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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1892
Page
2
The Townsend Messenger reports on proposed railroad outlets to Castle, debates over a twenty year Chinese exclusion bill, and notes on the Chicago Columbian Fair mining displays. It covers labor tension at Montana Central spur, hotel fire dangers, and critique of elevator shafts in fires.
Washington introduces a bill requiring labels on baking powders containing alum and ammonia. Supporters call it a needed public health protection, noting strong evidence of harm, while manufacturers oppose the measure and fear broader industry impact.
Two hundred thirty church singers in the The song Nelly was written in 1855 by Benjamin Hanby. A new opera Vindice by Sig Mazetti has impressed critics as a Mascagni rival in Bologna. Moody and Sankey hymn royalties exceed 1.2 million dollars for charity. Meyerbeer centenary to be celebrated across Europe in 1894 with a Paris prelude. Evnier LaFayette of Red Mountain Montana teaches miners children to sing Beranger and Longfellow in their native languages.
The clipping notes Art the Chicago flower show naming the golden rod as national flower. It mentions Ohio’s new state asylum for epileptics at Gallipolis with about 1000 expected admissions. Also cites Parisian toe stockings, a crinkle cure for coin rubbing, and Zaphrez’s almanac predicting a queen’s death in November next year. It adds race-tinted summaries of Choctaws' views on blacks and whites.
The Imperial museum of art in Vienna displays an immense Muukacsy painting on its entrance hall ceiling. Rebisso of Cincinnati designs a William Henry Harrison equestrian statue to be cast in bronze at Chicopee Massachusetts. An oil painting in Philadelphia claims Columbus wore russet shoes, and a Mount Lebanon Ottoman subject gifts Mrs Harrison a silk portrait of the president. Curacao plans a larger Benjamin Franklin statue than New York, with Printing House Square’s figure close to Franklin’s height, Chicago proposing a 21 foot version News notes cross Atlantic and urban sculpture ambitions.
Comic snippets from newspapers show families and friends sparring with Christmas gift plans and holiday expenses. Jests touch on extended notes for Christmas debts, whispered gifts, invitations, and playful exchanges about Santa Claus and fanciful gifts.
The article notes the Russian army using bicycles in warfare. An Atlanta man owns a saber and a Legion of Honor cross from Napoleon. English ships face gun disputes with some guns deemed unfit, while French guns are praised. It recalls the US Marine Corps founding in 1775. A Danish naval school pupil, Simonsen, died amid hazing, prompting a government commission.
The column lists cold weather care tips and old time home cures. It advises soaking frost bitten feet in hot alum water, removing oil stains with calcined magnesia cream and benzine, warns against biting or passing sewing silk through lips due to lead poisoning, and describes a facial lotion made from fresh coconut milk.
Boston public library houses over 500000 volumes and 531 newspapers. Massachusetts plans funding for 103 towns to secure free public libraries while Berlin forms a Friends of Books society with annual 75 marks to access six to eight modern works. Lord Granville once invited James Russell Lowell to dine, noting the short notice.
The article outlines legacy coin weights and values such as the Tur pennyweight for the old British penny and the low cost of producing a £1000 Bank of England note. It cites a £5,333,650 check paid for Kimberly diamond mines as possibly the largest in Europe and mentions marks used for British money as libras and solidi in Latin. It also notes a twenty marks coin found at Beuthen in Silesia bearing King Otho of Bohemia’s image dated 18.
The article notes 30 009 eggs per day in Cleveland during a past era. It recalls Tudor prices from 12 to 25 cents per arpy. A glove with four yards of fine sewing is described. Oregon prospectors report a pure platinum mine. A mastodon tooth ten inches long and weighing about five and a quarter pounds was found on Goble Creek.
A Mission Bottom farmer unearthed a fifteen pound turnip. The Dalles Chronicle reports six cabbage heads filling a wagon. T. D. Andrews of Waterbury, Conn. harvested a twenty six and a half ounce apple. Maine farmers boast oversized beets and turnips with notable weights and circumferences.
