Townsend Messen ger Friday Morning May Fifteen Twelve
Towns end newspaper notes large railroad spending in Montana to improve road bed and build a new Missouri River bridge near Townsend. It reports from Granite Star about two Ontari o arrivals, a suicide in Jefferson county, multiple Missoula county deaths, a fatal shooting in Demersville, and local civic and fraternal news including K of P lodge startup and Memorial Day plans.
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Montana
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Missouri River
Townsend
Missoula
Herrick
Burns
Demersville
Nere
Lynch
Flathead Lake
Great Northern Railway Company
Oldtimers Lost as May Claims More Elder Statesmen
May marks the further thinning of the veteran set as Father Menetry W Scott Wetzel D H Cuthbert and Dr B C Brooke join the long list of those departed. The old guard laments there are few left.
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Father Menetry
W. Scott Wetzel
D. H. Cuthbert
B. C. Brooke
Northern Pacific Agents Seize Land Near Helena
Northern Pacific Railroad agents jumped a quarter section near Helena from C. W. Cannon who had received a patent eleven years earlier. The incident sparks public discontent with the railroad.
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Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Helena
C. W. Cannon
Northern Pacific
Gold Discovery Date Debated by Documentary Evidence
A historical analysis argues the Coloma gold discovery occurred on January 24, 1848, not January 19. Diaries of Bigler, Smith, and Sutter align with Marshall’s account that gold samples were taken to Sutter’s Fort four days after discovery, challenging long held January 19 celebrations.
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California
J. W. Marshall
Coloma
John S. Hittel
Bigler
Henry W. Bigler
St. George
U. T
Mormon Battalion
Marshall
Pioneer Society of
San Francisco
Azariah Smith
Duaty
Sutter
Smith
New Helvetia
Chiron and His Cave Among Greek Heroes
The article recalls Chiron the centaur tutor in a Greek cave who trained famous youths including Orpheus, Mopsus, Bates, Tiphys, Castor and Polydences, and Heracles among others. It notes their skills in archery song sailing and strength and mentions other legendary figures born from that era. A naturalist estimates whales could break breakwaters with full speed jaws and a canoe tip warning ends the piece.
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Greece
Andrew Lang
St. Nicholas
Chiron
Orpheus
Colored Women of Boston Embrace Straight Hair Trend
The Boston Globe reports a craze among colored women to straighten kinky hair using a virginian introduced method. After washing and drying, a creamlike amber preparation is massaged in and hair is brushed to curl, lengthening from inches to two or more, with four hours needed. The process yields a permanent, Indianlike look.
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Boston
Boston Globe
Virginia
Sitting Bull
A Cow's Tail Snake Sighted in Wisconsin War Echoes
A Wisconsin correspondent recalls a 1869 La Crosse sighting of a red hair covered snake likened to a red cow's tail seen from a bridge over a Minnesota side sleugh. The six foot creature vanished after splashing a stick, while war anecdotes follow about Indian casualties and sharpshooter feats in a Chicago Tribune-voiced account.
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la Crosse
Wis
la Crescent
Minnesota
Mississippi
Mr. Davidson
Clyde House
Davidson
The Baggage Smasher Wins Public Praise
A humorous defense argues the baggage smasher caused minimal loss at Chicago Union Depot amid vast totals of baggage mail and packages. The piece suggests the public will honor him as a blessing to humanity for reducing breakage and theft.
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Guild
Union Depot
Chicago
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Townsend ‘Messenger
J.C. Krruzy
Granite Star
Ontario
Canada
John Flannagan
Strawberry Gulch
Jefferson County
Association of Congregational Churches of Montana
Great Falls
Livingston
Windy
Salvante
Butte
Rose Hertz
K of P
Flat Head Lake
J. L. Sloane
Bozeman
Frank G. Higgins
Missoula Co
Praing
Robert Sale Hill
City of
Helema
Tacoma
His
Wisconsin
Chicago Tribune
Brule
Park & Gold Dust Mines
W. E. Tierney & Co
Townsnd, Mont
J.C. Kerley
GREAT
Missouri Valley
Moun
Tain Mining District
Rich Park
Montanas
Hazleton & Blessing
Berg Brothers
Groceries
Deg Cook
AND
Lion
OUR
Black Diamond
Jersey Steel
Cheap Cash Store
G.M Jones
JONES
G. M. Jones
Townsend, Mont
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