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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1893
Page
2
A recent mining decision requires notice of mineral patent applications to be published in the newspaper issued nearest the claim. Expect owners of mines in Beaver Creek Park St Louis Rodersburg and parts of Dogtown to advertise in the Messenger when applying for patents. illegal publications waste time and money.
It is estimated postal head of Texas cattle will be driven to Milk river ranges this season. Northern Montana stock losses last season prompted more purchases this year. Rev J Wesley Hill warned Helena druggists he will challenge morphine sales amid prescription laws. Beer cattle prices rise as Butte and Helena butchers clear central Montana stock. Neilson Story values stall fed cattle at 100 each. Orlando Dewing, old timer, last week crossed the range. he mined since 1864. This year hurts the trail blazers of Montana.
Nebeker handed over 770 million dollars to Daniel Morgan on May 1 as the treasury completed a year long transfer. Gold and silver are weighed not counted, with 60 clerks and 40 laborers handling bags worth 10 000 dollars each and 250 to 500 dollar silver bags under tight supervision. The process dulls romance, likening it to moving sacks of potatoes.
A large Venice mosaic panel portrays Columbus presenting Native Americans and goods to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand after his voyage. The two hundred square foot piece uses thirty eight figures in three groups, crafted from enamel cubes in a Venetian mosaic technique. It will pendant another panel showing Columbus landing in America.
A Pacific Northwest timber study reports Washington and Oregon host over a thousand wood firms with about 230 million dollars in capital and 25 900 workers. Yearly outputs near 825 million dollars with ten million dollars in exports. Washington standing timber estimated at 413 trillion feet could build 41 million cottages.
A French Geological Society paper by M Transchold argues oceans are drying as land rises and waters are stored in glaciers lakes and hydrated minerals. He cites cooling crust effects and perpetual ice driving gradual ocean lowering with potential acceleration.
The Pall Mall Budget notes Big Ben is the world’s largest clock, with a twenty three foot diameter dial and numerals two feet long. The minute hand spans fifteen feet, and the clock can be affected by snowfall. The parliament tower light rises forty three steps above Big Ben and now emits two thousand candle power.
A man came to the United States poor as a church mouse and saved ten dollars in a year. He photographed himself on the marble city hall porch claiming the building as his baronial castle and joking the register’s office is his stable.
An electrical journal questions how to prevent wheel slips on winter rails to reduce street car collisions. In Scranton Pennsylvania a recent spike in crashes is blamed on slick rails despite salt sprinkling. salt becomes a powdery film that returns the danger. The piece notes potential profits for an inventor offering a solid remedy.
J B Wilson of 371 Clay Street Sharpsburg Pa asserts Dr King's New Discovery cured his wife after La Grippe and pneumonia threat when other remedies and physicians failed. Robert Barber of Cooksport Pa says it did him more good than anything ever used. Trial bottles available at J R Weston's. Large beetles noted.
A Philadelphia Press item describes a man who keeps five large gray rats as pets. He traps young rats, drowns them to exhaustion, revives them with brandy and nursing, and the grateful creatures become devoted pets that follow him, ride in a coach of his making, and display tricks. The piece also ponders a Pacific geography metaphor with coral covered tops and bare bases.
A list shows profit-sharing establishments in various nations. France has ninety two, Austria three, Sweden four, Italy four, Switzerland sixteen, Germany twenty six, Belgium five, United States thirty five, Portugal one, Spain one, England six four, Denmark four, Holland five, Russia one, totaling two hundred fifty five.
The ad offers Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a guarantee of relief or refund. La Grippe sufferers report speedy recovery and a sample bottle is offered at no charge. Large sizes 50c and 1.00 available at J R Weston s Drug Store.
A collection of kitchen formulas includes a Darwen Murrins batter for muffins and a Fran Sauce for fish that uses butter, flour, cider, herbs, and eggs. Also listed are a sugar syrup for candy, and a method for broiling sour apples with minimal risk of burning and a faint almond flavor from the seeds.
A collage of brief humorous exchanges and asides from Tid-Bits and Punch feature characters arguing over debts and mistaken identities. Jokes about faces remembered on streets and a groom reining in a quarrel highlight lighthearted social satire.
The article notes Queen Victoria will send copies of her books to be shown as genuine curiosities in Chicago. Princess Beatrice, Princess Christian, and Queen Victoria herself plan to contribute original literary works to the women’s exhibition, including Leaves from the Highlands diary.
Instructions on table manners for children emphasize not retrieving from the saucer, using a napkin as a bib, defer to elders and guests, avoid loud eating or drinking, eat slowly, and quietly discard uneaten food.
The text lists figures on wealth and fish, Massachusetts towns with no resident physicians, male and female populations in the United States, languages spoken worldwide, and Bible translations. It presents a snapshot of demographic and linguistic estimates from the period.
A trivia note cites a wild duck cruising at ninety miles per hour. New Zealand allows daily trout harvests of up to one hundred pounds using a minnow or eighty pounds with a fly. A Pennsylvania bill would make killing birds illegal except on the wing. New Zealand has created two island bird and wildlife reservations.
A historic note extols Electric Bitters as the leading pure remedy among tonics with no intoxicating content. It claims to cure stomach and liver ailments and kidneys issues, aids sick headache and digestion, and drives malaria from the system with guaranteed satisfaction.
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