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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1896
Page
2
A collage of gossip and incidents from towns, ranging from Holmes and Queen Victoria era quips to theater retirements, marital mischief, and a parade of oddities. It notes Ephraim Brick’s two year sentence for murder, New York’s Greater New York bill, and depictions of rail mileage trends amid calls for seed distributions to lawmakers.
A Kentucky preacher in Columbia Adair County draws immense crowds with a memory for scripture and a forceful sermon style. At 28 born December 22 1867 Hicks travels across the United States preaching on the edges of civilization, aiming to reach scarce church regions. He stands 5 feet 6 inches tall, 152 pounds, with an athletic build and smooth social manner.
Richard Park Bland, noted for his Missouri silver ties and many money themed nicknames, rose in American politics with a boom from the Missouri silverites. Born near Hartford Kentucky in 1835 he pursued law and mineral wealth interests before settling in Rolla Missouri in 1865.
Narrative traces William Callan Hicks who claims extraordinary Bible recall abilities and life in Columbia and Adair county. It also recalls Bland’s push for free coinage, a Maryland court case on survival in death, and a piano recording attachment innovation.
John Hopkins and his brother William, Welsh immigrants, arrived in Anderson Indiana to settle with their kin. They celebrated by drinking and raged through the house destroying furniture, breaking windows and doors, and injuring each other before police arrived. The scene left the home in ruins and Mrs Hopkins traumatized by the event.
The text extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a healthful stimulant for digestion and a cure for malaria, biliousness and kidney complaints, while noting digestion governs bone brain nervous and muscular tissue. It also claims people spend all they can on remedies.
Readers are urged to attend the national convention in St Louis on Tuesday June 16 with affordable Burlington route travel via June 14 15. Information available from Burlington Route agents or J Francis G P A Omaha Nebraska. Also promotion for The Corn Belt monthly farm lands paper from Chicago.
A whimsical passage promotes a Summer Resort book by C. S. Crane via Wabash Railroad agent in St Louis. It extols the New England Conservatory of Music as a premier school in Boston offering music and languages with free prospectus. A quip about a robust book agent alligator closes the excerpt.
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