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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1902
Page
23
From an 19th century voice a tale follows Edward who penny pins to marry yet falls for lavish fashions and a party life. A second butterfly lures women with boasts letters gifts and photos while bragging of many romances. A warning Moral shows the hazard of a man who brags about past conquests to secure the next with a costly trap for gullible partners.
A tale contrasts Alice and Gilbert with a playful wager of love, threats, and a dramatic elopement style, ending with a moral about loyalty and home. Nearby, Clement Corneille of the Teton narrates a near death and revival drama after a wagon wreck and a night spent on the prairie with a stubborn, lifelong resilience.
The Rev. Jerry Rounder preaches that smoke in Butte tests character, compares climate woes to life, and urges moving from hardship to seek the sunshine. He argues struggle through hardship develops character and that appreciating sunlight requires experiencing darkness.
A Montana chronicle recalls the Alkali family figures in western lore. Alkali Pete, the last of the clan, breaks a collarbone during a drunken spree and ends up in county care as his finances fail. A skull-like snow find turns out to a set of store teeth from a Bowlen rescue. Calamity Jane struggles eastward to Billings after being duped by an adventuress.
A New York Times article recalls ex congressman Cable of Illinois raising his daughter in France. As a child she refused to sell her younger brother when asked to exchange him for a room full of gold, preferring to keep him until he is older.
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt a girl with a Gibson girl neck laments social judgments on skirt length. She notes accusations of scandal when trailing skirts display form and modesty claims when short. She resolves to choose her own style regardless of men's gaze.
A fragmented excerpt references a river, a camel, and a talkative figure named Denny with humorous overtones. The text presents a playful, dialect rich dialogue about improbable feats and a 200 pound woman.
A dialogue reveals a debate over eligibility for a club. An elder asserts inexperience, while Wededly counters by noting his own habit of counting change nightly and each morning. The exchange hints at pride and practicality in social belonging.
A Philadelphia Press joke caption finds a candid inebriate saying he never uses his real name when arrested for drunkenness, adding that a false name would compromise too many people. The magistrate asks for his name and the man replies John Jones.
The old timer recalls Sheriff Thomas Clary of Chateau as bravest yet most absent minded. A tale from his youth shows him punching a freighter in a dispute and later apologizing, plus a roundup anecdote where Clary interrupts Jack Harris’s draft story claiming a duck nest in an unlikely place.
A fragment notes that Tom never cracked a smile and could not see the joke afterward, describing a stoic reaction amid unclear surrounding details.
When Lucy was two she was called the Wasp for her small waist. She’s forty next spring and has a different waist now. Yet she retains the waspish temper and the sting that earned the nickname.
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