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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1900
Page
2
A column notes diverse topics from a Quaker led secret service in Wessenger Townsend Montana to global governance and etiquette. It mentions Uncivilized warfare in Kentucky mountains, dietary jokes, dos and don'ts about marriage finances, typhoid prevention, and a California fruit novelty half lemon half orange.
A London Times correspondent lists burdens on Mr Choate while ambassador James Russell Lowell in England faces continual intrusions. Requests range from parliament tickets to introductions to notables, loan offers, and even late night lodging for strangers at his door.
The piece reflects on Spain’s reduced military role after losing islands and insurrections. It notes payments from the United States and Germany and suggests gold can ease national shame. Soldiers seek peacetime labor while officers lament missed plunder opportunities. officials are urged to focus on internal governance and development.
The piece explains how each party assigns pairing associates to balance votes on questions. It notes Senator Paso of Florida often paired to affect outcomes, sometimes declaring he would vote nay if the paired senator from Cash were present, illustrating the practical use of pairing in Senate roll calls.
A collage of verses and prose recalling a soldier's last moment, a nurse’s wartime courage, and the call to play the game. It laments the desert battle, blood and dust, and England’s honor while urging youth to uphold duty and sacrifice.
A veteran recounts early battles from Bull Run to Virginia skirmishes with cavalry raiders, describing chaotic melee, harsh fighting, and his instinctive survival. He recalls lacking pension, enduring hardship, and facing a young Southern lieutenant in close combat during a nameless clash.
A lone musket fight unfolds as a guard holds off a skilled sabre-wielding foe. A close-quarters clash ends when the attacker’s blow triggers a misfire that blows off the lieutenant’s face, leaving both bloodied and fallen, with one survivor.
The Paris based Jewish Messenger recalls Coralie Cahen a famed nurse of the Franco-German conflict. In Vendome she and seven sisters of mercy cared for thousands of soldiers despite Prussian plans to seize the hospital. She refused to let the German ambulance replace the French Red Cross flag and earned German admiration at peace’s end.
A veteran colonel who lost an eye during Gettysburg protests being declared physically unfit for a New York volunteer regiment. He visits President in Washington and jokes that his one eye gives him a great aiming advantage in battle. He fought at Santiago.
A quotation from Rev. I. v. Coddington urges Christian men to embrace a larger and more adequate faith in God as the invincible power of righteousness.
Brown potato rot and insect carriers threaten crops across the South with wilting, tuber browning, and plant collapse. Control includes spraying, removing diseased vines, storing tubers dry and cool, and avoiding land used for tomatoes or eggplants. Also notes orchid culture basics and a key English manual for amateurs.
The article notes small white beans are easiest to grow and most prolific, with navy beans yielding about twenty bushels per acre. It discusses market values, varietal differences, and best practices, including seed emphasis, seasonality, soil conditions, and shallow plowing with light broadcast manure to prevent vine rust.
The article describes a box with top hooks to hang on bin boards and bottom hooks to hold a bag, allowing grain to be shoveled into sacks without a second helper. It also covers mole control methods, care of colts, and proper feeding with oats, citing Vicks Magazine and F. J. Berry.
The article weighs leasing public lands in Western states to stockmen to fund state improvements, arguing it reduces range conflicts while keeping title with the federal government. It then shifts to discuss Window Culture of Orchids, noting simplicity and potential to grow orchids like cattleyas in ordinary windows.
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