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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1894
Page
3
L. P. Fisher of 21 Merchants Exchange San Francisco is named as the newspaper advertising agent and the paper's file is kept at his office.
Palmer and Ry of San Francisco will receive subscriptions and solicit advertisements for the Town Messexcer. J C Kerley Justice of the Peace is at the Messexcer office. Collections made. Deeds and mortgages drawn and acknowledged. Agent for Standard Accident Insurance Company offering 52 weeks total disability payments. Insurance issued from $1000 to $35000. farmers insured at low rates.
Townsfolk learn of Miss Mollie Maybell offering spring hats and Berg Bos promoting cash sales. Mike Garnett runs a delivery wagon to camps, Pat Curley joins as conductor. Hair Renewer claims to restore color and prevent baldness. Northwestern Limited train ads highlight travel times from Minneapolis to Chicago. Weather light snow and high streams delay trout fishing until May first.
The note spreads bargain tales from Berg Brothers Townsend and Helena merchants. It touts cheap goods, farm product purchases, fresh fashions, a mail route update, and various local notices with anecdotes on remedies and travel options.
In Helena merchants claim long standing success with full weight and low prices. They buy in straight car load lots for spot cash to guarantee lowest prices and freight. Farmers from Missouri Crow Creek Deep Creek Duck Creek Confederate Beaver Creek valleys urged to trade.
Public notices and advertisements from Helena include a cattle oats purchase offer at 90 cents per hundred pounds from Canyon Ferry with a court sheriff notice dated April 184. Also listed are railway promotions for the Montana Union Railway with Pullman cars and ticket sales from 26 North Main Street Helena. Multiple business notices seek organizers for a Fraternal Benefit Order and a Parsian Steam Laundry offering steam washing and delivery through Townsend House.
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