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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1899
Page
7
A fragmented newspaper snippet contrasts a Yankee taunt with a Filipino reply about jungle travel and theater plans in Malolos. It includes an ad line for Piso’s Cure and a testimonial about Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and a quip about mind readers and sympathy.
A reader from Pearl Louisiana reports severe hysterical fits and claims five bottles of Vegetable Compound cured her attacks. She says it has been a year since an episode and urges sufferers to try the medicine.
A jumble of brief items and quotations from a historical newspaper page. It mentions a Detroit Journal observation on love and doubt at an altar, a steam motor car trial at sixty mph, a touted stomach bitters, a humorous “Old Maid” bench note from Hall County, an Allen's Foot-Ease ad, and a remark about fair hair becoming less common among Hebrews and Irish.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally at a price of 75 cents. The advertisement promotes internal use and lists cost as a selling point.
English Bank Notes describes notes printed on new white linen cuttings and not worn material. It explains the paper preparation records each worker’s pulp dips on a dial by machinery. It also notes Helvetius and harsh counsels have no effect, likening them to hammers repulsed by the anvil.
An old New Orleans lawyer recalls Simmondson the feared Louisville court bully who taunted nervous witnesses. A country farmer hurled an inkstand at him, knocking the attorney senseless, ending the bullying practice and leading to his later gentler conduct and eventual death in California. The piece also presents a sermon on true good and a note on railroad revenue per mile improvements and forecasts for the Baltimore & Ohio line.
Chicago Record notes that a Belton Texas hotel on the Santa Fe road is run by seven divorced women, called sanctified sisters, who operate on a cooperative model with no male staff. The place attracts drummers and Santa Fe travelers, and has expanded to a laundry and other ventures, with plans for further hotels. Also mentions Samuel Hamaker of Manheim Pa who has not cut his beard since Blaine’s 1884 defeat.
The Rio Grande Western Railway advertises via lines for Omaha Kansas City St Louis Chicago Buffalo Detroit Richmond Indianapolis with round trips on specific June July dates. It promises two fast through trains daily Pullman sleeping cars dining car service reclining chairs and scenic rides. It ends with a moral quote on indifference.
Special round trip fares listed for travel from Utah via the Santa Fe Route with departures on June 6 and 7 to Kansas City St. Joe Enenworth or Atchison Chicago St. Louis Buffalo Detroit Richmond and more. Contact C. F. Warren A T S F general agent 411 Dooly block Salt Lake City for details. History may not repeat itself but gossip never fails to.
Colorado offers vast irrigation and farmland with 2 000 000 acres productive, while minerals attract attention. At the world fair 81 of 871 Colorado exhibits won premiums, including 25 for wheat the most for any state. The fruit industry now worth 4 000 000 yearly and sugar beet culture grows. A pamphlet The Fertile Lands of Colorado details lands and locations from Denver Rio Grande Railway.
The Rio Grande Western Railway introduced dining cars on all through trains from June 1. No. 2 departs Ogden at 7 30 a m and Salt Lake City at 8 30 a m. No. 4 leaves Ogden at 6 35 p m and Salt Lake City at 7 40 p m. West bound trains will also carry diners with a la carte options and seasonal Utah market offerings.
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