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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1900
Page
2
A humorous mix of social quips and political jests features John Barleycorn as a comic slugger, Philadelphia’s growing talk, a Chicago marriage by quick acquaintance, Minnesota congressman Eddy’s praised bluntness, and a jab at double faced politics with Eddy’s quip about his two faces.
The passage notes Ruskin’s lavish but impractical tea shop run by two capable women and his belief that rivals’ gas-lit windows affected success. It then discusses the Chicago Tribune’s suit against the Associated Press over news rights and alleged purchase of London Times content under a contract. The AP denies wrongdoing and contends news came from London by cable.
The United States has stood without a peer in electrical manufacturing and research. The nation’s supremacy is attributed to the widespread practical application of electrical science and the full scope given to investigation, experiment, and invention.
In parts of Italy filbert crops rival vine produce in importance. Bushes planted 15 to 25 feet apart gain air and sun. Fruit in year three, with plantations up to a century old still bearing. Deep clay soil suits filberts, planting from slips in November and December. Suffer from hail and cold winds but rarely disease.
A. E. Haserick, a Plum er officer imprisoned in Pretoria, writes from Cape Town that officers are confined in the Model School with a gymnasium, forming classes and Sandow exercises, afternoon rounders, and well equipped dungeons. He claims Boers are not the savages some editors portray.
Major Anderson leads Colville delegation to Washington with Lot Barnaby and Orpan ghan to press compensation for 1891 land ceded. Lot, about 70, revered yet peaceful, accompanies interpreters to seek justice as Coeur d Alene payments contrast with Spokane lack of payment.
Miss Eva Roch aged 22 has slept for 28 days then 14 days in a strange coma and now lies near death. physicians declare no hope while family faith centers on miracles at St Anne de Beaupre. She regained some sight then sank again with blindness in one eye and has lived on scant nourishment.
Rev. Dr. W. S. Rainsford of New York told an Episcopal gathering in Philadelphia that churches fail because they resist new conditions. He argued clergy are narrow and ignorant and the church must adapt to evolving duties, recognizing that what is good in one age may not suit the next.
A reflective musing on church duties and the vigor of religious bodies. The speaker posits that the living God’s organization should be inherently vital, yet questions whether it truly is, contrasting growth and mortality as guiding choices.
Charles Snyder, keeper of the north cases, recounts thrilling and dangerous feeding methods in the Bronx Zoological Park reptile house. He describes handling venomous cobras and cottonmouths with soap-box covers, vaseline on The Ghost boa, and forcing food to a stubborn yellow tree snake with a fish-on-a-stick tactic.
A southern state case reports a clay eating scrub woman who allegedly devoured high value blocks of pure kaolin at the State Geological Museum. The State Geologist found tooth impressions on remaining specimens and detectives investigated the mystery. The accused negress reportedly had a long standing appetite for clay.
An 800 to 900 foot high island in the Bay of Plenty called White Island is rich in sulphur and gypsum with a central boiling acid lake of about fifty acres. A boat can navigate its lake but sulphur extraction has been limited. The piece ends noting vanity as a persistent habit.
A prose and verse fragment collection evokes frontline memories and homeship. Hattie’s fear and farewell mingle with a Highland poem about a mother awaiting her son who never returns, blending Old Forts, pibroch, lamplight, and a kiss at the gate of heaven.
The article in Pear sons Magazine records Matthew Major Arthur Griffiths describing life under fire in the Crimean War. He recalls reckless youths in trenches before Sebastopol and how nerves, teaching, and example shape courage under dangerous exposure.
The text lists Leipzic 1813 with 90 000 dead or missing, Borodino 1812 with about 74 000, and Belle Alliance 1815 with 61 000 dead or wounded. It notes Waterloo Allied losses around 22 976 killed or wounded and French losses over 30 000, then cites Crimean War allied losses about 250 000 and Russian up to 750 000.
The text lists casualty figures from Alma Sebastopol and Gettysburg like 619 killed and 2860 wounded for Russia, 8000 Russian losses, 18000 killed and wounded with 22000 prisoners at Sebastopol, and 141000 Federals versus 52000 Confederates at Gettysburg. It compares ratios in Leipsic Borodino and Belle Alliance and notes heavy Franco-Prussian losses at Rezonville Gravelotte with 15000 French killed in three days.
Excerpt from Dr. O'Meara's diary in Century notes Napoleon's fear of surveillance at St Helena. He denounces a reporting officer, vows to resist any attempt to enter his chamber, and questions the jailer governor’s purpose while listing hostile foreign peoples.
Forts Moultrie and Sullivan on Sullivan's Island in Charleston harbor have been repaired and occupied by regular artillery garrisons. Modern rapid firing guns replace relics of the Civil War era, with entry permitted only by order of the secretary of war. Headquarters of the First Artillery are at Sullivan's Island and garrisons exist at Sumter and Moultrie.
French authorities entertain proposals for a pistol saber combining a small firearm in the hilt with a retracting blade. On impact the blade recedes and fires, delivering a shot that penetrates steel breastplates. Weighing only one third more than a normal saber, it remains usable as a sword when unloaded and could aid cavalry engagements.
A stark excerpt from F Norreys Connell outlines brutal infantry guidance. It urges soldiers to prioritize killing enemies over self preservation and to shoot or aim at vital targets when engaged, warning against distraction by others observing.
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