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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1899
Page
2
A fragmentary column from Townsend Montana presents a series of epigrams on human nature progress and politics. It includes quips about self perceptions laborers postmasters money making schemes and a report on copper production in 1898. A Long Island jury frees a man who killed a boy while eating cherries in his trees.
Spain will not punish Admiral Cervera for the Santiago bay defeat, a move praised by generous Americas as Spain rises above old traditions and withholds unmerited censure of a gallant sailor whose character and conduct merit noble regard.
The article notes two comic types, the dynamite cracker and the bottle message thrower, with the floating battle humorist arriving days after the cannon cracker is hospitalized. It contrasts the lack of a connecting thread yet highlights the sequence of incidents and the hospital retreat.
A South Side auction buyer paid four dollars for an old coat and found three thousand dollars in bonds inside. The bonds proved worthless and the two thousand nine hundred ninety six dollars in profit vanished, a tale joining legends of endless Klondike gold and buried Kidd treasure in unlikely returns.
Investigations show that wild red cherry and horse plum are harmless while the dwarf cherry and wild black cherry and choke cherry are dangerous. Both wilted and fresh leaves are poisonous, with young vigorous leaves most toxic. Farmers allowing these trees to grow risk prussic acid in pasture.
A portrait of David Glasgow Farragut traces his life from birth at Campbell's Station Tennessee on July 5 1801 through his early naval schooling under Commodore Porter to his rise as a famed Union commander. It recounts his actions opening the Mississippi and the Mobile Bay assault of August 1864 ending with his death in 1879.
Bishop John P. Newman a noted northern Methodist prelate died at his Saratoga home. A distinguished churchman, he founded colleges journals and conferences after early preaching. He served as United States Senate chaplain for six years and hosted Metropolitan Memorial Church in Washington. He was a friend of General Grant and wrote notable Holy Land works. He was 73.
Gen. Dye, an American stationed in Seoul for eleven years, aided the Korean royal family against Japanese and Corean conspirators. He served as vice minister of War and helped organize the royal guard, facing threats and bribes while protecting the king and crown prince. He prepared to return to the United States, with Muskegon and Washington noted as family ties.
Miss Frankie Florman of Black Hills South Dakota discovers a vast quartz vein near Atlin City with widths from 200 to 600 feet and a length over three-quarters of a mile. Assays by her mining-expert father show ore values from 8 to 27 dollars per ton on the surface. Frank Baker and William Partridge bond the property for 200000 dollars and Partridge travels to London to market it.
A Minnesota lake contains a cavern of white limestone flooded with water on its shore. A swimmer enters the cave and sees vivid green and blue water and a silvery sheen on submerged limbs, creating a scene reminiscent of Capri's Blue Grotto.
A cigar dealer bought a tiny Berlin corner two by two yards for 1500 dollars years ago and recently sold it for 12000 dollars, setting a record price for such property.
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