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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1892
Page
2
Advertising rates announced at 1.50 per inch monthly and town post entry as second class. Frugal town paper details the 1892 Democratic ticket with Cleveland Stevenson candidates and state officials including Dixon Collin Melton Hastings Folk and others.
The Jefferson County Democratic ticket names Sheriff Dudley Halford Assessor Alex Gilliam County Attorney M H Parker Clerk District Court J G Rickert Clerk and Recorder Eugene Picot Treasurer Edward McSorley Supt of Schools Miss Edda Lowrey Coroner Dr W C Riddel Surveyor R M Cralle Representatives Ben Wahle J W Cowens F Tuttle and County Commissioners Dr A L Vawter John F Sheehy John Flaherty with planned election slate for local governance.
The county Democratic convention convenes September 17 at 10 o'clock in White Sulphur Springs to nominate candidates for county district and legislative offices and to select a central committee for two years. Delegates and alternates from June, as apportioned May 19 and 26, 1892, are urged to attend.
The quote laments a shift from free coinage, arguing the return to that system is the right solution. It cites the prior era lasting until 1873 when reforms occurred through bribery and deceit, drawing on Denver News as the source.
A Berkshire farmer posts a notice on a meadow fence warning that any person allowing cattle to stray into his fields will have their tails cut off, signed Obadiah Rogers, quoted by the Boston Globe.
In Atlantic essay Lafcadio Hearn describes a Japanese garden as a retreat from city life where antique walls mute telegraphs and newspapers. He portrays intimate contact with frogs lizards water snakes swallows sparrows a weasel and a yamabato call connecting nature to a dream of past beauty.
Missouri world’s fair commission fills a St Louis warehouse with state crops timber mineral samples and fruit exhibits. Foreign nations gain allotted space including Brazil Argentina Chile Honduras Nicaragua Colombia Peru Salvador Bolivia San Domingo Porto Rico Cuba Ecuador Guatemala Haiti Ceylon Mexico Germany Great Britain France Denmark Sweden Japan and India plans note visiting princes with retinues.
National restaurants will feature foreign and New England pavilions at the exposition. A two story Clam Bake cafe near England’s building will serve live crabs lobsters and other seafood daily with ten thousand meals possible. The venture costs about thirty thousand dollars and aims to open by October dedication with daily refrigerator car deliveries.
Beatrice Nebraska resident William Truesdale obtained an absolute divorce after detailing his wife’s chronic lying and habit of gossip. He cited ten thousand lies in three years and a string of fabrications including alleged murders and eloped preachers to justify the break.
The Sailors Long Harbor on Staten Island founded in 1801 by Robert Richard Randell is a major benevolent institution. It started with a single building in 1881 and now comprises over thirty buildings including dormitories, a hospital, churches, shops, and hobby facilities for about one thousand inmates. The facility allows substantial liberty, with curfews, long leaves, and the ability to voyage or visit, returning as needed to avoid want.
The whaling bark Progress has reached Detroit from New Bedford Moss and will exhibit the whale catching industry at the world’s fair. She has made seventeen Cape Horn voyages and forty Arctic crossings. In 1871 a storm scattered the fleet. the Progress survived with three hundred sailors seven captains five women and three children aboard.
Two medieval cannons believed to have been aboard Christopher Columbus' flagship reached Chicago for exhibition at the Columbian world’s fair. The battered relics show only rusting iron and rotted wood, once part of a fort built by Columbus’ men, with provenance supported by both tradition and proof.
Tiflis papers deny reports of a colossal meteoric stone in the Caspian near Baler. They say volcanic action at the sea bottom formed a new islet with a funnel whirlpool five feet wide and over a hundred feet deep, still uncertain if waters vanish underground or simply whirl. The note ends with a local endorsement for Dr King’s remedies.
The Pall Mall Budget reports that Algol the demon star shows complex motions: a speed of 26 miles per second alternating toward and away from Earth as it traces a near circular path. This implies a dark companion star periodic to Algol’s brightness variations, now weighed and measured by new astronomy.
A New York physician recalls a late night encounter with a lone highwayman in a dark city corner. After demanding money, the robber accepts a twenty dollar bill and, upon learning the doctor lacks bus fare, tosses a final half dollar to help him home.
An old column parodies Gen Roberts proposing branding British soldiers after the Civil War era for desertion prevention. The piece then extols Electric Bitters as a leading pure medicine for stomach liver and kidney ailments, claiming it relieves sick headaches indigestion constipation and malaria with money back satisfaction.
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