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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1895
Page
7
Mrs. Townsend complains of summer exile as the Townsends join neighbors in leaving town for Beechside and Silver Creek. They tour farm life, miss modern comforts, trade jokes over fishing ads, and form a quick friendship with Mrs. Russel while awaiting a quiet country summer.
Mrs Townsend endures a hot, dusty rural visit at Square Tucker’s with a tow headed youth and a rough cart horse. She contemplates garden plans and comforts of home, then returns with two trunks after a week, reflecting that familiarity breeds contentment and longing for chairs, books, and veranda shade. The passage closes noting Paris liquor shop counts.
The article discusses how founders and benefactors gain lasting fame by establishing educational institutions. It cites Cornell Harvard Yale Stanford Hopkins Vanderbilt Vassar Whitman and Williston seminary as examples and argues naming a university college or seminary after a person preserves their memory for generations.
A large swarm of bees settled around a corner table during a daytime luncheon at Ascot. Visitors were stung, hats and bonnets were affected, and the queen bee briefly drew the swarm to a tree where a performer on a metal tray played music. The buzzing ended as the meal concluded.
A bicycle girl in bloomers caused a runaway in New York Central Park drawing comment that horses nearby whinny with delight. The sight prompts amused notes on cross city bicycling fashion.
Curios items include Australian green ants nests, a Pittsfield Maine prohibition town glass of embalming fluid, and a Leviticus inspired oyster scare. Brooklyn workers duped by a fake European trip plot, and a Milledgeville Georgia ghost prank ends with a burglar stealing from the prankster.
A chaotic collage of anti lynching sentiment mixes with sensational vignettes. The piece parodies mob justice while touting patent medicines such as Hostetter s Stomach Bitters and Parker s Ginger Tonic. It notes social gossip include Corry Carson s marriage plans and a bomb incident report.
The text promotes Syrup of Pigs as a cleanse and laxative and mentions a colossal diamond weighing about 11y ounces and valued at 25 million dollars. It presents medical and jewelry claims in a single fragment.
An ad invites readers to adopt a child through the International Children's Home Society in Chicago with a ninety day trial and stamps enclosed. It also notes unrelated items about the Paris Opera House, a patent remedy, and a mammoth tusk find, plus a drug price and 1890 production total.
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