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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1899
Page
2
The article outlines bicycle tourism across Europe with strict passport like certificates from the Cyclists Touring Club of England. It notes varying entry controls, duty rules, and re export proofs, plus German rail limits and Austria’s tightening barriers. It also describes a sensational tour of Cabana and Morro forts with relic collecting and shipwreck finds.
In a sprawling report the Touring Club de France Touring Club Cylistico Italiano outline how European borders affect touring cyclists. Differences in customs rules grant varied exemptions and impose deposits, while Americans seek parity through a new national touring committee.
A courier letter from A J Toolen describes relic hunting near Havana Cuba among Spanish fortifications including Morro castle La Cabana and the wreck of the Maine. The author details warm days cool nights and views from Castillo del Principe with ships in Havana harbor and a cautious account of the La Cabana exploration with fellow sergeants and Lt Colonel Hotchkis.
The Denver Post reports F G Taylor a Kansas City traveling man exhibits a feather robe claimed to be from Old Mexico Indians Ortiz. The robe uses feathers from four wild geese and two sand hill cranes and features geese breasts at ends with crane centers. Taylor notes only three such robes exist and recounts trade networks and the robe’s journey from Ortiz country to El Paso and New York curio buyers. The robe’s construction hinges on careful tanning and feather attachment using wet rawhide and scalloped outing flannel for the underside.
In a blustery morning storm at City Hall Square near Fulton Street a woman, pressed by wind and snow, confronted a group of White Wings shovellers delaying her passage. The boss shook her upright and urged her home. She retorted that he should earn her living to stay home.
In a chat between Grace and Alice, references to Kipling and his poems trigger debate on meanings and slang. They discuss phases in The White Man's Burden and other lines, wondering about symbolism and interpretation while admiring a copy of Luelle and noting Kipling’s linguistic difficulty.
A reader quotes a fragment about purity and fair thoughts, noting a hopeful moment in a literary passage. The line hints at inner best, beloved aspects of the self, inviting deeper study in the library.
Health Department offices are cleaning telephone receivers transmitters and tubes daily by order of Dr. Jones to kill disease germs. Expert chemist Dr Schede of New York reports phones harbor germs, citing an alcohol ether glycerine wash on transmitters finding germs of consumption smallpox scarlet fever and grip among other bacteria.
Train schedule notes mixed service days and routes to Portland St Paul Omaha and St Louis. Trains 3 and 4 run solid via Butte with an 8:00 p m departure and connections to western destinations. Names Merriam Fre and others list offices and depots in Butte St Paul and Minneapolis.
Passengers may buy tickets on the Oregon Short Line to reach points east via Salt Lake Denver Omaha or Kansas City and west via Ogden with the Rio Grande Western or Southern Pacific. Trains depart daily from Butte at 3 pm and arrive 9:40 am daily. sleeping car occupants may keep berths until breakfast. tickets and reservations available at 19 East Broadway Butte Montana with H. Wilson and D. F. Burley listed as agents.
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