Early Montana Newspapers and Butte’s Press Landscape
A retrospective look at Montana’s first newspaper era and the evolution of Butte’s daily press. The piece notes Virginia City origins, the crowded Montana field, and the rise of modern advertising standards across The Inter Mountain The Miner and The Standard. It mentions key buildings on Granite Street West Broadway and East Broadway and the press’s shifting fortunes at century’s turn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Pioneer
Virginia City
Commonwealth
United States
Butte
Hutte
Butte Daily
Inter Mountain
Granite Street
Mantie
Miner
West Broadway
Standard
East Broad Way
Butte Hotel
City Hall
Butte Department of the
Petroleum Origins and History in Montana Discovery
A historical overview traces petroleum from ancient use to the Drake oil strike of 1859 and the rise of the modern industry. It explains origin theories, anticline geology, and the shift from shale oil to crude production plus the regional distribution in Silurian and Carboniferous rocks with notable Texas fields and Beaumont’s horizon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Charles W. Draper
Montana State College
Bozeman
Herodotus
Ardericca
Agrigentum
Pliny
Babylon
Marco Polo
Baku
Russia
China
Japan
Seneca Lake
N. Y
Colonel Drake
Titusville
Drake
Brooklyn
Pennsylvania
Texas
California
Europe
Asia
Beaumont
Tex
Ashburner
Bradford
Caril
Venango
Butler Belt
Redwood
Ohio
Indiana
Lima
Chemical Composition of Petroleum Discussed in Detail
The article explains petroleum as a hydrocarbon compound of carbon and hydrogen with small amounts of nitrogen oxygen and sulfur. It notes sulfur content in Beaumont Texas oil at 2.16 percent and discusses variations in specific gravity color and chemical series, detailing distillation and the wide range of petroleum uses from illuminants to lubricants and even perfumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mendeleef
Engler
Orton
Burwell
Standard Oil Company
Beaumont
Texas
Koudako
Russia
Zante
Persia
Apscheron Peninsula
Pennsylvania
California
Replaces Weakness With Strength My Electric Belt Promise
A self claimed medical inventor touts an Electric Belt as a cure for nervo vital disorders. He asserts harnessing electricity strengthens body and mind, promises global use, and boasts safe sponge electrodes avoiding burns. He offers free books and ongoing replacement battery cells.
P B Building Paper Aids Water Tight Flume Construction
P B Building Paper is waterproof and saturated with a compound that will not wash out. Water will not affect it and it is valuable for wooden flumes. Used with rough lumber it can create a watertight flume at lower cost than higher grade lumber. Send for booklet with full information and building plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P& B
Electric Cure Promises and Free Books on Nervo-Vital Disorders
An advertisement touts electricity as a remedy for weakness, rheumatism, organ troubles, and general vitality. It offers free books titled Falling Power and Nervo-Vital Disorders and Their Cure By Electricity, with postpaid delivery and claim of genuine devices stamped Dr. Bennett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Bennett
Daly Bank and General Banking Business Transacted
John K. Toole serves as president with M. B. Hogan Wood as vice president in a framing notice inviting correspondence and solicitation of accounts for Daly Bank and General Banking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John K. Toole
M. BH. Ghpn
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Pleadar Homes
Eool
THE
Nature
Earth
Sterry Hunt
P&b
Paraffine Paint Co
Battery Street, S. F., Cal
HH. Lane
Butte, Mont
DR. Bennett Electric Belt CO
Denver, Colo
Blackheads
John H. Woodbury
D. J
State St
Chicago
Tgos
Daly Bank and
Trust Company OF
Anaconda
Louis V. Bennett
Cashion
C Numblom
Cashien
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