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Fragmented passage mentions Burlington excursions and columns with cryptic names and numbers like two cent items. Reads as incomplete local notice fragment with unclear dates places and people.
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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1896
Page
3
New Chemical Telegraph Promises 2000 Words a Minute
Patrick Delany described a chemical telegraph at Columbia College that could transmit over 2000 words per minute, enabling 32000 seventy word messages daily from New York to Chicago. The device records Morse code on paper and uses rapid perforation and brush contacts to drive speed and lower costs, potentially eliminating the typewriter and replacing tape perforators in offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atrick B. Delany
New York Electrical Society
Columbia College
New York World
New York
Chicago
Delany
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Mr. Delany
Post Office
Settle with the sword duels linger at Heidelberg university
Heidelberg students persist in the practice of dueling at Hirschgasse with weekly bouts and a strong club scene led by the Saxe-Borussia. The article notes the clash between strict imperial law and public acceptance, as officials condemn the custom while the tradition endures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heidelberg
Philadelphia Telegraph
Germany
Hirschgasse
Saxe-Borussia
Borussia
Bonn
Hohenzollerns
Supreme Court of the Empire
Reichstag
Kaiser
Supreme Court
Illustrator Teacher Recalls Old Oaken Buckets Tale
A primary school teacher in the mission reads The Old Oaken Buckets to pupils and asks them to copy and illustrate. One girl submits a verse with dots a circle and three buckets. The circle stands for the well and the three buckets for oak iron and the one in the well while the dots show cherished infant memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mission
Lizzie
Dont Let Strangers Rise the Baby Advice
A Ladies' Home Journal note by Isabel A. Mallon warns mothers and nurses to guard infants from strangers who kiss or handle them. The piece argues that outsider affection can cause harm, urging strict limits and careful discharge to protect the baby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabel A. Mallon
Ladies’ Home Journal
Lumber for Australia Loaded for Australian Mines
Timber shortages in Australian gold fields push several steamships to Pacific coast routes carrying California pine and fir. Each ship transports between 2,000,000 and 2,500,000 feet of lumber for use in the Australian mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Pacific
Not Scholars But Gentlemen Collision Ends in Duel
A Detroit Free Press report details a staged duel in Custer City between Deadwood Jack and Montana Jim. Both men bowed and faced off on the town square at seven, exchanged shots, and both were wounded with Deadwood Jack mortally. Jack urges a dignified funeral as the crowd gathers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Detroit Free Press
Montana
Jim
Custer City
Last Chance
Bald Eagle
Deadwood
D. J
Rocky Mountain Joe
Deadwood Jack
The Pyromaniac's Smile Tale
Fire Marshal Whitcomb notes a peculiar mouth puckering in suspects during testimony. He claims this smile signals guilt and has led to strong testimony and confessions in about a dozen cases. The remark comes from the Boston Transcript.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitcomb
Boston Transcript
Prices fall hurt producers not consumers in money scarcity
The piece argues that cheaper sugar and other goods due to monetary policy harm producers more than buyers. It uses farmer finances to show how price declines, without offsetting wage or tax relief, reduce net income and increase debt. It warns against demonetizing silver and claims scarcity of money drives cheaper prices and lower consumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willett & Grey
United States
Inter Ocean
Rediscovered iridescent glass art in ancient artifacts
The article notes iridescent glass, once a lost art, was rediscovered in 1878 and now common. It explains the creation by exposing melted glass to sodium salt vapors and describes artifacts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art found in Cyprus and elsewhere. Many pieces show rainbow colors from decay splitting the glass laminae.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
Christ
Cyprus
Dolls Sold On Song Cries Spark Customer Dispute
Two Miller children sang a song in a Koko mo shop after reading an ad for dolls "for a song" and received the dolls. The merchant Mr Weddle has since changed the advertisement wording.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Weddle
Alfred Miller
The New Women at Goettingen Faculty
Goettingen welcomes thirty one women students this winter term. They pursue history mathematics modern languages and natural history and for the first time a woman studies medicine at the university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goettingen
Gold at a Premium Sparks Wall Street Shock
A writer analyzes the persistent gold premium and its impact on Wall Street and the economy. The piece questions the meaning of parity and warns about varying premium levels from 1 to several percent, noting past bond profits and shifting treasury reserve thresholds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Treasury Reserve
Populists and Bimetallic Unions Seek Unified Vote
A Nebraska paper reports a merger of the American Bimetallic League, National Bimetallic Union, and National Silver Committee aimed at backing a party favoring bimetallism. The unions deny any plans to field their own ticket and emphasize education, insisting Populists, Republicans, and Democrats can unite for the bi metallic cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Bimetallic League
National Bimetallic Union
National Silver Committee
Weekly Tribune of
Callaway
Neb
American Bimetallic Union
National Bimetallist
United States
Bearing His Stock and the Silver Scramble
A Peoria Journal editorial muses that while the United States holds all its silver reserves at home, other nations will compete for the metal. It argues that Uncle Sam as the top silver producer cannot expect other countries to push prices up if he does not release his own stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Uncle Sam
Peoria Journal
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