Montana Gun Shop Boasts Large Stock and Low Prices
A Montana store advertises the largest stock of guns, ammunition, and fishing tackle with factory prices. The Parker hammerless shotgun and L C Smith hammerless shotgun are highlighted as top choices, plus Ithaca hammerless at 35 dollars and Marlin repeaters at 20 to 35 dollars. Rifles from Savage Mannlicher Marlin Mauser and Colts are offered at factory prices.
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Montana
Parker
Ithaca
Savage
Tout on the Race Track and the Clever Scoundrel
A narrative portrays a breed of touts at a race track, detailing their hustle, nerve, and mixed reputations. It contrasts hard work with opportunism, notes their persistence from post to finish, and imagines a world where all touts and money fuse into one vast pool.
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Frisco
Butte
Great Northern Contractors Cry for Graders in Butte
The Libby News reports Great Northern contractors in Idaho need about 1 200 workers to finish 14 miles of line east and west of Naples including three tunnels and heavy cuts. Harvest season limits labor and delays work. hundreds of men in Butte seek jobs while harvests await.
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Butte
Chicago
New York
Idaho
Libby News
J. Z Clark
Libby
Naples
Great Northern
Hoped for Bull Impetus From German Operators
German operators anticipated a strong market push guiding prices higher. O. J. Pierpont Morgan linked figures and financial circles to the possible rebound, with investors watching for decisive moves in commodities and securities.
Schwab Rumor Grips Europe Market Inorganizing Combines
Berlin reports a tentative market tone turning better last week as New York optimism failed to lift shares. A rumor linked Charles M. Schwab of United States Steel to forming European combines in England and Germany, while Belgian orders for German pig iron provided some cheer amid mixed iron trade signals. Coal shares gained on coke sales and higher pig iron output. July production reached 707 921 tons, up 4 000 from July 1901.
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Berlin
J. P. Morgan
New York
New York Exchange
Briday
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Europe
England
Germany
Low Rates to California Stir Travel in September
On September 1 Southern Pacific lines will post new daily colonist rates through Ogden to California, with $25 to Omaha El Paso and California routes, $30 to St Louis New Orleans and Mississippi points, $31 to Peoria, and $83 to Chicago. Rates run until October 31 with stopovers allowed. California inclusion and a booklet titled California for that value will be available free from any SP agent.
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Southern Pacific
Ogdenfornia
Omaha
el Paso
Cali
Kansas City
Missouri River
St. Louis
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Peoria
Chicago
California
Great Western
Httle
Special Week End Excursion Routes Listed From Butte
Excursion prices shown for trips from Butte to Lime Spur Twin Bridges Sheridan Alder Pony Bonita Deer Lodge and more with round trips and weekend tickets. Tickets sold Saturday and Sunday with returns the following Monday.
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Butte
Pinestone
Whitehall
Lime Spur
Twin Bridges
Sheridan
Bonita
Deer Lodge
Judge plans Elkhorn ore display for mining congress
Special Correspondence notes Tom Judge, a prominent Grasshopper resident, returned from Butte and intends to exhibit Elkhorn ores at the mining congress. He will travel via Kannock to recruit exhibits from Montana’s oldest mining district, promising top tellurium specimens for the event.
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Standard Dillion
Tom Judge
Upper
Grasshopper
Butte
Mining Congress
Standard
Kannock
Montana
Cheaper Rail Fare to Gregson Springs Announced
The Butte Anaconda and Pacific Railroad sets a reduced round trip rate from Butte to Gregson Springs. Tickets from the city to the springs and back cost 80 cents, valid from Saturday noon through Monday noon for travel both ways.
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Butte
Montana horseman ships three carloads to Mandan
Ernest Selway, a leading Southern Montana horseman, left Dillon for Twin Bridges to load three carloads of horses bound for Mandan North Dakota. He has previously shipped horses to the Dakota market with consistent success. Herbert Seway ordered cars to move 1,500 head of mutton sheep from Dillon yards to Chicago next week, a fine lot of wethers expected to bring top prices.
