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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1890
Page
3
Poem describes return to home at day end with imagery of mother-bird cows bees lambs and home life. It evokes domestic peace as readers settle in to rest with children lovers and a lamp light in a Springfield Massachusetts newspaper page.
A Washington Star reporter interviews a veteran engineer near the round house on Virginia Avenue. He recounts near fatal wrecks during Garfield era days on the Baltimore Potomac and New York express runs, including a Severn collision, a McAruder curve mishap, and a Wilsons stove prank that almost smothered a nearby operator.
The article explains causes of nonunion in bone breaks and emphasizes local injury, debility, and excessive motion as factors. It notes delayed healing may result in fibrous unions or false joints, cites Dr. Donald McLean's observations from Michigan lumbermen, and compares external splinting with surgical wiring, highlighting antiseptic methods and the preference for external dressing over wires.
A New York Times piece surveys how recent incumbents handle the presidential handshake. It contrasts Harrison’s warm but simple grip with Cleveland’s economical hold and Hayes Garfield Grant and Sherman methods, noting Lincoln’s sculpted hand and a modern president’s dreaded duty.
A civic essay warns that giving ample pocket money destroys a boy's character. It argues rich parents spoil a child, especially an only son, by indulging the soft side of guardianship, leading to ruin as early as eight years old.
The piece argues against precocious wealth in youth and praises strict parental discipline. It laments modern indulgence, favors Puritan sternness over indulgence, and promotes a balanced approach, warning that heavy guidance is wiser than letting children run wild. It cites the New York Ledger as a supporting voice.
A Pittsburgh Chronicle reporter recalls a druggist advising a gasoline bath to treat moth damage on a fur cape. He warns of fire risk but says in a fire free room with windows open the method is quick, though it leaves an odor for a few hours.
A survey of social curiosities includes Mgr Jourertre Apa planning a penny Paris paper, Straxtey’s African valets, Victoria’s large hand and glove habits, and Tur Crown Princess of Brazil renting a Versailles area villa. Duels for Ronceroni, a Kyoto phonograph at Budapest playing Kossuth, a Gena bride in regimental red and white, Joan of Arc’s Domremy home being restored as a museum, Tur Pope using a dove quill for signatures, Mme de La Tour on women and tobacco, and Baron Boroscutto’s Louis XVI style electrolier with 68 electric lights costing $6000.
In a scene from Fliegende Blaetter a guest at a Tourists' Hotel extols the mountain view and memories it evokes. The proprietor instructs to note Room 27 and a five marks charge while a second exchange mocks gossip ignorance about the guest.
The Weekly Blade promotes its status as a leading weekly paper with broad nationwide circulation and offers new year stories by Oliver Optic in the Money Maker Series. It invites readers to request specimen copies and to mail names for free samples, with special notes to agents.
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