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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1900
Page
7
Recruitment notice from The Humanitarian Home and Sanitarium for Invalids and Health Seekers, Inc. seeking both sexes. Treasurer J H Teitiebaum lists East Las Vegas, New Mexico as contact location. Some读ers remark on vanity tied to defects.
The advertisement promises to revive natural hair color and combat gray hair with Ayer's Hair Vigor. It claims to thicken hair, prevent dandruff, and stop shedding, urging daily use and availability from all druggists for $1.00 a bottle.
The piece recounts Uncle Billy Hunter, 72, Gen Joe Shelby’s body servant, recalling wartime service. He details Shelby’s leadership, meals, and discipline, and notes Billy’s capture, rescue by the James brothers, and long separation before reuniting when Shelby became a U.S. marshal in Kansas City.
A speaker recalls losing his best friend and living with Joe Shelby Jr. while tending Shelby’s children. He travels yearly to his master's grave on Decoration Day to place flowers in memory of the famed general.
A look at Gen. N B Forrest famed for cavalry grit and his hidden humor. Tales recount a Cowan's station pursuit where a bystander mocked his retreat and Forrest rode on. Another dinner party quip, a raven haired widow and gray hair joke, plus a chaplain incident showing mercy and wit.
General Robert E. Lee meets a weathered mountaineer on a road to Lexington. The veteran recalls marching with Lee from Mechanicsville to Appomattox and asks for three cheers for Marie Robert as tears flow and Lee shows quiet emotion.
The Hon. W. Dawson is remembered as a generous regimental host with vast hospitality and a princely table. He supplied hampers of wine and meat with a multinational staff, earning praise from Lord Wellington and others for dinners fit for royalty at a farmhouse near Bidassoa.
The note describes large numbers of abandoned New England farms being taken over by French Canadians. It then shifts to advertisement blurbs for Hostetters Stomach Bitters and products from Walter Reker & Co. Ltd. and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, followed by a moral quip and an 1845 Hall’s Catarrh Cure testimonial chain.
A bold advertisement touts Swanson's 5-Drops as a universal cure for rheumatism sciatica neuralgia kidney troubles lumbago catarrh asthma dyspepsia backache sleeplessness nervousness heart weakness toothache earache and more. Trial bottles cost 25 cents large bottles 1.00 prepaid by mail or express six bottles 5.00. Order from Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co 164 Lake St Chicago IL. It ends with a quip about convincing a pretty girl that love is blind.
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