Townsend Post Office Ad Rates Listed
Rates shown at $1.50 per inch per month and filed as second class matter at the Townsend Post Office. C Kulley is listed as editor and proprietor.
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Townsend
C. Kulley
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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1893
Page
2
A Plea for Harvest Not an Americanism but Old English
A writer argues autumn should be called harvest using Anglo Saxon roots. The piece notes fall is not exclusive to America and cites herfest as the original term for autumn and September as harvest month. It pleads to revive harvest as the proper season name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Population Boom in Japan Widens Under Wealth Rise
Japanese statistician Mr. Ono reports rapid population growth since 1572 with January 1872 counting 83,111,000 and December 1879 about 40,070,000. He notes an annual increase around 13 per 1,000 since 1887, births low relative to other nations, and wealth doubling in ten years, driven by migration from central provinces to the north and south.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Ono
England
France
Spain
Ono
Japan
Countess Guiccioli Attacked by Literary Iconoclast
The critic of Gossip of the Century brands Countess Guiccioli as far from beautiful noting a pale complexion likened to boiled pork and a shapeless figure. He recalls witnesses who compare her to a short bolster with a string waist and duck like gait. He also derides her manners as lacking grace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guiccioli
Byron
Mme. de Stael
Napoleon
Grand Pied de Stael
Parapee Palm Used by Guiana Indians for Food
The Parapee palm is cultivated by Indian aborigines in Guiana for its edible fruit. They plant it near settlements and wild stands indicate former Indian occupation. Fruits vary seasonally, sometimes seedless, sometimes seeded, and taste like a dry mealy potato when boiled or roasted. Each fruit is about the size of a pigeon's egg, borne in bunches of forty to sixty, with two or three bearing seasons yearly.
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Guiana
Seedling tree grows on Utica church tower
Seeds blown by birds or wind lodge in mortar cracks atop a Utica church tower. A mountain ash sprouts there for about sixteen years and now reaches seven feet. Roots penetrate the masonry while blossoms and clusters of scarlet berries appear, making it a local sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Qaia
Utica
Acity
Pig Iron and Sow Terms Explained in Metal Craft
The article explains how pig iron derives from the sow channel used in casting, with the shallow lateral pics forming the metal pieces. It notes the word sow has no swine link and traces to Saxon gawan and German sawsen meanings. It also mentions a social notice about a ball on February 22 hosted by a local editor.
Natural history curiosities and animal behavior notes
A collection of quirky facts: a sick dog relies on plants for cure, crossums keep elaborate hygiene, cocus wood dulls axes, geese avoid Sherman Oregon by day, a molasses spill scares rats, drunk men attract flies, and cows grow horn wrinkles from ages two onward revealing age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Ore
Wen
Notable Public Figures and Oddities in Brief Tales
A mix of anecdotes features Mrs. Marcarer Howart Davis ares son nicknamed Little Jeff by Confederate veterans, Cuarteron Panker praised as a model schoolboy who walks fifteen miles daily, Grance W. Cures donating funds to firemen and policemen, Corenius McKain claiming African royal descent and aiming to start a medical college, and Hay es arguing a late inauguration for president due to a Sunday landslide finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcarer Howart Davisares
Jefferson Davis
Jeff
Cuarteron Panker
Michigan
Great West
Grance W. Cures
The
Public Ledger
Philadelphia
Ledger
Corenius McKain
Savannah
King George
Africa
Ox-Prterpent Hayes
Toe
Curious Bits From The Last Page Of The Paper
A collection of odd notes mentions champagne loss from bottle bursts, owls filling a Springfield state house basement, a San Antonio woman killing a panther with an ax at age seventy, fruit saved by neighbors after a shelf collapse, a church bell destroyed, and light vessels moored on two ton mushrooms that bury in mud for secure anchorage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State House
Springfield
Lil
Stean Neat
San Antonio
Tex
Yardley
Unitarian
Masa
Pat Revere
Distant Feasts and Fashion in Medieval Europe
The passage surveys food and table fare in France and Italy of earlier eras, noting quince and porpoise dishes, imported muffs, famed wine and champagne, and marble kitchens with art. It highlights historical social practices, armor weights, and the evolution of clothing and medical treatment.
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France
Italy
Loman
Vague World Notes From A Bygone Era
A stream of dubious claims about 1892 China India Russia and Japan appears as readable fragments. It mentions Amory as a dirty Chinese city and claims about villages theaters and a supposedly ancient telephone in India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
India
Russia
Amory
Japan
Vast mine finds and peculiar produce headline coal bonanza
A report lists a new fire clay mine at Vincennes Indiana, a metal find near Keokuk by Dr Keyes, a double faced potato claimed to resemble a bear on one side and a calf on the other, and a Fairhaven Washington coal vein covering 1000 acres promising 10 million tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincennes
Ind
Keyes
Iowa
Keokuk
Carantortz
N. C
Fairhaven
Wash
Local Resident Praises Dr King’s New Discovery
It Shouia we In tvery House J B Wilson of Sharpsburg Pa says he will not be without Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds it cured his wife who was threatened with pneumonia after La Grippe and other remedies failed Robert Barber of Cooksport Pa calls it better than anything he used Free bottles at J R Weston’s for fifty cents and one dollar
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Wilson
Clay Street
Sharpsburg
Dr. King
Robert Barber
Cooksport
J. R. Weston
Uncle Sam's Cats Guard Mail At Post Offices And Buildings
The United States employs hundreds of cats at about fifty post offices to deter rats and protect mail. Cats are kept in Washington departments and the White House, and at the capitol, where their nocturnal patrols and resident feral bands provide constant feline defense against vermin and fire risks.
