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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1892
Page
3
An era of evolving tastes features English women abandoning patent leather shoes for black satin eye dress while Egyptian rooms and Russian enamel gain vogue. Sashes, ornate spoons, and hairdressers from Paris shape daily life at country house parties with unique coiffure poems left behind.
A mosaic of notes reports that cliff dwellers existed 10 000 years ago and a journalist notes acquired taste for human blood in mosquitoes. It also records transport of Schliemann relics to Berlin, cottonseed oil ignition risk, and chlorite of gold in treating drunkenness. Weather lore mentions a mackerel sky signaling coming rain and storms.
Forty men spent three months drafting the Dirt-1 tower. California raisins total 1800 carloads, up 55 from last year. Glasgow tunnel projects will carry four passengers and trains. Temescaltin mines employ 113 men, 20 Cornish natives, 12 of whom have lived in California 10 to 50 years. England yields 15000 tons of lute pins yearly. Newhall works in Birmingham produce 10000 plus daily. Dagland averages eight per day per miner. Loire miners union buys Monthica mine for tus francs and seeks support from French municipalities and press for the mineurs.
The Philadelphia Record notes excavations in Egypt reveal manuscripts of Herodes of Cos and other classical writers. Poems in dialogue form portray ancient Greek life with humor and social scenes, including The Matchmaker and scenes of domestic life, politics, and women.
A bold young man used a feigned need for a room and paid with a bundle of clothes stolen from a store. His accomplice waited as the upstairs ruse unfolded causing the resident to discover the ruse too late. The thief fled with the new garments leaving the old ones behind.
Report describes thirteen regiments of British heavy cavalry and Tracy's allocation of fifteen units each with about 1,000 birds. Notes in France detail recruit shortages lowering height standards to five feet. Mentions cigarette shaped bullets used near Valpariso causing multiple casualties including a soldier killed by a bullet passing through one man into the man behind.
The item notes 1635 tulip bulb sold in Holland for 2209 dollars weighing 200 grains. It mentions English mines with plants growing at a thousand feet, and a world’s largest leafed plant from Surinam reaching thirty feet long and three feet wide. It reports Marechal Niel and Jacqueminot roses blooming all winter along the Creole coast between Mobile and New Orleans.
Noted import patterns show Siam receiving kerosene oil from the United States, while seventeen lines of ocean steamers operate between LU and foreign ports. GenMaxy ships 150,000 canaries annually to America, boosting peasant incomes in the Haris mountains. Italian jell siren berries supply juniper oil though juniper bushes thrive in Norway and could yield more revenue locally.
Advertisement offers Br King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a money back guarantee after a fair trial. Trial bottle is free at J R Weston’s drug store. Large size 60c and 1.00.
An old advertisement notes appearance reflects liver stomach and kidney health. It promotes Electric Bitters as a tonic that acts on these organs to cure pimples boils and freckles and improve complexion. Sold at J Weston drug store for 50 cents per bottle.
The Weekly Miner offers six month and yearly subscriptions with free premiums including dominoes, fine prints like Lincoln’s home illustration, and two color pictures with autographs. A year plus both pictures costs $2.00, and sample copies are available. The Great Columbian Exposition trip offer may be advertised by The Wind’s Fair from The Great History Company of San Francisco.
An 1890s puzzle ad offers prizes for solving a word problem about a mighty tree. Participants submit answers to Tax Queens Cartoes with stamps as required. Prizes include a gold watch, china dinner set, dress pattern, and additional rewards for correct solutions from each state.
A local notice promotes a free one year subscription to a popular agricultural journal. The Axrrocas Panwen will be published in Springfield and Cleveland to boost readership. The Aventean Iasten edition expands with the January issue and the Axrrocas Farmer remains non political.
Specimen Cases from New Cawes Wisconsin report neuralgia rheumatism stomach and liver troubles with deep flesh loss improving after free bottles. Edward Shepherd of Harisberg Minis describes leg sore relief after using three bottles and seven boxes of Arnica Balm. John Speaker of Catawba C had fever sores on leg thought incurable but healed after one bottle of Electric Bitters and one box Arnica Salve.
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