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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1893
Page
3
The Townsend Messenger prints a weekly town notice noting warm early January weather with temperatures from 30 to 50 degrees above zero and sunny days as the year begins. Advertising rates are listed at $1.50 per inch per month with weekly publication by J. Keeney, baker and proprietor.
A New York florist offers flowers by telegraph to all parts of the world. Orders are transmitted to local correspondents abroad, with customers paying the telegraph cost. An Europe shipboard delivery near Gibraltar astonished passengers when roses were sent ashore to Miss Evans, drawing curious attention and speculation about romance.
Science Monthly outlines six perfume extraction methods including expression with a press for citrus rinds, simple distillation from flowers with water, and solvent methods using volatile liquids. It notes enfleurage for delicate petals, maceration in fats or oils, and a vacuum recovery approach with high accuracy of scent yields.
In early Illinois a guest staying overnight in a two story log cabin causes the resident hounds to flee after a loud sneeze. The hostess reveals she punishes the dogs for sneezing so each dog suspects the other as the culprit and bolts from the room.
A quirky list appears in Oxford’s old records with names such as John Bellweather Alan Swet-in-bedde Alicia Thorndodger Hugh Halfwaterclerk and Dr. Sleep. The entries include colorful monikers like Osbert Diabolus River Jordan Peter le Goose and Savage Beare, reflecting playful or symbolic naming practices of the era.
A Paris journal in Siam notes that European ladies visiting native officials provoke social tensions. The piece sketches a sharp exchange between a European hostess and a Siamese wife asserting plural marriages, multiple children, and a planned betrothal price, ending with the editor deeming the dialogue undignified.
In early Dublin, two rival rope dancers Perote and Signor Sarfuico faced off in a ceremonial dancing duel. A quarrel over a misstep led to a drawn rapier contest on the rope, ending when Perote toppled Sarfuico with a back stroke. Spectators rescued them with ladders and feather beds. Sarfuico vanished thereafter.
A historical report describes bamboo reeds containing a slow acting poison. Threads near knots can be ingested with water or food, causing throat obstruction and lung inflammation leading to death. Symptoms include loss of appetite thirst cough weight loss and visible distress before fatality.
A wife shares a playful method to stretch outfit time without quarrel. She answers, “Just as soon as you,” then hides his hat or gloves as he searches. This delays dressing while he mutters about woman carelessness, avoiding lectures.
J B Wilson of Sharpsburg Pa says the remedy cured his wife after a severe flu threat and failed remedies. Robert Barber of Cookport Pa claims it did more good for a long throat issue than anything he used. Free trial bottles available at J R Weeton's Drug Store.
An 1890 voyage of the US steamship Tuscarora yielded depths between 4 055 and 4 642 fathoms off Japan and near the Aleutians, surpassing prior ocean bottom records. Editor of Petermann’sGeographical Magazine dubbed the basin Tuscarora Deep in honor of the expedition.
The article explains the annual sun crossing point moving west about fifty seconds of a degree due to the tilt of Earths axis and planetary gravitation. It notes the term recession replacing procession and predicts seasons would shift earlier each year, possibly reversing in about eleven thousand years if the sun crosses the equator in midwinter.
The Inland Ocean comments on widows of various backgrounds displaying triumph in death or society. It contrasts East Indian and European widow rituals and notes educated Japanese girls adopting foreign manners, with journals lamenting declines in traditional behavior.
An advertising slogan promotes Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a money back guarantee. La Grippe sufferers are claimed to recover quickly and samples are offered free at J. R. Weston’s Drug Store with trial bottles and a large size bottle priced at 5 cents.
A Kansas City Times reporter recalls Bill Stone in Nevada as a young attorney facing a horse theft case with no counsel. Stone persuades the court after an eloquent defense, reducing a fifteen year sentence to five years. Stone’s long political path begins with this win.
A traveler recounts a dramatic eastward tour with magicians. A large man launches ribbons from which a hawk emerges and retrieves ends, a cloud drops a snake and a native baby, then the giant vanishes under an umbrella. Later the umbrella hides him on the porch and reveals the watch chain.
A humorous note recalls a widower bungling a church ceremony with misheard lines and a groom claiming prior marriage. A Chicago-area factory turns waste animal blood into everyday goods like combs and bracelets, shipping vast volumes worldwide. Robins in autumn are described as fatty and focused on berries rather than love.
Since its first introduction Electric Bitters has gained rapid popularity and now leads as a pure medicinal tonic. It is recognized as the best medicine for stomach liver and kidney ailments and will cure sick headache indigestion constipation and malaria from the system. A money back guarantee is stated with each bottle. Price only 10e.
Judge Frank Henry of the Sixth Judicial District fixes court terms for Park and Meagher counties. In Park County sessions begin January and April with Mondays following the 24th. April and June and November terms occur on Mondays near those dates. In Meagher County terms occur on the fourth Monday of April the first Monday of September and the fourth Monday of November.
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