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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1899
Page
8
Real estate notice listing numerous lots and houses for sale across the city. Includes broad assurance of availability in various neighborhoods and mentions possible options for buyers seeking property.
A fragmentary advertisement lists sugar priced at 1.00 for 17 pounds, stockfish from Norway, canned butter, prunes, citron and peel items, large lemons per dozen, Hoffman House coffee at 45 cents per pound, and eggs and eggs varieties priced by dozen or pound.
The article details transfers of inmates to the penitentiary after a county jail phase, noting Edward Erickson William Magill John Hesley and Edward Erickson. It describes Bob Works as a horn player in the prison band of about 30 members, and remarks on Frank Conley and other officers guiding inmates. It also covers the prison interior and a mining company suit over a Mascot placer claim, plus an extended report on Louisiana orange crop prospects and cold-weather impacts on orange trees and grower adaptations.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a legal action to adjudge ownership of property and to restrain defendants from trespass or further interference. The readable items indicate a claim of dominion over premises and a request for an injunction to prevent intrusion.
Memorial services of the Improved Order of Red Men mark the hundredth anniversary of George Washington’s death. The gathering takes place at the WikWain of Shoshone Tribe No. 1 over Finlen-Media Drug store on Prix day evening. Tihaen will deliver remarks and music will be provided as the public is invited.
A New Orleans Time extract from The Gold Digger dated Oct 25 reports Nome Alaska prices high in a four page weekly. It lists tenderloin steak three dollars, coffee and doughnuts sixty cents, two story seven room rentals at two hundred dollars monthly, liquor fifty cents, lumber two hundred fifty a thousand, wagons ten hour, labor wages two dollars per hour for shoremen and one fifty for carpenters. The piece notes the paper’s neat printing and the Nome placers on the sea coast yielding over an season.
Joby Howard, once employed in a swindle against Hennessy Mercantile, was captured by City Detective Murphy in a Park Street pawn shop. He falsely posed as a miner from Anaconda to buy clothing on credit and pledge it. Also involved, a boy named Joan Hannifan allegedly aided the scheme by forging signatures, including the Titus signature, to remove valuables from the safe.
Early trading showed mixed activity as several names moved in the market. By session end, a number of issues recovered, with closing quotations reflecting gains for Boston based listings and others such as Montana and Calumet and Hecla among the quotes cited.
A Times-Democrat note recalls Mrs Niedenhofen offering dolls, china, and bric-a-brac at low prices as she clears stock. The page also reprints a Thanksgiving morning interview in the Hennen building with a well-spoken panhandler who explains his get rich scheme and how truth can be manipulated for money.
Copper mining stocks slid further as traders faced ongoing volatility. The market showed renewed weakness with speculative positions pressured and prices retreating, reflecting a cautious tone among Boston and Minneapolis investors.
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