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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1895
Page
7
Readable scraps mention a parlor and a morning air discussion with Atlantic notes and a figure named a lady. The fragmentary wording references growth, love, and language but provides no clear event, dates, or identifiable persons.
A column of mixed notices promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a cure for kidney and bladder ailments and other ailments. It includes medical claims and then shifts to unrelated snippets about lessons, travels, Masons, Hall's Catarrh Cure, alcohol and wine production, teething remedies, and Syrup of Figs with promotional language.
The article notes John Patrick Tracey of Missouri winning the Seventh district seat and recalls his Union Army service and journalism career. It contrasts Pennsylvania’s Seventeenth District race featuring Monroe H. Kulp challenging ex-Senator Charles R. Buckalew after a vigorous campaign that overturned a prior 1892 Democratic edge.
The article profiles several 1880 political figures including an Elector-at-large on the Garfield ticket who became United States Marshal for the Western District of Missouri in 1899 and served until 1894, a Missouri representative Dr. Joel Douglass Hubbard born in the state, elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a Republican, and notes his medical diploma from Missouri Medical College in 1883 and editorial control of Versailles Statesman. It also covers Mr. Skulp born in Pennsylvania in 1858, a Shamokin native with lumber and contracting businesses and Republican leanings, and Robert W. Taylor of Lisbon Ohio, a Fifty-fourth Congress representative for the Eighteenth District who progressed from teacher and school superintendent to editor and lawyer before entering politics.
At noon on the Fourth of July the chimes of Old Trinity Church Broadway rang Yankee Doodle. Rain kept away the usual crowd as passers by glanced upward and moved on with umbrellas in hand.
A fragment cites a quote by Young praising virtue as lasting longer than monuments. It contrasts with Egypt's decline and questions what endures beyond time. The lines read as reflection on enduring moral value versus material achievement.
Rev. George Stanley Burnfield argues that successful enterprises both secular and sacred depend on effective advertising through the press. He contends that churches must use modern methods to spread the gospel and reach curious readers, while businessmen thrive by catering to the best class and advertising honest goods. The piece also surveys stamp markets in Paris and travel routes to a Knights Templar conclave, with various ads and local anecdotes.
A fragment from a Boston Budget item about the Saunterer meeting Katy on the street and teasingly remarking on the cemetery, with a humorous aside about its growth and a playful tone.
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