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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1899
Page
4
Prices listed for white potatoes at $1.20 per hundred and large red potatoes at $1.65 per hundred. Also includes onions, fancy red beets, bread flour, sugar bowls, finest French mustard, syrup, and hay prices.
A Washington Herald summary reports a broad, mostly anti Roberts sentiment among House members regarding his seating as a Utah representative. Only two congressmen openly back him, many undecided or noncommittal, with Democrats largely opposed and discussions centering on expulsion rather than personal attack.
The article reports calls to alter the basis of representation in the national convention as urged by supporters of Youk and Bus Teeth. It notes opinions received in reply to an effort to unify the national committee and lists responses from the Big Jet Visited Elites Senvtow Matha and related factions.
Rhode Island's Charles R Brayton and Wisconsin's Henry C Payne argue for reform in national convention representation. West Virginia's N B Scott supports changes based on voting proportions. Minnesota's L F Hubbard criticizes current parity, citing McKinley votes. New York's Frederick S Gibbs favors basing representation on reform.
Washington reports Tastine Howe sent to Port au Prince to probe the stability of President Jimines government in Santo Domingo and to learn the fate of an agreement with the American syndicate that financed the regime. Minister Powell will present views to protect American concessions amid a possible change in government. The Santo Domingo Improvement Company, backed by Wall Street, has collected the duties since 1893, with S. M. Weed as a leading figure.
Chicago December 1 A man identified as W H W Howard recently arrived from San Francisco and set up a dramatization agency. He was arrested yesterday and held for grand jury action after a pupil testified. Howard allegedly advertised to prepare young women for the stage and swindle his students.
A garbled summary of regiment nicknames such as the Seventeenth Lancers called Death or Glory Boys and the First Life Guard known as Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard. Mentions other designations like the Eleventh, Fourth, and Royal Guards, with origins tied to old duties, anecdotes, and infamous incidents.
A partially readable classifieds snippet lists bidders and requests for furnished houses and rooms. Mentions four to seven room house, three room house, and housekeeping rooms. Names and exact details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
London dispatch reports Lord Methuen wounded yet expected to recover, delaying his command. Kimberley defenses hold as Boer artillery fires and culverts blown near Spytfontein, with Kimberley staving offreliefs as British mobilization accelerates and transports are prepared for redeployment.
A 1846 account describes the Arctic foothill mosquito swarms men ashore, inflaming wounds, blinding workers, and killing cattle near Port Hamilton. A shipmate lost his shoe as bites sparked dangerous swelling while others suffered eye injuries and fever from the stings.
A large natural block on a mountain slope at Tandu in southern Buenos Ayres province draws attention as the largest rocking stone yet found. It measures about 90 feet by 18 feet and 4 feet high, with a bulk around 5,240 cubic feet. The polished surface allows a sitter to melt wind-driven sway like a tree branch, as southeast winds cause the stone to rock on its foundation.
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