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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1899
Page
7
The Rio Grande Western railway starts dining cars on through trains effective June 1 with Nos. 2 and 4 routes from Ogden to Salt Lake City. Westbound service includes morning and night diners with à la carte options and a full Utah market menu.
A collage of short items mentions Colonel Ingersoll's theater interruption in Toronto, Baltimore and Ohio locomotive upgrades, Lord Rosebery at Eton, silly medical quips, shoe care ads, corkscrew hacks, Jewish marriage traditions, and various other brief notices and filler items from a late 19th or early 20th century paper.
A San Francisco public Chinese school posted the highest percentage in city exams with Wong Bock Yue leading all pupils, including white students, in the eighth grade with 97 percent. The school, presided by Miss Rose Thayer, serves about 150 Chinese pupils across five grades and draws attention from Superintendent Webster to its unique impact on local education.
The article traces U S cigar et production from 2 1 0 0 0 000 in 1889 to 4 063 000 000 by 1897, then notes a tax rise from 50 cents to 1 50 per thousand. Despite reduced production in 1899 to 3 785 000 000, American cigarets exports rose while taxes paid climbed to 4 203 000 in 1889, up 610 000 over the prior year.
The article debunks the idea of Gretna Green as a fixed place and explains that Gretna Green marriages stem from simple Scottish law. It notes that no single location existed, just border contracts and witnesses, and that many such ceremonies lacked valid form unless a proper ceremony occurred. It discusses domicile rules and England’s stance on recognition.
The Mobile city commission prepares a heroic eight foot figure monument to Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes of the Confederate navy. Semmes, born in Maryland, served in the Mexican War and commanded the Alabama in the clash with the Kearsarge off Cherbourg.
A London physician calls himself a consulting cyclist and offers paid guidance on whether to ride the bicycle and how to ride. He will advise on speed distance timing gear and bicycles, promising to aid those with bicycle tendencies.
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