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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1896
Page
4
Advance booth reservations and rates set at one dollar per inch per month. Town post office entry lists the notice as second class matter for Townsend with reminders about advance arrangements.
The Montana Democratic state convention is urged to back free coinage and restore the wool tariff, amid factional talk of McKinley and Cleveland, with warnings that gold standard support could cost November votes. The piece notes Montana's shift and the broader national pressure on silver and protectionism.
A rhetorical defense of country press financing warns that publishers profit from looms of labor and expense. It condemns journalists who publish arguments favoring 16 to 1 free coinage of silver and calls for a boycott of lazy unprincipled reporters.
A Wisconsin reader faces a dense defense of free silver at 16 to 1, arguing remonetization would boost mining jobs, ease money scarcity, and expand circulation. The author claims silver’s value would rise relative to gold and attacks current journalism as biased toward the gold standard. He invokes Democratic history and warns against paymaster interests. Parks' Cough Syrup for Coughs and Colda, Sold by W. E. Tierney & Co.
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