Townsends Messenger News Capsule
United States treasury may issue a loan says the paper. Krueger is praised with German backing as a formidable figure. Germany census shows 51,758,364 people, up 2,29,894 in five years. Corea’s king guarded by American missionaries while Japanese spies surround. Dr. Lydston offers hiccough cure by finger trick. Mayor Strong did not kiss Vanderbilt Belmont bride, stirring social rumor. Mormon settlement plans near Phoenix with Buckeye canal irrigation for 100,000 acres under Brigham Young Jr.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Brigham Young, Jr
Salt Lake City
Buckeye Irrigation Canal
Gila River
Hassayampa
New Jersey man finds corn cure amid bizarre self amputation
Union Hill resident Charles Heinzman devised a corn cure after his toe sorely tormented him. He urged his wife to amputate the toe with a butcher’s cleaver, a drastic measure followed by blood poisoning. He died days later, prompting the tale as cautionary folklore.
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Union Hill
N. J
Charles Heinzman
World cereal harvest shows declines with Russia’s grain holdback
Official calculations to the U S Consul General in St Petersburg indicate a global cereal harvest this year far below last year with wheat and rye drops totaling 150 million and 129 million bushels respectively. Russia’s wheat shortfall and rye losses influence policy of withholding grain to push prices higher while next year’s imports and exports are forecast with Russia supplying and exporting substantial wheat and rye amounts.
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Russia
State Department
United States
Karal
St. Petersburg
Congress considers Pan American Union to curb European encroachment
Washington reports that resolutions by Representative Beach of Ohio and Senator Allen of Nebraska favor creating a Pan American Union. The plan envisions inviting South American republics to a Washington conference within a year to form an American Union aimed at preventing European powers from encroaching on the hemisphere. The proposals have received favorable reception and may advance this congress.
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Washington
House
Beach
Ohio
Senate
Allen
Nebraska
Congress of the American Republics
Congress
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Romance at Advanced Prices
A Chicago Record tale notes Marie and George have separated. He hinted he would pay $10 for a word from her when out of town. She tests him by calling long distance, making him cover the bill.
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Marie
George
Chicago
Seeds and sales lure for Salter Co and catarrh cure
The John A Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wis touts high prices paid for new crops while urging fall potato prices and promoting Salzer seeds including Earliest and Champion of the World. An ad promises free samples for stamps, catalog offers and a catarrh cure claims to cure constitutionally with a money back promise. Also notes a quip about eager publishers and a poultry remark.
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John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Wideawake
Salzer
Salter
Clovpia Seed
John A. Salzer Seed CO
Advertising Remedies and Public Notices From a 19th Century Column
A collage of patent medicine plugs and self help tips urging readers to use tonics and laxatives. Mentions St Jacobs Oil, Syrup of Figs, Parker's Ginger, Hindercorns, Brown's Bronchial Troches, and Piso's Cure for Consumption. Includes a tease about lifelong careers and a note on rapid fortunes fading.
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St. Jacobs
Foreign observer mislabels political boss and influence
The dialogue reveals a foreign visitor misidentifying a political boss as a public official and puzzled by the absence of a salary while noting immense influence. The exchange pivots to an unrelated prompt about a historical painting hanging in the hall.
Auction Tales From Nantucket And Beast Fables
Reading selections recount Nantucket auctions in public squares with meat and furniture items selling as residents depart. A humorous exchange about a refrigerator hints at island life and timing. Also included are fables and religious lines reflecting on honesty and faithfulness.
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Harper's Magazine
Nantucket
American Tea Production Advances Toward Competition
The article traces the 1804 French botanist Michaux experiments in South Carolina and the United States agricultural efforts to commercialize tea. Baltimore tea merchants report Summerville near Charleston yields tea equal to English breakfast grade, with strong beverage and promising fermentation and curing methods. They foresee American teas competing with Chinese and Indian varieties.
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United States
Michaux
South Carolina
Charleston
Montreal Herald
National Department of Agriculture
Asia
Baltimore
Summerville
China
India
East
History Lesson Banter in Battersea Classroom
A playful exchange between Bobby and a Fond Parent reveals that studying history is valued for lessons from past ignorance. Bobby questions its usefulness, the parent argues it shows mistakes to avoid, and Bobby retorts that it would have saved time.
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Bobby
Deacon Warned by Windy Lamb Folly
Dialogue from a rural scene shows a deacon urged to avoid a green goods scheme as a lambish caution and tempering wind are invoked by Keziah. The exchange hints at wary, moral humor in local life.
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Keziah
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F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
F. J. Chen Y & CO
Th. Mall's Family Pills
California Fig Syrup Company
Colorado
Gold Miner
Denver
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Fabucher, la
Tommy
E. W. Kemble
Scribner’s Magazine
Trath
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Dem
America
Hood
THE
World
Iowa
Hayden Bros
Omaha
Nud
Jarmenute
Parkhurst
Youngs den
Die Ladies’ Home Journal
Tu Lapres’ Home Journal
Curtis Publishing Company
Philadelphia
Piso
H. D. Darling
Beaver Meadow
Merggers
Dame Nately
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