Helena to Organize Semi-Centennial Celebration in 1914
Helena residents discuss a plan to honor the 1864 discovery of gold in Last Chance Gulch with a monster 1914 parade and festivities. Pioneer D B Weaver, last surviving discoverer in the Yellowstone valley, supports a centennial blowout and offers to participate if costs allow.
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Helena
Last Chance Gulch
D. B. Weaver
Yellowstone Valley
Salt Lake City
Montana
Discovery
Johnny Cowe
Calvin
Tragic suicide of Helena merchant Milton Gamer
Milton Gamer, 38, proprietor of Gamer's store on Sixth avenue, died by a revolver shot after midnight. Found in the basement, he suffered six weeks of severe headaches. Survived by his mother, two sisters Emma Holter and William Miles, and three brothers Charles Fred and Will, all of Butte. He was born and raised in Helena and previously ran a business in Butte before purchasing Seller store last fall.
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Helena
Milton Gamer
Gamer
Sixth Avenue
Fred Gamer
Anaconda
Montana settlers push rapid land development in Comanche Broadview
A new Montana citizen urges county commissioners to recognize land above the ditch. He notes rapid agricultural growth in the Comanche and Broadview districts with over 26 steam outfits breaking virgin prairie and an estimated 40,000 acres likely to be cultivated this season, mainly oats flax and wheat.
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Billings
Montana
Chamber of Commerce
Board of County Commissioners
Comanche
Broadview
Miracle Cure Cough Story from Texas Brother
W B Holsclaw of Clarendon Texas recounts a dramatic recovery after using Dr King’s New Discovery for a dreadful cough. He claims ten bottles cured his brother enabling him to regain health and reach a weight of 218 pounds. Potts druggist offers 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles with a free trial.
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W. B. Holsclaw
Clarendon
Tex
Dr. King
Potts
Coal Land Case Settled in Montana Federal Court
The United States won a $1,000,000 coal land case against Northern Pacific Railway, Rocky Fork Coal, and Northwestern Improvement. The remittitur was spread on the minutes by Judge George M. Bourquin. Lands involved are in Southeastern Montana as lieu sections and patents canceled after trial. The case was appealed and prior judgment affirmed.
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Helena
United States
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Rocky Fork Coal Company
Northwestern Improvement Company
George M. Bourquin
Montana
Northern Pacific
Foley Kidney Pills Credited With Health Revival
M. D. Boardman of Helena Montana reports a remarkable improvement in health using Foley Kidney Pills. He notes he is nearly 79, has spent hundreds on medicines, yet derives more benefit from Foley Kidney Pills than all others. Further details available on request from Potts the druggist.
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M. D. Boardman
W. Mainstreet
Helena
Mont
Potts
Huntley project land sales clear 118 parcels in brief auctions
Sales conducted by the local U S Land Office receiver disposed of 118 Huntley project town lots to settlers. Warden and Ballantine led transactions with total sales of about 12000 dollars. Purchases occurred within minutes and amounts paid exceeded government appraisal estimates.
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Billings
Huntley
U. S. Land Office
Warden and Ballantine
Sient
Prisoner Donates Ten Dollars To Fire Relief Fund
Albert J. Beck a Deer Lodge prison inmate sent the chamber of commerce ten dollars from his prison wages for fire relief. He wrote that he learned of fire victims' destitution through the Miner and asked his mite be used to relieve want with only regret that it is not larger.
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Butte
Albert J. Beckman
Deer Lodge
Chamber of Commerce
Freak Tree in Bozeman Shows Burned Branch Growth
A rare tree in Bozeman was reported by G. W. Flanders to the local forestry department. A block of wood reveals a cross section where a branch burned off over a century ago and the tree grew over the charred remains.
Montana Retail Merchants Back Montana Products Drive
The Montana Retail Merchants' association completed a two day Bozeman session with unanimous resolutions urging use sale and advocacy of Montana products to strengthen the state's industries when conditions are equal.
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Bozeman
Montana
Montana Retail Merchants’ Association
Northern Pacific Dining Car Serves Montana Potatoes
The Northern Pacific dining car service through F. J. Benning has entered a contract with a local jobber to supply potatoes weighing two to ten pounds. The railroad man notes Montana offers the easiest access to this class, and the service specializes in the largest and best potatoes grown.
