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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1900
Page
3
A jumble of items mentions Adams Pepsin Tuttiruta as a cure, Coca Dandruff Cure, Carter Ink, and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. It notes General Miles seeking officer comfort in China, Lt Smedley Butler a congressman's son, and naval orders to ready torpedoes. Various wartime and political references appear with brief endorsing lines.
Mary J. Kennedy of Armour & Co. endorses Peruna as a permanent remedy for summer catarrh and related digestive issues after eight years of travel and consultation with physicians. The ad explains summer catarrh stems from chronic catarrh, stomach and liver disorders, and impure blood, claiming Peruna cures by eradicating the cause. Free samples offered by The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus Ohio.
On Mangold prairie the three boys Rob Tad and Link build a sail powered rail cart using granary sacks and a board to ride the track as a firestorm threatens. They race to safety along with their mother guiding the improvised vessel to Manchester avoiding the oncoming passenger train.
A reminiscence from the St. Louis Republic recounts Mississippi river steamboat racing. Captains and pilots instinctively race slower rivals despite danger, passengers clamor for safety yet witness displays of daring as boats surge past each other.
A Carlisle Indian School student recalls his father as a leader in the Little Big Horn battle. Some claim 277 Americans died, 1 200 Indians fought, and the student asserts 5 000 Indians were involved. About 9 000 tame Indians lived nearby, with many slipping away to join Sitting Bull and return at night. Nearly 4 000 were with Custer when he fell.
A New England woman ponders daily habit and moral law as she ascends stairs, questioning whether starting with the right or left foot aligns with universal order in a Garden of Eden meditation.
Reports from eastern Washington indicate lighter wheat harvests than expected with thirty bushels per acre vs thirty five. The statewide yield estimate is reduced from thirty million to twenty five million bushels. The piece discusses health advertising and notes a high reward for Leung Chitso returning to Honolulu from Maui.
Justice Laughlin in Buffalo sustains the Foot-Ease trade mark against Paul B. Hudson and a Brooklyn dealer order ing a permanent injunction with costs and full accounting of sales. Allen B. Olmsted of Le Roy owns Foot-Kase and will mail free samples to requestors. The decision protects Foot-Ease marketing and warns others from infringing or mislabeling similar powders.
The government mobilizes about 40 000 troops at Yokohama and predicts that within two weeks, with substantial Russian and British reinforcements, the allies will command an army near 100 000 men.
Union Pacific announces summer excursion rates from Utah Idaho and Nevada to Detroit and Chicago with round trip fare for all routes. Three daily trains offer Pullman sleeping dining and library cars plus free reclining chairs across key western cities. Also notes Marine Corps mobilization under General Wood with a possible August 1 departure from San Francisco.
An advertisement offers rail discounts from Missouri River points to Chicago St Louis St Paul and return July 20 and Detroit with 2 return fares August 23 24 plus 44 50 to Chicago and return via Rio Grande Western or via Colorado Midland or Denver and Rio Grande with through trains dining cars luxuries and safety features. Also notes exclusive scenic route Grand Junction to Denver with four daily fast trains and Pullman sleeping cars to Chicago. Agents in Salt Lake City Utah listed. Also a military transport note and a testimonial for Piso's Cure for Consumption.
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