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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1900
Page
6
An advertising claim asserts Ayer's Hair Vigor makes hair grow by feeding it as a hair food. The text says it stops hair loss, removes dandruff, and restores color to gray hair, costing $1.06 a bottle and available at all druggists.
Teresa Falciola an Italian peasant woman ascends a mountain near Quarna to collect firewood with two daughters. She sends down wood via a metal wire but loses her wedding ring and faces a perilous descent into the valley. The tale reflects harsh conditions and dangers in remote rubber districts and Indian slave histories in frontier lands.
Two American sailors Benjamin J. Green and George M. Powers recount their ordeal aboard the gunboat Urdaneta after it was lost with a twelve man crew while patrolling rivers. They were rescued by Oregon forces after being subjected to harsh trials.
A woman survives a 800 yard fall after her bundle breaks her descent while a tale on South American indigenous slavery describes brutal rubber-forest enslavement, kidnapping, and death. Separately in the Philippines a coast guard tale ends with death and escape, and Chicago considers a bounty for highwaymen with $200 reward for killing robbers in the act.
Joseph New an artilleryman at Fort Monroe Virginia was mysteriously murdered at Phoebus following a quarrel with Corporal Brown seriously wounded in the head after a riot at an Indiana house. New is said to be from Hannibal Missouri.
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