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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1899
Page
7
President Henry Morton of the Stevens Institute debunks the claim that liquid air can replace coal at near zero cost by showing a gallon requires twelve times its potential work to produce. The note appears amid a collection of varied promotional and scientific snippets.
The article notes that Bright's Disease often shows few symptoms until its damage appears. It warns readers that the illness can grow for years with only scattered signs such as backache urine changes a pale complexion and waning appetite surfacing late.
Advertisement touts low round trip fares to Richmond and Indianapolis with via rails and dining cars, electric lighting, and luxury features aboard Pullmans. Contact C F Warren, A T S F general agent, 411 Dooly block, Salt Lake City, Utah. Includes a moral quote about loving one’s neighbor attributed to Gen. Macdonald.
Effective June 1 the Rio Grande Western railway starts dining cars on all through trains with meals served a la carte. Through Nos 9 and 4 from Ogden and Salt Lake City will feature expanded menus and breakfast options. Westbound journeys will also carry diners as part of Union Pacific Overland Limited service. Ticket office listed as Old Stand 101 Main Street.
Various patent remedies and promotional quotes fill a nostalgic ad page. Mentions Hall's Catarrh Cure price 75e, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup 25 cents, Cascarets 25 cents, and Piso Co testimonials. Anecdotes about silver dollars, marriage jokes, and a Salt Lake bicycle girl circulate among ads.
A survey of the Baltimore & Ohio board lists William Salomon Jacob Schiff James J. Hill Edward R. Bacon Louis Fitzgerald Norman B. Ream James Stillman Edward Harriman J Kennedy Tod Charles Steele Alexander Brown Clay Pierce H. Crawford Black and John V L Findlay as major financiers and railroad figures. Peggy Pendergrass age 11 in Alabama baptism described. The Spanish minister reportedly filed informal remonstrances after the Chihuahua band joined Roosevelt’s Rough Riders reunion in Las Vegas.
A vintage ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder claiming relief for tight shoes bumps corns bunions and sweaty feet with 25 cent price and free sample. It includes the seller address Allen S Olmsted LeRoy New York and quotes dialogue about war and cyclones from Mr Rawbanks and a Salt Lake man declaring anti cyclonist sentiment.
In a whimsical exchange two animals debate wealth and scent with playful banter. The musk rat taunts frogs about greenbacks while a hopping frog retorts about a muskrat’s own scent and vanity.
A report recalls two fatal fights between big cats. In Edmonds' menagerie a lion killed a tiger after the tiger forced entry. About twenty years later at Regent's Park Zoological Garden a tiger killed a tigress in a ferocious clash witnessed by keeper Sutton, with blood described on the den roof.
Pietro Verri notes English liberty rests on widespread acceptance of truths rather than climate. In Paris philosophy excites revolt, while London remains calm with broad freedom to believe and express. A beggar may publish opinions, Scottish journalists mock the government, yet emotional people gain little pleasure from it.
The article lists how long daylight lasts in cities such as New York Montreal London Bremen Hamburg Dantzig Stockholm St. Petersburg Tobgisk Tornea and Spitzbergen noting durations from about 15 hours to nearly three and a half months in Spitzbergen. It mentions Wardburg Norway with continuous daylight from May 21 to July 22 and a nearly 22 hour day at Tornea Finland on June 21.
A Detroit Free Press fragment quotes a wry exchange on the paradox of small acts causing big damage. The brief line ponders why someone would preserve a small joke to prod a greater danger, illustrating a sharp, aphoristic commentary.
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