Fragmentary OCR Item About Local Place
Incomplete text fragment mentions a local area and cleaning effort. Reads as a mid story note with unclear names and specifics. No clear event date or participants can be determined from the readable portion.
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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1895
Page
3
Incomplete text fragment mentions a local area and cleaning effort. Reads as a mid story note with unclear names and specifics. No clear event date or participants can be determined from the readable portion.
A narrator recounts a swift river expedition in Sarawak with the Dyett family. Walter Dyett shoots a massive boa constrictor to save his sister Adela after a dog Carlo is killed. The group buries Carlo and retrieves the snake’s fat for healing lore, noting the boa’s danger and a later second sighting nearby.
The sultan of Turkey funds Muslim missionaries to Africa to probe and counter Christian influence across the continent.
Virginia Yeaman Remnitz recounts Ellen's magical night at a Danish palace children's party. A real king and queen host lively play while Ellen, the minister's daughter, dances with royal ease and dreams of royalty. The king praises her honesty as the evening ends.
A Louisville man quips at the prevalence of the phrase under the weather while noting many citizens say they feel ill or burdened. He jokes about the common ailment and cites weather and air impurities as possible causes as a scientific observer links snow and frost to trapped impurities.
The Duc de Dino also known as Marquis de Talleyrand-Perigord, husband of a New York girl, publishes The Land of Silence. He earlier joined Pierre Loti on a Red Sea to Palestine journey described in Loti’s Le Desert and lauded by Henri Rochefort as the peerless witness to desert loneliness.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing undertook rapid design and production of 62.5 million dollars in four percent bonds for Secretary Carlisle. The process involved 480 rolls and intricate engraving, ledgering, and inkwork by 700 workers under Thomas F. Morris and J. P. Swann, with protection measures ensuring no loss or theft in twenty years. The first batch of bonds valued at one million dollars in coupons was completed in twenty two days.
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