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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1891
Page
3
A lengthy travelogue describes Korea’s three year mourning for royal deaths with sackcloth gowns white hats and screens, plus social stoppages and marriage delays. It contrasts Chinese rites for emperors empresses and officials including shifts to white and blue mourning attire and the staged resumption of social contact.
A London Lancet note discusses the legal confusion over chewing gum containing paraffine wax. A Stanley borough case resulted in a fine for selling gum priced to the purchaser but containing wax, prompting debate over whether the item is food and how the term chewing gum should be defined.
The Greek king George has a rumored income near six million dollars with minimal expenses. Queen Olga donates her fortune to charity and hospital work while touring hospitals with personal friends and the poor. The royal children have no titles and are known by their Christian names, with a tale of a hotel clerk misnaming them as princes in Germany.
A Denver Republic analysis portrays the Mexican army as a rigid, venal institution led by President Diaz. It cites dispatches of soldiers to be shot for insubordination and argues the army, largely Indian in composition, sustains despotism yet preserves stability. It warns reform would require a much larger force to subdue revolts and brigandage.
A labor orator questions allegiance while a Boston observer quips about echoing whom. The Imperial Bank of Germany may issue up to 75 million dollars in paper money backed by gold and silver, with a government 5 percent rate on excess. The bank has limited itself to the stated amount and metal on hand, about 225 million in total. Also advertised is a Montana stock ranch for sale as the owner plans to move, with details at the office.
A Chicago Auditorium hotel uses three candescent lamps at a desk and three upper floor stations to signal bell calls. Guests press room buttons triggering a lamp, a reply from the station, and a running clerk. The light stays on until the clerk returns, enabling bets on run times.
A curious essay reviews blame on electrical devices for fires in Japan’s parliament and questions whether the telephone or cholera germs could spread via electricity. It also recalls an Ohio man lost in Michigan, a Berlin chef’s musical egg boiling polka, and other quaint ideas.
The Brooklyn Eagle notes few women have fur expertise yet highlights a young Brooklyn shop assistant who can assess skin quality, earning praise for selling the most garments over the holidays and securing a large order for a Cloth lined with silver tipped Russian sable worth about seventeen hundred dollars. It discusses rising fur prices and the practice of heirlooms.
The postmaster placed one cent into a Camanche county postmaster’s special account in a Wichita bank. Settlement found the amount short and credit will be noted. The process to confirm the credit involves officials in sequence and receipts. Also cites the Lion Bridge in China with its arches and emperor’s command. An unrelated name fragment appears at end.
Archaeologists reveal tombs in what seems a city of tombs at Eretria on Euboea. Gold diadems wreaths and dove earrings indicate wealth. a single epitaph mentions a daughter of Aristotle. The stage architecture and a low central arch provide clues to ancient theater construction.
A Philadelphia Times writer recalls a western Alabama visit to a dog named Carlo who eats glass. The owner claims the aged pointer began swallowing broken lamp chimneys two years prior, possibly to aid digestion, and cites Sir Thomas Brown on ground glass not harming a stomach.
A Chicago woman returning from years as a missionary in India reports receiving over 2000 corsets and 700 rubber garters in clothing boxes from New York charitable women. She laments whiskey from traders and corsets from women deny natives comfort in this world or the next.
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