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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1899
Page
3
Blizzard warning and long days noted in local items. Births, deaths, marriages, and travel update residents from Helena to Townsend reveal community life. Fire and health news include convalescence, insanity asylum transfer, and pneumonia death of Mrs. Hall.
The column notes residents visiting the capital, a hay derrick project, and a Califor nia return. It reports losses of a jeweled brooch, a fatal hunting accident, a death from appendicitis, and a shooting injury. It covers dance lessons, a straw ride to Canton, and a lively Townsend social scene with travel and greetings.
The Ladies Guild of the Episcopal church held a grand masquerade at Tierney's hall on Friday evening. Guests enjoyed a long masked parade with elaborate costumes led by Leslie Wilcox and Carrie Holloway, a Padden orchestra, and a 5:00 a.m. finish. The event drew many young participants and raised funds, celebrated as Townsend's top social occasion of the season.
Senator-elect Clark hosted a lavish banquet for about 150 Helena friends at a local hotel. The revelry included abundant champagne and a singing on the table, with several guests later found sleeping under tables and many rising only at dawn. The report notes charming women and some rural guests not fully 18 carat in dress, ending with a satirical remark on male vanity.
Mr R P Olivia of Barcelona spends winters in Aiken South Carolina and credits Electric Bitters with ending his headaches and back pain. He praises the tonic as America's blood and nerve remedy curing liver and kidney trouble purifying the blood and energizing the body. Each bottle 50 cents guaranteed by Romig Bros.
Manchester Michigan man recounts his wife’s five year paralysis of motion and bed turning. After two bottles of Electric Bitters she improves greatly and regains ability to work. Describes Bitters as remedy for female diseases including nervousness sleeplessness melancholy headaches backache fainting and dizziness. One bottle 50 cents guarantee. Romig Bros. retailers.
A Helena column reports severe winter conditions with forty degrees below zero and two feet of snow, coal shortages, and suffering among the poor. It recalls a 1880s soup kitchen, mentions a Great Falls ball canceled by snow, and notes Governor Smith sending cablegrams to Montana soldiers in battle. The piece praises Lieut. Col. Bruce Wallace and Governor Spriggs for their roles in state affairs.
Dr. King s New Life Pills advertised as a cure for sick and nervous headaches. The copy claims they purify blood, strengthen nerves, and improve health. Priced at 25 cents with money back not guaranteed. Sold by Romig Bros.
Promotes Bucklen’s Amica Salve as a universal healer claiming it cured G. B. Stead of Newark Michigan after wounds from the Civil War. Advertises it as a remedy for ulcers, cuts, bruises, burns, boils, felons, corns and skin eruptions with a promise of guaranteed cure and a selling price of 25 cents per box through Romig Bros.
Dr King’s New Life Pills are sugar coated globules claimed to convert weakness into strength and listlessness into energy. The Romig Bros advertise them at 25 cents per box as a popular health booster in daily life.
A brisk sales pitch touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as building brain and body power through health. The ad claims indomitable will and energy come from a well functioning stomach liver kidneys and bowels and promotes the 25 cent price at Romig Bros.
An old ad touts Shilohs cough and consumption cure priced at 25 ets 50 ets and 1 00 with a refund if ineffective. Sold for over fifty years on this guarantee. Matthews Pharmacy markets the remedy and promotes improved breath including a claim about Karl's clover root tea purifying breath.
Hannibal citizen J. E. Lilly credits a miraculous recovery from typhoid fever and pneumonia to Dr King’s New Discovery. He praises the medicine as the surest cure for lung trouble, noting a single bottle brought relief and a full recovery. The ad touts 50 cent and 1 dollar sizes with free trials at Romig Bros.
Matthew's Pharmacy advertises One Minute Cough Cure claiming it overcomes coughs colds and throat lung illnesses including croup bronchitis pneumonia and grippe and that children cry for it.
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