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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1898
Page
2
A garbled column from Dillon Montana mixes mockery of insurance and riches with references to public figures, politics, and society. The piece lampoons temperance lectures and legal cases while weaving in satirical lines about judges and moral standards.
The piece profiles Margaret Brown nicknamed Mother Hubbard, a famed pickpocket and pocketbook thief aged in the eighties to nineties, detailing her methods at railroad stations and stores and noting her long criminal career spanning decades. It mentions Pop White as a famed figure in the same circle and records her notoriety in Chicago and other cities.
A London wager from 1860 pits a renowned gentleman against a smoker who must inhale eighty six cigars in nine hours and twenty minutes aboard a Thames steamer between London and Chelsea. The smoker, aided by breeze, consumes sixteen cigars in the second hour and finishes with no distress, aided only by a 2 pm chop and sips of brandy.
A garbled text describes a young woman in Philadelphia and a series of events involving a man nicknamed Frog and a distasteful pursuit. The piece appears as a lurid, sensational account with unclear chronology and numerous jumbled phrases.
A fragment discusses whether women marry for love or wealth, noting social pressures and economic dependency. It questions if marriage is driven by affection or material gain and warns of consequences when money incentives predominate.
The excerpt presents a collage of poetry and stage dialogue with names like Cohen, Nate, and Cholly. It features romantic lament, a dream of a cottage, reflections on marriage, and humorous banter about theater, proposals, and social observation written in a noisy serialized style.
A garbled extract from a 19th or early 20th century humor page shows witticisms and street banter. It references a character finding a large yellow object, a discussion of deliry and coffeehouse chatter, and snippets of satirical dialogue about editors, Oberlin, and Daily Washington parody lines.
About 6 000 salwar Kiangpeh with women and children fled their villages amid crop destruction last summer and joined an army of some 20 000 refugees marching toward the northeast. Authorities in Soochow tried to halt them, but the mobs overran barriers and moved into Seachow and Cheangehou. The refugees split into two bands to ease pressure, raiding villages for rice and vegetables while some members protected others, with reports of organized camps and forceful resistance along the Yangtze frontiers.
A casual exchange describes finding a horse shoe as an omen and a fortune, with talk of Mars and Chicago and a bold claim to sell the shoe for $600. The fragment showcases quirky banter and local color.
Fragmentary text mentions a vessel and people involved in a mysterious event under surveillance. Names and places are unreadable, leaving the incident ambiguous with references to a voyage and potential execution of a ship.
The readable fragments describe a confusing scene with references to behavior, society, and distrust. Vague phrases suggest commentary on drink, politics, and superstition, ending with a murky note about deaths and public perception.
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