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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1893
Page
2
An advance notice shows advertising rates at $1.50 per inch per month. It notes post office entry in Townsend as a see-closs matter and states publication is Friday morning with J C Kunuxv as editor and proprietor.
Dr. Tuckerman compiles U S court decisions on newspaper subscriptions. Key points include that silence implies renewal, publisher may continue after discontinues until arrears are paid, readers remain responsible if papers are not collected, moving without notice shifts liability, and fraud can be inferred from uncalled for noncollection. Advance payers must give notice to stop at end of term or owe all arrears.
The article notes Tue Denver Turners transported a car load of beer to Milwaukee. It mentions Montana Club occupying new quarters praised as a credit to the lab and the State capital. It also discusses Kansas coal miners striking amid influx of miners from Colorado and Dakota harvest hands earning $1.25 to $1.50 per day as wheat remains around 50 cents a bushel, keeping farmers unable to pay more.
The Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly warns all tradesmen and laborers to stay away from Butte as thousands are unemployed today due to a slump in silver markets. Many workers are on half shifts with about one hundred men for every available job.
C Morris of California won the Columbian 100 yards sprint for the United States championship in 9.3 seconds, beating the previous record. Seven starters included Collins of Wisconsin who finished close behind. Prize was $2,000 and a diamond medal. Separately, horse thieves arrested at Saltese were sent back to Missoula jail. their involvement stemmed from being in bad company with John Potter, Mike Burne, and Angus McQueen.
The Executive Committee of the Montana Silver League met in Butte and endorsed free coinage of silver. Delegates from across the state will attend the Chicago silver congress, with Butte pledging about $20,000 and forty delegates, Granite about $2,000 and four delegates, all covering their own expenses. The piece recalls historical silver coinage and the rationale behind the value of silver.
A flood of opinion on the Sherman act repeal dominates discussions in major papers. The New York World lists substitutes for silver policy from free coinage to greenbacks. Senator Cook, Mitchell, Allen, Stewart, Jones and Hartman signal varied stances, with Weaver urging a triple system of finance and independent money. Great Falls Tribune commentary accompanies regional reflections.
J B Wilson of Sharpsburg Pa says the remedy cured his wife after La Grippe and pneumonia threats when other treatments failed. Robert Barber of Cooksport Pa says it helped his long trouble more than anything else. Free trial bottles available at R Weston Drug Store. Large bottles priced at 55 and 1.
The article notes a striking absence of wreckage or life on the deepest ocean floors. Thick bluish globigerina ooze forms the sediment, rich in delicate shells, while deeper red clay deposits arise from long chemical exposure to seawater. Extreme pressure and acidity dissolve shells before reaching the bottom, bending metal and shattering glass.
A nineteenth century observer notes Siberian natives show no discomfort in minus eighteen degree nights. They work bare handed for half an hour in harsh cold and sleep with minimal shelter as frost covers their bodies yet they remain unfazed.
The swing is linked to ancient Bacchus rites when figures hung from trees as blessings swayed by wind. Fable of Icarius explains the custom with wine teaching, Icarus poisoning fears, Erigone’s suicide, and transformation of Icarius, a dog, and Erigone into stars Bootes Canis and the dog’s star.
The oldest suit on record began in 1688 in St Petersburg and involves heirs of a dead nobleman suing the city of Kamenes Podolsk for a large land tract incorporated within city limits. The case continues for further consideration.
A Washington funeral tale shows a colored servant asked if she saw the corpse she responded she would not go near enough to take the dead man’s breath. The report notes the belief that proximity to a dead body is dangerous.
A sales pitch promises relief for coughs colds la grippe and throat chest ailments with Dr Kings New Discovery. It offers free trial bottles at J R Weston's Drug Store and urges readers to sample the remedy at no cost to learn its benefits.
A description of primitive travel in northern China notes three main methods: springless Pekin carts with floor seating, mule-litters between unsteady animals, and donkey rides with minimal gear. Southern travel is mocked by buffalo carts that are rickety and cause riders to lurch into the mud.
In October 1889 at Peel Isle of Man a Norwegian ship in a fierce storm near Contrary head was rescued by a lifeboat crew chosen from many volunteers. The coxswain insisted all aboard the lifeboat include the disabled man left on deck. All were saved and medals were awarded by the Norwegian government to the lifeboatmen.
A essay on how few words suffice for daily life and how slang fills gaps in emergencies. It notes the danger of avalanches in western mining camps and describes a Kaslo Washington snowslide burying a mine entrance and two miners under hundred fifty feet of snow with recovery delayed until spring.
Belzoni notes the area between the Nile's first and second cataracts as the hottest region due to a complete absence of rain. Locals doubt rain falls from above and marvel at preserved monuments. Buckingham observed chalk marks on a four thousand year old unfinished structure.
A leading tonic marketed as a pure medicine for stomach liver and kidney ailments. It claims to cure sick head ache indigestion and constipation while driving malaria from the system with guaranteed satisfaction. It emphasizes it is not a beverage or intoxicant and is suitable for various ailments.
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