Surveying Party Begins Rail Line Survey From Anaconda
A surveying party led by Thomas M. Ward of Spokane started work this morning at Ralstons on the railroad route between Anaconda and Wisdom. The team plans routes via French Gulch and along the river, with Abbott L. Wright and Robert H. Jones directing efforts to prove a feasible Big Hole basin railroad.
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Anaconda
Thomas M. Ward
Spokane
Ralstons
Wisdom
French Gulch
Surveyor Ward
Butte
Abbott L. Wright
Robert H. Jones
Big Hole Basin
Real tails on Halley's Comet
Washington DC reports Halley’s Comet racing toward Earth at about 2000 miles per minute. It moves away from the sun and will become harder to see until May 18 when it is obscured by the sun. Sight lines reappear around May 25 with evenings visible from about 15 million miles out in early June. Currently it lies over 90 million miles away.
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Washington, D. C
Bullet Taken From Head A Salmon Youth Still Alive
Arthur Stewart a Salmon Idaho youth who attempted suicide last week is alive and shows good recovery potential. Doctors located the bullet in his head by X Ray, drilled through the skull and removed the bullet that had flattened inside.
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Arthur Stewart
Salmon
Idaho
Tribune
Idaho Recorder
Taft Nominates Carl Rasch as Montana Federal Judge
President Taft nominates Carl Rasch of Helena to fill the Montana federal judgeship, succeeding William H. Hunt. Rasch has served as assistant counsel for Secretary Ballinger before the Ballinger Pinchot investigation committee.
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Taft
Helena
W. H. Hunt
Washington
Carl Rasch
Montana
William H. Hunt
Rasch
Ballinger
Ballinger-Pinchot
Hughes Accepted Taft Offer for Supreme Court Justice
Washington April 25 President Taft to receive a letter from Governor Charles E Hughes of New York accepting a tendered appointment as associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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Washington
Taft
Charles E. Hughes
New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Watch for the Comet The Red Dragon of the sky
Careful mothers keep Foley's Honey and Tar in the house for urgent croup relief with no opiates. It claims to prevent spring coughs and colds and urges substitution refusal at City Drug Store.
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Foley
Break Land Until June Then Plant Half In Winter Crops
Helena April 24. Professor Thomas Shaw of the Great Northern’s agriculture department warns Montana settlers to abandon eastern methods. He urges breaking land by June and planting half the land to winter crops this fall and the rest to spring crops next year, noting irrigation limits and reliance on May or June precipitation.
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Helena
Montana
Thomas Shaw
Great Northern
Professor Shaw
Fort Benton
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement Promised Cure
A Dillon Montana reader profile extols Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble and back pain. The testimonial cites relief from attacks after using the product sold by Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo New York, with price listed at 50 cents.
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Doan
Pott's
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Dean
Plat of Township 11 Montana Land Office Notice
The U S Land Office Helena Montana files a plat for Township 11 S Range 8 W Montana principal meridian. After thirty days by posting and publication lands therein may be subject to entry location etc. Signed by Stephen Carpenter Register on June 7.
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Department of the Interior
United States ‘Land Office
Helena
Montana
S. Range
Rero
Stephen Carpenter
Régister
Paradox and Victory in Press Opinion and Eskimo Irony
The text contrasts race rhetoric with newspaper praise of a victor who defeated foes. It then shifts to a winter storm riddle about the Eskimo wearing heavy furs and a cold nose, ending with a Buffalo Express note.
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Buffalo Express
Electric railway contract let for Virginia City to Alder
R J Watson says Leber Watson Engineering confirms the electric railway from Virginia City to Alder will be built by an eastern contractor. Grading starts between May 15 and 20 with heavy work at Alder Gulch canyon. Maximum cuts reach 21 feet and fills 22 feet. plan includes many culverts and a single 100 foot steel trestle over Water Gulch.
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R. J. Watson
Virginia City
Alder Gulch Canyon
Water Gulch
Virginia City Times
One Mile of Sample Road in Yellowstone County
Five thousand dollars is appropriated by Yellowstone county commissioners to build a mile of model highway under Engineer Voshell. Part of the project will be completed for the good roads convention, showing delegates how Uncle Sam constructs roads, as a preview of the Montana state road from Glendive to Missoula and from Dillon to Havre at about five thousand dollars per mile.
