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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1892
Page
2
Advertising rates listed at $1.50 per month. Publication note indicates Townsend town post office second class matter. Friday morning issues carried by editor and proprietor C. Kxauxy with political tickets for President Grover Cleveland and Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson.
The Democratic State Convention is set for Monday September 12 1892 in Great Falls Montana to nominate candidates for state officers a congressman and three presidential electors plus any other proper business. Delegates reflect Bozeman 1892 meeting. rules require county residency and voting by alternates or majority in absence. By order of the state central committee T E Collins chairman R W Cooper secretary.
The State Fair begins tomorrow and residents of Meagher are reminded not to miss it. W. J. Wood is missing and believed in Montana. inform Mrs. A. C. Priest in Seattle if you know his whereabouts. General Merritt postponed his Helena Military Post visit, delaying construction this year.
Congress approved a gift of two and a half million dollars for the Tus World's Fair managers, about half of the expected amount. The piece argues the United States should not be niggardly when other nations have been liberal.
The piece argues against regional antagonism between East and West and praises Mayor Lee Mantle of Butte for rising above partisan divides. It notes unrest at Homestead with lockouts and imported labor, criticizes Carnegie’s political giving, and urges full state representation at the Democratic State Convention in Great Falls on September 12. It also covers mining patent notice rules requiring publication in the nearest newspaper, warning against illegal ads in Messemere for Beaver Creek Park St. Louis Rodersburg and Dogtown districts.
Meagher to send 12 delegates and Jefferson 13 as counties choose Republican delegates and alternates. Proxies limited to residents. Helena excluded from state conventions this year while People's Party meets in Butte and others head to Great Falls. Concerns raised over regional bias and costs to state residents.
Mrs Van Winkle confirms her son’s return after eighty years and Mrs Van Blumer recalls the boy by a porous plaster. Doubtful chatter follows about Young Mr Slickens proposing to a confidante. She weighs wealth against possible imprisonment, unsure whether he will prosper or land in the penitentiary.
R Graves of American Express returned from Potosi Mining near Pioneer. He outlines a ground survey to resume operations, needing a $500 road to the mines and about $1,500 for machinery. Royal Gold Mining, led by Willard Bennett, is near the hill and expanding its stamp mill while yielding gold enough to cover expenses. The Potosi ore is richer than Royal’s $30 per ton, and Pioneer attracts many prospectors, including Bozeman interests.
Dispatch from Buffalo to the Omaha Bee reports a planned attack at Fort McKinney. Soldier Keiser confessed to being hired to blow up the stockade building. a four foot gas pipe bomb with gun cotton was found but failed to ignite. Blazer, a former soldier, and others were arrested amid the cavalry outpost arsons.
A Newark chemist using acid to separate micrury from gold left the mixture before completion. Weeks later he retrieved free gold from the jar and found octahedral crystals knit with bars and wires and leaves of the metal. He has since attempted to reproduce the crystals under different acids, dilutions, times, and temperatures without success.
Trial bottles offered free for coughs colds and throat chest troubles with full money back guarantee. La Grippe sufferers report speedy recovery. Sample bottle at our expense from J R Weston’s Drug Store. Large size 50c and 1
C G Clark of Boston argues that a man’s hands reveal his character. Open hands signal honesty and generosity, while tightly clenched fists suggest determination and aggression. Thumb position marks strength, with great men showing thumbs that protrude. He claims one hundred men can be read by how they hold their hands.
Foreign experts in military surgery discuss expected battlefield under small caliber rifles. They note fewer deaths but far more wounded and incapacitating injuries from hard metal bullets, with less tissue damage yet potential for greater limb casualties.
Ian Rouse of Texas dismisses so called bad men as cowards and killers, saying western killers shoot from behind and that urban, quiet men with nerve pose a greater threat. He claims fearless city men surpass the courage of frontier gunsels.
The pearl hunters of Borneo keep every ninth find in a tightly corked bottle sealed with a dead man's finger to breed more pearls. They add two rice grains to feed the pearls, a belief shared by some whites along the coast, with many “seed pearls” and “feeding” grains stored in huts. Prof Kinnerly notes desecration of burial sites by those seeking corks for bottles. A Louisville graduate becomes a streetcar driver and, in a joke of manners, salutes a woman with a hat lift and a kiss after misreading her flirtation.
A millon friends praise Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. The advert promises one trial will prove its curative powers for throat chest and lungs with a money back guarantee. Trial bottle free at J R Westons Drug Store. Large bottles sell for 1.00.
The St. Louis Republic notes enormous depth in the Comstock mines creates timbers that harden into glossy, ironlike sticks. Originally oak timbers twelve by twelve inches become as tough as steel under mountain weight, sometimes found in short sections after caveins, illustrating remarkable wood compression over time.
A painter who valued innocence paints a boy at prayer beside his mother and later, seeking contrast, visits a jail to paint a guilty man. The two portraits hung together labeled Innocence and Guilt revealed they depict the same person, Randall, who was once Rupert.
The Rural Collaborator notes mathematics spans simple tasks and cosmic measurements alike. It cites Adams discovering Neptune by observing Uranus perturbations, then Gaile using a telescope to confirm the new planet at a specific sky spot, illustrating science bridging ordinary and celestial.
Galignani Messenger cites a diary by Johann Maberle detailing 53 years as a teacher in which he administered 911517 strokes with a stick and other punishments. The record includes slaps on the face and head blows, kneeling on peas, and Bible or catechism tasks.
A China trade report from Ichang lists 13,000 pounds of tiger bones valued near 5000 and 9,000 pounds of old deer horns worth 1700. The bones are noted as a traditional medicinal import while deer horns are described as another medicinal material not yet known to Western medicine.
The narrator asserts long time sales of Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption Dr Kings New Life Pills Bocklin Amnica Salve and Electric Bitters with universal satisfaction. The firm guarantees refunds if results are not satisfactory and praises the remedies on merit.
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