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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1898
Page
4
The New York Sun recounts a stubborn Pennsylvania coal strike halted by rats. Massive rodents fed on mule feed and milk, terrorizing miners and shanties, deterring workers until relief efforts were consumed and manpower returned to work on compromised terms.
An old lady asks a physician why some children lack speech. The doctor replies with a literal explanation about an absence of the faculty of speech at birth, prompting humor as the woman reflects on education and conversation.
A Cincinnati Enquirer quote recalls a Western town's founding when the first mayor won by a single vote amid five votes cast, prompting a wary joke from a newcomer about the close shave and tally.
A Detroit Free Press snippet notes Mrs Grindly does much fancy work though the line suggests she often provokes her husband when idle. The brief item reflects domestic stereotype and social tone of the period.
A first person Arctic note describes extreme hunger during a snowshoe trek with Matt and Henson See a close approach to a musk ox herd as the writer recalls the primal drive for meat and the shift in sympathy toward wolves amid frozen, lean conditions.
Lieutenant Peary recalls firing at a charging herd, killing a bull and several cows as the herd collapses. The pair wrestle to escape the advancing cattle, realizing they could be crushed if the avalanche of beasts gains momentum. The scene conveys danger and urgency amid the stampede.
The descent to a tomb involves twenty or more worn slippery steps beneath a mosque built by Moslems over Lazarus burial. Christians are forbidden entry into the mosque so the sixteenth century stair leads to a square antechamber and the tomb room cut in rock. The tomb holds three or four bodies and may be the historic tomb of Sacred Writ with mixed medieval records and contested identity.
A Philadelphia Press report describes wolf dogs ranging from 21g to 3 feet tall with gray coats and black hairs. They attack cattle and horses not for food but bite symptoms mimic strychnine poisoning. Benjamin Brown of Nutriose, Arizona, hunts them, noting they rarely threaten humans but defend themselves. A calf bitten by such a dog died two days later after the mother licked the wound.
The text argues that vegetarianism is a fighting diet and claims ninety nine percent of the world’s fighting has been on farinaceous food. It notes in Trafalgar Square the difficulty of outrunning meat eaters, describes panic as carnivorous, and suggests a fleshless diet would quell disgust from colored troops and certain Austro-Asian fighters.
A hunter buys a captive eagle from a crowd for two dollars. He releases it on a billboard where the bird struggles, then reclaims its freedom as it spreads its wings and soars toward the sun. The scene ends with a note about a breakfast and a national expert in appendicitis attending a funeral.
A Riverside poem by Nison Waterman in the Los Angeles Bulletin contrasts dark hair and skin with seeming mental inferiority, praises coarse red hair for endurance, and reveals a poet’s hunger for meals and a wish to be a hotel cook while chasing a “pocket full of Chinese person” inspiration.
The speaker echoes Sam Weller’s fondness for poutiness and virtue and expresses strong agreement and affection. The passage highlights admiration for personal traits and a playful endorsement of virtue.
The fragment notes a historical certainty assigned to the tomb of Lazarus, accepted as fact for seven or eight centuries, as discussed by H. UO. Tanner in the A. M. E. Church Review.
A brief exchange recalls a man famed for his genial nature who faced life’s harsh wages. the only thing he truly took seriously was the cold that ultimately claimed him.
Bands of dangerous wild dogs roam near the Arizona New Mexico line. believed to be cross between Siberian bloodhounds and Arizona timber wolves, they weigh about 100 pounds and bellow with a fearsome roar. Residents organize hunts to curb depredations as reports state no one has captured these ugly brutes.
The passage juxtaposes G B Shaw’s London Vegetarian critique of meat consumption with a social sketch of modern carnivorous gentlemen. It contrasts timidity and virtue in the Tippearary peasant days with fear and fatalism in contemporary dining habits, and notes a Yonkers Statesman joke about engagements and perfect eyes.
A crowd gathers at a shop window to view a chained white headed eagle in a display. The captive bird shows wear from long confinement as a young California farmer, who believes he recognizes it, watches in silence.
The passage blends quotations and commentary on speech, art, and affection. It moves from a farmer’s reaction to a sudden scene, to a playful challenge about pronouncing words, then to reflections on virtue and beauty, paternal affection, and aging. The narrator links masculinity with chivalry and personal admiration for a granddaughter named Leech's relation.
Fitz-Hugh Lee, United States consul general in Havana and grandson of Light Horse Harry Lee, is 68 and a former Confederate soldier who served as Virginia governor in 1885. His conduct in Havana has pleased people across party lines.
An exchange estimates five million dollars invested in bicycle tire manufacture in the United States with about 3,000 workers producing four million tires annually. The quote from George Du Maurier appears as a literary aside in Slarper's Magazine.
Valley Lodge No 21 A F and A M meets the fourth Saturday in P C Hall with H 8S Hyatt worshipful master and G W Girnam secretary. Townsend Lodge No 6 meets the first and third Saturdays at Masonic Hall Broadway Townsend with G E Poon and W C Waarey. Ke 8 meets every second Saturday in Masonic Hall with Mrs Marrirs McCormick WM and Miss Mollie Maveed secretary Townsend Montana.
Woodmen of the World Townsend Camp No 365 meets on the first Friday of each month. T N Averitt serves as Consul Commander with L B Robinson as Clerk.
Sunday School times weekly with preaching at Townsend Beaver Creek Winston and other points. Prayer services Thursday and Tuesday evenings. U P Society meets Friday. Pastor Kiva and W. T. Goullder oversee arrangements.
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