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The
Standard
Dillon
Ernest Selway
Montana
Twin Bridges
Mandan
N. D
Selway
Dakota
Herbert Seway
Dillon Yards
Chicago
Money Supply Limited Amid Market Apathy In London
The London market shows restricted money supply with government disbursements aiding but consols weak. Discount rates stay firm despite rising bank reserves as gold potentially ships to the United States. Trading is dull with small attendance and prices holding, while American railroad shares rise on traffic speculation. Kaffirs firmer on the continent than London.
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London
United States
Stock Exchange
Great Northern Railway Fare Promotions and Cafe Lease
The Great Northern Railway lists Basin, Boulder, and Alhambra round trips with prices and weekly patterns, including weekend two day returns. The Butte Cafe at 41 North Main Street and depot is leased by Wh Esscalet of Victoria BC to continue high quality wedding dinners and social catering in a first class manner.
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Basin and Return
Boulder and Return
Alhambra
North Main Street
Butte
Wh. Esscalet
Victoria
B. C
Glassware sale offers pressed and blow glass at low prices
During the first days of the week Knox Hats agents advertise a large lot of glassware at low prices. Items include water tumblers 50¢ per dozen, jelly glasses 35¢ per dozen, fruit saucers 25–50¢ per dozen, berry bowls 20–35¢ each, seven piece water sets 95¢, and various pitchers, stands, and sets with many items priced under a dollar.
Women's Finest Shoes at Half Price
Fine kid vamp shoes with Louis XV heels and leather tops offered at 3.85 per pair from 5.00 and 6.00 value lines. Velvet kid, patent calf, vici kid, and lace styles featured with expert fitters and a wide size range available.
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Louis XV
Vici
Closeout Shoe Sale Slashes Prices Across Men Women and Children
The shoe department returns from the East to announce a fall and winter closeout. Men’s Viei Kid Shoes drop to 2.95 per pair in multiple sizes and widths. Women’s slippers and kid shoes cut to 1.25 to 1.50 per pair. Banister’s tan shoes down to 3.45 and several youth sizes from 1.75 to 1.95. Children’s red kid top shoes priced at 0.09 per pair.
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London
Gotham
Banister
Russia
Pleasures of the Day Amid Bridge Fire Disrupts Travel
A blaze-damaged Logan branch bridge of the Northern Pacific disrupted traffic and halted planned Madison County excursions. Many still toured by Oregon Short Line Great Northern and Northern Pacific routes, while others visited Columbia Gardens for a ball game or rodeors. Fireworks may light the sky tonight if weather stays fair.
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Logan
Northern Pacific
Madison County
Homestake
Oregon Short Line
Great Northern
Butte
Wharton
Cowboy Injured By Vicious Horse In Centennial Valley
Arthur Shooks a cow boy for Poindexter Orr company is hospitalized in Butte with serious injuries from a fall after riding a vicious horse at the Centennial valley cow camp. The horse known for pitching caused the accident several days ago. news reached Dillon last night and prognosis appears poor.
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The
Standard
Dillon
Arthur Shooks
Poindexter & Orr Company
Butte
Shooks
Centennial Valley
Beaverhead County Reports Rare Giant Gold Nugget
Public administrator A E Graeter said Tony French found a foot shaped gold nugget weighing about 1800 to 2000 dollars with white quartz in the French Bros diggings near French Gulch. Townsfolk await confirmation and a possible display at the mining congress in Butte next month.
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Standard
Dillon
A. E. Graeter
Beaverhead County
Argenta
Tony French
Montana
French ‘Bros
French Gulch
Duilon
French
Beaverhead
Mining Congress
Butte
Table linens and Irish linen napkins on sale
An advertisement lists Irish table linens in widths of 64 to 72 inches with various designs. It promotes bleached and satin finish options and features dozens of napkins in 18 and 20 inch sizes with floral and fern patterns at discounted values.
Rider conquers bucking horse in bold morning ride
Shooks rode a wild horse during a morning exhibition and stayed aboard as the horse bucked frantically. The rider fainted after the animal stopped and spent hours between life and death before recovering enough to travel to Monida and be shipped to Butte. Unconfirmed reports say the rider is permanently crippled, with spinal injury from the saddle.
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Shooks
Monida
Butte
Dillon
Young Shooks
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