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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1899
Page
2
A fragmented page from Townsend Montana features a string of quips and quotes. It includes humorous asides on law, theology, phrenology, military training, and social advice. A Kentuckian won $3333 for three fingers, and Missouri legislators are described as "on the national guard with both feet."
Three major projects attract engineers across the world. The trans Siberian railway would shorten world circumnavigation time. Cecil Rhodes pursues a Cairo to Cape line in Africa. The Intercontinental Railway Commission reports on a through line from the United States to Buenos Aires.
The piece notes Chicago and Toledo mayors winning again on a municipal ownership platform and reports Manchester, England bringing a new public cleaning service run by police. Residents can call police headquarters to hire a team of cleaners while housekeepers travel. The author contrasts eighteenth century paternalism with a potential twentieth century approach.
Of thirty two House speakers, fifteen from south of Mason Dixon line, thirteen from north and east of the Alleghenies, four from the west. Kentucky Virginia and Massachusetts each produced four speakers, Polk was the only speaker who became president, Muhlenberg the first speaker with his statue in the Capitol Statutory Hall.
The National Museum starts two scientists on May 1 for an ethnological study of Mexico. Dr. J N Rose will study economic botany focusing on desert regions seeking commercially or medically valuable plants. Dr. Walter Hough will examine primitive arts of Yaqui and other Indian tribes. They will visit Casas Grandes south of Oaxaca but will not collect archaeological specimens due to Mexican export laws.
In Bluefields the dispute mirrors a farce as American merchants paid duties to a de facto revolutionary regime. They argue a government that cannot protect their rights cannot collect paid duties. President Zelaya failed to remove the rebel aligned customs collector, so duties benefited the enemy and must not be paid again.
Ellen Granfield a former nurse and daughter of Phoebe Ann Stuyvesant fights eviction in New York with husband Ernest after pawning nearly all possessions. Once caretakers of the Reception hospital they now face relentless want, small rooms and damp conditions as their savings vanish and employment proves elusive.
A humorous quotation from Stray Stories features Mrs Jollyboy asking where he has been and Mr Jollyboy claiming honesty about being at his office. Mrs Jollyboy quips she tells lies when she hears one, highlighting wit and character exchange.
In the French navy only eight to ten percent of sailors chew tobacco while sixty percent smoke. Therefore at least forty percent are total abstainers from tobacco.
A Boston Journal excerpt discusses a pamphlet advising ornate attire for servants. It outlines coachman details such as six coat buttons and matching harness, silk hats, cigars, green baize aprons, and ducal crest buttons to prevent mix ups with grooms, urging scrupulous dress for masters and staff.
An impromptu Detroit gathering of women discusses expansion and the Philippines. The group questions sacrificing youth for territorial gains, with one participant defending posterity while a pale-faced mother peers in scorn at her rival who has lost her son for posterity.
A Detroit lawyer recalls a circuit court session where a pro confesso divorce case faced a judge hostile to unopposed suits. A stumbling attorney at the table attempted to speak as “friend of the court” and noted that with Brother Double blank as complainant’s attorney and no opposition, it was about an even thing, prompting roaring laughter.
A southern man returning from a Boston visit explains to a neighbor that in Boston people boil beans for hours with sawbelly and molasses and then eat them. The man asserts this is the common practice up there.
A reader recounts a boxing moment described as a solar plexus blow in the fourth. The professional pugilist seeks clarity, asking whether the reference is to the fourth paragraph chapter or act, echoed by a Washington Star remark.
A bleak December day begins Lilly Clare s long struggle after her father and mother die. She is saved from death by Percy Monroe and his mother, and Lilly finds shelter and love at their home. She and Percy confess love, marry, and live in quiet happiness while doing good deeds.
A New Orleans Item report recalls a plantation scene where a young darky named Jonas asks for molasses. A young mistress corrects his speech insisting on the word molasses, but Jonas laments having no sugar yet.
In the Philippines, after death, a wife's share goes to her children and blood relatives unless she executes a deed in her husband's favor under a lawyer's supervision. The husband receives no portion without such a deed.
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