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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1899
Page
8
Advertisement-style notice urges buying property in a growing city, promising easy home acquisition without navigating hurdles. Emphasizes booming real estate and favorable conditions, urging action now in a vibrant market.
Delighted volunteers thank Senator Mantle as Butte citizens provided transport and sustenance from San Francisco. The medals symbolize a state's devotion to gallant soldiers, to be handed down as family heirlooms, while the return journey costs and hospitality are praised. Weather and delays affected plans but the reception remained a splendid success. Soldiers face harsh rain and leaky tents in the Philippines, enduring soggy camps, improvised shelter, and mud as campaigns proceed under difficult conditions.
The typhoon strikes with high seas and gale winds as the Hooker, a United States cable ship, lies wrecked near Corregidor. The crew and signals office, led by Gael Thompson, face uncertainty while landside soldiers endure the downpour. Rain floods roads and fields, the recruit falters, and the storm tests all aboard and ashore.
At a city council meeting in Butte Mayor McCarthy confirmed Major Byron H. Cook as second assistant treasurer. The council advanced an ordinance granting Anaconda Copper Mining electric franchise and required free lighting for the library and plant, with other municipal actions and contracts approved or referred.
The notice mentions J. Monroe & Co at Broadway advertising wood and services, with a photo reference and a cake walk event tonight. It reads like a cluttered public notice from a local paper, noting a welcome and activities around the coast area.
The Copper shares scene shows Boston and Montana quotes around 349 and later corrections deeming the initial figure a mistake. Amalgamated, Maconda, Weston, Montana, Butte & Boston, Calumet & Hecla, Mohawk, Parrot, Tamarack, and others appear with varied prices as the day unfolds, interwoven with colorful reminiscences of old town life and gambling tales from Jefferson Street.
A saloon scene invites attendance at a May afternoon dancing class at 317 Dakota street. Also a county tax notice warns Silver Bow residents the 1899 taxes are due by November 10 at 6 pm with a 10 percent delinquency penalty.
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