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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1893
Page
2
A Boulder Age editorial notes interest in a state wide discussion on silver coinage and political questions. It recounts Henry Edmundson’s prison history, pardons, and alleged thefts, using it to ponder why people long for confinement and how prison conditions have improved.
The piece ridicules Voorhies for backing a symbolic silver bill and a proposed large silver purchase scheme that would not stimulate production. It notes his fading political influence, recalls his historic prominence, and references contemporaries Hugh Mitchell and a Florida prizefight spar in the era.
Croak Gaunt Nihan report 20 tons ore shipped to East Helena Smelter with no returns by Friday. Seven tons valued over 100 dollars per ton and remainder at least 40 dollars per ton. McCain McDonald shipped one car last week valued at 752 dollars and plan next week. Shipping costs 19 dollars per ton. division shows wagon to railroad four dollars smelter one dollar rail and fourteen dollars smelter charges. Machinery for new reduction plant arrives. management aims to start smoothly by late January 1904. Nor thern Pacific winter schedule. Butte dining cars added. Portland sleeping cars via Helena. Livingston Enterprise notes. Free photo offer from Inter Ocean for 2 cent stamp.
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