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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1892
Page
4
A formal statement urges focus on tree planting and decorating by the youth in public spaces and schools. The speaker testifies with an official seal affixed in the city, underscoring civic duties toward cemeteries highways and landscapes.
Town townsend trade and social items highlight farm needs and new business. Advertisements promote Berg Bros. and M. Byrnes Dia g on B Tonic Cure. Rail changes, school news, and lectures frame a busy community week with surveyors, mills, and a new hotel foundation underway.
Berg Bros announces a full line of groceries and farm products including five pound glass jar lard rolled oats rye and wheat cereals California breakfast food toilet soaps and a full line of fine cigars plus State Seal of Montana products for retail customers.
Dry Goods, Our Spring stock consisting of a large line of ginghams Zephyr cloths Bedford cord and other seasonable goods will arrive next week. Come and see us before you purchase. BERG PROS.
The notice proclaims a complete stock with prices lower than rivals. It advertises Deere Walking Plows Deer Gang Plows Deere Sulky Plows Deere Harrow and Deere Dise Harrowe plus all equipment for ranchers and miners.
Four hundred bushels of American Banner oats for sale. Early maturing with high yield, averaging 46 pounds per bushel on Beaver Creek ranch in 1591. Offered at 2 cents per pound cash, available at the ranch or delivered to R K R Depot in Placer, Montana Territory.
Complaint filed by Wm B Dolenty against Wm H Rowner for failure to comply with timber culture law on entry 1990 dated February 1888 in section 28 township 7 range 2 West Meagher County Montana. Parties summoned to appear April 20 1892 at 10 o clock a m to testify before E H Oman Townsend Montana. Bureau receiver M Bourquin recorded.
Missoula Democrats nominate Frank G Higgins for mayor amid national debates on silver legislation and force bill retaliation. The piece notes ongoing seal fishing tensions between the United States and Great Britain and labels Republicans as desperate in pushing party lines on the silver issue.
Townsmen are urged to press Sunday closing of World’s Fair buildings. Proponents claim it protects workers from employer control and offloads to beer gardens and churches. Notices warn of free reports for life events but charge for longer remarks. Also public notices on firm dissolution in Placer Montana and a lost bay filly, with rewards.
The co partnership dissolved by mutual consent. Tim McCarthy will continue the business at the old stand and pay all debts and collect all accounts. James Jobb signs. McCarthy thanks Townsend citizens for loyal patronage and pledges to earn future support. Townsend Montana January 1, 182.
An editor writes in his paper after years of marriage about the hardships of living with a wife from a cooking club. He urges a hypothetical rival to endure the same strains, from bad meals to sleepless nights, tying the difficulty to marrying a girl from a cooking school.
A feature on a puzzle contest from The Queen's, offering prizes for correct solutions to a two-person cutting task and a note on reader participation with stamps and a music piece included. Mentions Mr A and Mr B solving the tree problem with shared labor.
The notice touts Union Pacific round trip tickets to multiple western and midwestern cities with daily service and fast Helena to San Francisco connections. It claims reclining chair cars, choice eastern routes via Salt Lake City or Denver, two solid vestibuled trains daily, and deluxe sleeping and dining cars. Also promotes a free yearly Farm and Home paper with advanced subscriptions and extols Electric Bitters as a universal remedy with guaranteed satisfaction.
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