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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1892
Page
3
A column of light jokes and punchlines from various papers. Exchanges range from a sailor washed ashore to a gas bill joke and a poet’s manuscript critique. The tone is whimsical, newsy, and period newspaper humor.
The article details fashion ornamentals such as gold embroidered sofa pillows, silver chairs repurposed as pincushions, and corn ear buttons. It notes yellow as a preferred evening dress shade, trim styles like sinear drapery, and a mix of ribbons lace and beading. It also mentions two jacket styles and fabric tips for house dresses and tea gowns.
Rupyaro Kiriine plans marriage to Wolcott Bales’s sister, a novelist who died in Dresden. Sor, an ancient fable figure, lived 620 years before Christ and was once a Samos slave. A ruoxe Davpet grows feeble as his wife dictates a novel La Doulon. Sorruwonra abandons fiction to write A Child's Life of Our Saviour. Lew Wallace earned over £100,000 in royalties from Ben Hur with 470,000 copies sold at $1.50 each.
DexMark and Germany create pension schemes for elderly workers. A tax sultan bans Turkish women from wearing French costumes in Constantinople streets. In Madagascar people work 25 days yearly to stay idle the rest. Biscuitopolis earns five thousand workers at George Palmer's factory. In New Zealand Liarsz flesh appears at two discount. At Waipawa Janice Bar a band of 29 voices earns two hundred dollars as animals are sold around two dollars each.
Nexsay S Kroreox an English youth chosen to sculpt Farragut for Boston is twenty eight. Sir Frederik Shannox will chair the royal commission’s fine arts section for the Chicago exhibition. Miss Cararer Moewen to be paid 825000 for Queen Isabella of Castile unveiled at the world’s fair opening. Rosa LBoxwever completes Le Depiquage the largest animal picture, showing ten life sized horses on a thrashing floor, declined 00000 for the work.
The text lists 1880 and 1890 valuations for Coronado, and populations for New York Chicago and Philadelphia. It cites pig iron production across earlier years and census stock figures. An advertisement promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and lung ailments with money-back guarantee and trial bottle offer at J K Weston’s drug store.
A collection of quirky notes reports and trivia: Chicago's policemen are largely Irish 1555 of 1900. A $950000 wing plan for the White House. A Wyoming coal vein found near Nan Caspar. Maryland reports a 17 year old boy six foot four weighing 185 who lifts 450 pounds. An island of rice land drifts from Depere Wisconsin. The St Lawrence river is floodless. New York hosts 500 tea tasters with strict diets. A Salem Massachusetts dog suspected in grocery thefts. Congress remains lawyer heavy with 212 lawyers and 65 farmers in the current session.
The American Farmer, now enlarged and published from Springfield and Cleveland, will remain non political and offered free with a year’s advance subscription. Existing subscribers paying in advance receive a free year, as do new subscribers paying for a year in advance. Samples are available at the office.
Run your lamp chimneys after washing with dry salt to brighten lights. Create peppermint for cleaning and home remedies by processing chicken gizzard lining into powder. Clean marble with soap lees and quicklime then oil. Hot hominy batter mix with milk eggs and ham fat for baking.
The text notes Mr Springer always wears a flower in his buttonhole and recounts anecdotes about politicians and diplomats. It mentions Senator Plumb's multitasking letter practice, Sixaton Doveurrty of the U S legation in Mexico City, Conorres Man Hoan, Mount Popecatapetl, Srenmrang Rex with a large Washington-based family, and Wanamaker’s habit of greeting reporters in Philadelphia streets.
The Pacific Publishing Co announces an elegant 400 page Official Guide to the Chicago Exposition of 1895 with superb illustrations and a bird’s eye cyclorama. It includes detailed exposition features and full page color pictures of mammoth exhibits. State agents seek local sales agents. full terms offered.
Split text mentions free premiums with the Weekly Miner priced at two dollars yearly or one dollar for six months. Premiums include dominoes or colored French pictures with autographs. Also announces J W Buel's Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands, a heavily illustrated new book from Pacific Publishing Company with agent incentives.
A collection of notes reports exposure timing for a fringe insect, visibility of the North Star, and bees producing wax from sugar fed without flowers. It cites German entomologist Biatrxin on tiny insect species, spider predation on aphids, and spiders helping protect apple trees from pests.
A list of curiosities notes long standing use of the telephone in India, a Fresh woman’s baby cradle made from a shoe, extreme Sahara temperatures, a Prussia study on Jewish life expectancy, Tasmanian glow worm caves, and Cryton’s spider with oversized yellow webs spanning six to eight feet.
A 19th century advert promises citizens that Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption Dr Kings New Life Pills Backlin s Amnica Salve and Electric Bitters have sold well and will satisfy buyers. It guarantees refunds if results are unsatisfactory and asserts merit as the sole cause of success, signed by J R Seaton.
Loren Trescott and wife keep the Sand Beach lighthouse in Michigan with a four year old daughter. After measles and a severe cough, doctors failed to help until Dr Kings New Discovery cured her after two and a half bottles. Free trial offered at J R Weston’s Drugstore. The Queen offers prizes for word lists from Queen souvenir spoon letters with subscription form and stamps. The World’s Fair appeal from The Great History Company of San Francisco promises to send sixty winners to Chicago with meals, lodging, rail fare, theater tickets, and Exposition access.
The Toledo Blade announces an winter effort to mail one million specimen copies nationwide to readers who do not currently subscribe. Readers are urged to submit names and correct addresses by postal card or letter, with any quantity accepted, to The Blade in Toledo Ohio.
The advertisement touts Electric Ritters as a leading pure medicinal tonic for stomach liver and kidney ailments. It claims to cure sick headache indigestion constipation and malaria while guaranteeing satisfaction or money back. Price 5tc.
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