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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1901
Page
5
M Fergat, manager of Af Arcss s mall to Inter Mountain Pub shine Company, located at 36 West Gronte Street Butte City Montana.
The piece reflects on McKinley and Roosevelt four years into their terms, praising progress under democratic policies. It notes railway growth, industrial expansion, and national unity, claiming a strong administration delivered happiness and prosperity. It portrays a ceremonial mood and public confidence in the era's leadership.
Fragmented OCR text shows a legislative session debating a printing bill to replace the current law governing county officers purchases for blank books stationery and supplies. It discusses timber supplies bindery work and external printers and hints at regional wage scales and industrial impacts in eastern cities with broader state implications.
A citizens letter criticizes Admiral Sampson for opposing promotion of Gunner Morgan to ensign. It argues competency warrants same chance as officers, notes no real difference in essential knowledge between branches, and ridicules Sampson's claim that warrant officers lack social advantages while health concerns appear as a filler justification. The piece defends merit based advancement and questions the health excuse used in Washington.
The piece argues that younger graduates favor promotions from within the service while senior leaders deny this path. Admiral Sampson's experience and opinions are cited, with public letters urging changes to the officer promotion process and candid admissions of doubt about current Navy practices.
The piece extols whistling as portable art, noting its expressive range from tender to fervent. It compares the whistle to instruments and voices, imagines rooms becoming concert halls, and reflects on how empty spaces fuel inner performance and memory.
The United States stands as the top exporter with ratios showing rapid growth over 25 years. Britain and Germany gain while France lags. population growth partly explains shifts, but America’s expansion outpaces rivals, signaling a dominant long term trend in global trade.
An American tea company buys 6,000 acres in Colleton County marking a promising new industry for the South. Dr. Shepard reports success in growing high quality tea locally and projects expansion from 100 acres this season to 6,400 acres next season with an estimated yield of 100,000 pounds, signaling major potential impact.
The Missoulian notes a push to plant beets with Senator Hoftman of Gallatin backing a legislative bill to encourage beet planting, while the Billings Gazette and others favor passage. Great Falls Tribune argues the state health board must wield power, criticizing the loss of compulsory vaccination provisions as weakening smallpox control and potentially undermining the board.
Fragmented OCR notes describe humorous lines about Nell and a would-be Western epicure who died after six pigs feet. The artifact hints at a quip column from Delphia Times, with phrases about appearance and appetite.
A playful exchange notes Scribbier asking why Scrawler sends many stamps with poems. Scrawler replies editors may be hard up someday and swipe the stamps, forcing the poet to keep the editor.
Dialogue heavy fragment from a Detroit Journal piece shows a sharp exchange on money and shopping with a female shopper declaring cheap and reasonable mean the same to her. The text focuses on tone and mood rather than a discrete news event or outcome.
A traveler from Mars alights and surveys a city of noble dwellings in ruins, murmuring at the strange sight of the deserted, grand architecture and the vast waste around him. The scene blends curiosity with awe at a once great settlement now fallen into decay.
A strange visitor asks a frightened resident about the nation as he discovers a terrified inhabitant under wreckage. The man cries Carrie Nation, flees, and leaps onto an aero-plate to vanish into the ether, after declaring Kansas.
The Indianapolis Press reports a sharp exchange where a gambler objects to being a breadwinner. He quips that he does get the dough, then laughs, causing three aces to flutter from his sleeve in a fellow comic moment.
Reverend Frederick Myers spoke at the Methodist church in Brooklyn arguing Mrs Nation’s crusade against liquor laws in Kansas is divinely purposed. He claimed Kansas laws clash with New York rules and warned officials who ignore the law may be viewed as complicit. He pictured Mrs Nation as enforcing order while likening law to a king dethroned by vice and crime.
New York report says at Sandy Hook proving grounds a powerful explosive shows highly satisfactory results. Tests conducted with great secrecy by ordnance officials reveal the weapon is American invention, unnamed, and a shell filled with it penetrates 15 inches.
Ordnance officers report guardedly on explosive tests at Bandy Hook. The new compound shattered a shell buried in sand and amber, sending a sheet of flame skyward. Officials say the results exceed all previous explosives, with the inventor hailed as American.
The day’s snippets report diverse items from governments and industries. Topics include British government ties to camel ownership, American plans to organize Porto Rican laborers, coal output in Washington state reaching 2.2 million tons for 1900, and South African War troop stats. Also noted are Trailways steel usage, a New England horse car, Swiss phosphorus match ban, U S death and blindness counts, Congo animal discovery, Michipicoten ore, and publishing and local curiosities from Chicago to Boston.
The Republican City Central Committee of Butte Montana calls a meeting at Curt Co Darrow 215 North Main St on March 4 191 with 8 p m for caucuses primaries and convention matters and other business. Also estate of Jeremiah O Neill notice of will proving March 9 1901 at 2 p m in Silver Bow County Courtroom Butte to contest letters testamentary for James O Neill. Samuel M Roberts clerk.
Mary L. Young sues Lynnie Boyce in a sheriff s sale dated March 16 1901 at 2 PM at the front door of the court house Butte Montana. It covers Lots 12 13 14 and the south 17 feet of Lot 15 in Block 61 and east 35 feet of the half of Lot 2 Block 74 and east 35 feet of the west half of Lot 1 in Block 8 of the Noyes Upton addition as shown on official plat on file in Silver Bow County clerk and recorder s office.
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