John Allen and Cooke City Pioneers Trail to Miners’ Gold
Prominent Cooke City resident John Allen and his wife Mrs. Allen helped blaze the first wagon road into Cooke City, opened the hotel, served as postmaster and justice of the peace, and watched the town rise with mining dreams. Today the Silver Gate highway brings renewed activity as ore moves toward markets and old mines reopen.
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Cooke City
Rominent
John Allen
Allen
Soda Butte Creek
Soda Butte
Rhode Island
Caroline Martin Price
London
Ag.land
Western Hills
Deadwood
South Dakota
Black Hills
Miles City
Bozeman
O'Hara
War Eagle
McKinley
Eastern Montana Mining and Smelting Co
Pennsylvania
Livingston
Polden
Allens
Northern Pacific
N. P
Armitage
Billings
Silver Gate
Main Street
Allen Hotel
Mrs. Allen
Mr. Allen
Bayer Aspirin Delivers Quick Neuritis Pain Relief
An old advertisement touts genuine Bayer Aspirin for rapid relief from neuritis and neuralgia. It emphasizes fast dissolution, instant onset of action, and urges buyers to insist on Bayer Aspirin. The copy highlights a 15 cent price for a dozen tablets and uses persuasive test phrases.
Dancehall Girl Nellie Paget's Tragic Frontier Romance
Helena Patterson, a 16-year-old who joined a western migration, becomes Nellie Paget in Bannack Montana. She captivates miners and road agents in the gold camp, abandons her betrothed Howard Humphrey, and is slain in a tale of unsettled frontier love. After 55 years Humphrey travels to Bannack to visit her grave and learns the fate of his promised bride.
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William West
Bannack
Montana
Nellie Paget
West
United States
Illinois
Helen Patterson
Howard Humphrey
Howard
Helen
Helen Paget
Prairies
Mississippi
Helen Cee Ee
Nellie
Howard Bumprey
Butte
Moss Agate Formation Puzzles Scientists in Montana
Dr. J W Howard of the State university faculty discusses theories on how moss agate forms in Montana. He cites chemical analysis showing mossy figures are not trapped life, and suggests silica jelly in volcanic rock drying created the patterns with iron copper nickel and manganese oxides coloring them. An experiment with colored salts in water glass mimics a tree like growth likened to a submarine garden.
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Nature
J. W. Howard
State University
Montana
Nature Magazine
Howard
Billings-Scobey
Yellowstone River
Kidney Tubes and Purification Claims
Article extols Dean's Pills claiming 15 miles of tiny kidney tubes purify blood and prevent waste buildup. Warns symptoms like backache joint pains and fatigue indicate kidney or bladder issues and urges readers to ask a druggist for Dean's Pills.
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Dean
Mihoua
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Damon Wagner
Jay Cooke
Philadelphia
Cooke
Indianapolis
Cliath Fork
Anaconda Copper Mining CO
Lands Department
Paddy
General Foods
C. F. Corp
Gewnenat Foods
Battle Creek
Mich
M.N. A
Canada
General Foods, Ltd
Cobourg
Ont
Dad
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