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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1899
Page
2
A traveling correspondent recounts Cuba interiors from Havana outward, noting missing railroads and unreliable travel. He describes rough roads, guides, high interior travel costs, freighted baggage, and quirky local transport, contrasting Havana cabbies with interior stagecoaches and trains, in a period tone.
A quirky note features a group discussing sword swallowing and tunnels as a professor offers explanations during a Fat Knight event. The fragment hints at playful tricks and theater style banter among friends.
The excerpt surveys Cuban travel by rail road and road, noting overhanging trees, fields idle after cultivation, and fear of bandits near Havana. It contrasts shabby rail cars with limited food, suggests macadamized highways and carriages as a pleasant alternative, and describes volantes and omnibuses as travel options before detailing a sword swallowing student’s long, arduous training before public performance.
An anecdote from the Hotel Oriente in Manila describing guests discovering lack of bedding and linens. The writer notes the bed consists only of a cane bottom and bolster, with no mattress sheets or pillows, and explains locals adapt to the mattressless, skeleton bed as a climate suited item and essential for rest.
The Boston Herald reports Napoleon I wore a crimson velvet belt with gold eagles and monograms. A Parisian family preserves the belt in a leather case, valuing it as a treasured relic and guarding it from Napoleonic collections. The belt’s small size prompts humorous speculation about the emperor’s figure.
Homer F. Candee, new Winfield postmaster, has a family history of Revolutionary War service. His Connecticut-born father enlisted at 21 in 1783, lived with three wives, and received a pension. Candee, born 1828, is part of a lineage marked by long lives and remarriages, while local colonial style draperies offer cotton fabrics in blue, red, and forest green with narrow cross stripe patterns and balanced prices.
An advertisement from Dr Hui e Pock at 2275 Main St touts a “pure root and herb treatment” for chronic disease. It claims permanent cures and asserts women’s diseases have been studied for years and are successfully treated.
A fragmented note describes the West Bound line No 11 percent toward Garrison and Anaconda linking with No 3 for Portland and connecting with Puget Sound train to Portland No 11. It mentions Garrison connectors and various co Routes including Butte Anaconda Pacific Railway points.
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