22 Jul 1876
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Newspaper
Butte Miner
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1876
Page
1
A 1876 article argues for centralized management of coal regions to stabilize output and prices, urging owners to dedicate five cents per ton to worker welfare and education. It envisions profits funded by social improvements boosting productivity and reducing strikes, transforming the coal fields into a model of civic virtue.
Boston correspondent describes Adelina Patti in a simple white gown with lilac hair diamonds and notes the radiance of her presence. The piece then shifts to a broad discourse on corporate management, fair labor, and a Christian civic commonwealth where profits fund social improvement, advocating fixed distribution of industry proceeds and united conscience guiding capital.
A Wheeling Star item describes a lampblack manufactory near New Cumberland in this state. The plant uses natural gas jets burning against soapstone slabs to form carbon, with five gas lines and two thousand burners fed from a gas well. A sliding knife collects carbon every twenty minutes into a car for storage, operated by one man, yielding about two hundred pounds daily sold at seventy to eighty cents per pound.
Sheriff Philbrook reports from Cinnabar and Altoona that a richer quicksilver deposit has been struck in the lower Altoona mine. Workers are operating one bench of retorts and producing ten fissks of quicksilver daily as furnaces expand. The find brings optimism for future yields and regional prosperity.
A 1880 railroad summary notes express services covering 25 miles at seven to ten miles per hour on good ground, with letters postage rates beyond Salt Lake City. It recalls the first express from St Joseph Missouri to Placerville and Sacramento celebrations with bells and parades, and hints the feat may be unmatched soon.
Fragmentary obituary notes a Civil War officer, details brevet and regular rank, commanded during Maryland operations, served in over sixty engagements, brevetted lieutenant colonel, later stationed in the northest region. It mentions his postwar writings and a 1874 published life on New York.
A lady writer in the Christian Weekly describes a method to avoid routine scrubbing. She bought three quarts boiled oil and three quarts shellac from a druggist along with a paint brush. The solution, costing $8.50, covers extensive floor area and claims to remove all washable spots after planned application and drying, with a shellac coat applied the following evening.
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