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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1895
Page
2
Towns end Messenger quotes a broad mix of topics from international yacht races to prison populations in Missouri and Suez canal traffic. It reviews a New York war dispatch, Turkish flint glass workers funding a cooperative factory, and fruit farming lessons from English farmers led by Mr. Gladstone.
Navy Lieutenant Harr claims a torpedo device can turn through water at twelve knots, attack distant ships, and return to its start. The claim suggests forts would lose value, while the rest of the text warns against unreliable dealers and get-rich-quick schemes selling cheap spurious ornaments.
French canal officials begin using storage batteries to propel boats at two and a half miles per hour via current from feed water levels. New York discusses canal boat trolleys once Niagara Falls motors start.
A 12 year old Freddie Grifith lies in Montclair N J with 2000 grafts of skin from others. Doctors plan 3000 more to restore epidermis and air exposure. The piece ponders a moral question about grafts and the afterlife with a biblical analogy.
The report notes a French physician presenting his revived life technique at the Paris Academy of Science after electric shocks. He points out a lack of willingness among proponents to endure the shock themselves, highlighting a perceived gap between scientific enthusiasm and altruism.
Special correspondent reports near Sassoun and Dalvorig describe Turkish forces killing and torturing Armenians in several villages. Victims include priests, families, and two professors. many houses burned, villages devastated, and captives imprisoned. Reprisals, pardons, and executions follow inquiries at Angora and international diplomacy.
The dispatch details Turks killing Armenian villagers at Dalvorig and Semal, burning Kellehussen, desecrating a priest, abducting girls, and mass violence. It notes Armenian retaliation, Turkish vows of vengeance, and reports from Dr. Thoumaian on life under siege near Erzeroum with churchburnings and pastor’s widow. It recalls 1893 unrest in Arania and Evangelical College tensions.
The article surveys evolving stationery trends with bluet violet sheets and silver monograms, Brownie paper for girls, and new colors such as gray Highland heather and mauve. It also advises white vellum for formality and two sizes of note sheets for informal notes. Mourning stationery grows subtler with narrower black borders. It then reports on Atlanta Street Railway convention figures about mail express and freight services, rates, and contracts. Independent mail trolley cars and legal limits on freight transport on tracks are discussed with a call for remedial legislation.
Mary Ansell Barrie, young wife of author J M Barrie, is described as gentle and attractive. A former London actress, she leads a quiet life in the home of a matron friend and possesses talents in dressmaking millinery music painting riding swimming and lace collection.
A wealthy farmer defends his choice of country academy for his son. A friend urges a big college for a “liberal education.” The farmer bristles at the idea, insisting twenty five dollars a month covers schooling and living costs.
A brief dialogue unfolds with a sharp exchange where one speaker questions a compliment's sincerity. The other rejects any notion of presenting a magazine poem and clarifies the intention remains plain.
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