Amputated Toe Mail Joke Highlights Parcel Post Tale
A Miles City journalist recounts a bizarre parcel post incident in which a stage driver from eastern Montana mailed a severed toe to the fourth assistant postmaster in Washington. The tale notes the driver sought higher pay for hazardous winter service amid bureaucratic silence.
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Washington
Montana
Jehu
Se Yington
Miles City Journal
Red Man
Jack Kilpatrick
Stacey
Amold
Miles City
Kilpatrick
United States
Jack
Oswer
Tim
Frost
Election returns due in Washington by next week
Washington reports that all states must send electoral returns to the president of the Senate by Monday January 27 to avoid loss of votes. Only 15 states had reported by rail, 3 by mail, while several remained delinquent, risking penalties and mileage costs for messengers delivering ballots.
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Senate
Rigtsenger
Messenger
Connecticnt
Delaware
Illinois
Towa
Kansas
Maryland
Nebraska
Histone
Pen Otlee
Easter Date Earliest in Fifty Seven Years
The article explains Easter Sunday will fall on March 2 this year, the earliest date in 57 years, with historical notes from 1818 when March 2 also occurred. It traces moveable feast calculations, Alexandrian rules, and the ecclesiastical lunar method used to set Easter each year.
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Nice
Alexandria
Rome
England
Q and A history quiz mixed with stray questions
A jumble of trivia and Q A items covers topics from the Mutte street car lines to baseball origins Captain Webb Morrison's cave Taft in Butte and adoption law in Montana It includes queries about currency related to Canada and notes on power propelled cars in service, reflecting a reader’s composite curiosities and factual answers.
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Mutte
Oscar
New York
Hoboken
Webb
Niagara
Congress
John
Adama
Andrew Johnson
Tyler
Confederate Congress
Virginia
Morrison's Cave
Lewis and Clark
Taft
Butte
Montana
Sfontana
Relzleek
Nnce Berlin
Ius Mall
Clothery January Shirt Sale at 31 N Main
Local shop advertises a January shirt sale with discounts across many styles. Morse clothing items include fancy Wale shirts French cuffs and flannel options priced well below usual levels with reductions across the entire stock.
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Mie
N. Main
Arson Scandal in Chicago and Watment Inquiry
Investigation into a nationwide incendiary ring cited by the state's attorney implicating up to five suspects in Watment fire fraud and related fires in Chicago and other cities. Witnesses examined and testimony directed to the land jury. Names include Benjamin Fink alias Finkelstein and Franklin, with charges linked to a gang active from New York. The Bangkok mail time is reported as 41 days.
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Enicago
Van
Chicago
Benjamin Fink
Finkelstein
Kine Franklin
New York
Bangkok
President Taft Attends Seventieth Baal Brith Anniversary
President Taft visits New York as an over Sunday guest for the 70th Baal Brith anniversary. He arrives after Ohio society dinner and a White family reception, spends the night with Henry W Taft, attends Marble Collegiate Church, tours the Metropolitan Museum of Art, inspects the J P Morgan collection with Mrs Taft and Secretary Hilles, and plans to depart for New Haven for Yale corporation meeting before returning to Washington.
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Taft
Ohio Society
Andrew D White
Cornell University
Henry W. ‘Taft
Marble Collegiate Church
Metropolitan Museum
FIGHT OVER BATH ENDS IN FATAL STABBING
Chicago readers report a deadly bathroom fight after a quarrel in robes. Albert Blain is fatally stabbed, Frank J. Hirro is under arrest on assault charges. The incident followed a prior disagreement and a boxing style confrontation.
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Chicago
Sims
Albert Blain
Frank J. Hirro
Bisin
Hirro
Tawnich
Wandering Observations on Gossip and Daily Life Reflections
A long, rambling editorial style piece presents musings on gossip, language, and social behavior. It references a clip from the Mahop Statesman, debates in Idaho about mental hospitals, Montana county growth, farm life, potatoes and alfalfa, and a local Married Men's Protective League. The note blends social commentary with anecdotes about newspapers, alfalfa, domestic life, and a playful street incident with a rolling trash can and hats.
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State Savings Bank
Corporation Jowngary
Dakota Street
Teren Tid
Main
Sint
$25 Men’s Suits Discounted With Free Trousers
A local retailer advertises $25 men’s suits for $15 with an extra pair of trousers free. The notice mentions days and a sale event along with a window display and location on Park Street. Funeral arrangements for James Houlthan are announced for Tuesday at 9 o’clock in the morning from the residence on Harrison Avenue, with Freeman serving as Clerk.
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W. Park St
James Houlthan
Harrison Avenue
Jo. Freeman
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