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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1892
Page
2
The notice lists advance advertising rates for the Friday morning issue, referencing a rate of 91.50 per inch for display space and indicating advance payment timelines. The fragment suggests scheduling ahead and preparing copy accordingly.
Readable text describes agates as quartz from Brazil and South America, shipped as ballast to Hamburg then Oberstein the world’s main agate market. At Idar river mills over 150 sites cut and polish with grindstones and steel wheels, using diamond powder, oil heating, and sulphuric acid for coloration.
A Ladies' Home Journal essay notes New York hosts an unprecedented class of millionaires with fortunes ranging from five to over one hundred million. It contrasts ostentatious displays of wealth with Thackeray style myths, highlighting the American worship of plutocracy and the social gaze beyond New York.
A grim account outlines the dangers faced by workers in limehouses and saltcake furnaces. Men endure inhaled lime dust and chlorine gas, wearing improvised masks, risking respiratory injury as they handle bleaching powder and packing duties under extreme heat.
A New York Commercial Advertiser reporter visiting an isolated barber shop is shaved by a peculiar barber who jokes about crime and uses a paint brush to apply lather. The barber claims he seeks practice and proceeds to threaten the victim, turning a good shave into a dangerous encounter.
The article discusses using Vaseline as a shaving lubricant and notes nurses sometimes supply materials. It cites a New York Weekly article and criticizes newspapers for endorsing the method claiming it as the sole solution, warning that it causes irritation and anger among men who try it.
Advertises Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with money back guarantee. Claims La Grippe sufferers found it effective and offers free trial bottles at J R Weston's Drug Store with large sizes 50c and 1.
The Newbery Magazine features curious bell inscriptions from Bentley New Hampshire to Coventry and Bakewell. Examples include amatory and morbid lines about wedlock, mortality, and duty, with specific bells named for their distinctive uses and dates such as 1638 at Hough on the Hill and church bells in Coventry, Sherborne, and Northampton.
A New York Tribune reader recalls a stamp gum pun remedy and details a Norfolk rat catcher’s open country vermin hunt. The article describes a veteran rat catcher, his ferrets, dogs, and a sequence of rat killings along dykes and hedges, noting totals of 243 rats at one farm and many more elsewhere.
A Washington Post writer recalls a dinner party where a charming damsel fell silent over the fish. A cork leg caused missteps as he tried to amuse her, leading to foot squeezing and an awkward apology followed by giggles and a choking incident.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds claiming millions are helped. It guarantees cure or money back and offers trial bottles free at J Weston s Drug Store with large bottles priced at 30 cents and 1.00.
The excerpt summarizes a French analyst critiquing Pari charity systems, claiming most funds go to professional beggars and urging reform to aid the deserving poor. It also notes a traveler’s report on white ants altering Australian landscapes and the unusual red hues of gold from different sources, pondering metallurgical mysteries.
If you are not feeling strong and healthy try Electric Bitters This remedy acts on liver stomach and kidneys to aid their functions For headach relief from Electric Bitters One trial will convince you Large bottles only 50 cents at J BR Weston’s Drugstore
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