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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1900
Page
3
A fragmentary verse piece titled FOR WOMEN AND HOME explores attire like a Fine Wool Suiting and a Corn Silk Chiffon Party Frock, and centers on a narrator’s anguished memories of a beloved woman. The poem mingles roses, purity imagery, and repeated pleas to God as memory and heartbreak recur. It cites a figure J. C. W. and evokes ballroom imagery and gendered perception of romance.
A domestic column argues for harmony in marriage, advising wives to avoid irritability and to cultivate agreeable speech. It reflects on jealous or lazy husbands and suggests practical habits, including simple nightly meals, to improve health and happiness. The piece quotes a Detroit Free Press writer and ends with sewing tips about removing a ring with a thread technique.
The article argues against fasting before sleep, noting humans and animals eat before resting. It asserts continuous nourishment supports vitality, reduces emaciation and sleeplessness, and that digestion continues during sleep, so nighttime eating improves weight and vigor. It cites Woman's Life as a source.
A downtown jeweler shares a painless method to remove a tight ring without surgery. Thread a flat needle with strong thread, lubricate, pass under the ring, then wind the thread tightly around the finger to loosen the band.
Step by step instructions for preserving peaches in syrup with proper canning technique. Includes washing peeling pitting halving packing fruit in cans, making sugar syrup, processing in a water bath, checking for tight seals, and storing in a cool place. Also covers mango stuffing with onion horseradish and pickling jars of cucumbers with vinegar, and heating canned peas before serving with butter and seasonings.
The Penn State Agricultural Experiment Station compares wheat varieties with Tulips, Royal Red Clawson, and others showing yields. The study notes average yields, straw weight, and winter kill impact, plus observations on corn smut and its control. The piece includes a U.S. Consul report on meat imports and inspections in Edinburgh.
The 1897 Scottish public health act grants local sanitary officers wide authority over slaughterhouses and allows inspectors to enter districts search vehicles and examine any food article. If deemed unfit for consumption the officer may remove it for judicial action, with the justice condemning and ordering destruction and imposing penalties. The Edinburgh department of sanitary and market inspection was formed in May 1898 under that act.
This column chronicles the locust saw-fly Nematus similaris with life stages from larva to parasitoid, its Washington D C stage in late summer, and potential two to three broods. It warns sheep farmers to dip to cure scab, or quit, and cites annual manure values and the meager August clover crop with notes on humus use to retain soil moisture.
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