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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1891
Page
6
Advertising rates are listed for Townsend readers. The column includes commentary on the Mine Inspector Law, mining safety issues, Anaconda Company operations, car shortages, and local market notes. It closes with a remark about assessment work season and timing.
The piece critiques Secretary Foster and Col. C. Goodwin over the rising foreign trade by $74,000,000 in twelve months and the gold supply. It argues that silver plays a subordinate role to gold, questions the impact on prices, and suggests converting silver purchases into usable coin to ease the monetary strain.
The census bulletin to the dominion parliament describes the tough methods used by Canadian enumerators. It notes vast travel by steamer, pack horses, dog teams, canoes, and even a hunted horse incident, covering Ontario Quebec Manitoba and coastal routes to complete the population count.
A description of Mrs. Frederic Vanderbilt’s luxurious linen closet with ornate storage and scented linens, plus a note on the ceremonial pyx in England and a brief profile of Richard Hoops, a longtime resident on the Osage river. An endorsement for Electric Bitters follows, touting its health benefits.
Mme de Variola, a 98 year old nurse from Nantua, Ain, recalls June 17 1815 near the Waterloo plain. Her father M Carpan sheltered two daughters at a windmill as Napoleon and Prussian forces fought. they aided wounded soldiers that night. Her husband was Spanish, once wealthy, now dead. she is sustained by her children.
Two prospectors visiting San Nicholas Island off the Ventura coast found a barren land four by twelve miles with extensive human remains along the beach and ridge. They estimate over four thousand Indians buried there with a lone island woman survivor. The report notes sheep on the island and a buried shanty, while also describing a Munich institute’s giant microscope and cooling system for Chicago World’s Fair exhibition.
Grand Duchess Sergius of Russia is allowed to visit her father, the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, amid European uproar over her conversion from Lutheranism to Orthodoxy. A ukase tied to court funds prompted the shift, while a Colorado desert lake exhibits periodic ebb and flow, with a nearby cave draining excess water about monthly.
An old advertisement promises Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a money back guarantee if no benefit after fair trial. Trial bottle free at J R Weeton’s drug store. Large sizes 5c and 190.
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