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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1893
Page
2
Townsend Messenger announces advertising rates at 1.50 dollars per inch yearly in advance. The paper is published every Friday morning with J G Kuauer as editor and proprietor, and entered as second class mail at Townsend Post Office.
Helena Independent staff reports on the Townsend Land and Irrigation Co plan to build a 27 mile high line canal from the Missouri river above Toston to open 260 160 acre farms. The project aims to create markets for oats wheat potatoes alfalfa and livestock while developing mixed farming and regional commerce near Townsend Helena and surrounding counties.
Townsend, ten years old, serves as a key supply and shipping point for the Missouri and Crow Creek valleys and the St Louis mining district. The town hosts a $25,000 bank, a strong business mix including two hotels and several stores, a good school, three churches, a weekly paper, and growing residences. Prospects include water power from a canal for a flouring mill and plans for an oatmeal mill.
A collage of quips from The Atlanta Constitution and Puck about fortune, love, and money. Miscellaneous jokes include animal sounds in musical intervals and a wedding punchline, contrasted with cynicism about whiskey and gold trusts.
Government purchasing agents ordered nearly one hundred thousand pounds of Dr Price's Baking Powder in the 61st five months of the year. The text asserts the government’s care in choosing supplies and claims this powder remains fresh for export trips and climates. It highlights purity as a guaranteed cream of tartar powder free from ammonia or alum and notes it is prepared by a physician of high standing.
The Grand Central, at Harrison Street and Fifth Avenue, will open May 15 1893 for the World’s Fair. The fire proof three to six floor structure offers 100 to 200 rooms with hot and cold water electric lights steam heat and European plan. Manager T C Clifford invites inquiries from prospective guests.
J B Wilson of 371 Clay street Sharpsburg Pennsylvania claims Dr King s New Discovery cured his wife who faced Pneumonia after La Grippe and other remedies failed Robert Barber of Cookeport Pennsylvania says it helped his Long Trouble more than anything else Free Trial Bottles at J R Weston s Drug Store Large bottles 50c and 91.
Archibald Price, a Kanawha valley settler in West Virginia, spots three Indians near his maple sugar grove. He improvises a diving bell by use of a kettle to breathe while crossing the river in a canoe, then dives under the water to reach safety on the opposite bank.
Twenty thousand people live in the crater of Aso San in Kumamoto Japan. The vast crater hosts fertile farms and villages with hot springs and a roaring inner vent. From this “valley of death” arose educators and preachers who shaped Japan’s Christian and academic scene.
A 1753 Universal Magazine extract prescribes boiling elder tree shoots in ale for a bite remedy. After straining, drink half a pint daily and bathe the wound with warm liquor. Repeat dosing at the next new or full moon. note it is claimed to aid both humans and cattle.
The text notes Columbus named Trinidad for its three mountain peaks evoking the Holy Trinity and St. Kitts for Saint Christopher. It explains he did so from pious considerations, linking the land names to Christian legends and his own name meaning Christ bearer.
A historical note describes a three decker porpoise pie made from duff and meat layers in a copper kettle. The pie is baked as strata form a tall dish, then sliced into wedges with each man receiving a third of 360 degrees divided by crew count.
The Kiev-Slowo Gazette notes a mice plague in southwestern Russia in spring 1891 that devastated fields and towns. By the end of spring 1892 the rodents disappeared, leaving only holes in fields and gardens and no further sightings to date.
Promises relief or money back for coughs colds throat chest and lung troubles with a free trial bottle offered at J R Weston's Drug Store. Claims La Grippe sufferers saw speedy recovery and invites samples at no cost to prove effectiveness.
A snapped collage of light jokes and quips from periodicals including Nervous PassExcel lines about danger and fog, a widow mother and child gag, a druggist morphine mix up, a brass band head joke, and a weather quip from a deck hand with a female aboard.
A collage of marginal items includes a quirky query about a disguised woman, a funeral procession route, a humor piece on a ballgrounds drive by, and a remark on a Rembrandt bargain claim. Also references to stray topics like Puck and Inter Ocean humor columns.
An overview notes Girard College costs 440000 pounds annually while Harvard distributes over 89000 dollars to scholars. Congress reimburses William and Mary 54000 for Civil War losses and Yale raises 2000 dollars for extemporaneous speaking. Frank Bones of Harvard recalls a student leaving college 266 dollars ahead. Lemon University plans a 200000 dollar laboratory 240 by 60 feet four stories tall with basement.
A column of old time recipe clippings includes instructions for cur rants with sugar and flour, a sauerkraut and ribs dish, a white cake with sugar butter and flour, a potato omelet with parsley, and a butter creamed cake with baking powder from 19th or early 20th century domestic guides. The notes imitate housekeeper and ladies' world voices with terse directions.
A collection of quirky statements: human lung capacity five quarts, 12 000 microbes forming an inch of procession, toads squirting blood from eyes, sun’s influence seen in a three minute temperature drop, biblical giants listed by rabbinic writers, Adam to Noah heights, and a Pavestan expert predicting coal reserves in Austria Hungary France and Belgium exhausted in five centuries.
A collection of wry quips and curiosities on beauty heredity and social manners. Bits from Truth Binghamton Leader and Puck offer wry observations on fashion prize fighters and misfortune with a hint of satire.
A Leader. Since its first introduction Electric Bitters has gained rapidly in popular favor and is recognized as the best and purest medicine for ailments of the stomach, liver or kidneys. It cures Sick Headache Indigestion Constipation and drives malaria from the system. Satisfaction guaranteed with each bottle.
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