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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1901
Page
5
A short mailing instruction notes that all correspondence should be addressed to Inter Mountain Publishing Company. The item emphasizes the publisher as the intended recipient for mail communications.
The article argues for completing state university expansion with a focus on the Missoula campus and the state capitol, highlighting a proposed library dormitory and museum within a new complex. It outlines building placements, including university hall, a north library face, a dormitory near mechanical arts, and a gymnasium center, designed for safety, economy, and broader educational access. It notes government support and aims to ease access for students from across the state.
Incoherent OCR fragment discusses funding for a university military program and related expenditures. Mentions a 100,000 unit figure and possible establishment steps. Contains unclear names and places, with no clear events or outcomes.
Nikola Tesla defends his Mars communication theory amid widespread newspaper scorn. He argues practical energy transmission to Mars is feasible using electrical oscillations and a ground-connected condenser, detailing energy figures and experimental evidence while cautioning against overconfidence in certainty.
A survey notes copper output shifts from 1799 through 1900, detailing early low yields in Britain, Russia, and Japan, and the United States rising to dominate world production with 285,156 tons by the century’s end. It highlights depth, costs, ore grades, and smelting advances shaping the industry.
The article discusses potential plans for President McKinley and his party to visit California and Montana in the spring. It urges formal invitation and a carefully crafted program to show as much of the state as possible, noting the likely inclusion of Butte and the need to avoid omitting it from the itinerary.
Professor Emory R Johnson of the University of Pennsylvania travels with ex Senator Samuel Pasco collecting commerce statistics for the United States. They have toured Atlantic and Gulf ports, visiting Chicago and planning a stop in Indianapolis. California's Bard brothers plan a hospital in Steubenville as a memorial to their mother. Secretay Long denies moving to Colorado and affirms Massachusetts as home. A monument project for Edwin Stanton is revived in Steubenville. A German emperor chess variant exhibit in Toncon features 30 pieces, 100 squares, valued at 6,000 with enameled gold work and decorative details.
A wounded cadet at West Point speaks of his death in a satirical poem. He recounts harsh war rituals and mock military rites, asking that upon his death his body be honored with military ceremonies to Podunk on the Wab.
A fragmented column humorously ponders money, marriage, and social wit. It contrasts sayings about money’s voice with quirky lines on contentment, women’s speech, and men’s finances. The piece riffs on humor, morality, and everyday absurdities in a breezy column style.
The Chicago Record notes a tourist’s view that travelers fear overcharging and cites a Paris shop scene where a young American challenges a 20 francs price for a silver brooch offering 5 francs instead. The piece contrasts prudence with perceived deception in European shopping.
Mrs Mariel T Banigan, noted for charity in Providence, dies while visiting relatives in Chicago. Widow of Jos Banigan who died in 1908 leaving 10 million dollars and a large estate to four children. She helped found St Maria home for working girls and supported St Joseph's church.
Los Angeles reports a fruit car shortage in southern California causing anxiety for orange shippers. With over 18,000 carloads awaiting shipment, shippers demand 200 cars daily to the East, but railways can currently move only about 19 cars per day.
An International polo tournament is planned near San Francisco. The Hurlingham team from England, including Walter McCreery, Laurence McCreery, Charles Menges, and J S Machile, has arrived via across the continent after buying ten polo ponies in Austin Texas. The mounts are quartered at Burlingame for training ahead of the proposed games with several top eastern players expected to join.
George Gould will bring a carload of ponies for visiting polo men unable to bring mounts. Local polo and hunt clubs will supply ponies to those riders unable to move their own mounts across the continent.
January 18 report from Tucson details Ivan Lopey, a Copper Queen smelter worker, burned to death when molten copper spilled from a swinging pot onto him. His clothes ignited and his body was horribly disfigured by the hot metal.
A telegram from Admiral Kautz at Acapulco says the battleship Iowa is about to sail north and will probably reach San Diego next Thursday as the warship returns to the west coast.
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