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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1893
Page
2
The Townsend Messenger reports on an adjourned Legislative Assembly and notes local advertising rates and postal status. It mentions scarce mourners among Broadwater county opponents in Missouri Valley with fewer than a dozen present.
The article notes earlier ocean depth claims from 1889 are surpassed by Tuscarora 1890 soundings. It reports depths near 4 055 to 4 047 fathoms off Japan and near Cape Lapatka to the Aleutians, with the Tuscarora Deep title given by Petermann's magazine editor to honor the U S vessel.
The article explains how the sun crosses the equator slightly west each year due to solar system forces. It notes the shift from precession to recession, causing seasons to begin earlier, and predicts a future when the sun crosses in midwinter, reversing seasons in about eleven thousand years.
A sharp caricature compares widows of different races and statuses, describing ghastly funeral pyres and grand entrances at graves and weddings. The piece contrasts East Indian and European or American widows, mocking cultural norms and widowhood rituals with caustic wit.
Native Japanese newspapers lament the decline in manners among educated girls in Tokyo. They say foreign education has eroded traditional female life, with modern girls mimicking foreign conduct and even socializing in public houses and teahouses, biting into established decorum.
A detailed account describes a Kansas display at the world’s fair featuring life like mounts of mountain lions buffalo elk and other North American mammals. Professor Louis L. Dyche crafted the scene with habitat backdrops and includes Comanche the famed last stand horse.
At the World’s Columbian Exposition a towering eight foot solid silver statue in the Montana building will draw vast notice. It depicts Ada Rehan as a Greek styled woman with scales and sword, standing on a cloud globe, symbolizing silver, valued at about 50 000 pounds for art plus 75 000 dollars in intrinsic silver.
The Wyer G. Sargent, an American steamer laden with mahogany valued at twenty thousand dollars, was abandoned March 31, 1899 and drifted more than five thousand miles from Cape Laderas toward New York. The mariner warns of a dangerous derelict roaming the seas.
J B Wilson of Sharpsburg praises Dr King's New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds after his wife suffered pneumonia from La Grippe. Robert Barber of Corksport claims the remedy surpassed all earlier treatments and doctors in giving him relief. Large bottles mentioned.
An article from American Cultivator explains that ceasing to chew the cud signals indigestion rather than loss of cud. It outlines causes feverish diseases and recommends veterinary guidance, cautions against old remedies, and suggests dosing with aconite, iron tincture mix, gentian, soda, ginger, and a sour stomach tonic to restore appetite and aid recovery.
Two handy garden tools described by A. E. Barnes from America Gardening. A berry patch hook prunes cane and cuts raspberries with a thin blade for easy drawing cuts. The second tool is a stout steel scraper or cutting edge designed to keep roots from slipping, made from an old hoe handle for grip.
The article explains that sour or moldy ensilage taints milk, cream, and butter but heating milk to 155 degrees before setting removes the taint. Heating without setting can also fix flavors, and certain strong flavors like onions resist removal by heating. It notes ill flavored pasture or stagnant water can be remedied by heating to 140 degrees to restore healthful butter.
For coughs colds throat chest and lung troubles the ad touts Dr King's New Discovery with a money back guarantee. It claims swift relief for La Grippe sufferers and offers trial bottles at Weston’s Drugstore with free samples to try before buying.
Early forenoon shoppers on Twenty third Street swarm past flower vendors selling roses and chrysanthemums as a couple, Lie and his wife, navigate the bustle. He grumbles at window shopping yet buys roses after a flash of realization, then guides her to winter cloaks.
A Philadelphia Times rasps at a hotel diner famed for exhaustive meals. The feature describes a guest who orders every course, starting with oysters, and finishes by collecting leftovers, earning mock fame as a relentless banquet performer.
The piece outlines an Arab lover’s fervent courtship to a Nile-area beloved, detailing oath bound interviews via the girl’s confidant, and notes the fate of rejection or acceptance. It also describes how campaign banners are made by sign painters and sailmakers, including methods, sizes, and prices.
A Leader. Electric Bitters has rapidly gained favor since its introduction and leads among tonics and alteratives. It contains nothing alcoholic and is promoted as the best medicine for stomach liver and kidney ailments. It will cure sick headache indigestion constipation and drive malaria from the system with guaranteed satisfaction.
Judge Frank Henry of the Sixth Judicial District fixes court terms for Park and Meagher counties. In Park County sessions begin April 24, June, November. in Meagher County sessions begin May 4, November, with Mondays specified for each term.
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