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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1900
Page
2
An OCR fragment mixes notes on Gladstone statue in Athens and stray garbled text about rifles, clothing, telegraphs, and Middle East irrigation. The readable portions reference Greece recognizing Gladstone and a stray line about Lower Egypt’s irrigation and a river relay.
Due to his sympathy for Great Britain in the South African trouble, King Oscar of Sweden and Norway may be urged by his cabinet to abdicate on June 16, the birthday of Crown Prince Gustaf. The prince, heir apparent, represents a party opposed to the ruling faction.
The piece compares the Paris exhibition move to the current craze for the mechanized sidewalk called Trottoir roulant. It describes a sidewalk elevated twenty feet with railings and intermittent steps, circling endlessly like an elevated railway, and mentions it as a French conversation aid used by a Swedish count. It also notes Dickens related notes and a tale from American Notes about a prisoner’s death in the almshouse, along with park runners who admire a health-restoring device devised by a physician.
An important society event will be the marriage of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, head of the Vanderbilt millions, and Miss Elsie French. Vanderbilt, born 1877 and Yale graduate, recently toured the world. his father’s will left most of the fortune to Cornelius J, yet Alfred Gwynne distributed millions to his brother, sparking family intrigue.
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