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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1900
Page
7
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder for swollen burning feet and corns. It includes 25 cents at druggists and shoe stores, with a free sample offer and mailing address in LeRoy New York.
Special excursion rates quoted by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad offer travel between Grand Junction and Denver with two options at no extra cost. Four daily express trains, new dining cars, and through Pullman and sleeping cars to Chicago. Ask agents for details and tickets.
Special agents Pinecoffin and Dunham, believed drowned in Alaska, are reported safe along with their census records. The incident prompted search efforts and official confirmation of their wellbeing and documents.
W E McCurdy an engineer at the San Diego electric plant died after a 7500 volt shock. His hat lay by the dynamo and his body was found about twenty feet away, on a Wednesday.
A Civil War era pair of cannons will be melted down and recast into a statue symbolizing peace. The item continues with an unrelated ad line for Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters promising health benefits. In Texas, J. McCann, a farmer, shot and killed Hl. K. Chipley after Chipley refused consent to McCann marrying his fourteen year old daughter. McCann is jailed.
The W L Douglas Shoe Co of Brockton Mass markets a $3 50 shoe claiming direct factory sales with no middleman profit and union labor. In Lincoln Nebraska a severe windstorm hit at noon Tuesday with 76 mph velocity uprooting trees breaking glass and unroofing buildings.
A Boston notable is the Peabody Medical Institute at 4 Baldwin Street, named for George Peabody. It has 30 years of published research and offers a free Know Thyself pamphlet by mail for six cents postage. The passage also notes medical discoveries in Rome and various health product advertisements.
A bachelor recounts a July train encounter on the way to Scarborough. A pretty passenger learns the smoking car mislabel leads to embarrassment and a blushes at a wedding destination, prompting a humorous flirtation and social awkwardness.
A young woman plans to run away with a secret fiancé but changes her mind at Peterborough and York. The narrator helps her seek a telegraph and tea while learning they share mutual acquaintances. They exchange cards and promise to meet in London, with the girl later identified as Julian.
Pearson's Magazine recounts that camels cannot swim naturally though buoyant and heavyheaded. They can be taught to swim rivers with goatskins or jars strapped under their necks. During the Beluchistan expedition of 1898 camels were lowered from ships while drivers swam beside them, helping the animals rise and reach shore.
A London newspaper cites the widow of a Colenso casualty who greets condolences with a wry smile claiming she has ample money from newspapers and friends. She adds the war has created many happy homes, reflecting mixed views on the South African campaign.
Miss Edna Ellis of Higginsport Ohio describes decade of monthly agony with side pain and nervous system distress. After consulting multiple physicians and a specialist predicting no relief she followed Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound guidance and reports complete relief. She offers to answer letters for more details.
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