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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1892
Page
2
Fragments show advertising text for Townsend town offices and public notices. Mentions Friday morning publication schedule and office details for Kuwupy Bufor and Proprietor. Contains garbled spellings but identifies a local newspaper and weekly distribution.
Elias Shaw of Racket Creek found his pet fawn Fannie with Teaser the dog by his side. Teaser killed the fawn to prevent her leaving, leading him to guide Shaw to the dead animal in a ravine. The incident ends with Teaser mournfully loyal yet deadly.
A Paris letter to the Boston Transcript recalls a truffle hunt in the Dordogne south of Paris. The pig digs the treasure while the master guards against swallowing, rewarding the creature with maize and occasionally quick blows to its nose for stealing a truffle.
A writer notes how sudden beauty can alter a girl's behavior and charm. He describes hair, eyes, teeth, and mannerisms as a woman discovers herself attractive, then jokes about the comic excesses and awkward changes in public settings.
The John Brown shaft at Ousawatomie stands under ten feet high where Senator Ingalls spoke. It has become a target for vandalism and relic hunters, with carvings and pencil scribbles marring the monument amid neglect and decay.
A quirky note set reports a serpentine creature with a dog's face 15 to 20 feet long seen in water. It also relays a week of rain on I Klein’s Rossville orchard, a 2000 barrel mackerel haul near Grand Manan, and a 100 pound devil fish at Isle au Taout. Plus a dinner chase by a rat and a two day deer wandering by Rev Wuurraker.
The world faces a rye shortfall of 560000 tons while Canadian wheat export potential reaches 35000000 bushels from a 62000000 bushel crop. In Australia Mildura poppy yields suggest high value per acre, and Cuba reports a sugar boom with 800000 tons likely this year. NSW wheat production stands at 3649216 bushels with per capita consumption shortfall.
A scientist's happy hour entry lists quirky ideas including preserving watermelons with varnish for winter use, Greenland ice depths, revised moon distance, grass as dental filling, Greeks' small heads, Virchow on intellect, and artificial silk with reduced strength. All drawn from Scientific American.
Missouri farmer Coxontss MaN Haten described as a renowned sportsman and lively after dinner speaker. Blaise secretary shifts speech invitations to his wife's health. Dayton Ohio’s Evonne Wreener noted as a popular man who runs a street railway offering half fare to workers. Idaho Senator F T Dubois once sought a $1200 Washington clerkship amid a $5000 salary. William Florence, at eighteen, first appeared on stage in 1849 as Tobias in The Stranger at Richmond’s Marshall theater.
Mopriska holds a California ranch with profits from grapes and cattle. Browne notes many men die young, while Tim Bishop of Chichester remains active at eighty six. Kate Filip cites American women spending sixty two thousand dollars yearly on cosmetics. A medical aside warns about swallowing food whole to aid breathing.
If you feel weak from la grippe or general illness Electric Bitters is recommended as a liver stomach and kidney tonic. It promises speedy relief for sick headaches and claims one trial will prove its value with large bottles priced at 60 cents at J. R. Westen's Drugstore.
A returning party reports a newly formed volcanic island near the gulf’s center following last summer’s quake. The cone sits above water with a crust that breaks underfoot, steam vents at the opening, and rapid growth observed as soundings reveal shallow depths around the site.
The Champagne vintage harvests in late October and early November cover about fifteen thousand hectares. Estimated yield equals 25 million dollars with 11.9 million gallons produced annually. Most grapes are black. color comes from pressing. Champagne blends crops rather than keeping varietal identity. Major markets are England, the United States, Germany, Russia, and Belgium.
Reports to the United States Fish Commission show yearling rainbow trout planted in Missouri and Arkansas streams now average fourteen inches. The hardy game fish, native to the Pacific slope, has inspired growing demand at breeding stations in Wytheville and Neosho. A mix of unrelated notes on historical figures and a Dublin coast fish add color, followed by a local ad for Dr King's New Discovery with trial bottle offer.
A collage notes England land values a shilling per acre in past centuries, beer consumption in England and Ireland surpassing Germany by 42 million gallons, ancient Egyptian coffee rationing, Palermo skeleton finds, French artificial butter from cattle fat, and gold watch thefts during maneuvers in Vitry le Francois with 500000 francs stolen and 100 purses later recovered in Rheims.
A compact explainers of state name origins myth versus fact. Vermont from Verde Mont meaning Green Mountain. Massachusetts from an Indian term meaning Country About the Great Hills. Connecticut from Mohegan Queneh-ta-but meaning long river. New Hampshire from Hampshire England. Rhode Island from Rhodes. New Jersey for Sir George Carteret. New York for the Duke of York. Maine from Maine, France, honoring Queen Henrietta.
Conxru1a Sonanst a Hindoo girl studies at Oxford England. A canrattacking party is the latest Missouri invention for evening festivi tica. Tur glassmakers of Thebes centuries ago stained glass and produced the commodity in profusion. A future cargo ship will be a five masted vessel with auxiliary steam and 6000 tons. Tim Uricklayers union Germany has 250 local unions about 20000 members and 97000 in treasury. Dees pay 2 cents monthly and weekly benefit is 4.59 dollars. Loopwounns derive their name from the power to sceuting the brood of a wounded animal guiding them to trail quarry.
A mix of stray notes describes an English surgical college, an Oklahoma woman challenging a claim, a six ton Honolulu cocoanut tree bound for shipment in San Francisco, a surreal signboard about liniment, and tax comments on local street activity in Atchison Kansas with half the women reportedly kept in schools by the murps.
A report highlights women in roles across early 20th century society. It notes Mrs Ormerod as a tar consulting entomologist with the Loyal British agricultural society, women as type distributors on New York dailies, and female workers in Michigan canning firms. It mentions women serving as poor law guardians in England and the growing number elected yearly, plus the expansion of women physicians and students in India funded by Lady Dufferin’s charity.
The piece notes the king of Greece speaks twelve languages and the German emperor receives six hundred letters daily. It mentions Francis Sancey, a sixty four year old Parisian journalist who eats one meal a day. Dowervreo Nocona, an eighty three year old former brigand freed in Italy after sixty years in prison. Mrs Langtry loses grace when she writes and is awkward with the pen.
Try a sample bottle at our expense and learn of yourself how good a thing it is for coughs colds and throat chest lung problems. Sufferers from La Grippe found it helpful and recovered quickly. Trial bottles free at J R Weston’s Drug Store large size and one dollar.
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