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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1900
Page
8
The article bundles National League baseball notes, player pay disputes, and the protectionist move by players led by McGraw. It tracks contract talks, upcoming bouts, and management frictions, with vivid fanfare about fights involving Erne McFadden and O'Rourke's plans for Gardner and Murphy. It also riffs on Sagacious owners, umpire refusals, and colorful side stories from trainers and jockeys.
The Chicago horse scene features Tommy Bruton's 2:08 stallion and Crescens, owned by George Ketcham of Cleveland, in a $2,000 Pittsburg mile race on July 4. Crescens is being prepared in Cleveland. Ketcham reports Bruton is faster than ever.
Pugilistic manager Bing Roche, tied to the Penn Art Club in Philadelphia, plans a five night carnival during convention week. Mysterious Billy Smith and Joe Walcott are likely top attractions for the opening show with referees Creehan and McGovern. Prominent bouts list Peter Maber and Gus Rublin in a $3,000 feature, with similar stakes for the next card.
The article outlines early training for thoroughbreds starting at a yearling age. It emphasizes breaking to saddle and bridle early, teaching the horse to carry a rider, obey the rein, and gradual conditioning. It notes historic seating practices and the shift away from harsh methods, stressing individualized training pace, spring timing, and a routine of early morning walking to steady high spirits before trot and gallop work.
The article details morning work for young thoroughbreds, emphasizing gradual fitness, varied gallops, and half to six furlongs beside an older horse. It stresses teaching early starts, keeping riders from harsh punishment, and preserving courage, with proper control by hand and heel.
Sydney Smith recalls Paris salons as French institutions where incisive talk, reform ideas, romance, and wit thrived. He notes salons as engines of revolution and Enlightenment precursors, now vanished in modern life’s rush.
In a Memphis Scimitar excerpt, a boy asks his aunt if it is wicked to kill birds after she defends not shooting them. She argues birds deserve mercy as God’s creatures, while the boy challenges with a blunt question about what she would shoot.
A Hopgood family of four, father mother and two daughters, were found living in a hollow oak near Richmond. The tree was too small for all, so they slept both outside and inside the decayed trunk while foraging and begging to survive. Authorities have taken them into custody.
In a New York World fragment a farmer and his wife quarrel playfully over butter honesty. The wife says the butter is fresh, while the summer boarder insists it is the freshest he has seen and jokes it even asked for a shave.
In the Baltimore American an exhausted prize fighter laments repeated defeats saying he cannot perform on stage or draw crowds to a saloon. He contemplates a drastic choice, suggesting he may seek Congress or find steady work as the next step after his misfortunes.
An art gallery audience reacts to a painting depicting a family fleeing a doomed city. A woman exclaims “Poor Lot” as they pause before the work, while a man suggests the figure might hope to obtain a fresh start now that escape is possible.
A Chicago Record snippet shows a playful scene where a father questions a young man's intentions, and the daughter scolds him for meddling about plans for ice cream soda water all summer. The light exchange highlights domestic humor and generational tension.
A mosaic map of France in precious stones, one meter square, presented by Czar Nicholas II to the French government for display at an exhibition. Sea in light gray marble, rivers in platinum, land in jasper, with names in gold and 106 towns marked, Paris shown by a distinctive marker.
The piece argues fame endangers artistic reason, tracing Rostand and Maupassant as examples. It recalls Bernhardt’s fears, Rostand’s tireless work on Cyrano de Bergerac, and later cerebral illness. It contrasts Rostand’s wholesome craft with Maupassant’s morbid speculation and warns of the price of genius.
In Cincinnati, Turnkey Sam Taylor recalls his boyhood on a Virginia plantation where a traveling shoemaker visited biannually. He recounts how shoes were distributed for all, from field hands to masters, and a misadventure left him with one good shoe and one worn pair, shaping his memory of unequal footwear and discipline.
Dialogue captures a light exchange where a mother asks about refreshments after an afternoon party. Bobby replies that they had liquid refreshments, noting that the group skipped out to go swimming. The tone hints at casual, informal social gathering details.
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