Tin wedding honors Rev Cunningham and wife at Chateau
A large crowd gathered at Mrs. T. A. Smith’s to honor Rev C E Cunningham and Mrs Cunningham on their tin wedding tenth anniversary. Readings and songs followed a program while guests enjoyed a formal luncheon. A lettered note of farewell appeared in the widening tale of Jacob Austed’s death by suicide in Lewistown.
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Dominie
Mra. Longmuir
Cunningham
Uncle Sam
Jacob Austed
Lewistown
Mild Winter Echoes 1877 78 Fort Benton Memoir
The Great Falls Leader recalls a winter with no river freeze and scant snow in 1877, followed by a wet spring and summer of 1878. A Sun River freight outfit to Fort Macleod, returning with buffalo hides, faced slow progress and muddy trails, while a rider tracked a Press Lewis team through deep mud and rough roads.
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Missouri
Fort Benton
Sun River
Fort Macleod
Press Lewis
Great Falls
Mail Route to Choteau Discontinued to Three Weekly Trains
The Great Falls & Canada railway mail service between Great Falls and Choteau has been cut from daily to three deliveries weekly, following a post office department decision. The change reduces the number of daily mails in the route formerly nicknamed the mail line.
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Choteau
Great Falls
Daily Mail
Post Office Department
Carter
Teton County
Creat Falls
Great Falls & Canada
Mrs Clark Seeks Senate Seat Amid Multilingual Claims
In a Chicago Limes Herald report, Mrs Clark of Montana campaigns for the United States senate professing fluency in English French German Spanish and Italian. Critics say the argument used to win support appeared not in any of those languages.
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Chicago Limes-Herald
Clark
Montana
United States Senate
Minneapolis
Limes
Senate
His Language. Minneapolis 'limes and More Inanity
A jumble of brief humorous items from a 19th century page includes a note on Mr. Clark of Montana who speaks several languages, a Kansas City trolley car anecdote about a gray haired woman resisting a seat, ad copy for Cascarets, a moral verse about reducing the surplus with kittens, and a grandmother’s question about which grandchild to drown in a moral light.
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Kansas City
New York
Editor Satirized in Chronicle Verse
A humorous verse questions the editor of the Chronicle mocking his vanity, attire, and pretensions while calling out his rhetoric against monopolies. The poem ends with a farewell line implying the editor’s offer of parting.
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Dental College
Choteau, Mont
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Chotean
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Chateau, Mont
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Nels
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Tda
Martin
Wisconsin
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