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Billings
Northern Pacific
F. J. Benning
Montana
A Mother's Care with Foley's Honey and Tar
A careful mother seeks pure medicine free of opiates for children. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is promoted as safe for croup whooping cough bronchitis and other throat chest and lung affections with no opiates and suitable for adults and children.
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Foley
Rush of Homeseekers At Billings Land Office
A surge of homeseekers has moved through the Billings Land Office with over 5000 acres transferring from federal to private ownership in the past week. New landowners hail from across the United States, many from the Midwest, mainly non irrigated parcels.
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Billings
Billings Land Office
Uncle Sam
Homeseekrs
United States
Middle West
Montana Boy and Girl Corn Growing Contest Plots
Arrangements for the coming Montana corn growing contest are being perfected. In this county more than 350 dollars in cash prizes will be awarded, with a rule requiring participants to cultivate at least one tenth of an acre.
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Billings
Montana
State board to probe health officers in Helena area
The state board of health launches a special inspection to review the work of city and county health officers in Helena amid concerns over laxity among several officials.
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Helena
State Board of Health
A Biting Retort from Lady Wortley Montagu Cited
The account notes Lady Wortley Montagu provoking Pope with a clever remark. Pope, famed for his sharp tongue and dark humor, once pressed her to define an interrogation mark. She called it a crooked black thing that asks questions.
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Wortley Montagu
England
Pope
Particular Woman Divorce Refusal to Break Tradition
A judge notes a woman insisted on a woman lawyer for her divorce. The reason cited: she did not want to violate a portion of the marriage rite about “Let no man put a gun der.” The remark appears in the New York Herald.
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New York Herald
Ladder to success in moral and physical courage
The excerpt stresses that the path to success begins with firm determination and is followed by both moral and physical courage. It emphasizes steady progress, overcoming each rung of the ladder until reaching the top.
Resolution Ties Delegates to Presidential Candidate Block
A Montana Republican meeting debated unity and progressivism with Roosevelt and Taft as options. A proposed binding resolution urged delegates to back the presidential candidate with the most votes, while the Roosevelt club declined joining the Republican club for now and a follow up meeting was announced.
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Wm. Cushing
Dillon
Livingston
United States
Roosevelt Club
Republican Club
Mandy Spare Dem Tubs In A Deserted Dream
A lazy Black man borrows from his wife to fund a so called combine and dreams of going up town to win big. He returns drunk after a failed plan, and as he nears home his wife blocks the door, while he pleads to spare her wash tubs.
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Mandy
Sam
Chicago Post
Cheaping and cheapening place names in England
The old English term cheaping refers to bargaining over bread and goods. In parts of Switzerland bakers’ wives carry bread in hampers and haggle for prices with customers. In England the term morphed into chipping Norton as a place name meaning cheaping.
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Switzerland
England
Norton
Wise Exceptions about Truthfulness in Marriage
A Houston Post quip contrasts rigid honesty with practical exceptions in spousal cooking, debating whether a man should always tell the truth to his wife. The exchange highlights humor in marital honesty and social norms.
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Houston Post
A Fluent Talker Bangs-She Interjects While Converse
A brief exchange notes a wife who speaks fluently and interrupts herself. The humor centers on slang and the annoyance it causes, with lines about conversational skill and self interruption.
Connoisseur at the Studio Tea
A painter explains to his son that a connoisseur is evident by actions not appearances as a tall white haired guest in a studio tea buys a painting rather than samples the Russian tea and foie gras. The exchange highlights discernment through behavior.
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Montana State. News
Milton Gamer’s
H. McGowan
Little Rock
Ark
Ladder
Union
Taft
Roosevelt
LaPollette
Abraham Lincoln
H. G. Rodgers
Cushing
Ford Agency
Ford
Black Dillon Novelty Works
Helena Street
Thomas F. Byan
Thos. F. Ryan
South
Baltimore
Maryland
John
Barry
New York
Thomas F. Ryan
E. H. Brundage
the Tribune
M. Paumie
West Galena
St. Butte
Mont French
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