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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1892
Page
2
The Townsend Messenger lists advertising rates at $1.50 per month in a Friday morning issue. The paper provides information on subscriptions and mentions the publication's editor and proprietor J. Kenzer.
A collection of breakfast batter formulas including meat pancakes with Indian meat mush and bolted flour, Aruixeton Wheat Meat Gems using Arlington meat, Rice Gripple Cukres from cold rice and sour milk, and Corn Warrant GroS a hot pan batter for bread.
Tar hymn Coronation by Oliver Holden was written in Charleston Massachusetts nearly a century ago. Amelia B Edwards cites success as singleness and sincerity in writing. M Reno about sixty eight works on Fairy Tales. I W S Cleveland cites an autograph letter from Benjamin Franklin to a Boston postmaster. Jessica Guarr Trier daughter of Moses Coit Tyler enters letters translating Dr Flugel work on moral religious development. Poe cottage at Fordham bought by Clyde Bryson to preserve Poe memory and Raven heritage.
Readable comic vignettes describe warm equatorial heat with ice chests for hens, a couple wed on a sunlit summit, a child choosing punishment methods, and a French turf enthusiast mispronouncing horse feed terms in a playful anecdote brief.
A 25 000 000 franc battleship the Brennus is launched after two and a half years of construction. The vessel carries three heavy guns of fifty eight tons each. In Michigan a diver plans to recover a pewabic treasure from Lake Huron’s Pewabic wreck, down 106 feet.
A miscellaneous column surveys world population deaths and transport fuel use on Atlantic steamers. It recalls Luzon Indian refuges in Georgian Bay after Iroquois conquest in 1649 and notes Columbia River relics at Umatilla. It mentions Washington vaults and $90 million in stored silver recently.
The observer recounts Horace Greeley’s dread of the camera and his candid request Fire away while being photographed. A single classic portrait of Greeley, with Whitelaw Reid and Sam Sinclair glimpsed in a group shot, is noted as likely lost. The sitter’s letter acknowledgment is described, though authorship remains uncertain.
The Illustrated American mocks the Duchess of Teck as penniless yet lavish, noting jewels and a costly lifestyle that defies debt. It suggests English aristocrats sustain opulent appearances while tradespeople fund prestige.
A Portland tale describes a house on a south of Base Line road where a man forbids women on the premises under a will condition. The piece also notes aluminum mugs as a beer alternative and includes fringe notes on palmistry and a Toledo ad for Electric Bitters as a health remedy.
The writer describes Viennese leisure in gardens with light refreshments and white wine mixed with mineral water. He notes a practice of buying bread and cheese with drinks and comments on alcohol use, proposing non intoxicating beverages to curb drunkenness. He cites French and Austrian regions as examples of milder drinking cultures.
A Lewiston officer describes dangerous Prohibition dodges in local liquor dens. He recalls a trapdoor cellar switch and concealed spring locks that trap officers until they escape, with crews pouring liquor away to destroy evidence. He warns wrecking is costly and risky, and nerves run high in raids.
An anecdote from Ashland Boulevard shows a man introducing his sister with humor over a long friendship. A medical note warns of a chlorate of potassium accident from pocket tablets. A Sherman Michigan wedding prank ends with a pocketbook payoff. Dr King's New Discovery praised for coughs and colds with trial bottles offered.
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