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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1899
Page
9
Public furor in Helena as Sixth legislative assembly mulls a senator selection amid bribery charges and money influence claims. The Inter Mountain warns against hasty votes and urges a formal inquiry, contrasting Silver and Gold wings and criticizing the Anaconda Standard for its stance on free coinage and party unity.
The Anaconda Standard shuns forcing Montana Democrats to walk out of the national convention over free coinage at a 16 to 1 ratio. It questions fidelity to pledges and urges clarity on whether Montana silver supporters would leave their party if the convention rejects free coinage. The piece cites Mantle and Silver Republicans as contrasts. It presses for a firm stance before the convention.
The Inter Mountain responds to accusations of disloyalty to silver from the Anaconda Standard. The piece argues opposition to reformers is a recurrent historical pattern and condemns political prudence that deceives the public while endorsing bimetallism and the promise of brighter futures.
A column lists prominent elder statesmen and religious figures, noting James Lane's death at 101 in Chicago, Cardinal Mertel at 96 and active, Cardinal Gibbons with a Queen of Italy photograph, Col Wentworth Higginson's 75th birthday, and the late benefactor C T Wilder gifting $10 000 to Turkish colleges. It also recalls Calvin Brice's peculiar signature and Rev Hiram Hutchins at age 88 walking Brooklyn streets with remains of his vigor and service.
A patchwork of joke lines and quips from urban papers. Items include a Somerville Journal remark on portraits at home, a Chicago Post exchange about puzzling cases and a wise lad, and a Cincinnati Inquirer quip about a wife’s jelly problem.
A Rochester New York Herald item tells of a wealthy unwed East Side woman who vacationed on the Maine coast and, after a chance church meeting, receives a playful, money minded marriage proposal from a local farmer who hopes wealth will secure a match. The note hints at social class and the lure of riches in a small village.
A collection of humorous maxims contrasts patriotism with desertion and truth with deception. Witty quips explore gender roles and honesty, noting how promises, bread, and butter shape trust and romance in a light, it seems style. The piece leans into playful aphorisms rather than narrative.
Fireman George Murray of Truck 22 recalls a moving incident near Ninety-eighth Street in New York. A long lost son, William Duzenberry, is recognized by a strawberry birthmark by an elderly mother who says she has not seen him in twenty years. The emotional moment unfolds at the firehouse as the son explains his duty keeps him away.
A West Rider jokes with a post office official about letter carriers who work day and night. The citizen claims a carrier carries nulls all day and an extra mail at night, prompting a puzzled reaction and a punchline about a short route.
A collection of curiosities notes pine usage for matches at 390000 cubic feet annually in the United States, a statistician estimates England holds 550000000 in foreign land and mortgage investments, and an elephant’s keen sense of smell can detect a human from 1000 yards. It adds a fact about sand grains covering skin pores and a belief among South Sea islanders about Para.
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