11 Aug 1899
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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1899
Page
1
Kupfer's in Dillon Montana advertises a selection of sterling silver items including tapers, furaware and fancy pieces, lapels, rings, bracelets, pins, and boxes. Mr Snyder provides spectacle and eyeglass fitting with guaranteed perfect fit at no extra cost. Call to view goods and bring watch or jewelry work for service at reasonable prices.
Centenary Valley reports Harvard students trekking 22 miles from Bozeman to Picnic Springs en route to the Park with guide Jack Bean. Lima notes Rev. J. M. Loughridge visiting, Miss Carrie Gardner arriving, and local social events. Hay is poor. a new telephone branch opens at E. A. Bailey’s. school painting by Mr. Stoller praised. Dillon gains back Engineer Palmer. several residents ill or traveling. Dillon plans a three day race meeting with $517 subscribed toward funding.
State notes report the annual Pioneers meeting set for August 23 in Virginia City with elaborate local preparations underway. Other items include a Livingston death by suicide, a fatal wreck near Green River, burns from a turpentine accident, a kissing bug outbreak in Butte, and mule shipments to the Philippines.
An old advertisement touts Dr King s New Life Pills as a health booster sold for 25 cents per box by Central Pharmacy HLL. Dillon retailer Lyon, owner of The Fair Store, has closed doors and plans to relocate, likely to Idaho, ending years of local trade. The piece also includes testimonials praising electric bitters and warnings about health issues from stomach to nerves.
In a Century article on captains, boatawain's mate Trainor earns praise for leaping from a burning Vizcaya to save three Spanish sailors clinging to the rail. He frantically reaches the deck, pulls them free, takes a header into the sea, and is later promoted at his captain's request.
A German youth learns calf enhancement through simple at home squats on tiptoe. Starting last September he did 30 rises daily the first day and now performs 500 without fatigue. He averages ten minutes after waking ten before lunch and ten before bed each day.
Disciples of Charcot like Gilles de la Tourette propose a diagnostic aid using skull sounds. A hammer taps reveal brain state by pitch changes with age the skull thickens and fractures or diseases produce distinct tones. Some skulls sound like a cracked pot, giving rise to the term cracked for eccentric minds.
Two Bonn street porters agreed to a highly unusual duel set with strips of cloth and revolvers. They fired at 15 paces and 10 paces while blindfolded, causing no injuries in two rounds. Authorities, furious at the ridicule of a dueling spectacle among low ranks, arrested all involved.
A simple international bicycle signal code has been created in Paris. It will be sent to bicycle clubs worldwide and may aid pedestrians as well as cyclists. Based on Morse telegraphy, the system uses bicycle bell strokes to convey messages.
Dillon and vicinity reports include Geo. Bears returning from Big Hole with supplies, Ford Burch and Nellie Page visiting from Pageville, and Gerhard Albers adding a brick extension to his south Idaho street home. The Hooker camping party plans days at Hooker’s Flat while L. E. Boardwine of Jackson visited for supplies.
Judge Barrett visits his harness and saddlery shop after arriving on the south bound train. J A Fackler sold his Dillon interests and left with his wife for Denver. County commissioners will meet Saturday Aug 12 as a board of correction to hear taxpayer registrations. Rev E G Cattermole travels to Livingston for the Methodist Episcopal conference and may return as Dillon M S pastor. Gov Smith appoints Chas H Virden to second lieutenant of Co O succeeding W H Poorman. locals extend congratulations.
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