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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1894
Page
4
Public notice from the Tribune Publishing Company via P Fisher San Francisco listing postage rates and identifying Fisher as the newspaper advertising agent at 21 Merchants' Exchange. It states the paper is kept on file in his office.
Senators Smith of New Jersey and Hill of New York, both labeled good Democrats, condemn the Wilson bill and oppose the tariff plan. Hill criticizes the administration’s foreign policy and tariff provisions, while Smith vows to uphold Democratic principles and seeks tariff reform aligned with American wages.
A Republican Montana congressman champions free silver and 16 to 1 coinage while urging protection for American industries. He criticizes fiat money and sub treasury schemes and predicts strong Montana prosperity with silver and gold standard money. He invites replies on public questions.
The Mussel shell and Judith region flockmasters set six cents per head plus board or seven and a quarter cents per day for board as the price in a profitless season. Sheep growers argue six cents is fair given the tumble in values and poor season.
The article notes sheep growers and shearers at odds over current prices and investment returns while predicting neither side will back the Democrats in the coming fall election. It recalls Henri Watterson’s Chicago prediction about Democrats and Grover Cleveland, debating timing relative to the presidential contest.
At a Illinois GOP convention Col. Robert G. Ingersoll argues protectionism will raise factory output and national prosperity. He links tariff policy to wages, schooling, and a future Republican victory, contrasting free trade fears with the current hard times and wool price woes.
The Red Lodge Picket notes Clark's Fork gold diggings may pay 5 to 7.50 dollars per man daily with proper sluice boxes and a scraper team. Billings mail contractor strikes over Great Northern disruption expects larger loads with no rate increase. Anaconda race track readies for May meeting and an Eastern Star lodge planned there. Barbers in Anaconda raise shave and haircut prices. Trout season opens May 1 but irrigators may wash fish onto land during closure. a Montana lawmaker comments on legislating for people. Dillon Implement Co promotes Michael Fan seed grain cleaner and Bee Hive Hardware advertises reduced prices for cash purchases.
A St Paul dispatch reports the Great Northern faces a strike stalemate as President Hill refus es to restore Aug 1 schedules and ARU arbitration. The company dispatches a train guarded by deputy marshals while promising 2,000 vetted eastbound replacements. Militia ready, negotiations break off, and Hill plans full-line operation tomorrow.
The Jewelers Circular notes demand for silver fillets matching light draperies and biblical stones like jacinth peridot and amethyst. It highlights white enamel brooches with gold edges new hair ornaments amber shell with repousse silver headpiece and a diamond band headdress. It also mentions Greek key pattern bangles with pearls and turquoise or diamonds sapphires rubies, jeweled brooch circles and wreaths, jet cabochons, chrysoprase buckles, and gown embellishments.
An advertisement from Shaw Remedy Co of Rutherford New Jersey promotes System Pills as the cure for constipation biliousness and liver trouble and offers a choice of gifts such as watches silverware town lots or a gold piece with each box purchased for twenty five cents or thirty cents in stamps. The offer includes an agency opportunity and asserts every purchaser receives a gift with no exceptions.
A curious compendium notes on jailers exploiting prisoners friends under old Welsh law a hamlet’s cat as legal proof a Persian legend predicting Christ’s return as a woman a moving Oregon mountain heading toward Salmon River and a quirky Alaskan eating contest where the biggest eater is honored.
The Anglo American Cable company will lay a new transatlantic style cable this spring across Pacific waters making long distance telephoning possible via a single copper wire.
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