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Billings
Yellowstone County
Voshell
Office of Roads
Department of Agriculture
Unclé Sam
Montana
Glendive
Missoula
Dillon
Havre
Close Call for Mrs Yearian in Whitwell Home
A stray bullet entered the Whitwell home through a kitchen window near Mrs Yeaman, the mother of Mrs Whitwell. The article notes the shot likely came from a distance with no injuries reported and a fortunate outcome.
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W. C. Whitwell
A Pig Tale from the Old South
An anecdote from the New York Times recounts a southern black man and a white neighbor sharing pigs. The old man pretends poverty to request help buying a pig, then receives aid and jokes about a second pig dying of cholera and wanting fresh meat.
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New York Times
Telepathic Phantasm Appears On Staircase Visit
A Rev Clarence Godfrey attempts to remotely appear to a woman via telepathic influence. After about ten minutes he sleeps, and hours later she wakes to see his ghostly figure on the staircase before it vanishes. The scene unsettles the household and ends with a drug ad for Ballard's Horehound Syrup.
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Clarence Godfrey
H. Addington Bruce
Success Magazine
Mr. Godfrey
Mob Crucifies Slav Worker at Avella Mine
In Wheeling district a mob of fellow workers crucified George Rabish a Slav accused of spying for Pittsburg and Washington Coal Co. He hung on a crude cross after being beaten with beer bottles and stones. Rescued by a posse he died later at a local hospital.
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Wheeling
W. Va
George Rabish
Rabish
Pittsburg & Washington Coal Company
Avella
Penn
Wheeling& Lake Erie Road
Washington County
West Virginia
Blizzard In East Damages Crops Across Midwest
Chicago reports devastating April blizzard with widespread property loss in the city and surrounding region. Dispatches indicate the fruit belt of Northern Indiana Western Michigan Illinois Missouri Iowa and Wisconsin suffered heavy damage to fruit trees and crops. Total loss to fruit and grain crops estimated at over 50 million dollars.
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Chicago
Indiana
Michigan
Illinois
Missouri
Iowa
Wisconsin
Cotton Crop in South Ruined by Cold Weather
Millions of acres of southern cotton destroyed by a cold wave that spread across the cotton belt. Snow and sleet fell as far south as Selma Alabama, Columbus Mississippi and Columbus Georgia, with 1 to 4 inches in parts of North Georgia Tennessee and northern Alabama and Mississippi.
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Atlanta
South
Selma
Alabama
Columbus
Mississippi
Georgia
Tennesee
Federal inspectors seize 160000 powdered eggs in North River
In New York on April 26 federal inspectors recovered 47,000 pounds of powdered eggs dumped into the North River. The eggs were frozen and dessicated into brick like masses sold to bakers, confectioners and restaurants as safe goods.
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New York
North River
Coal Lands in Montana Withdrawn Pending Classification
The Interior Department has withdrawn from entry about thirteen and a half million acres in Southeastern Montana. The area is believed to hold valuable coal deposits and will stay closed until examinations determine coal value and proper classification.
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Washington
Secre Bry of the Interior
Montana
Interior designates 400000 acres in Montana not irrigable
Washington April 24 The interior department under the enlarged homestead act designates about 400000 acres in Montana as not susceptible to irrigation from any known water source, raising Montana total to 29590000 acres designated so far.
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Washington
Interior Department
Montana
Foley's Honey and Tar Spotlight at City Drug Store
Advertisement touts Foley's Honey and Tar as the most popular cough remedy curing coughs colds croup and bronchitis at City Drug Store. Contains marketing tone and product claim without detailed clinical evidence.
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Cashier
Dillon Furniture Company
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Fred. & Sale Stable
Mont
E. H. Brundage
Dillon Homes
Detroit Free Press
Mrs. Yearian
Whitwell
Salmon, Idaho
Ballard
Potts
Ayer
J.C Ayer Co
Lowell Mass
Paul Brown
the Royal Standard
Bree
Besi
Tribune Pub. CO. Dillon
City Drug Store
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Pipestone Springs
Monit
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West Broadway
Buttemont
Lewis & Walker Assayers
Wyoming
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P.O
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Attorney At Law
Dillon National Bank
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