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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1893
Page
2
The Townsend Messenger advertises advertising rates at $1.50 per inch per month and notes a Friday morning publication schedule. Editor and proprietor J C Keeey is listed, with the newspaper entered as second class at the Townsend post office.
Local managers weigh Sunday openings as churches and saloon interests unite to oppose. Despite strong protests, the fair opens with about three hundred thousand attendees in what some call a financial gamble. Railroads face pressure to cut rates or risk empty cars and a ruined enterprise.
The New York Central has cut travel time to twenty hours for passenger service from New York to Chicago, with faster convection of trains and enhanced scheduling to speed travelers between the two major cities.
The Valley County Gazette appears in Glasgow while the News disappears. A Minneapolis man takes charge and has already made an impression on readers.
The piece notes the Tur Cow Boy race was canceled near Chicago due to protest against long pony travel. It then argues about the capital question between Anaconda and Helena, critiques tax payers, and questions funding for railroads and mining through silver and foreign loans, urging use of silver for national development and opposing government barriers to growth.
An article explains how simple plants first bore two flower types male and female. It describes stamens as leaflike pollen sacs and pollen grains as spore cases. The text notes the shift from water fertilization to wind aided cross fertilization enabling land plants to dominate terrestrial ecosystems.
California collector Humphrey B. Kendrick reports on wild animals in the Sandwich Islands, including large bands of wild cattle in the Pine mountains, ferocious wild dogs that hunt in packs, and wild hogs resembling peccaries, with wild horses on a southern island.
The passage explains how mercury is mined and processed in Almaden Spain. It details ore extraction smelting in large furnaces followed by distillation through a sequence of thick jar tubes forming a condenser system. Drops of mercury condense in reservoirs and are collected in iron barrels, with a strong odor escaping from jars and barrels.
The British Museum houses a range of snuff boxes from the last century in materials from papier mache and horn to silver and gold. Some boxes used curious substances, including potato pulp thirty to sixty years ago, molded, dried, varnished, and fired. Brunswick boxes were famed for their potato-made versions.
A lake in Maryland near Chestertown named Still Pond remains unruffled by storms and has never shown ice even in severe cold. It is noted for never being known to freeze.
J B Wilson of Sharpsburg Pa reports his wife was saved from pneumonia after la grippe using Dr King’s New Discovery. Robert Barber of Cooksport Ta says it relieved his long trouble better than any previous remedies. Free trial bottles offered at J R Weston’s Drug Store with large bottles priced at 50c and 1.
The London Standard reports a Royal Institution demonstration proving air can be liquefied and stored like any liquid. The feat, built on high investigation and equipment, shows atmosphere turn to a stable liquid under suitable cooling and pressure, with Dewar and Goldsmiths' Company expanding the reach beyond oxygen to mixed gases.
A reported discovery claims light can produce sound. By directing sunlight through a lens onto lampblack or silk and rotating a slit disk, sounds appear when illuminated. Using a prism to split light into a spectrum, different colors cause varying sounds from the material, with some colors producing none. Green silk runs best under red light.
A rich elderly woman seeks cure from her nephew, an expert doctor, who insists on being named in her will for payment. She recovers, reneges, and dies when the promise is retracted. The tale contrasts with a Chinese emperor who pays doctors regardless of illness to ensure loyalty.
The piece traces how filibuster and buccaneer emerged from French and English terms used for maritime raiders. It notes that freebooter inspired filibuster and that buccaneer began with hunting boucan meat in the West Indies before denoting sea raiders.
An assortment of quirky facts includes a seven ton coal vein found near Parkersburg West Virginia a city in Denver enjoying 20 sunny days in a year 865 total. People who memorize long poems struggle to recall their telephone numbers. A Highland Station Michigan church ser mon paused when a congregant tried winding a large watch. The black fox fur from Kamchatka tops prices with skins around 1000 and a pelisse worn by Nicholas I valued at 10000.
A collage of jokes and quick quotes from various papers. Bits about salaries, language learning, critics, and domestic gags appear alongside lines about a man named Jamans and a character akin to Micawber waiting for a turnup.
Turre notes there are fifty German Lutheran churches in Chicago and 9300 Epworth league chapters with 1200 junior organizations. Chicago’s population is about 1.5 million with 54787 Protestant church members and 136084 Sabbath school enrollees. He adds Hexas province south of the Yangtse hosts 16 million people with no resident Protestant missionary. Dr Laws reports Christian schools on Nyassa shores with 150 teachers and 7000 scholars.
A report from Van Buren Missouri notes an established counterfeit industry. A Jamestown Virginia factory produced glass beads for Indians and fake silver dollars were found buried in Owensburg Kentucky. The output is linked to a Maiden Lane New York firm supplying Indian and Mexican silver filigree goods sold on trains in New Mexico and Arizona.
A half pound Exoron epider web rumor circles world. A boy near the Todina river in Florida guides a big alligator that swims with him. Sea fowls eggs roll in circles due to conical shape. High rocks edges keep eggs from rolling off. A Mississippi catfish near Cairo Illinois yielded varied contents: a tenpenny nail a gold ring a fishing line two hooks and a registered letter to a Richmond Virginia resident.
Iowa produced 220 million bushels of corn last year. Groneta leads watermelons and ranks second in rice and third in cotton. A Thuringia district relies on close eyes manufacture for support. The Brittany sardine fishery yields about 600 million fish in six months. A nine ton copper piece from the Quincy mine topped Michigan’s upper peninsula output.
A garbled list presents dates and events in a scattered form. It mentions items like first American express in 1521 and the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, interspersed with odd notes and dubious attributions.
Two to try. It will cost you nothing and will surely do you good if you have a cough cold throat chest or lungs. Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds is guaranteed to give relief or money back. Sufferers from la grippe found it effective with speedy recovery. Try a sample bottle at our expense and learn its value. Trial bottles free at J R Westons Drag Store large size and $1.
Since its first introduction Electric Bitters has gained rapidly in favor and is recognized as the best pure medicine for stomach, liver and kidney ailments. It cures sick headache indigestion and constipation and drives malaria from the system with satisfaction guaranteed with each bottle.
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