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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1899
Page
15
A brief ad noting a bundle of rent receipts or a deed to a piece of property, with a plan to obtain them through a small cash payment followed by monthly installments. It claims possession and enjoyment will be worthwhile and invites calls to proceed.
Real estate listing offering a 360 acre ranch on Jefferson Island with one house remaining. Also available are vacant lots and improved property across the city. Price set at 1050 dollars with easy terms. Local realty firm markets several parcels. Requires clarification of location details and current market terms.
The body of Mrs Helen Rundle 47 was found frozen behind her North Main street home at 3 am by her husband Samuel after returning from the Colusa-Parrota mine shift. Coroner to hold inquest. suspicions of accidental fall and cold exposure prevail. The couple, long residents of Meaderville, known locally. husband formerly a celebrated Cornish wrestler.
A fragment lists individuals and their home cities including Butte Virginia City Denver San Francisco Missoula New York Duluth and others. The text appears to be a roster or society notice with names and places, lacking full details or context.
A pasted OCR fragment lists names and places including Phillips Hamilton H M Hadfield Ana conda A BE Wood Payette Idaho Geo H Mendel Jr Salt Take Max Abraham J A Crump Chicago McDermott 1 HH Wall C H Alexander Helena C Grannis Duluth Jus Bell KJ Schagel Kalis Pell Mes G W Masin Missoula D M Durff Philipsburg Dunn Chicago J D Ferrell Whitehall FP Db Hastings C F Wiman Kansas City.
Following its annual custom the Butte Will hold a grand bar masque at Renshaw on Sunday evening February 19. The food committee invites ladies for a refined evening with dancing not on the ceiling, strict propriety, and no unmasking. The best orchestra in Butte will play. admission is one dollar with tickets at Joe Harmon’s, 2 North Main Street.
A Church Gazette excerpt recalls sailors and captains showing broad dislike for parsons as passengers. Stories recount missions joining voyages, storms, and even mutinous humor after parsons disrupted routines. Skippers feared parsons, yet praised some seamanship amid perilous seas and a few polite refusals to corral religious services aboard.
Hans Toe, a well known Butte post office employee, is jailed on charges of opening letters not addressed to him. Inspector Wood investigated after a Washington letter to Tom Flavin was opened and resealed with mucilage. Toe admitted curiosity led to the act. motive tied to political aspirations. Evidence found at Toe’s South Wyoming street room did not reveal money.
The article notes Boe had substantial money and deposits over months, a bank book from the Scandinavian Brotherhood found in his room, and that despite appearances the crime carries a potential year in prison or a $50 fine. Friends are pushing for his release.
Weekly bank statement shows surplus reserve down 1,194,450 with deposits up 8,036,000 and circulation down 68,000. Money on call steady with demand at 8314 to 831/4, and various bond and commodity quotes in New York and Chicago markets. Hogs, cattle, and sheep stocks at Chicago show receipts around 18,000 for hogs and 400 for cattle and sheep with prices steady to mixed.
Southern Pacific reports December earnings with gross December receipts of 5,296,808 a rise of 424,474 from the prior year while net receipts reached 1,810,897 down 75,705. For the six months, gross earnings totaled 38,795,881 up 2,263,367 year over year, with net receipts at 11,874,772 down versus 1897 as company invests heavily in equipment and improvements.
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