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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1893
Page
2
Gene and TM advance face a pivotal vote on advertising spending as election tension rises. Officials warn the outcome could shape campaign messaging and public funding priorities for the upcoming season.
Townsown Post Office announces the publication is restored as second class matter and will be issued every Friday morning. The statement appears under the editor and proprietor line.
A letter to the editor argues for Broadwater county formation, defending finances and tax plans while countering claims of economic ruin. It questions assertions about Missouri Valley ties and Valley county parallels, cites levies and valuations, and defends local fiscal prudence amid a heated county-splitting debate.
Gorham fisherman Lewis M. Lellan while salmon fishing at Sebago last May rescued a loon fledgling near his canoe. The mother feigned distress to reclaim the bird, then swam to safety after the youngster stayed with the boat. The tale notes the loon’s surprising gentle song heard by the fisherman.
St Martin is linked to Martinmas when new wine was tasted and feasts followed. Legends say St Martin rode a mule with Satan as his burden as punishment for walking to Rome. Europe marked Martinmas with goose sacrifices on the continent, beef in England, and a warm spell in France dubbed the summer of St Martin.
General Tzavellas’s lineage is traced to a son believed dead for four decades. He left Greece to wander distant lands, was captured by Chinese pirates, tattooed from head to toe, and later recovered by a traveling showman who brought him home. He is aged and psychologically broken, unable to recount his past discoveries.
The Toledo Blade recounts a conductor with extraordinary recall who impressed a skeptical railroad official. He claimed to name each passenger’s station of boarding and alighting, ticket class and color, gender, destination of transfers, and later describe each traveler’s appearance. The feat allegedly proved perfect accuracy.
Drume made in St Louis are shipped worldwide and favored by many musicians. Aluminum, now seen as a universal metal, is the preferred material for noise creating instruments. It is claimed that parts of Pennington's air ship ruins yielded many drums. Manufacturers keep quiet about production, but a large percentage of the world output is implied.
The passage compares egg counts for silk worms wasps and ants. It cites Burmeister estimating queen bee fertility at 5 000 to 6 000 eggs while Spence and Kirby argue the average queen lays at least 20 008 and possibly up to 9 900 in a season.
It Should Be in every mouse, J. B. Wilson of Sharpeburg, Pa., says Dr King's New Discovery cured his wife of pneumonia after La Grippe and other remedies failed. Robert Barber of Coukaport, Pa., reports it helped his Long Trouble. Free trials at J R Weston's Store. Large bottles 50c and 1. Only home industry patronage.
The Youths Companion notes the plight of young widows in India. A child-wife faces harsh family treatment and death of a husband brings communal rejoicing as she seeks favor in the next birth. A mid January ritual, “Women's Day,” aims to safeguard a husband’s health through offerings, vows, and fasting.
A Auburn attorney hired a team for two or three hours, then left it at a different livery stable for eight days. Stable No. 11 didn’t worry, believing he would pay. Stable No. 2 chalked the bill, assuming he was reliable. Both stables later sent bills, leaving the attorney astonished by the charges. The exact settlement is unclear but cheaper than the posted rates.
Judge R L Cawthorn recalls a frontier chase after horse thieves near the Rio Grande. A man and a girl, mistaken as horse thieves, are killed after a brief firefight. The girl, in despair, fatally shoots the man before dying. The posse buries the suspects and continues the pursuit.
A London court tried a wholesale grocer for selling tartaric acid adulterated with lead used in lemonade. Lead level measured at 0.053 percent. experts argued a daily intake of a twentieth of a grain would require 220 bottles daily for six months, a claim deemed fanciful as the judge ordered a case to illustrate sanitary warnings.
A penny in the slot by elephants at Manchester Zoo buys a biscuit. A baby elephant refused several half-pennies but after receiving two, he held them in his trunk and finally dropped five half-pence together to win the treat, then gamboled with delight.
The piece notes Switzerland faces a 15 percent deficit in a budget under 17 million for 1803. It says nine-tenths of the shortfall arises from increased military spending and argues the nation must abandon restraint and bolster defenses amid looming conflict.
Sufferers from Ja Grippe found it just the thing and under its use had a speedy and perfect recovery. Trial bottles free at J. R. Weston’s Drugstore. Offers trial bottle at our expense to prove its relief for coughs colds throat chest or lungs.
A traveler recalls drinking icy spring water in the Sierra Madre described as devil water by locals. He warns it caused effects like excessive bourbon, leaving him the drunkest man on the North American continent after a day and night of intoxication.
A poetic explanation of why seas ebb and flow comparing drowning figures to waves. The piece describes the sea’s tides as armies marching, clashing in water hills, and retreating to reveal footprints on the shore, offering a dramatic but nontechnical interpretation of tidal motion.
A house with modern comforts including an electric bell leads to a theft attempt by two burglars. Polly the bird, watching from the dining room, triggers the electric bell by tapping its switch, summoning the servants who capture the intruders before they steal silver.
Electric Bitters is presented as a leading pure medicinal tonic for stomach liver and kidney ailments. It claims to cure sick headache indigestion constipation and malaria and offers satisfaction or money back. Price listed at five dollars?
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