31 Oct 1895
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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1895
Page
1
The Glasgow Record notes Montana shifts from high living costs to widespread self sufficiency. Irrigated farms, mills, and new factories lower prices while wages fall. the change signals progress and a broader reliance on local production to curb expenses.
Mr Geo I Scott, a noted horticultural writer, returns from Missoula fruit fairs and accepts a position with J E Wilson of Fairview Nursery Florence Montana. He will canvass the east side for spring delivery of home grown fruit and ornamental trees at reasonable rates. Trees warranted and true to name. contact Mr Scott in Bozeman.
A Philadelphia Ledger anecdote recalls an old subscriber who stopped the paper after finding fault with content. George W. Childs encounters the man on a street, asks why he stopped, and learns the subscriber had long ignored many items yet objected to the latest editorial.
Senator Thomas H. Carter voices strong Montana praise and outlines copper, silver, gold, wool, beef profits for 1895 while urging irrigation, water power, and Minneapolis exposition support. He cites crops, fruit yields, and irrigation potential to house five million people. Meagher county Woolgrowers hold meeting at White Sulphur Springs. officers elected and a reward set for camp robbers.
An old natural remedy advertises Karl's Clover Root Tea as purifying the blood and granting a clear beautiful complexion. Sold by druggists with a healthful image.
Grugeyists offer Shiloh Catarrh Remedy with nasal injector free at 50 cents. Advertises fresh stock and claims remarkable health benefits and sweet breath. Ross-Dier Mercantile Co markets the product amid sale of apples noted as especially cheap and good.
A New York book emporium aims to beat department store prices by near wholesale terms. Collier publishing house offers Milton’s Paradise Lost via subscription, priced at 5 dollars total with 1 dollar down and 50 cents monthly, delivering to homes and featuring standard authors on easy terms.
R. A. Collins known as Doc Collins dies at his ranch near White Sulphur Springs on the 23d from heart failure. An early Meagher county cattleman he partnered with Gan's & Klein of Helena before selling in 1886. He served as a director of the First National Bank of White Sulphur Springs. His funeral was conducted under the bank’s Mason lodge auspices.
Two forms are required to locate a mining claim under the code. Get the new blanks at this office.
The New York chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is among the oldest and largest. Connecticut leads with about twelve hundred members, followed by New York, and activity spans the South as well. Daughters Day at the Atlanta exposition on October 18 and 19 will feature society meetings, papers, and addresses by notable members. The organization is growing rapidly and shaping American civic life as a monument to women’s talent in organization and governance.
Meagher county seeks compensation from Sweet Grass for land transferred with the legislatures bill creating Sweet Grass. Yellowstone county records taxes on the land despite it remaining in Meagher ownership. Board members hint at negotiating an equitable payment once records are transcribed and valuations determined.
Advertises Shiloh's Vitalizer as a positive cure for indigestion constipation dizziness loss of appetite and yellow skin sold by druggists with implied medical benefits and quick relief claims.
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