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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1893
Page
2
The Townsend Messenger dated Friday morning June 23 1893 lists advertising rates at 1.50 per inch per month. Printed as second class matter at Townsend Post Office. J C Knauzy editor and proprietor.
Dr. Tuckerman outlines six key court rulings on magazine and newspaper subscriptions. He explains renewal implications, continued delivery after discontinuation, responsibility for undelivered papers, liability for moved addresses, and prima facie fraud for uncalled papers. He notes advance payment requires notice to stop and settlement of arrears.
Two early papers, the 1728 New England Weekly Journal and the 1783 New York Morning Journal, appear in Newark files. Highlights include colonial notices, burials, and slave-crew ads, plus Washingtons farewell orders and a Princeton mail robbery report.
A Boston Herald note quotes an alleged poet accusing an editor of mocking his overlong coinages. The letter lists absurd terms like gin and scrogle to lampoon critic’s treatment while praising Webster’s dictionary for harboring such obsolete words.
A New York crowd watches James G Blaine at Madison Square Garden as he secretly enjoys a hand organ performance. The scene at Fifth Avenue hotel contrasts with wary politicians waiting nearby, revealing Blaine’s boyish impulse and the political discomfort it caused.
Sir Walter Trevelyan died in 1779 at eighty two leaving a vast wine cellar said to be the world’s rarest. Bottled between 1752 and 1777, the wines were to be used for scientific purposes by Dr. Richardson, a temperance ally, while his wife kept wine at table. A visitor offered a guinea a bottle for the lot, but Sir Walter refused, vowing to empty the cellar into the Wansbeek one day. He once crawled stairs after a gout attack, and quipped that his forebears drank port and came for the goat.
An 1851 anecdote from Prof. Brande recalls Michael Faraday’s good humor during a sugar purification lecture. Scoffern narrates Faraday’s soda spill, his playful kneeling on the floor, and photographing the moment, revealing Faraday’s candid joy as he charmed a juvenile audience at Christmas.
A Rochester clergy member inquires the name of a baptized infant and learns from the mother that the child is named Shady to please her husband his reason being Shady Bower sounds pretty. The exchange ends with a lighthearted pun.
J B Wilson of Sharpsburg and Robert Barber of Cooksport report strong relief from Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds and long standing lung troubles after other remedies failed. Free trial bottles available at J R W Drug Store with large bottles priced at 50c and 91c.
Balti more journalist R H Edmonds analyzes the United States as the world’s leading manufacturing nation. He cites 60 percent growth in manufactured products and notes Europe’s lag, Britain’s decline, and America’s vast untapped natural resources and agricultural expansion promising continued growth.
Walter B Harris reports in the London Times sightings of 13 to 14 dwarfs under four feet six in the Atlas foothills. He cites camelid ranges and rock houses, noting climate and poverty may explain stunted growth. Albany Mohawk silver service link to Queen Anne is mentioned.
Two to try at no cost with Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption coughs colds and throat chest and lung troubles. Guaranteed relief or money back sample bottle offered free and trial bottles available at J R Westons Drug Store and large size one dollar slots.
A compiled guide offers remedies and tips for household issues. It suggests mud on insect bites to ease pain and sweeping with salt water residue to clean floors. It advises vinegar to counter odors, charcoal to curb cabbage smell, and crumpled wet newspapers for carpet cleaning.
The Tue Pekin Gazette claims world oldest status dating to the eighth century while Venice issued Gazetta as the first newspaper. The Paris 1882 exhibit displayed a microminiature Dante Divine Comedy edition under half an inch square with 14 328 verses in 500 pages. A German book printed in Philadelphia dated 1705 challenges Germantown settlement dates and early Philadelphia printing history.
Reports describe purification of sewage by electricity in France and England. Cor W. J. Gripen plans a new arctic search using magnetic poles. An electric plant powering the world’s fair will emit light equal to 11,500,000 standard candles. An electric railroad in Maryland runs eighteen miles with five ton cars freight service in a farming area not served by steam lines.
A Michigan woman wears 100 year old family earrings from Alatont. Mrs James Prewer of Wanatah Indiana owns a Bible linked to a marriage at Po cass ntas. A Jersey City resident claims 3000 door-knobs. a Philadelphia man shows a house decked with assorted horseshoes. D Co Ifane of Snertansburg has a 6000 piece coin collection including a complete set of Caesars coins.
The text condemns debt for luxuries and social standing. It urges avoiding deception and private sins, from spending on fine clothes to nagging children, and using money for wholesome reading rather than waste. It presents a moral warning against quick schemes and disgraceful actions.
Noted items include Evo ann paying 3.50 for a box of California oranges, 1000 London children born yearly in workhouses, English towns not cities unless bishop seats, Turner at 200000 lightweight shillings in circulation made in Germany, and England's largest quarried stone from the Plankington bed near Norwich in 1589 weighing over 35 tons.
A collage of brief witty lines from several papers includes remarks on seeing stars as rapt vision and an Oklahoma style joke about a bride’s dowry. The snippets also feature a landlady’s plaster remedy and a bride's father contributing 150000 dollars at a wedding.
A public notice extols Electric Bitters as the leading pure medicinal tonic for stomach liver and kidney ailments. It asserts the remedy cures sick headache indigestion and constipation and drives malaria from the system with guaranteed satisfaction with each bottle.
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