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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1900
Page
2
A column from Townsend Montana shares a mosaic of aphorisms and odd notes on society politics and business. It cites a Chicago sculptress marrying a portrait painter and references Governor Roosevelt on public honesty and a Delagoa Bay bargain affecting Transvaal access.
The passage argues that adding a 25 percent surcharge to single men’s valuations mirrors Hessian practice and Kansas law. It notes a bachelor paying the same base value plus $20, treating bachelorhood as taxable property to discourage remaining unwed, reflecting on public burden theories and taxation aims.
Portland reports many salmon firms will not meet existing contracts with shortfalls of 25 to 35 percent. Columbia river pack reaches 195,000 cases, the smallest in twenty years, vs 265,000 a year ago. Fraser river totals around 75,000 cases, down from 245,000 last year. Puget Sound may match last year’s 450,000. Rivers’ inlet output expected 25 to 30 percent under 1898. Skeena above average, coastwide 2,000,000 cases for 1899 including Alaska.
James Montemajo and Wildcat Smith recount their brutal Yaqui captivity in Mexico where they were tortured and separated from gold. The pair escaped via a half breed ally, recovering about $7300, and plan to reassert their mining claim once peace with the Yaquis allows.
Montana frontier miners Montemaro and Wildcat gain five pounds of coarse gold dust and nuggets totaling about eighty five thousand dollars. A Yaqui attack follows at dawn, four warriors lie dead and one tortured miner is found with melted gold forced in his mouth. The narrative recounts a brutal sequence of raid and slaughter.
A foreign journal describes female shoplifters at the Bon Marche and the Louvre choosing full skirts with deep pockets and cut stockings. They press near counters while inspectors watch, slipping items into pockets as a rapid elbow motion and dangling fringe draw attention away.
In a Household Words anecdote a nervous curate at the reading desk misreads a sermon as the second chapter of the duke of Booteronomy and blushes as the vicar frowns. A later line misreads marriage banns in a humorous clerical moment.
The piece notes the difficulty for English naval officers in caring for sailors wounded in action and the cramped conditions aboard modern warships. It claims no onboard space exists for injured men with limbs blown away, leaving overboard as the only option.
A report to the Australian government by Frank Tidswell discusses natural immunity in animals. He notes doubt about sheep immunity after experiments in Queensland where two sheep developed fever and one died, with unclear post mortem results and inconsistent transmission to a bullock. He calls for further study.
Secretary Wilson announces to Mississippi valley dairymen that new Pacific markets open for dairy products. An agricultural agent is sent to China to establish sale agencies. Puget Sound imports Mississippi valley dairy goods, and butter brings thirty to forty cents more per pound overseas. The valley foresees a shift of great markets westward.
The Texas Live Stock Journal emphasizes walking as the foundational gait for all horses. It warns that a horse lacking a steady flat-footed walk appears deficient, whether in harness or saddle, and that consistent return to the walk preserves early training benefits and prevents owner frustration.
The cattle tick, or shingle tick, lays about 2 500 eggs after an adult drops to the ground. Young ticks attach to grasses and plants and latch onto first hosts, sometimes dying livestock like sheep. To control it, pasturing sheep with cattle helps reduce tick populations. The note also urges planning for cut clover hay for fowls and milch cows, and recommends mangel wurzels for winter feeding to boost health and vigor.
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