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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1895
Page
3
A man explains that growing and selling roses can fund hothouses and a strong winter market. Anecdotes cover a flower bank account and profitable ventures from conservatories. Also noted are travel health tips, Estes Park Colorado attractions, and light humor items about tobacco chewing dogs and teething remedies.
Ramon Ba rea of Madrid unveils a nautical bicycle with two steel float casings linked by cross-bars and a rear paddle wheel powered by pedals. The craft weighs about one hundred pounds and is steered by a stern rudder, capable of about six miles per hour on lakes and rivers.
The piece argues science exacts all from explorers and notes balloon hopes for polar exploration face extreme risks. It recalls deaths and costs in pursuit of knowledge, yet asserts eager volunteers remain ready to push forward despite dire dangers.
Paris chemist M. Girard describes a sterilizing water method using calcium permanganate and a manganese peroxide filter. The process oxidizes organics and microbes, producing clear water free of pathogens. Simplicity and efficacy are emphasized.
A London budget writer argues for replacing horse power with self moving road vehicles. He notes high costs noise and cruelty of horses and cites Le Petit Journal Paris trials with fifty vehicles in a thirty mile contest as evidence and calls for leadership in adopting steam or other power.
Reports from the engineer’s special commissioner describe six vehicles by Les Fils de Peugeot Freres of Valentigney with depots in Paris. Daimler Gazoline motors power carriages at nine to eleven mph on level ground and two to three mph on steep inclines. Vehicles use pneumatic wheels, front control lever, and a rear mounted motor driving the hind axle. The steel tube frame also serves as a water cooling reservoir. An electric victoria for four costs £268.
The Philadelphia Ledger reports electric cooking costs. Frying four or five cutlets uses the energy of five lamps for twelve minutes. An electric oven heats from 53F to 120F in five minutes and to 427F in twenty, making electric cooking costly despite its cleanliness and smoke free operations.
In Paris large storage battery electric cars outsize earlier New York models and rise two stories high with roofed outside seats and glass end screens. Cars lack gong forewarnings common in America but carry horns operated by a rubber bulb for signaling.
The New Orleans Picayune describes a clock by Goldfaden, a Russian Pole, built over two thousand days. It shows New York London Warsaw and Pekin times with a central tower dial and a bustling quarter hour scene including telegraph operators station staff porters and a miniature train.
An inventor from Ionia Michigan claims an electric mail car can reach two hundred miles per hour, trimming New York to Chicago to five hours. The steel thirty three foot, forty ton train runs on an elevated eighteen foot track and handles mails automatically with no speed loss, serving thirty four stations during operation.
The article notes visitors admired onyx and petrified wood at the Columbian Exhibition. It mentions new slabs used in wainscoting of fine homes and claims Utah hosts the finest onyx fields with the largest slabs cut from quarries. Petrified wood is used in mantels brackets and related decorative pieces with good effect.
Northern Wyoming offers strong summer incentives for anglers with abundant quate greediest trout and several fish over six pounds. Guides in Sheridan can arrange travel and costs via Francis at the Burvington office in Omaha. Also notes on marriage failure and a tobacco cessation remedy, plus venison from Germany and a comic exchange about a pitz dog.
Rome in its pride hosted a circus that could seat 158000. With such crowds a boy could crawl under the canvas unseen. E B Walthall & Co Druggists Horse Cave Ky advertise Halls Catarrh Care cures everyone who uses it. Sold by Druggists.
A collage of circa early 20th century ads and jokes appears with product pitches for Be-I've camphor, Hindercorns corns, Parker's Ginger Tonic, Hanson’s Magic Corn Salve, and streetcar tax notes. The page also notes a union organizing among web press helpers in St. Paul.
A jumble of quoted exchanges and captions from a 19th century newspaper notes a humorous exchange about cooking. It also references Truth magazine content and a front page Venus depiction with a center cartoon, plus a cheeky remark about bribe influence in juries and a consumer anecdote about Piso's Cure for Consumption.
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