setting silver at 1.10 per ounce and restructuring coinage to stabilize the economy. It argues such a law could shift value relationships, end debt fears, and unlock broader market stability if enacted by Congress and signed by the President. It notes past Bland law failures and contemplates nationwide impact and political campaigns.
The article urges silver men across Montana to form clubs and a silver league to push both parties to nominate silver candidates for all offices. It notes Denver's club of about twenty thousand could sway balance of power and calls for solid silver delegations to state conventions to influence national policy.
Union Pacific announces a one fare round trip ticket from Montana points to national conventions in Chicago and Minneapolis with dates in June and July. Gen Haven nears completion of the Helena and Castle Railroad survey and Neihart to Castle work may finish next month. Missoula citizens plan a railroad to connect with the Great Northern in the Flathead country to bring coal at five dollars per ton.
A promotional line states if you subscribe for the Missexcer for one Fear you can get the American Farmer free by handing in your money. The wording is unclear and appears promotional in nature.
In New York Chinatown a visiting observer notes both humor and danger. A Chinese man strikes his wife with a broom while a policeman stops the assault and a debate about beating ends with a quip. A joss house shows "In God We Trust" scrawled in English, a playful tribute to Melican Joss. The piece sneers at capitalist graft while detailing a culture mixing superstition and money.
A columnist notes men stockpile home remedies for epidemics and grip cures from newspapers. An anecdote recalls a clergyman and a judge pulling clippings from pockets showing how widespread such quick cures are, reflecting common scepticism about self treatment.
A French observer reports Paris charities absorb three quarters of vast sums through professional beggars. He describes their schemes to obtain funds and live idle, urging reform to prevent deserving poor from being crowded out by fakirs and noting well known mendicant beggars thriving without police interference.
Francis Darwin studied insectivorous plants fed with roast meat versus a vegetarian diet. Fed plants produced 240 seeds versus 100 in unfed plants, with total seed weight 380 versus 100. The article argues animal food boosts growth and fertility, urging vegetarians to reconsider their diet.
A traveler reports widespread white ant nests across plains and thickets in central Australia. The nests, built from resin cemented clay, become brick hard and when they crumble form clay flats that hinder water flow and traffic.
The article notes gold color varies by source with Ural gold reddest in natural state, Australian gold redder than California, placer gold redder than quartz. It suggests alloying and origin influence color and calls the causes a metallurgy mystery.
Explorer Buttikoffer notes that many Liberian towns lack clocks and timepieces. The sun nearly marks the day from six a.m. to six p.m., with noon at zenith. People estimate time by the sun, rarely more than 15 minutes off, using cocks to wake them instead of storm clocks.
A missionary reports widespread opium dens in Rampere Bauaeuh Dengal. He notes most smokers are laborers and claim the drug dries the body and creates an unbreakable craving. Dens reportedly serve up to a hundred patrons daily, with the mission accusing the British government of fostering the habit and ruination of families.
Free trial bottles offered at J. R. Weston’s Drug Store claim speedy recovery for La Grippe sufferers with Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. Sample bottles available at no cost. large sizes priced at 50a and $b.
If you are not feeling strong Electric Bitters may help. This remedy acts on liver stomach and kidneys to aid their function. For sick headache it offers relief and is sold in large bottles at J. R. Weston’s Drugstore for 8 cents.
A Boston Globe commentary lauds a proposed universal identification system. For a one dollar first year and fifty cents yearly, subscribers receive a metal badge with a unique number and instructions to telegraph it to a central office, linking the wearer to a personal record for rapid contact if dead or injured.
A St. Louis Republic correspondent describes how vaccine virus is produced by surgically scarifying a young cow to form a wound and inoculating it with virus from an already used animal. The resulting matter is used to coat goose quills for injection, with several vaccine farms named in the United States.
The New York Times notes the last car on trains from Grand Central on the Sludrop River and New York & Harlem lines is less popular after recent accidents. Riders used to seek the rear car, but crashes at Tarrytown and Mott Haven changed behavior, making middle cars seem safest and reducing use of the last car.
An advertisement touts Dr Kiry’s remedy as a universal cure for throat chest and lung diseases claiming over a million users. It promises full refund if not effective with trial bottle free at J R Weston’s Drug Store and large bottles priced at 75 cents and $1.00.
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