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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1893
Page
1
H. McWhLIL and company, land and mining attorney, located at 206 Power Block, Helena Montana, advertised services for land and mining law matters.
The Union Pacific in connection with Chicago and North Western now arrives in Chicago at 9 30 a m daily, linking with eastbound fast trains. Round trip excursions are offered to multiple western and southern cities and California with varied dated and price options. Tickets for San Francisco and Los Angeles range from 75 to 99 50, with six month return windows and 60 day limits. The line promises faster travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles and provides palace sleepers dining cars and free reclining chairs for some ticket holders. Local agents in Helena Montana and Omaha Nebraska handle bookings and timetables.
Promoter offers discounted biographies of Ulysses S. Grant and predecessors with biographies and tombs details. Incentives include cash or free travel to the World’s Fair for securing orders, highlighting figures, circuits, and canvassing outfits from The National Book Couriers, Monadnock Building, Chicago.
Specimen Cases from New Cassel Wisconsin describe neuralgia rheumatism stomach and liver troubles with dramatic improvement after three bottles of Electric Bitters. A running leg sore eight years healed after three bottles and seven boxes of Arnica Salve. Fever sores on Catawba Ohio man cured with one bottle and one box of Arnica Salve. Sold by J Ro Weston, Druggiis.
Evans and Sontag, long sought after for ten months, have been captured after a chase that left two officers wounded. One robber is expected to die. the other may face fatal injury after an accidental fall. The pair had killed about six officers and repeatedly shot at pursuers before fleeing into hills and valleys for provisions and hiding in the mountains. The event has become a statewide gossip theme.
Charles Barker and Mary Barker report that the Silver Bar Quartz Lode mining claim in Park district Jefferson County Montana has had $100 in assessment work for 1892. Co-owners Mike Kelly Jack McGanglan and Charles Harris must contribute their shares totaling $163.33 by within ninety days or their interests will be forfeited to the subscribers under the US Revised Statutes.
Mrs. Wm. Jackson offers Partridge chhins Brown Leghorns Plymouth Rock bars red White Plymouth Rock Black Langshans Red Bantams at 1.00 per dozen. Post office address Townsend Residence Grayson Creek.
The June 16 1893 Townsend Messenger reports severe frosts injuring strawberry and apple blossoms. It notes violent crime in Gem Idaho, quarry escapes in Cairo Illinois with deaths, a traveling man found dead near Thompson Falls likely from a train fall, and a clash between Utah sheep men and Colorado farmers urging state aid to protect farms and livestock.
Cardinal Gibbons, in a New York World interview, argues for Sunday opening of the World’s Fair. He says Sunday can include recreation after morning worship and contends open gates benefit the common people against ministers gamblers and saloon keepers. He notes Michiganders oppose it most and cites broad national support.
The Grand Central, a fire proof hotel at Harrison Street and Fifth Avenue, Chicago, will open May 15 1893. It will offer European plan rooms with hot and cold water electric lights steam heat and modern conveniences on the third floor offices parlors and guest rooms numbered 100 to 200. T. C. Clifford is manager. The Grand Central Station serves as the Chicago Depot of the Northern Pacific Wisconsin Central line with direct through trains to the World’s Fair City to minimize transfers.
Having located permanently at White Sualphar Springs, I have placed all my book accounts and notes in the hands of J. E B. Kanous who will proceed to collect the same. J. W. SCHAAF Townsend Mont March 17 1808.
The Price Baking Powder Company of Chicago suffered a fire at its factory and offices on May 18 but quickly resumed production using spare machinery and supplies stored in outside warehouses. The firm notes forty years of products and disclaims connections with rival baking powder makers. Also promoted is a Montana pamphlet on resources and climate, distributed by 5,000 copies, with contact for inquiries. Iowa Falls Citizen reflection on newspaper reciprocity closes the piece.
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