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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1899
Page
7
The article reports on railroad lake stocking ideas near Rock Creek lake and notes a Deer Lodge Women’s Club meeting with literary readings. It also covers local chicken thefts, shop moves, building repairs, residents visiting from Butte and Helena, and a long discussion on bird behavior and care with various observations from naturalists.
Observers note multiple species in May showing tender courtship. A robin, chaffinches, and willow wrens present food to mates. spotted flycatchers and others display gifting, gentleness, and excited mating dances. The behavior, observed through telescope, underscores love signals before the May peak.
An amusing tale from a New York event describes Madame Melba singing as a silvery mechanical rival played on, provoking silent gasps and whispers. Attendees searched walls and ceilings while Melba endured, chairs toppled, and a nursery chair aloud a household tune before the chair was removed and the concert continued.
A Detroit prep scene mocks rising costs and trust prices. Kansas farmers receive late retail advice while the Ozarks singer laments anti trust pressures. A protest poem notes coats pants collars and shoes as symbols of economic restraint amid trust domination.
Court order directs public auction of Mary E. Turner estate real property in Butte City Montana. Administrator Frank H. Cooney will sell on May 24 1899 at 2 pm at courthouse door to highest bidder for cash with 10 percent paid day of sale and balance after court confirmation. Includes one fourth undivided interest in La Monte Lode Claim Sections 7 11 12 Township 8 North Range 9 West.
U S Treasury invites sealed proposals by May 16 1899 for sale of central Butte Montana property to be site for a new public building. Corner lot preferred 166 by 150 feet, else 160 by 190 feet. Vendor bears title deeds costs and removes building on notice within 30 days.
William Burton Mary Laird Henry Crangle Nina B. Witherspoon claim owners file a 1899 notice in Silver Bow County Montana stating they expended 100 dollars in 1897 and 100 dollars in 1898 for annual labor on the Green Copper fade mining claim in Summit Valley. Co owners are warned to contribute their share within ninety days or lose their interest to the expending parties.
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