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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1895
Page
2
A jumble of brief notes reports Townsend Hot Springs Arkansas needs healing waters and a few enterprising men opened a McGregor Texas bank with dynamite and $12,000. It then notes concerns about English money paid to American brides, Adventist prophecies, South Carolina women’s suffrage limits, and Marlborough castle repairs.
The Providence Journal argues that the invented cravat stigma reflects propriety concerns. It suggests most people likely share the judgment, though the merits of the case remain debatable.
A voter in a Massachusetts village brought her baby to the polling booth and placed it in the booth while she marked her ballot. An alderman from Sturgis Michigan caused a small fire by lighting a tailor’s goose, singeing his celluloid collar, exposing a lack of civic pride in the town.
A Tennessee youth is told by white caps to quit wearing tan shoes and a similar threat reaches the north where the impecunious face the same edict.
The article argues that even top athletes like Jack Dempsey die young from consumption despite extreme training. It criticizes intense regimens and vows that moderate exercise and temperate eating, with reasonable care, would be more effective than current methods. It cites Japanese wrestlers as contrasting examples.
A state department report cites a Luxumburg agent Murphy noting a setback to a proposed convention between the Noble brothers of Russia and Standard Oil. Russian finance figures show capacity to compete with the U S, delaying a contract and urging Russian exporters to imitate American market tactics.
Emma L Stoll recounts illness from morphine and sulphur treatment, praising Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as she recovers strength and vitality. The piece frames the pills as a cure for female weakness and blood rebuilding, with price and purchase details included.
An old fashioned newspaper ad offers one hundred dollars for catarrh cure proof with Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney Co of Toledo sells it at 75 cents a bottle and promises testimonials. Walding Kinnan Marvin, wholesale druggists in Toledo, endorse the firm and vouch for its integrity and ability to fulfill obligations.
Three hive residents are the queen worker and drone The queen’s development timing and mating on the wing drive colony life A strong vigor queen lays 2000 to 4000 eggs daily Worker bees do all hive work and a typical colony ranges 40000 to 60000 bees Drones fertilize queens and mating ends as the old queen is replaced Beekeeping is a poor man’s business and success hinges on abundant honey and careful hive management
In November 1895 Thayer of Sparta Wisconsin advises berry plants to be laid down and covered for winter with straw or marsh hay. For grapes, prune to favor new wood, keeping two to four buds on vigorous canes and two to three on younger wood, and remove weeds and rubbish while preparing beds with composted manure for spring revival.
A French pigeon captured by German troops during the siege of Paris lived in luxury in a German dove cote for four years. When a door was left open, the bird escaped and ten days later returned to its Paris home, greeted as a patriot by its keeper.
Hartford anecdote places Mark Twain visiting Harriet Beecher Stowe in a smoking jacket with no collar or necktie. He later sends a collar and tie as a sample to Mrs Stowe, who is pleased by the gesture and story.
An impatient old man rushes to the kitchen in the dark and uses the first pan. He finds the wash basin contains soup and rousts his wife after misidentifying the liquid. He coldly protests he cannot smell in the dark.
The late Lord Denman corrected a chatter over a small overdue account in a shop. He declared that a bill may become overdue but a tradesman’s account never. He paid the bill and bought another hat to show no ill feeling.
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