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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1892
Page
4
Townsend booster notes canal progress and water power potential for a flouring mill and a furniture factory. Reports on crops, mining, and new shipments alongside local gossip and notices signal strong growth ambitions for a developing community.
W C Pierce completes a two story frame hotel near the depot named Pierce House. It features a spacious lobby dining room and 12 second floor bedrooms with Brussels carpets oak and walnut furnishings and a bookcase for guest reads. A literary society gathering at Mrs Bigelow’s home devolved into a babel of topics with coffee and cheerful departures.
A mixed page note from 1892 highlights the Montana Lodge Record with memberships and subscriptions, plus brief items on cholera remedies, an independent sheriff candidate in Meagher County, a James Weston drug ad, and Swedish dowry insurance concepts, ending with voting eligibility rules for US citizenship and naturalization dates.
Classified notice from Townsend Idaho Stage Co sale in October 1802 listing items to pay freight and storage charges plus a drug advertisement for Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a money back guarantee and trial bottle offer at J R Weston’s drug store. The notice names vendors and buyers including Gardner White Sulphur Springs Forsyth Spencer O Marr Badger Anderson Bros and others.
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