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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1892
Page
2
A Manchester industrialist meeting urges international monetary cooperation to restore free coinage of gold and silver. The piece notes London as a financial hub, warns of McKinley era policies, and says England faces turmoil unless the monetary conference results in price boosts for silver.
Guests request the room where Emma Abbott died at the Templeton Hotel as a memorial site. An elderly couple recalling the final moment noted it was the last sight she had on earth. The famed performer had many friends, according to the Tribune.
The piece links the word quarantine to the Italian quarantina and medieval practice of forty days isolation for ships from sick ports. It notes Anglo-Saxon timing under Egbert and credits Venetians with the adoption of the practice, alongside a humorous anecdote about a beggar's recovered speech and hearing after a noble gift.
A New Jersey man seeks hay fever relief from pine needles and tobacco. A London journal recalls a prize definition of "A Friend" as the first to arrive when the world ends. A laughing jackass warns by dawn with a chorus-like cry. Rats overrun a St. Louis Mercantile club. building torn down for rat-proof replacement. Finest razor grades rival Damascus blade texture. Swedish razor grain shifts direction after use. Cool nights follow hot days as British Gnatong fort records 94 to 17 degree swings.
Mrs E Berp Gross is named ensign of her husband s former unit the Twenty third New Jersey. A British army report shows 101741 regulars at home with 12893 Irish natives. Machias public library will use ballast stones from the Margaretta wreck for its open fireplace. German artillery tests a three legged steel tubular ladder for surveying and directing fire from a wagon. Sweden adopts smokeless powder praised for easy manufacture no flame no heat and high initial velocity for bullets.
Senator Kenna of West Virginia is an avid amateur photographer with a dedicated studio in his new Washington home. Mrs. Gen. Custer funded a young girl’s education from the proceeds of seventy-two readings, while Mrs. Hannan Maron of Brockton was born just before Washington's retirement and has lived under every president. Maj. J. W. Powell of the Geological Survey recalled boys driving ox teams for book study as roads then offered geology opportunities.
A survey of female composers from 1675 to 1885 notes fifty five serious operas fifty three comic operas and two oratorios with additional cantatas and ballads. It highlights Prof Jusrin Barnny knighted by Queen Victoria born in Yorkshire and Sir Arthur Sullivan like a choir boy. It cites the middie C as the favored vocal note and records Scuvneart as a rapid writer who produced three or four songs a night and died at thirty one leaving over six hundred works.
A collage of quirky lines from period papers includes a doctor giving seasonal cholera remedies with ice cream and beer, a Detroit Free Press joke about homeopathy, a playful child declaring fearlessness while a mother cautions him, and a traveler remark about an extended European trip cut short by his wife.
The blossom of the wild grape is adopted as Oregon's state flower. A Boston dry goods firm offers a gymnasium for its 1,500 female employees. Miss Carmarine V Curry of Syracuse can allegedly type 182 words per minute. English hawthorn trees reach New Hampshire on Austin Corbin's estate. A Hallowell excursion party demonstrates thrift through local speculation.
J B Wilson of Sharpsburg Pa says Dr Kings New Discovery cured his wife after La Grippe and pneumonia threat, beating other remedies and doctors. Robert Barber of Cooksport Pa claims it helped his long trouble. Free trial bottles at J R Weston's Drug Score. Large bottles 50c and 1.
A column offers practical tips and recipes including lemon polishing for brass fixtures, potato balls fried in hot fat, a cream sauce for eggs, Graham pudding, and sweet potato desserts. It cites journals like Christian Inquirer Harper's Bazar and Household hints from Boston Budget era publications.
Reports from Europe describe a 900 year old Swiss hotel and Roman graves uncovered near Lagneau Alsace with two warrior skeletons and coins. France reports 6 million savings depositors holding £112 million. Paris merchants ship birds in the thousands from the Americas Africa and India. A Sussex correspondent notes brides favor love and berries over obedience in vows.
A note on Emanuel Swepennone’s Arcana Calestia printed when the author was 61. The piece discusses global newspaper readership, a London sale of Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield first edition for 175, and the copyright price of 300 dollars.
A new Methodist Episcopal church rises in Glasgow Montana as the nearest church lies 267 miles away. The item notes a clergy salary issue for Rev. Joseph Osgood of Cohasset Massachusetts and marks his long tenure since 1942 with a fiftieth anniversary celebration. The 1890 Meth Episcopal census lists 2,209,081 communicants, up from 1,707,006 in 1880, illustrating the church’s growth.
Society notes describe jewels valued at about £1,500,000 worn in drawing-room display. Thames housekeeping has reached new luxury levels this season. A German firm introduces Wartramp or cellulose tablecloths and book backs in two tones. In South Greenland hair ribbon color marks social status from maid to widow. A country seat wedding on the Hudson featured a Virginia reel danced by bride groom bridesmaids and ushers.
A historical note outlines milestones from copper bottoms in 1783 to the first use of the dinner fork in Italy 1431 and England 1908. It recalls the 20th anniversary on November 9 since the great Boston fire that destroyed £100,000,000 worth of property and mentions the coffee tree's journey from Mocha to Holland in 1616 and to the West Indies in 1726.
Sample bottles free at J. R. Weston's Drug Store. Trial bottle offered at no cost to prove its efficacy for coughs colds throat and chest troubles. Large size available for a price. Sufferers with la grippe praise its speedy recovery effects.
Germany prepares to erect its official empire building at Jackson Park for the world’s fair under Architect Radtke. Stone blocks and iron supports are manufactured in Germany with a cathedral gothic end and natural wood interiors. August Piedler oversees construction with an estimated cost of 125000 dollars.
Two Spaniards, Juan Fernandez Villamil and Cyrus Berazaluec, plan a 16 000 seat arena near the Chicago fair to stage authentic bull fights similar to Madrid. They claim Paris exposition crowds welcomed the spectacle and say authorities may require toned down performances with rubber horns and torches, but aim to present a genuine bullfight to American audiences.
The United States Geological Survey has spent ten years crafting a vast three-quarters acre map of Connecticut, Long Island, and eastern New York to be shown at the world’s fair. The map, six by four feet, will take at least twenty-five years more, and will detail streams, hills, farms, villages, and cities. A complementary spherical outline map will illustrate elevations and mountain ridges.
The product is praised as the leading medicinal tonic with no beverage or intoxicant contents. It claims to cure sick headache indigestion constipation and malaria and guarantees satisfaction with a money back refund. Price is six cents per bottle.
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