Columbia Calendar 1896 Açtive Artful Calendar Issued
The 1896 Columbia calendar, in its eleventh year, features better layout with more memoranda space, illustrations, and grouped dates for busy riders and business people. It collects thoughts from Columbia wheelmen and notes moon phases for night riding. A larger edition was issued to meet demand. available for five two cent stamps from Vope Manufacturing Co in Hartford Conn.
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Columbia
Vope Manufacturing Co
Hartford
Conn
Advertising as Plain Talk Reforms in Dry Goods Copy
The piece argues that effective advertising should describe goods plainly with terms like texture color fit and price rather than grand generalities or clever patter. It cites Wanamaker as a turning point and condemns sentimental smart talk while urging direct, inviting descriptions.
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John Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Advertising news for store dress goods and prices
The quotation stresses using concrete store details to attract customers. It highlights noting new dress goods waves, width, colors, texture, and always the price to draw women’s interest.
Hog production urged in Virginia City opinion piece
The Virginia City Madisonian argues the state consumes far more pork than it produces. It claims hogs would yield higher profits than horses, cattle, or sheep, and advocates raising pork fed by alfalfa wheat peas and potatoes to meet local and eastern demand and keep prices high.
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Virginia City
Madisonian
St. Paul
Chicago
Flaxseed Boom Drives Northwest Markets and Montana Stock Report
The St. Paul Pioneer Press notes a massive rise in flaxseed stocks across Duluth Chicago and Minneapolis with Duluth surpassing Chicago and the Twin Cities combined. It cites strong North Dakota Montana and Minnesota yields and urges domestic processing. Montana cattle trade and stock inspector results are highlighted with 1895 figures and local law enforcement activity.
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St. Paul
Northwest
Duluth
Chicago
Minneapolis
Duluth Tribune
North Dakota
Montana
Minnesota
News-Tribune
Twin Cities
A. E. Chantler
Duty to Keep Vital Records Mandates Clergy and Professionals
Chapter II title VII of the political code requires clergy and officials who perform marriages to maintain a register with parties and witnesses data. Physicians and midwives must record births and deaths attended, with quarterly reports to the county clerk. A $50 fine is imposed for neglect to maintain registers or report.
Utah Admitted as Forty Fifth State Amid Celebration
The republic welcomes Utah with the forty fifth star as President Cleveland proclaims the state and formalities follow. Montana friends toast Utah, noting close ties and mutual congratulations. Utah’s history spans from 1850 organized territory to statehood, following peers like Nevada and Colorado in earlier years.
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Utah
Republic
Cleveland
Montana
Territory
Wyoming
Colorado
Nevada
Montana Mineral Output in 1895 Totals Missoula Area Metals
Montana reports 1895 metal production valued at about 17.1 million dollars with gold around 4.2 million, silver 14.5 million ounces, copper 212 million pounds, and lead 24.5 million pounds. Hel ena assay receipts total 2.375 million dollars, up from prior years by about 10 percent over 1894 and 47 percent over two years ago.
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Independent
Montana
United States
Helena
Washington tally error over tariff vote mislabels Hartman
Washington correspondence reports the tally clerk in the house recorded Representative Hartman as not voting when the tariff bill passed. The note argues such counting mistakes happen frequently and can affect outcome perceptions.
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Hartman
House
Washington
Montana
Carter
Mantle
White House
Independent
Dr Jamison of Johannesburg Remembered in Helena
Helena residents recall Dr Jamison a world famed hunter and distillery owner once active in Johannesburg and Dublin. He visited Helena and Montana from 1875 to 1880 hunting the Musselshell and Judith basin with generous hospitality and a jovial demeanor despite a curved spine.
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Dr. Jamison
Johannesburg
Helena
Jamison
Africa
Montana
Ireland
Dublin
Dublin Distillery Company
Territory of
Musselshell
Judith Basin
Cosmopolitan Adopts Lithographic Color Printing
Times change and magazines change with them as Cosmopolitan announces its new lithographic plant capable of printing 320000 pages per day. The January issue features Eric Pape watercolors and Stevenson’s last story. Rossi provides a lithographic color cover replacing the former design.
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Cosmopolitan
Eric Pape
Robert Louis Stevenson
Parisarvist
Rossi
Manilla
Shiloh’s Cure for Consumption Promoted by Pharmacists Friends
A historical notice advises consulting physicians druggists and four friends about Shilohs Cure for consumption. The remedy is sold by druggists and promoted through word of mouth and medical suggestion.
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Shiloh
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E. B. Clark
LJU
Mibieja
BIG Timber
Mont
Cgranda Etotel
Frank Bliss
QVER
Ian
Michigan
Buseha & Baile
Columbia Riders
Retal Advertising
Cattiemien
Board of Stock Commissioners
Stockgrowers Association
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