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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1888
Page
2
A playful lullaby poem imagines the man in the moon and green cheese as playful figures. A child and moon friend plot games and jokes about hiding in clouds and teasing the moon, with a whimsical tone and childlike dialog.
A Grayson county mule ranch near Sherman details a Texas horse taming method. A well known tamer Frank uses ropes and a post to subdue the vicious horse Ranger then saddles and braces him for riding. Also notes on Prince Wilhelm’s deformity and German heir concerns, plus a California wave power experiment to pump water for factories.
The Hon Ringbone Bivins of Kankakee arrives in Detroit to lecture before the Limekiln club on world progress. He defends his knowledge and offers corn salve for sale while members debate his intent and conduct amid skeptical remarks and comic interruptions.
An early Capri stroll leads a German visitor to a perilous encounter with a young island girl posed as a model. He persuades her not to harm herself, then returns to find her still in danger, only to be interrupted by an artist painting nearby.
A fragment from Overland Monthly recounts a brutal Barter era incident among the Hot Creek Indians where a wife killed a doctor at dawn by strangling him with a noose after her husband instructed her to avenge his death. The account, told with vivid pantomime, ends with the husband’s sense of noble vindication. The NSO census lists popular cities for orders including New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, St Louis, Napa, Cincinnati, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
The Moscow correspondent reports Russia's extreme cold climate where wood is the main commodity and employment source. Rivers near St. Petersburg show constant unloading of wood barges and homes rely on wood for heating year round. He notes rare warm days when the thermometer reaches about 75 degrees, with summers often chilly.
The piece notes active female entrepreneurship in the city with a home mending service advertised in a daily paper and a house to house delivery option. It also mentions a woman giving weekly lectures to a fashionable audience in a parlor, with attendees choosing topics for future sessions.
The Cosmopolitan notes fears of scalp linked ghosts among tribes and recounts Vienna declaring Madeline Poulin has completed her 212th year, with a birthday in the year 8775 after an earlier inquiry.
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