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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1892
Page
3
A traveler and writer recount leper colonies near Yen Ping Fu in Fuijan with officials noting leprosy as old as China. They describe causes as a tiny unseen agent, transmission via water and food, and strict isolation to curb contagion, plus forbidden marriages.
Mr Depew recalled that Americans do not copy the British gaze at race while noting the long history of English ancestry. He cited Julius Caesar era Britons as mixed with Romans Saxons Danes Norse Normans Dutch French Irish Scotch and Welsh shaping English identity and joked about ash trees in American boarding houses.
Reeves Williams of Cardigan called the Man Ostrich engages public attention with por-traumatic feats. Patrons paid sixpence to witness his display. He swallows four iron pieces and later ingests coach nails and half-pennies as a dessert amid the edifying performance.
Advertising copy offering Dr King's New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a money back guarantee. Trial bottle free at J R Westons drug store with larger size priced at one dollar.
An exile in Free lnesia describes endless hunger and hardship under Arctic conditions. He details constant lack of meat in summer, reliance on fish and flour, and brutal labor hauling barges and towing rafts. The account compares life to sailors wrecked on a desert island and laments imprisonment by nature and poverty.
An East Ninety-first Street family narrates a haunting belief that they must move one street north each year to match the century since arriving in New York. Beginning on Seventy-first Street, they rose yearly through Seventy-second and beyond, fearing sleepless nights if they lag behind the century.
In Kansas a giant mammoth like elephant tusks and bones were found in the arid western sand hills. Prof Williston aims to preserve the colossal specimen to join the megatherium exhibit in Lawrence. The find excites scientists and the public as the state’s first mammoth remains. A separate note reports a shark attack in Japanese waters and a husband who has hunted sharks for three years, landing about three hundred.
If the liver is inactive you have a bilious look if the stomach is disordered you have a dyspeptic look and if the kidneys are affected you have a pinched look. Electric Bitters acts on these organs and improves complexion. Sold at J R Weston's drug store 60e a bottle.
Advert sees premiums with weekly subscriptions from the Weekly Miner and Toledo Blade samples. Six months for one dollar yields a premium box or two colored pictures, while a year plus two dollars adds both pictures. Also promotes World’s Fair trips funded by a San Francisco house and a new book Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands by J. W. Buel with illustrations from Pacrée Publishing.
Advert describes Electric titters as the best pure medicine for stomach, liver and kidney ailments. It promises to cure sick headache indigestion constipation and malaria with satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Price stated as only We.
A Canadian Queen promotion offers one thousand dollars to the entrant forming the largest list of English words (min four letters) from "Queen Souvenir Spoon" letters. Five hundred dollars to the second largest list and one hundred prize awards. Entry requires $1.00 subscription and mailing stamps. samples available postpaid for two Canadian dollars.
New York women buy about 3.5 million pairs of cotton woolen and lisle stockings each year averaging 20 cents. Silk pairs and fancy pieces add $1.2 million, totaling roughly $2 million annually, a sum rivaling city food costs.
The article discusses when humans first appeared on earth, noting that bones and tools found in caves, peat, and lake bottoms suggest early habitation. It cites Theresa Crofton and mentions mammoth associations, English caves, and long ages indicated by gravel beds under peat in Denmark and Scandinavia, estimating at least seven thousand years.
Read like a London Tid Bits excerpt recounting Dr. Rogers and Dr. Dale’s running gag in Lancashire lectures. A Chicago lawyer and a physician solve a baby mix up riddle. A lighthouse keeper’s daughter recovers from measles with Dr King’s New Discovery after two and a half bottles, per a Detroit doctor. Trial bottle offered at J R Weston’s drugstore.
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