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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1893
Page
2
A government building known as the Old Ford Theater in Washington collapsed last week. Twenty two people died and fifty were injured in the disaster, a tragedy reported by the Townsend Messenger.
The article notes coal limits but argues there is no immediate danger of depletion. It discusses petroleum as more widespread than coal and notes Mendelieff’s view of its formation. It suggests electricity could open new energy sources and that future generations may not abandon machinery even after coal ends.
The article describes tropical island women in holoku attire, loose gowns, floral wreaths, and leaf chaplets. They live outdoors, sleep in hammocks, and gather in grottoes. They build grass houses, few cottages in rain, near the sea, surf riders who navigate Pacific waters between island ports.
Raw silk loses value when stored in warehouses as moisture dries it. Cold vaults preserve moisture so silk remains heavy. Winter storage can give a finer luster, though effects vary by grade. some stock improves, others do not. Some firms freeze large portions, selling in small quantities daily to maintain quality.
Fragmentary text discusses the mustache trend among Parisians and the mixing of Moslem and Moorish populations, noting confusion over who is Moor or Spaniard and mentioning beards or lip hair as a social marker.
The timber or gray wolf once ranged from arctic to tropics across North America. Color varies by region, with white in arctic areas, black in Florida and parts of British Columbia, and red or bay in Texas. Habitat and diet shift with environment. wolves follow buffalo declines and now prey on deer and livestock, posing risks to ranchers on the northern plains.
An eastern city landlord relied on a graceful Irish janitress to rent upper flats. Her clever patter highlighted heat and comfort while humorously praising the staircase, which the tenants were advised to use only when leaving. Her charm often won over hesitant prospects.
The article notes a private herd of German wild boar at Windsor kept in a schweinegarten in Home Park. It cites royal tastes for boar and related anecdotes from George IV through Ernest of Hanover, detailing Christmas gifts and culinary preferences tied to the species.
The French president's wife, Mme Carnot, oversees Elysee entertainments and finalizes menus before state dinners. She helps the president sort daily letters and contributes to political affairs, with duties extending to arranging her own toilets. The French role mirrors and exceeds U S expectations in formality and influence.
J B Wilson of Sharpeburg Pa says the remedy cured his wife after La Grippe and pneumonia threats when others failed. Robert Barber of Corksport Ps reports long trouble relief from Dr King’s New Discovery. Free trial bottles at J R Weston Drug Store. Large bottles priced at 5c and 1.
In the Callao harbor action during the Chile Peru war a drifting whale boat rigged with a double bottom explosive destroyed a Chilean steam gunboat when hoisted by tackles. Survivors were rescued as the boat sank, with some crew missing.
In Louisiana a hunter recalls a wolf killed after lying, as a pack of ten or twelve wolves fights and bites one wolf to death. The narrator cites two hunters who believed the slain wolf killed for lying, though such punishment is described as unprecedented.
A correspondent reports two elm trees have grown inside the old Ross church near the seat once used by the famed “Man of Ross” John Kyrie founder of the Kyrie society who planted trees to brighten his town. Nearby Alaskan archipelago islands are described as potential sale targets with plentiful isles, Indians, canoes, and Alpine mountains, noting favorable summer climate despite northern latitude.
A Lamar newspaper notes seven foot long pannen, a Greenland whale with a heart yard diameter, Abesene fish in Ashland Michigan, and unusually large beets in Floyd County Georgia. It mentions a calf with a wing, a talking seal from 1854, the sea horse anatomy, and a Newton County shaft with many snakes in the cavity.
The article notes the Salt Lake City Mormon temple started about forty years ago and states a total cost of 2,500,000 dollars. It also mentions various global items including New York dwellings at eighteen and a half persons, and a honeymoon spent in a cholera hospital in France.
The text notes U S Grant will spend the summer at Cranston's hotel in Highland Falls New York and later at Parkview hotel in Chicago. It also mentions the president's mail averaging eight hundred letters daily and five clerks plus Secretary Thurber handling it.
A string 1000 feet long blew free and lodged on the rigging of the Baltimore schooner Souther offshore. Ann Arbor girls sleigh riding attract attention until a placard on the box proclaims a load of old maids. A calico covered taxi cab window advertisement in Westminster scares away sparrows. A Harlem station RN found with an 1890 Harlem railway ticket from 125th Street to Fordham.
Franesce Marriyat, daughter of a novelist, is praised as brave and resolute, resisting petty social norms. The piece notes Finnish women competing with men as clerks, managers, doctors, builders, and bankers, with higher honesty observed. Japanese women are described using long carved hairpins of wood, ivory, or tortoise shell, eight inches long and half an inch wide, often featuring carved figures.
New York leads in lace purchases worldwide. A sea water tax supposedly holds about fourteen grains of gold. Potato varieties famous forty years ago have largely vanished.
A vintage ad touts Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a money back guarantee. It urges trial bottles at J. R. Weston's Drug Store and claims rapid relief for la grippes and throat chest illnesses.
Since its first introduction Electric Bitters has rapidly gained favor and leads pure medicinal tonics. It is recognized as the best medicine for stomach liver or kidney ailments and will cure sick headache indigestion and constipation while driving malaria from the system. Satisfaction guaranteed with every bottle.
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