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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1897
Page
4
Reports from Butte Montana announce a vast ledge on Upper Sage creek with quartz yielding 100 dollars per ton. Utica females deserting towns while prospectors rush to stake claims as Elk City Idaho reports a 17000 dollar clean-up and rich placer deposits.
United States marshal links the John Bull wounded in Spokane to an indictment for using the mails to defraud. He allegedly conspired with M. Feganbush and B. C. W. Evans of Butte in selling bogus mining stocks. Feganbush and Evans were indicted and arrested. Bull may be brought to Butte if he remains abroad.
Interior Department again places Bitter Root valley Indian lands on market after previous appraisals by General Carrington. Jennings sees J D Farrell launch with splash on Kootenai river as Little Anita Harris christens the bow. Toronto Farmers Loan and Savings Company to wind up by voluntary liquidation due to real estate depreciation and unproductive assets totaling 1 353 000. A proverb closes the piece.
An offer highlighting a 10 cent savings on a package of Schilling's Best baking powder from Seeing & Company of San Francisco. The ad suggests the product helps you bake a better cake and implies value for your money with a money back guarantee.
A Seattle based Yukon company plans a combined rail and river steam route to the Klondike. President Andrew F. Burleigh announced a $1,000,000 contract with Moran Bros for 12 steamers and 24 barges to operate on the Yukon river from St Michaels next spring. The firm, with $10.6 million capital, will extend a railroad over the Chilkoot pass to link Five Fingers with river services. Headquarters are in Seattle.
Four children of Michael McNulty and wife were found slain near St. Julienne Quebec as their neighbor Morrin reported the brutal killings. The daughters aged 18 16 and 14 and a 19 year old son were killed with their throats cut in the home and yard. A posse hunts the killer amid unknown motive and no suspect named.
Colville prosecutors file information charging John Hennessey with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to murder John T. Martin on October 13. Defense attorney James L. Crotty of Spokane has been retained. Hennessey previously shot two men in a Eureka cabin and fled to British Columbia before being captured at Grand Forks.
A Rio de Janeiro dispatch reports a 40 member gang overrunning Espiritu Santo state with killings and pillage. The band attacked an Italian colony, killing six and wounding four. The Italian consul demands Brazil send troops to protect colonists and punish the offenders.
Benjamin Dunn and John Dunn were sentenced to life in the Michigan state penitentiary for the murder of Curtis Wright. The article then surveys a Victorian tale of widow trafficking in chivalry and notes progress on the Oxford Dictionary project with word counts and classifications.
A collection of humorous vignettes and quotes about clergymen, lawyers, poets, and inventors. The stories include a Welsh tongue twister, a lawyer’s father in illness, a servant’s clever retort, a geography lesson, Verdi versus Hugo, a professor with quiet children, a New England pastor and his prayers, Edison’s early publishing ventures, and a near train disaster caused by a phosphorus bottle.
A veteran gymnasium director warns that shoulder braces weaken the muscles that hold the shoulder in place by easing their workload and by reducing blood flow. He advocates constant, self-administered exercises to improve erect carriage, noting they should be practiced many times daily, anywhere, without special gear.
A list of posture and movement rules to improve and maintain an erect stance. Items cover back alignment, shoulder positioning, blade squeezing, head and chest posture, arm movements, weight-bearing on the head, and walking with deliberate, confidence-building motions. The director warns against stooping even in gym practice and notes several alternative exercises.
Edward W Bok argues in the Ladies' Home Journal that smaller cities offer higher perceived value from a moderate salary. A thousand to two thousand dollars a year affords a comfortable life with a home, garden, safety, and strong community ties, where family, church, and social life thrive.
Washington Idaho Montana and British Columbia notes include Puget Sound wheat receipts 666 cars Seattle and 1499 thousand bushels Tacoma October record. sugar beets in Idaho and immigrant group at Clallam Bay seek government land. Miners ranchers protest game destruction and new tunnel work on Northern Pacific reaches December completion.
A man on horseback asks a barefooted boy and a girl about a Bailey living nearby. Responses defer to family elders with varying certainty, ending with a grizzled suggestion to ride six miles to a fork cabin for verification. The exchange mirrors period juvenile dialogue.
Charles Hosmer of Montreal, head of Canadian Pacific telegraph and a leader of multiple telegraph ventures, tells John W. Mackay at the Palace that within a year the government will build and complete a telegraph line to Dawson City along the Kennan route.
A cheerful woman falls into severe female blues after dyspepsia misdiagnosis. The piece argues Lydia I. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound swiftly cures these ailments and cites grateful letters stored in Mrs. Pinkham's library urging readers to try it.
Refused $5000000 offer from the Rothschilds of London for the Olive gold mine at Seine River, announced from Rat Portage by Hon. George Foster. Other items note Crozer Bros purchasing 157 acres and a sawmill in Salem Oregon with possession set for November 15.
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