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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1900
Page
6
In Townsend Montana Mr Gladstone is honored with a statue planned for the Zappeion gardens in Athens for his role in Greek independence. Other notes touch on rifles, clothing, Queensland citrus growth, telegraph conductivity, and potential rubber and Africa resource expansions.
General Andre, newly appointed French war minister, had his initial measures delayed pending military punishments and revoked General Galliffet's ban on officers wearing civilian dress off duty.
A Havana horse at the bacteriological laboratory, set up like Baltimore's Pasteur Institute, has reportedly saved about 1,800 lives. Gifted in 1895, the animal produced 74,000 cubic centimeters of anti diphtheria serum, assisting extensive cures.
The Siberian railroad's special trains provide a library piano writing facilities barber shop gymnasium ice and hot water dials for next stop and stop length double windows and an observation car. Medical attendance is free while baths cost 1 dollar. Attendants speak English French and German. Travel time from St Petersburg to Irkutsk is seven days.
A Trans-Missouri Freight ruling allegedly returns railroads to competition while a passenger group orders any NY to Chicago train under 28 hours to add four dollars to fare. Critics say the association wields outsized power, contradicting its diminished public image.
A visitor at an observatory reports a remarkable sight in the sky. The professor, initially incredulous, notes a cobweb across the glass. the observer keeps at it, suggesting that none of business, politics, or religion truly occupy the sky except the cobweb of perception.
England's patent office reports a fall in 1899 with about 1000 fewer complete specifications filed. War spurred shields and cuirasses, heat led to horse headgear patents, and the Shop Assistants Seats Act boosted seat patents. Women filed 574 specifications including dress items and cycling gear. The drop is linked to reduced cycling invention activity.
William E Curtis examines hazing at the United States Military Academy noting Col Mills has limited practices and cadets defend it as training. The piece describes two hazing forms moral and physical and traces its influence on esprit de corps and personal transformation within the cadet ranks.
A western Indian agent recalls General Crook seeking to herd Apaches back to their reservation without bloodshed. Troops captured a silent young girl at Fort, her watching eyes hinting at a gentle plan that followed as night fell.
The passage argues war wastes lives and resources by conscripting two villages, Dumdrudge and its French counterpart, to supply thirty men each who duel until death. It questions the net purpose of war, noting the destruction of skilled labor and the generation of sorrow instead of productive gains.
A sick soldier sent to a mountain sanitarium discovers only one vacant room. A young schoolmistress gives up her grand view room, trades with the occupant, and creates a window to happiness by breaking a ceiling to reveal a star.
The thirty fourth national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be in Chicago the week starting Monday August twenty seven. Indications point to a large gathering of Union defenders and a warm reception by the city. The general committee plans to mail a circular to every post in the United States with full entertainment details.
The pay of a British commander in chief in active service is £75 a week. Under peace conditions, soldiers’ death rate is about five in 1,000 while clergymen’s is 11 in 1,000. Plans for an annual Roosevelt Rough Riders reunion include exhibitions of horsemanship. The British government owns 25,000 camels, with thousands used in India to carry stores during regimental moves.
A Wisconsin grower argues against pulling first strawberry runners and notes summer pruning harms foliage. The piece criticizes horticultural society notices, praises Amur barberry hedge caution, and gives grape vine planting details. It covers vine spacing, hole depth, soil separation, staking, and winter protection, plus Northwestern Greening apple remarks and pruning needs with historical yield data.
Orchard grass Dactylis glomerata is widely grown from Norway to Portugal and found in Africa Asia and India. In the United States east of the Mississippi it is cultivated for shade tolerance and good grazing, thriving on loam soils but not on heavy soils.
Farmers' Review condensed report shows horticulturists debating the Northwestern Greening. Kellogg and Chappell call it a poor keeper while Adams and Loope note variable storage results, with green apples preferred for keeping and the tree praised for quality despite some fruit cracking in harsher conditions. R J Coe recalls a late 1898 Omaha exhibit under tough weather.
Consul Griffin reports that Mexican haciendas increasingly raise cattle and import purebred stock from the United States. The horses show improved care and type, with crossbreeding to northern cattle producing compact, muscular offspring despite traditional long-horned stock.
A clock regulated by Hertzian waves was shown at the late Royal Society conversazione. It suggested that all London clocks public and private could be controlled by wireless telegraphy with a receiver on each clock setting the time to a central transmitting clock.
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