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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1895
Page
2
A collage of anecdotes and quips on public figures and society. Snippets reference divorce rumors, snow in New York, Roosevelt, prize fighting, Reed, Emperor William, Mackay, Lady Sholto Douglas, Victorian pride, a California Bloomer restaurant, Trilby waiters, Atlanta versus Chicago, English peers, Gertrude Vanderbilt, Taylor the South Dakota defaulter, and other colorful society notes.
A man rode a wheel past a mid dle-aged horse in clear degradation on Grand Avenue. The horse walked with head lowered, seemingly hopeless and unable to resist the humiliation. onlookers pitied the animal and wished it would resist, but it did not.
Last year’s cottonseed output is set at 1,200,000 barrels while this year’s estimate falls to about 700,000 barrels due to a smaller cotton crop. Some sources expect a crop reaching 7,000,000 bales with prior years producing around 1,000,000 barrels oil. A short crushing season may not push prices up as lard prices stay low and demand for compound lard could create alternative outlets for cottonseed oil.
The Cincinnati Enquirer profiles motorman William Frazer of the Cumminsville line. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with curing a year of stomach trouble and indigestion. Frazer praises the pills as effective for stomach tone bowels and nerves and notes availability from druggists or by mail.
A humorous horse dialogue precedes an ad section touting Hall's Catarrh Cure claiming a constitutional basis and a cure guaranteed with a $100 reward for any failing case. The notice mentions F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio and druggists selling at 75 cents. Also notes rising Rembrandt prices inviting forgers in art markets.
A fragmented ad page lists a free 50 cent calendar offer for new Youth's Companion subscribers with extended paper delivery to 1897, plus other periodical promotions. It also notes the American Federation of Labor's roughly 700000 members and includes various patent medicine and moral proverbs styled notices with prices and endorsements.
Chicago correspondence outlines rapid growth of the National Christian Citizenship League. It urges Christians to form local leagues, unite for public affairs, and adopt a Christian voter's vow to curb corruption, preserve the Sabbath, and exterminate the saloon.
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