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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1895
Page
2
Miscellany notes from the Gownsend Messenger including a 104-year-old immigrant at Castle Garden, Oklahoma town sites described as easy as opening jackpots, and various remarks on politics crime and journalism. The piece cites Dr Walker, Mr Talmage, Marcus Whitman, and references to Pennsylvania beer ruling and a bigamy arrest in Akron.
Army authorities have tested rubber heels for infantrymen. An initial 100 pairs were issued mainly at Fort Leavenworth. Favorable reports prompted a further order for 500 pairs. The heels wear like leather and reduce jar in walking, aiding comfort during marches, though some physicians warn about jar reaching the brain over long distances.
Consul Eugene Germain reports to the State Department that the vine louse has ruined 282,529 acres and partly damaged 186,160 more in Italy. Sicily shows the heaviest losses with 239,561 acres destroyed and 156,323 partly ruined. The pest spares southern Italy only in some areas. Central Italy reports fewer damages while Calabria and Sardinia face severe infestation. The government focuses on protecting Cagliari. spread in Italy is slower than in other nations.
Police Captain Jack Campbell recalls a childhood fright in Tennessee when a tavern guest drew a razor and nearly killed himself in bed. The man slashed his own neck as Campbell fled through a ground floor window, leaving the motive a mystery.
Reports claim a Cincinnati insurer accepts 700000 in life policies on consumptives using the Amick Chemical Treatment. The Amick Chemical Co pays premiums and issues policies to patients, citing world leading statistics on consumptives and favorable risk with treatment. Also notes a sinking Algerian peak once 1409 feet tall shrinking to about 800 feet near Fezzara lake with historical city submersion.
The notice promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward for incurable cases. It cites F J Cheney & Co of Toledo and asserts the firm’s trustworthiness. Walding Kinnan & Marvin endorse the firm and note the product is taken internally with testimonials free. Sold by all druggists. Hall’s Family Fills are six cents.
The Megascolides Australis is a four to six foot long earthworm from Australia. It resembles the common angleworm in color and structure and is harmless. Removal from burrows is difficult as the worm can hold to the den walls, sometimes tearing itself in two if pulled.
A dramatic exchange unfolds as a woman refuses to remove her hat in a theater arguing that paying $1 to see the play justifies her accessory. She mocks the audience for their supposed lack of taste, noting the hat's $17 value and suggesting they deserve their ignorance.
The piece portrays Baron Alphonse de Rothschild of Paris as a powerful European magnate whose fortune attracts both admiration and danger. It notes his vast holdings from Russian oil to Chilean nitrates, his Ferrieres chateau, and the threats from anarchists and anti Semites while stressing his art collection and charitable work.
A profile of Nikola Tesla notes him as a gifted foreign inventor who believes all labor will soon be performed by electricity. It outlines his background, family ties to the Rothschilds, career arc from Gratz to Paris and Edison, and his breakthrough in wire photo transmission.
In a darkly comic exchange a patient asks for teeth extraction and refuses nitrous oxide. The dentist counters with standard anesthesia but the patient insists kerosene will do, highlighting unsafe DIY dental antics.
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