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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1892
Page
2
Notices indicate a weekly post office item in Townsend with masthead line stating published every Friday morning. Editorial credit goes to Keany as editor and proprietor. Political tickets list Grover Cleveland for president and Adlai Stevenson for vice president from Illinois.
The ticket includes Sheriff Dudley Halford Assessor Alex Gilliam County Attorney M H Parker Clerk District Court J G Rickert Clerk Recorder Eugene Picot Treasurer Edward McSorley School Superintendent Miss Edda Lowrey Coroner Dr W Riddel Surveyor P M Cralle Representatives Ben Wahle J W Cowens and F Tuttle County Commissioners Dr A L Vawter John I Sheehy John Flaherty.
The county party calls delegates and alternates to a September 17 convention at White Sulphur Springs to nominate Democratic candidates for county district and legislative offices and to select a two year central committee. Attendance is urged for those elected to represent precincts.
The World’s Fair commission for Peru seeks government aid to create an exhibit of Peruvian living animals. It stresses importance to breeders and aims to present llamas alpacas paco-vicunas and related species, hoping for a creditable display at Chicago.
Research traces glass use to 2000 years before Christ with the Slade collection noting a lion head moulded in glass bearing an Eleventh Dynasty Egyptian king’s name. The breezing glaze technique on pottery beads from the First Egyptian Dynasty tombs is also linked to early glass development.
The article compares kauri trees in New Zealand to famous British specimens noting kauris reach around 100 feet tall with girth near 30 to 40 feet and a kauri record of 70 feet girth, 200 feet tall. A court-house scene ends with a lawyer’s joke about sleeping positions.
A St Louis Globe Democrat writer explains a simple test to gauge nicotine uptake. By inhaling smoke and pressing a folded handkerchief to the lips, a brown stain from tobacco oil appears, showing even one puff may deliver substantial nicotine, especially for daily cigarette smokers whose lungs absorb more smoke.
The British ship North under Captain New son from Portland reports on June 11 in latitude 44 south longitude 37 west encountering two enormous icebergs with many more visible ahead. The ship entered solid ice and was surrounded at 10 PM but a shifting wind allowed escape. bergs formed a 50 mile long barrier resembling a volcanic island and the Antarctic drift ice seems unprecedented reaching its northernmost point yet reported.
A Detroit man seeking contact with his wife at a seance finds the medium unable to confirm the afterlife. The medium claims the spirit refuses to fall as the husband rejects the claim, ending the exchange with a sharp remark.
A Boston author outlines how hand posture reveals character. Open hands show openness and generosity, while clenched fists indicate determination and potential aggression. The thumb position marks childhood weakness and great men exhibit prominent thumbs. historical figures cited include Wellington Napoleon Grant Gladstone Salisbury Morley Blaine.
Military surgeons discuss how new small caliber rifles with hard projectiles may reduce battlefield deaths while increasing non fatal injuries. Lebel rifle trials suggest fewer deaths but more wounded and put of combat across Europe.
A Texas man told St Louis Globe Democrat he has faced the harsh border life and considers Western killers to be cowards. He says self defense requires only a pistol and nerve and that many so called killers shoot unarmed men or in barroom brawls.
A collage of snippets covers a Texan wedding scene with a colonial Alabama remark, notes on urban daylight roofs, a leap day ruling from Indiana courts, a centenarian Miss Bowen of Gaysville VI asked about marriage, and a wry remark on longevity of married women.
The report notes a 1000 strong battalion on war footing in Germany and France, with 550 in France and 544 in Germany in peacetime. It mentions a French officer’s rifle capable of hurling vitriol 100 feet, plans for a meat preservation facility in Paris, smokeless powder altering uniforms, and French naval growth to 27 ironclads, 29 cruisers, 12 large torpedo boats, 204 torpedo boats, plus coast guard vessels and other craft projected for 1895.
Rev Da Sauver Gres iivernre nam has served forty five years as pastor of the South Congregational church in Springfield Mass. Rev Eraswonpas J Prener of Philadelphia leaves an estate valued at 200000 for education of colored youths for the ministry. Rev Dr Prenson of Philadelphia continues at the London Tabernacle earning 6000 yearly. The Archbishop of Canterbury has not allowed mail to be delivered at his country home for thirty years and avoids reading letters on Sundays. A preacher’s congregation once faced a man who covered his ears with his lovers. the response was to pray the Lord to use a fly to light on his nose.
A vivid note on pearl breeding superstition among Borneo islanders who collect seed pearls in corked bottles fed by rice grains. White residents share the practice, while Prof Kinnerly reports desecrated burial sites for corks. A Louisville graduate politeness tale follows with a streetcar driver flirting via a kiss. Doctor King’s New Discovery ad promises relief for coughs colds and consumption with free samples at J R Weston’s Drug Store.
In a breezy column style, readers glimpse flirtatious dialogue among young women and men. Snap quotes from Boston Trang Detroit press Tid Bits Kate Field's Washington reveal attitudes on romance marriage and propriety with playful banter and quick witticisms.
A fragment outlines Bany Avroxeo on a Spanish stamp, Greek Queen Tur as a seamstress, a Neapolitan prince nicknamed seloecrammocea, Jast Scamestan of London across eight reigns, an almshouse years, and Ex-Qvres Isanpins of Spain living on 150000 a year despite chronic debts and embarrassment.
A compilation notes Great Britain as a major buyer of U.S farm exports totaling 172 million of 275 million. It cites a Norwegian merchant fleet of 7,584 vessels and 1.68 million tons, with steamers and sailing ships specified. Japan’s 1868 to 1886 trade values are listed, and there are 2,038 corporations and 1,061 banks in the period. Bond & Co offers a four hundred page advance paid book on the World's Columbian Exposition for 50 cents.
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