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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
2
A mix of local quips and international notes. A Jersey City school drive supports Galveston relief with about 1100 dollars and clothing and food sent by eight trucks. Sousa’s music celebrated as a peaceful victory and civic banners honor him across Europe.
A. R. Julian, once pastor in Chadron Nebraska, ran a locally praised newspaper for over two years. He decided his ideal pastorate required return to pulpit work, sold the paper, and plans to rejoin the ministry.
Report notes the princess and her prince residing in Paris after rumors of her indiscretions with Hungarian violinist Rigo. The violinist was said to be wandering in Africa while photographs of the princess fade from Paris and Vienna markets and large gums replace her image on the Paris stage.
The passage notes a saying that agreement in science between Germany and France implies significance. It argues such ties reflect progress in physical history and study, and cautions that emphasizing fraternal ties over estrangements may not be best for global harmony.
A Swiss factory inspector recalls workers opposing improved ventilating systems two years ago for fear of rheumatism. This summer the same laborers refused to enter another building lacking ventilation. The piece quips about importing them as church janitors. An Ohio minister had to pause a sermon as two women fainted, later traced to a janitor who nailed windows shut to prevent opening during substitute sermons.
Teresa Guillen a 24 year old peasant woman inspired mass pilgrimages with prophetic sermons in Algaiba Murcia. Crowds gathered again after her return home and a police arrest led to a riot in which four gendarmes died and fifteen bystanders were seriously hurt. Her father and brother were killed in the melee.
A college trend shows Princeton and Rutgers students in brutal cane rush incidents around Nassau cannon. Three Princeton freshmen posed after fifteen minutes with torn clothing and battered faces. Rutgers’ Fritz Wittig Jr. suffered a brain concussion during a subsequent fight. Dean Winans and officials condemn the custom, but students insist on continuing the ritual as a rite of campus rivalry.
The Old Bailey in London, famed for 609 years as a symbol of crime and punishment, faces demolition. A new, sanitary, landmark jail will replace it, reflecting advances in ventilation and inmate welfare while preserving its dramatic place in literary memory.
Aaron Bell a colored grave digger is jailed in St Augustine Florida after attacking Nancy Gerard a colored woman in New Augustine. Bell says he mistook her for a ghost in a dark lonely street and struck during a sudden encounter. The woman was found severely cut and Bell claims self defense but the case awaits her account.
The Galveston streets show widespread tin roof damage with fragments scattered odd places after the hurricane. Many homes lack intact roofs and verandas or galleries display curled battered tin. The locals note the storm's fondness for tin roofing and its relocation across the city.
The New York Sun notes a paradox as the bathtub, once a standard domestic fixture, grows smaller in the city while demand rises. The piece wryly predicts tubs may eventually resemble hall bedroom sizes if trends persist.
The exodus of Jews from Romania has largely ceased as Hungary Austria and the Netherlands block border crossings unless funds reach ports of embarkation. About 3000 emigrants were sent back to Romania while U S authorities tighten immigration checks at the Canadian frontier and investigate conditions in Romania.
Flower seeds are widely grown in California with a large assortment of varieties including sweet peas nasturtiums cosmos verbenas petunias and asters. A single California grower now crops 150 to 200 acres of sweet peas yearly and lists about 125 varieties with over twenty new releases in three years. California seed production draws attention from eastern dealers who visit annually seeking novelties. Outside California only limited home-grown seed is produced.
A description from Popular Science News details how Moki women in the American desert prepare piki sheets. Corn meal is ground in stages, mixed with water, and baked on a long flat stone until blue bread forms. The process uses ritual stone preparation and ends with a jet black, nonstick surface.
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