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United States
Post Office Department
New York Post Office
New York World
Washington
State
War
Navy
War Department
Secretary of War
Treasury
Uncle Sam
Pension
White House
Erimalkin
Alaskan Indians Report Sightings of Mastodons in Five Years
The Stickeen Indians claim to have seen mastodons in Alaska within the last five years. An hunter described tracks as large as a salt barrel, a tusked animal with a mouth big enough to swallow a man, and bones or teeth found near Forty-Mile creek support the possibility. The story notes other hunters’ sightings and a historical abundance of mastodon remains in the region.
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Juneau Free Press
Forty-Mile Creek
Dr King's New Discovery Promises Relief for Coughs
A vintage advertisement proclaims Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds costs nothing to try with a money back guarantee. It claims La Grippe sufferers found quick relief and invites trial bottles at J R Weston’s Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
la Grippe
J. R. Weston
Drag Aere
Remarkable miscellany from a bygone era
A collage of short notes covers diverse topics from a black diamond painted drill to a New Hampshire asylum population. Also mentioned are a San Francisco dentist in charge of Stanford dentistry, a Johnston county resident with seven daughters all married to men named John, a New York jeweler displaying a sacred elephant tusk, and a Fayette county hunter who killed a man mistaken for a wild turkey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hampshire Insane Asylum
Neary
Luella Coox
San Francisco
Stanford University
Joan W. Grantham
Johnston County
N. C
John
New York
United States
Interesting statistics from the late 19th century
The United States mined 20 million barrels of salt annually and had 12,690,152 families in 1890. Europe, America, and Asia combined had 81,210,000 spindles in 1886. Washington timber stood at 300 billion feet. Arizona produced 5 million in gold, 2.1 million in silver, and 24.5 million in copper. The Suez Canal reduced Europe to India distance from 11,579 to 7,625 miles. The New York World notes about 500,000 bicycles in use in the U.S. last summer, roughly one per 200 people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Europe
America
Asia
Washington
Arizona
Tum Suez Canal
India
New York World
Pearls and Proverbial Snippets in a Street Scene
A quirky collage of pithy maxims and humorous quips appears as a tossed page of sayings. References include Pearl handles and a roast pig, a Genlic proverb, and a Brook lyn Life joke about an artless daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Bernum
Brooklyn
Yonkers
Books and auctions highlight early modern literature
The article notes Dr N Senn's private medical library of about twenty thousand volumes as a premier collection in the country. It mentions the term preface as a welcome to a meal and priced first editions with Longfellow works fetching high sums. A Walton Complete Angler edition from 1655 and Cotton Complete Angler from 1676 sold for 1550 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotton
Grains Of Sand Reflections From A Ram's Horn Page
The fragment appears as a series of satirical maxims and religious quips. It criticizes hypocrisy in preaching and moral vanity, noting the devil’s indifference to church music and the folly of self deception.
Mysterious Welsh Ballad and Rare Violins Unearthed
A piece notes a Welsh song titled Crorstne the Bar and discusses about a thousand genuine Stradivarius violins remaining and around a hundred thousand claimed by owners. It mentions a violin used at George Washington's wedding now owned by Sunbury music society and a Windsor harpsichord once owned by Queen Victoria described as quaint and shabby with two keyboard sets.
Growth of Young People Societies Nationwide
The report notes 372 Christian Endeavor societies in England and 415 Free Baptist youth groups. In the United States Army three Christian Endeavor societies are active, while Vixwond adds a new state Baptist Young People's union. The Church of Scotland Young Men's Guild reports 21 621 members, up 711 from last year.
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Turn
England
Tur Free Baptists
Turner
Christian Endeavor
United States Army
Vixwond
Tur Young Men's Guild
Church of Scotland
Electric Bitters Claim Leading Pure Medicine Status
A Leader. Electric Bitters has rapidly gained favor since its introduction and is recognized as the best and purest medicine for stomach liver and kidney ailments. It cures sick headache indigestion and constipation and drives malaria from the system with guaranteed satisfaction.
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Fardingale
Francis L Maxy
Uncle Sam's
East
California
Chicago
Mississippi
Grovex Gates
Fayette County
James Dills
Ile
Gates
Greve
Anovr
Molange
W.E. Tierney & CO
General Merchandise
Baxter Sieves
Church Society
Pamptiet Cirealor
George Stinson & CO
Portland
ODELL
Writer CO
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Helena
VIA
Canyon Ferry
Diamond City
PT. Logan
LIN
Missouri River
Thomas Dixom
Propriaen
Towxersn
Morearey
Thomas Dizon
Howe
Idaho Stage Company
Rana
Castle
Neihart
District Court
Frank Henry
Park and Meagher
Park County
Meagher
Pr. King
Backlen
A. M. Darcy & CO
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