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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1895
Page
7
Six friends in Louisville two years ago vow not to marry until all are paired. A year later one couple becomes engaged, then another six months later. The third pair hesitates but pressure from the others ends in three weddings performed by a justice of the peace arranged as a horseshoe.
Thomas D. P. Bullinger of Govans owns a historic mechanism crafted by a Nürn berg clockmaker after years of labor. When the hour tolls, two German airs play in sequence. twelve five inch figures dance in couples on a platform above the dial. Musicians behind them play cornet drum and clarinet as a clown claps and figures bow. The clock plays twenty four German tunes.
A sharp critique notes the need for a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals in New York City. It argues that despite horses' service and endurance, they face mistreatment, prompting laws to protect dumb animals from human inhumanity.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a refined laxative for stomach and bowel regulation. It claims quick perception and judgment lead to using superior products, promotes a free sample, and lists remedies for biliousness indigestion and related symptoms with small sugar coated granules sold at 663 Main Street Buffalo.
William L. Douglas of the W L Douglas Shoe Co introduces a free medical attendance card for every employee at the Montelo factory. He believes employer care reduces class barriers and notes Brockton's arbitration stance as proof of harmony between management and workers.
An Irish laborer on a New York Madison Avenue streetcar sparks a quarrel over lighting a cigar In the exchange a silk umbrella is set alight and the incident ends with a boastful remark about queer men and accidents amid the crowded platform
The December Century issue presents Old Maryland homes with illustrations and an essay on plantation Christmas customs. It contrasts genteel Christmas at Audley manor with quarter life, describing hog killings, corn dances, juba and ring shouts, and gifts to enslaved people amid family gatherings and overseer tensions.
An advertisement claims deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It attributes deafness to inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube and catarrh, promising one hundred dollars for any deafness case from catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, Toledo, Ohio.
Florist R H Allen of 34 Church Street suffers a rare condition where the esophagus remains closed and cannot pass food. After a pear binge in youth he learned to force meals by drinking fast to push food into the stomach, a feat doctors deem inexplicable and curable only by willpower.
A traveler recalls seeing many pictures attributed to Rubens and discusses the prevalence of spurious works. The quote from Pliegende Blatter frames the issue as a common topic in art circles.
A fragmentary 19th century snapshot blends travel inquiry mentioning A S Pielding Lincoln and North Western Line with offhand ads for Piso's Remedy Haines magic corn salve and Mam Wixslow teething syrup. The tone mirrors a local paper page filled with brief notices and jokes.
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