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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1893
Page
2
The Townsend Messenger lists advertising rates at $1.50 per inch per month and announces publication every Friday morning. It notes the paper is entered at the Townsend Post Office as second class matter with J.C. Kinley as editor and proprietor.
A historical sketch notes European aristocrats and customs. Henry II wears green boots with red straps. William’s ambassadors are to be generals. Greek king walks Athens alone and attends St Paul’s Church. The Duke of Westminster’s youth earns him the nickname Jack Sheppard. Duke Ernest Gunther of Schleswig-Holstein seeks Princess Victoria’s hand but is rebuffed due to her age.
Historical vignette lists notable figures and quirky claims, mentioning Octave Thane and AYtal Stevenson in mirrored wit. It notes arctic explorer Nanxsex at thirty-one with Scandinavian features. Also reports a Plymouth rock piloted by a woman and outlines land purchases by a syndicate across 125000 acres east of Quebec along the St Lawrence with another 260009 acres sought.
A miscellany reports Iirxpoostan being about twenty five times the size of New York state. Spain’s 17 125 000 population yields 12 000 000 literate souls. A Berlin man breeds rats for vivisection. Alsace Lorraine French patriots fined twenty marks. English pumping engines lift 120 000 000 gallons with 100 pounds of coal. St Helena’s revenue down 75000, immigration down, emigration up. Germany passes a poison guard law requiring round internal bottles and hexagonal external bottles.
The piece blends whimsical weather phrases with short dispatches and ads. It notes radio style items like Jay Gould Ned at 9 15 this morning and cites clergymen sermon circulars from Armeacnen in Philadelphia. It also mentions Mr R W Davey of London and his New York visit hosted by Mr Vanderbilt.
The article notes 24 744 railroa d workers live in Kansas and mentions a planned railway tunnel under East and North rivers into New York City. It lists Union Pacific with fifteen long and many short tunnels totaling about 6000 feet and a hypothetical nationwide train of all locomotives and cars would weigh over seven thousand. It closes with an old saying about never demanding an oath.
A collection of miscued notes reports diverse items: a San Francisco dentist Dr Luella Coot in charge of Stanford dentistry and a North Carolina resident Joan W Grantham with seven daughters, six married to men named John. A New York jeweler showcases a sacred elephant tusk. Fayette County hunter Gravat Gates mimicked a turkey call, prompting fatal misfire by James Dills.
The text cites U S salt production of 20 million barrels annually and 12 690 152 US households in 1890. It notes 81 210 000 spindles in operation in 1886 across Europe America and Asia and 300 billion feet of standing timber in Washington. Arizona mining yields include 3 million gold 2.1 million silver and 4.5 million copper. The Suez Canal at 88 miles halves travel, and New York World says 300 000 bicycles were in use last summer.
A collage of wry phrases and satirical snippets from various sources. Quotations touch on advertising value of newspapers, old proverbs, and humorous lines about manners and romance, including Barnum like aphorisms and Brooklyn Life style twists.
The article notes Dr N Senn houses the country’s largest private medical library with about twenty thousand volumes. It also mentions historical book prices including a London first edition of Hyperion at fifty dollars and high values for Walton and Cotton Complete Angler editions sold recently.
A Ram's Horn excerpt urges caution with truth and repentance and critiques church music and social behavior. It lampoons sermons that fail to stir remorse and notes a peculiar line about pushing clouds from others windows on dark days.
A Welsh song start “Creserve the Bar” opens a note on violin rarity noting about one thousand genuine Stradivarius violins exist and owners claim many more. The wedding violin now belongs to Sunbury Pennsylvania’s musical society and Windsor Castle houses Mozart’s harpsichord, described as quaint and shabby with a double keyboard.
Turare indicate 372 Christian Endeavor societies in England and 415 Free Baptists youth groups. Three Christian Endeavor clubs exist in the U S Army. Vermont joins a state Baptist Young People's union and the Church of Scotland's Young Men guild reaches 21 621 members, up 711.
It Should Be in Every house and home promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. J B Wilson of Sharpsburg Pa says it saved his wife from pneumonia after la grippe. Robert Barber of Cooksport Pa reports great lung trouble relief. Free trials at J R Weston Drug Store. Large bottles 50c and 1.00. Patronize local industry.
Swiss governance relies on three official languages German French and Italian yet translation gaps cause legal conflicts. German speakers accuse French speakers of marginalizing German while election ballots in Geneva faced invalidation for nonstandard votes.
A Spokane Review report details a special Chicago World Fair train carrying ten enormous logs used for flagpoles. The logs, each seven flat cars long, ride on three sections of fourteen cars, with end cars supporting via pivoted blocks to handle curves while empty cars trail and guide the load.
A committee led by Mrs. Clara Doty Bates plans a children’s library at the World’s Fair in the children’s building. The aim is a representative collection from many nations to guide parents and educate youth while showcasing publishers’ works.
A Jewellers' Circular traveler describes river diamond diggers near Hebron on the Vaal. Diggers lease claims and work with native labor, forming a mixed, poor yet resilient workforce. Diamonds are scarce but high-quality and pricey when found. Many live on credit with meager meals, and luck varies across decades. A 700–800 pound stone and a pair of brothers with over four thousand pounds in stones are noted.
Prof Richard T Ely in the Chautauquan notes the absence of modern banking in 1760 and muses on how three banks served a fragile economy. He warns that a bank collapse today would cause widespread suffering, deprivation, and calamity across vast populations.
Germany to build a separate pavilion on the fair grounds with a central German interests office led by Commissioner Wermeth. The German Village of the Middle Ages will be shown on the Midway, highlighting peasant life and present day household industries under Deutsche Bank of Berlin.
Flights of homing pigeons will run daily from the exposition grounds next year between June 15 and September 1. The livestock department directs the contests with signal corps officers aiding. Aluminum tags will adorn each bird and prizes include fifty dollar awards and medals for fastest flights to major cities plus special medals for reaching Washington in 74 hours, Philadelphia in 75, New York in 78, and Boston in 85 hours.
This advertisement urges two trial bottles at no cost and claims the remedy eases coughs colds throat chest and lung trouble. It guarantees relief or money returned and notes la grippe sufferers recovered quickly with a sample bottle offered at J R Weston's Drug Store.
The product is described as a leading pure medicine for stomach liver and kidney ailments. It claims to cure sick headache indigestion and constipation while driving malaria from the system with guaranteed satisfaction on each bottle.
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