Velvert ribbon dominates fashion while butterfly bows stay high and stiff. French ladies embrace cycling and Paris outdoor wear favors green. Actress Jaxe Hanine favors eyes’ color with slippers and matching hose. An orange tea features orange decorations and servings. Sitka postmistress Miss Paviixe Comex makes her first Seattle railroad ride described as young refined and sociable.
If you feel weak or sick from grippe this remedy targets the liver stomach and kidneys to aid their function. A single trial is claimed to bring speedy relief from headaches and general weakness with large bottles priced at 50 cents at J. R. Westen's Drugstore.
Mines in Missouri claim an eighty foot thick coal vein the thickest on earth. A ton of coal was mined in Wyoming and sent to Denver. Amilitens tons of anthracite coal are mined weekly. National output this year exceeds last by nearly three million tons. In Texas newly discovered metalliferous mines yielded a blanket lead of silver ore near the surface where tunneling began.
A classic testimonial touts Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with millions claiming results. The ad promotes trial bottles free at J R Weston's Drug Store and offers large bottles at 50c and 1 00 with a money back guarantee.
Centenary notes odd traits of writers Tasso Racine Suny Cuvier Mitron Camolas Pork Ricesev and Bentlevy. Observed patterns include madness lucid intervals walking or shouting, rapid composition cats naps and nocturnal writing rituals. The piece mixes anecdotal quirks with literary myth.
The fortune of actor Florence reaches about 100000 dollars. Epson derived the phonograph concept from Morse tape indentations. I M Garfield, son of the late President Garfield, becomes Williams College football president for next year. Senator Joan M Palmer is a keen Washington pedestrian, with his wife sharing the habit. Ina J Cuase, Indiana lieutenant governor, was ordained a Methodist minister in 1867. Lis home is in Danville. James Campbell of Philadelphia, postmaster general under Pierce, is the oldest surviving cabinet officer, having served the full four years.
A miscellany notes gold used yearly for dental fillings totaling over half a million dollars. It compares per person letters to France England United States and Germany. Ventura county California develops Pristen ink from crude petroleum with refining tests planned. A Clifton Oregon log chute speeds a leg from top to bottom in twenty seconds at about two and a quarter miles per minute.
Recent calculations claim the sun’s light equals 600000 times that of the full moon and a Paris photograph will display over 60000000 stars. Queensland experiments show mother of pearl shells can produce artificial pearls. Scientists report yellow fever germs may hitch rides in tropical birds’ plumage. Sunlight and moonlight are said to affect knives and edge tools.
A Brmvrvonam man amassed 540000 pennies in lifetime. An Eastport fisherman nets a forty inch lobster. Burglar’s clothing in Indiana yields Cesar’s Commentaries and a sigebra problem. One man in Lower California finds a lake of ink a sulfur mountain and two milky lime streams. A Kansas farmer retrieves a coffee pot with 670 dollars in gold, risking loss of farming for good.
The article notes U S pin factories produce about 15 990 000 009 pins annually. It mentions steam whaling vessels planning to operate in the South Pacific after reports of whales returning there. It highlights rapid cotton seed oil growth replacing olive oil in many cases. A tanning extract mill at Clallam Bay Washington supplies about sixty tanneries on the Pacific coast. The Hemlock belt there is the most compact in the country. Hemlock bark is ground, soaked in hot water for a day, then boiled in a vacuum bath to extract tannins.
A historical ad extols Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds promising relief or money back. It invites readers to try a sample bottle at J R Weston's Drug Store with trial bottles free and Lange five cents and one dollar price offers.
A roster of public offices and appointees in the Montana and Idaho regions is shown, including the Butte District Attorney William F. Marshal, Helena collectors of customs J Sullivan and internal revenue James H Mills, U S district judge HH Knowles, district clerk Geo W Sprowle, land district register S A Swiggett, and receivers Geo M Bourquin and Jno T Carlan, with others in Bozeman and Helena.
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