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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1899
Page
3
A discussion contrasts urban fashion with flowers in hand or worn as bouquets, noting fragile city-bound blooms fade quickly. A garden-loving woman laments careless city handling while detailing care for stems and boxes to missions. She recalls a poetic image of cream-white blossoms in a blue bowl.
An observer notes the ongoing shift to ultra tight gowns with flat outsides and smooth lines. Underwear and corsetry move outward to erase waist fullness, while petticoats stay slim to knee and flare into abundant trim below, shaping a continuous silhouette.
A German controversy over how to address married women arises from four terms Gemahlin gattin frau and weib. The article discusses correct usage to prevent offense and social friction in language.
The piece satirizes formal titles tied to social class from general's consort to workingman's wife while recounting a deaf old mother who lives near Grant's tomb. On Memorial Day the Brooklyn cruiser fired twenty one guns and she smiles hearing “George is coming” as if her son nears.
A vivid description of a dress featuring a pretty colored canvas fabric with a pointed tunic over a double heliotrope glace silk petticoat, embroidered silk net bodice, taffeta lining, a canvas bolero, and a black and violet hat.
A country wedding in Ford county Kansas drew about 300 guests. The local paper notes a large beef slaughtered and cooked, three hogs roasted, seventy five pies and fifty cakes baked, fifteen gallons of canned peas, ten gallons of pickles, thirty chickens, plus bread ham and vegetables to feed all attendees.
A West Side tale centers on a young politician whose rise is whispered about as locals debate truth in the telling. The fragment hints at partisan dreams and public curiosity surrounding the figure.
Select sweet green peppers of equal size and core them. Parboil five minutes then stuff with softened bread crumbs minced meat and ham. Season with salt pepper butter and onion juice. Bake one half hour in stock then serve hot with more stock poured over.
Directions for a baked omelet and ginger puffs include milk and butter in a double boiler with eggs to finish, a light bake. Ginger puffs blend flour ginger nutmeg sugar wine and eggs baked in cups with wine sauce. Whitebait are dried in flour then fried in hot lard and served with brown bread lemon.
A humorous exchange is cited from the Chica Post where a man explains his engagement to Miss Blinks, noting he has a first mortgage on her yet not a formal marriage. The dialogue plays on social expectations and playful ownership.
A Cuban League all star team will tour the United States in August visiting the South, North and Midwest under capable management. The squad, featuring Captain Duffy and Third Baseman Wallace, will play against minor league teams and top clubs, with Laidlaw coordinating Havana games and Bancroft in Cincinnati connected to the plan. The piece argues for fair talent sharing over the draft system and emphasizes the value of strong, balanced teams over star-drawn hype.
Captain Hugh Duffy of the Boston nine stands as a doughty leader with a dozen years of prominence. He is an aggressive and winning ball player, renowned for straightaway baseball and fine fielding. His judicious play and constant self-improvement mark him as a example for young players to follow.
In the Chicago Times-Herald an editorial blasts the magnates baseball system as flawed. It argues teams should reflect the city they bear and that patrons care only about high quality play and strong standing in the race.
R J Wallace succeeded James McGarr as Cleveland third baseman and drew praise for his defense. Within weeks he joined the talk of the baseball world, later shifted to shortstop to accommodate Sove Cross, and has adapted well to the new position with growing success.
Diamond Glints reports president Dreyfus releases Deck and trades Croft to Syracuse and Leach to Worcester while Hugh Jennings shows a fixed arm. Rock Island sells Bob Rothermel to Baltimore. Judge Cullom shifts allegiance to the Brooklyns as a Weehawken game delivers a balk incident. Tenney’s weak fielding and Householder’s base running draw comment from Buffalo circles.
A boarder reads war dispatches saying Chinese in the Philippines head to the front with shooting irons while a Chicago counterpart jokes that locals still face heat at home. The exchange highlights wartime bravado and domestic soot.
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