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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1899
Page
6
A brief verse fragment urges a distant beloved to gaze and stay the speaker’s life. The speaker vows that without the beloved, life fades as the beloved’s gaze holds meaning and presence in the far distance.
London reports a Folkestone inventor builds a cycle boat to cross the English Channel in about one hour from Deer to Calais. The tandem craft uses pedal action to drive a paddle wheel, varying with the operator’s leg power, promising a rapid yet recreational crossing.
The piece describes early bicycle boat trials near Folkestone with several failed attempts and a $200 machinery cost, plus notes on possible motorized boats and Henley ambitions. It also recounts sensational chronicles of European nobility and convicts, including Princess Regina Avalos, the Duke of Carracciola, Marquis Varela, Count Schleinitz, a Berlin editor blackmail case, and other fraud and prison histories.
A sweeping argument claims the aristocracy fills prisons across the world. It cites 20,000 noble convicts in the civilized nations and 12,000 in Italy, from princes to impoverished scions, and notes a Belgian prince in solitary confinement as an example of aristocratic crime.
A Minneapolis Tribune piece recalls Jimtown near St. Joseph as a whitewashed schoolhouse turned church space by season, serving as a conversion site for enslaved people hired out from regional plantations. It notes Virginia and Maryland origin of many enslaved workers and the concentration of slave ownership among a few men in the county.
The fragment recounts a St Joseph tale where a black worker faces harsh scrutiny over religion and honesty as employers test loyalty before hiring. It shifts to a formal notice from The Merced Gold Mining Company in Boston detailing a final stock installment, due May 22, 1899, with penalties and payment instructions.
Creditors of Ellen Drew deceased are notified to present their claims with vouchers within four months after first publication. Claims must be exhibited to James C. Drew, Administrator, at the law offices of McHatton & Cotter in Hennessy Building, Butte Montana, in the county of Silver Bow.
A new social fad from Paris arrives as a sit down luncheon where guests bring unique self made entertainment. Hostess assigns acts like singing recitation or poetry reading, then guests craft decorative programmes using embroidery ink or collage. Distribution follows, with each guest receiving a random lineup for a novel, charming result.
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