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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1892
Page
2
Townsend Messenger reports Maurice Hias murderer to be hanged at Missoula today as the legislature plans to convene the second Monday in January. The issue notes publication details and advertising rates.
A Washington Star interview recalls crawfish behavior and farming. It notes predators like eels threaten crawfish stocks in Potomac waters and describes in Europe methods using torches for night gathering. It discusses pond management, age growth, and the economics of a profitable crawfish industry.
A Peeedon Banner report notes a primitive practice at the executive mansion where large lanterns remain lit after nightfall despite electric lighting inside. An old man, aided by a ladder, trips a match to light a gas lantern, preserving a quaint relic of past glow as passersby observe from the front lawn.
A Eide recalls Cruikshank’s note on his life work creating children’s books and traditional nursery lore. He cites Political House That Jack Built and temperance pictures as his favored sections and jokes about publicans sprinkling doorways with spirits, earning the sobriquet Teetotal George.
A report describes Cossack horses and Altai mines in Siberia with fourteen to sixteen thousand pounds of pure metal recently displayed. A rushing pursuit by highwaymen broke the convoy, but the Cossacks spurred their mounts and fled, escaping blockade due to their speed.
A naturalist observes two spiders Lucy and Eliza as they build geometric webs. The process starts with outer anchor threads and radial spokes, then a spiral weft, with each spider choosing a distinct technique but both forming a stout central cord for prey capture.
London Figaro recounts a harrowing childhood incident of the Hungarian artist Munkacsy. At seven, he and his godmother faced bandits who looted the estate in the mountains of Galicia, binding servants, beating some to death, and leaving the boy bound as his godmother was brutalized for money. The godmother died soon after, leaving the boy an orphan.
A New York Observer piece recounts a comic revival of a barefoot exodus theory. A negro preacher argues the Red Sea froze for safe passage while Pharaoh’s iron chariots drowned. A brother questions the geography and tropics excuses. The preacher answers with a dated geography joke.
J B Wilson of Sharpsburg Pennsylvania reports his wife recovered from a pneumonia threat after la grippe with Dr King’s New Discovery. Robert Barber of Cooksport Pennsylvania says it helped his long trouble more than any prior remedy. Free trial bottles at J R Weston’s Drug Store. Large bottles cost 50 cents.
A brutal incident by a railway cut leaves Pietro dead and a brown skinned mother embracing his cold face. Workmen note no sorrow from Pietro’s colleagues, while a distant superstition about a universal woman's heart surfaces as the grieving woman consoles him without a word.
A London society piece recounts Gen. Van Wahl in St. Petersburg who, as governor at Kiev, aided a poor widow seeking a police pension. He dictated her plea, gave a sealed letter, and soon after granted the pension. The Kiev head of police was dismissed for taking a bribe, as Wahl slipped a 25 rouble bank note into the widow’s letter.
A London Truth essay discusses the rise of female couriers who travel with elite women across Europe. The narrative notes high fees, travel by steamer and rail, and social polish. It recalls a courier who once escorted South American ladies to Europe and now aims to buy a villa on Lake Como.
Miss Tomasson, an English equestrienne, completed a long distance horseback ride from Innsbruck to Belson St Valentine Landeck and back to Innsbruck totaling 220 miles. She accomplished this without prior training riding the same horse through Brenner pass and Malserllaid with endurance and persistence.
A London journal recounts the late Duke of Cambridge speaking out during church prayer with a bold “Aye, to be sure, why not?” and shouting at the opera that “not half a dozen” pretty girls filled the house as he swept the crowd with his glasses.
Sufferers from La Grippe found it the thing and had a speedy recovery. Trial bottles free at J. R. Weston's Drug Store. Large size 50c and $1.00.
The article lauds rapid advances in surgery with cases of nerve repair after wrist injury and fish-hook removal, then shifts to Whit House conservatory riches and lavish floral displays. It also notes London vegetarian fad dinners and a quip about arianism influencing hay markets.
Electric Bitters rapidly gains favor as a superior tonic and alternative. It claims to aid stomach, liver and kidney ailments and cure sick headache indigestion constipation and malaria. Satisfaction guaranteed with money back refund. Price only
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