Sitting Bull Hosts a Wild Display for Sumner in Canada
Stanley S. Sumner, Chicago Tribune correspondent, describes following Sitting Bull to Wood Mountain in Saskatchewan after Custer’s defeat. A grand, alarming war party procession unfolds with Indigenous riders, drums, and a lone eagle-feather bonneted leader, amid peril for Sumner and onlookers.
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Sitting Bull
Stanley S. Sumner
Medicine Man
Canada
Custer
Montana
Lou” Grill
Stanley Unter Sumner
Chicago Tribune
The
Little Big Horn
Wood Mountain
Saskatchewan
Mr. Sumner
Miles City
Muk River
Lou Grill
Nelson A. Miles
Sumner
Milk River
Major Walsh
Allen
Mr. Allen
Wood Mountains
Torres
United States
Chicago
Indian Problems of 1869 Stirred Montana Politics
Montana’s rough 1869 mining towns faced raids and rumor driven by Indian threats. The Diamond City incident left a miner killed and a call for government forts on Deep Creek. Editors split over military aid and roving dangers tested frontier resolve.
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Montana
M. E. Plassmann
Ontana
el Dorado
Diamond City
Deep Creek
Butterfield
Steel
Eckoff
Hedges
Ball
Mr. Butterfield
Herman Ball
Romans
Helena
McG
Gallatin City
Nave
Baker's Ranch
Ben
Gallatin
How to Help Montana ad promoting local products
The advertisement urges residents to favor Montana grown foods over eastern or Louisiana imports. It lists hogs peas sugar mutton poultry eggs and butter as locally produced items and argues Montana products are superior to imports. The message calls on people to support local producers in stores and restaurants.
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Montana
Lion Cub Kills Self During Retrieval Near Darby
A party of lion hunters captured a cub alive near Darby. While removing it from a tree the young lion strangled to death, ending the hunt with a fatal result.
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Darby
Two Week Fig Syrup Invigorates Children’s Health
A period style exhortation touts California fig syrup as a universal tonic for growing children. It claims daily fruit intake and the syrup aids digestion, relieves constipation, and improves mood and vigor within fourteen days, with trials by many parents producing remarkable results.
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California
California fig syrup touted for children’s calm and health
A period pamphlet touts genuine California fig syrup as a soothing remedy for fretful or sluggish children. It stresses that the product, sold as a “California” syrup in a sixty cent bottle, is readily available in drugstores and must be requested by name.
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California
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