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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1899
Page
2
A collection of wry aphorisms and social quips touching politics, gender, rumor, and human foibles. The tone mimics a late 19th or early 20th century staccato humor column with pithy lines on prohibition, romance, prophecy, and public affairs.
The article notes Mr. Stead saying the czar likes the United States and the idea of united sovereign states living peacefully without standing armies. It suggests Europe might adopt the plan someday and that many thrones could be sent to history’s lumber-room as a result.
The article argues that Irish contentment and push for separation have waned due to timely parliamentary concessions. Reforms let peasants title to land and gain local government voice, altering landlord vested rights and preferring reason over force. Peaceful agitation, though passioned, has surpassed century of violent outbreaks.
The governor reportedly seeks to pardon or parole all prisoners with consumption arguing contagion justifies release. Sanitarians say proper disinfecting prevents spread. prisons with discipline could handle it, but releasing consumptives risks infecting innocent people and undermining public health.
Adelaide D. Rollston reflects in Collier's Weekly on memory and renewal as a bluebird calls along a damp riverbank in spring. The prose contrasts a tranquil scene with earlier, harsher times revealing nature’s quiet revival.
The piece argues that American rule in Manila faces native suspicion rooted in Malay racial traits. It recounts Captain Moffat uncovering embezzlement by three Spaniards and highlights how officials justify theft as “beneficio.” It urges selecting incorruptible individuals for authority, not based on nationality or ambition.
An American visitor at Apia recounts Mataafa's army resting in camp after a clash with rival claimants to the throne. He notes huts, concealed arms, wives and children present, and soldiers amusing themselves with tom toms and smoking as they prepare for further fighting.
A Chicago Tribune reminiscence recounts how Abraham Lincoln, after his nomination, posed for a defining image. Joseph Medill describes Lincoln’s hair as a notable feature and the moment it influenced campaign caricatures and copies used for promotion.
London papers recount two tales of stern hospitality. A Twenty-first Lancers host shields a decorated noncommissioned officer from embarrassment by leading a communal finger-bowl toast to honor the VC recipient. In Ashanti reports General Colley cites a king’s misdeeds punished by corporal correction.
Mrs Arden, estranged from her son Jack for a mesalliance, learns he is a bookkeeper for Wright & Carter. A sermon on Mother Love moves her to search, reunite, and meet Jack and his wife Alice. In a heartfelt arrival, she finds forgiveness, and the family resumes life with her, joined by Jack’s friend Mr Rymer.
The writer recalls a Wednesday Punch dinner at Dulwich with Thackeray and notable Punch men including Percival Leigh John Leech Pony Mayhew Shirley Brooks Tom Taylor and Henry Silver. Thackeray’s warm conduct left a lasting impression as he welcomed the young guest and offered a ride home.
The Sardinian women are elegant with large dark eyes and brunette hair. They dress in simple styles by class, but wear vivid gala costumes at religious feasts. These outfits are family heirlooms passed from mother to daughter and treasured as hereditary jewelry or portraits.
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