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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1893
Page
2
Towns end newspaper issue details advertising rates and publication facts. The Townsend Messenger is printed every Friday morning with J C Kerney as editor and proprietor. The text notes advance month references and confirms post office entry as second class matter.
Dr. Tuckerman of the Workman summarizes six court rulings on magazine and newspaper subscriptions in the United States. Key points cover renewal by default, continuation of service until payment, liability for uncollected papers, effects of moving without notice, prima facie fraud for uncalled for papers, and notice requirements for prepaid subscribers.
Opinion pieces argue extending full mint weight in silver to silver holders, condemning demonetization and free coinage as causing market disparity. The text cites historical free coinage, world silver value estimates, and claims inflation or contraction depending on policy.
The London Standard notes a Royal Institution demonstration where air is liquefied and kept as a stable liquid. It highlights the advancement beyond gaseous oxygen to a liquid that persists in a bulb in a heated room, crediting Prof. Dewar and the Goldsmiths' Company for expanding the boundaries of practical science.
A recent scientific curiosity shows a beam of light can produce sound when directed through a prism to create a rainbow. A disk with slits moves in the light, and placing ears to a glass vessel with silk or worse shows sounds vary by spectrum color. green light yields strong sounds for red materials, while red and blue may produce quieter or no sound.
A tale contrasts a rich sick lady and her nephew physician who leverages a promised will to gain a fortune, then erases it and benefits again from her illness. It also cites Emperor Qianlong’s contract with four paid doctors: salary while healthy, but salary stops when he falls ill. The remark criticizes European medical practice.
The piece traces how filibuster freebooter and buccaneer are linked. It explains their origins in French and English usage among sea adventurers who attacked Spanish settlements in the New World. It notes shifts in meaning from hunter of boucan to raider who supplied ships.
J B Wilson of Sharpsburg Pa says Dr King’s New Discovery cured his wife from pneumonia after La Grippe and failed remedies. A Corksport barber reports more relief from lung trouble using it. Free trial battles at Westons Drag store with large price $1.
A New York Times report details the gifts sent to President Cleveland since last November. Items range from a Michigan deer to a loud rooster, live raccoons, and canes including Jefferson heirlooms. Many presents aim to please voters and supporters, while others reflect curiosity or personal sentiment, with Cleveland declining items that would create obligations.
A collection of home cooking tips and recipes from periodicals includes oat meal muffins, fish sauce with mushrooms or oysters, pulllep taffy candy, and sour apples baked with minimal liquid. Each item offers simple ratios and tested methods for cottage kitchen use.
A collage of brief humorous exchanges from Tid Bits and Punch style snippets. Quips include a street encounter about debts, a boy defending a good boy, a cautionary horse tale, and a clash of philosophical labels between individualist and collectivist.
Queen Victonta will send copies of all her written books for display in Chicago. The works are considered genuine curiosities in England. Princess Marcanet of Prussia received a 50 000 pound diamond tiara from the queen of Italy as a wedding gift. Turcrarina of Russia employs many seamstresses but makes dresses for younger children herself. Queen Victoria Princess Christian and Princess Beatrice will supply at least one original literary work for the world’s fair. The queen’s contributions will include Leaves and More Leaves from her Highlands diary.
The article advises proper table manners including placing trash in the saucer not the cup, using a napkin as a bib for children, defering to elders, and avoiding loud eating or drinking. It emphasizes eating slowly and finishing food or leaving it untouched without remark.
The fragment cites figures such as America valued at 47 475 000 000 and 355 Massachusetts towns with no resident physician. It lists US males at 32 067 880 and females at 30 554 380, 3000 languages spoken globally, and 200 Bible translations spoken by about two thirds of humanity.
A newspaper brief reports the Pennsylvania legislature crime limit on killing birds only in flight. It also notes New Zealand has created two island reservations to protect wild birds and animals. Details mention wild duck speed and trout limits by method.
Two to try. It will cost you nothing and will surely do you good if you have a Cough Cold or any trouble with Throat Chest or Lungs. Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to give relief or money will be paid back. Trial bottles free at J R Weston's Drug Store Large 50c and $1.
A description proclaims Electric Bitters as the leading pure medicine among tonics and alteratives. It claims to aid stomach, liver, and kidney ailments and to cure sick headache indigestion constipation while driving malaria from the system, with satisfaction guaranteed with each bottle.
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