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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1899
Page
2
An aged newspaper clipping notes a farm related business managed by M. A. Berger located on West Granite Street in Butte City Montana. It lists subscription rates per year by mail in advance and repeats some garbled text from the ad.
The piece argues the Montana legislature wastes time on 60 days of work while avoiding crucial issues. It warns against overreach in road and bounty laws, critiques wage assignment bills, and urges cautious, discerned action. It laments gold standards and promotes silver coinage as a remedy.
A writer in an agricultural paper pushes free coinage at ten to one as essential for farmers. He cites over 29 million dollars in gold held by the national treasury to prop up metal prices and notes funds leaving regular channels due to bond issuance. He predicts last year’s crop results hint at future price declines for wheat cotton and other staples once overseas crops improve.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on November 11 published bust portraits of W. A. Clark and Marcus Daly described as unflattering and near caricatures. The piece notes stark differences from the originals and cites a clear case of libel against the newspaper.
A group of Midwestern states plans a Paris exhibit to showcase corn products like corn pone johnny cake and corn meal mush. They argue European visitors lack corn knowledge and promote corn as wholesome fuel for people and animals, praising the value of maize and criticizing Scandinavian diets.
Eastern silver night schools explain bimetallism with basic arithmetic leaflets aimed at uniting supporters for political action against gold standard policies. The movement, centered in Chicago, seeks to influence the 1900 presidential campaign and gains attention from Cascade county legislators proposing populist style initiatives and state ownership of transport and telegraph lines.
The Nicaragua canal bill meets a rocky path in the Senate with amendments and substitutes. Senator Allison proposes a treasury borrowing plan secured by 3 percent bonds, to be sold at par and offered first to Americans, but no action was taken. The Samoa dispute and a note on Japan’s income illustrate broader international tensions and poverty figures.
The text notes strict censorship in Mania for political telegrams as Washington tightens controls. It contrasts Spanish neglect of cleanliness with U S hopes on Manila and Havana where 1,000 workers tackle Havana’s unsanitary streets, deeming Spaniards as lax about cleanliness.
A collage of witty exchanges and satirical jabs from various papers. It includes Gingered quips about Chamberlain and Kipling, a naval pun from Zogbaum, and humorous sketches on expansion policy, Jewish authorship debates, and a rural newspaper reply about hogs paying for subscriptions.
A jumble of( OCR ) lines describe a misty sense of an island joining the United States seen as a suburb of Chicago Yonkers figures and London bus drivers recalling a late leader. It notes colors of the Bayou, a royal young king query about a symbol and a US military society badge. Fragments mention a peculiar rapid turn, sight lines between races, Pearl oyster age, and wave force.
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