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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1899
Page
3
The Dillon Market lists wholesale prices at press time for butter per pound eggs per dot potatoes per owt wheat per owt oats per owt timothy baled blue joint baled wild hay baled alfalfa. Values show declines and varying figures across items with unrecorded units.
Dillon businesses advertise goods from harnesses to buckskin gloves and smokeable cigars. Notable visits include Mrs Bishop and daughter touring California and Miss Jean Bishop traveling from Dillon. Local educators plan tours while camping parties prepare for Hooker’s flat trip and State Normal School activities unfold in Missoula and Dillon.
The Montana Power company’s big Deer Divide dam on the Big Hole river faces delays as work proceeds under a receiver. A Butte investor has assumed debt totaling about 210000 with liens on property and repairs. Delays followed a dam breach and stockholder disputes, halting power delivery to Butte and nearby mines and mills.
A New York Sun reader recalls the eerie moment of a door quietly opening in the night. The narrator notes tâmble explanations for a door bolt worn or a jamb shifting, revealing how ordinary mechanics can feel supernatural and unsettling.
An advertisement touts Onscar eds Candy Cathartic as a liver stimulant and bowel tonic promising to cure biliousness headaches fevers piles and other ills caused by constipation and sluggish liver. It claims a money refund and offers 10c sample boxes and a free booklet.
The state board of pardons confirmed the pardon of Thomas Flynn the Beaverhead ranchman. He was fined 500 dollars and costs 200 dollars by Judge Parker on July 17 for contempt of court in disobeying an order about a water right. The governor remitted all fines but 100 dollars and left costs to be settled. Flynn was released after about a month in jail.
The common buckeye is presented as a specific remedy for piles, claiming to cure all forms of hemorrhoids without surgery. Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment is advertised as able to heal blind, bleeding, itching, and protruding piles. Pricing listed as 50 cents per bottle and 75 cents per tube, sold by L. J. Williams.
The Salvation Army announces the Annual Harvest Thanksgiving Festival with preparations under way and a series of meetings arranged by the local corps. The effort aims to aid the needy and has earned community appreciation. Linny E. May, Ensign, in command of Local Corps.
A humorous tale describes a squatter at a church collection for the heathen, with playful banter about clothes for his own family. The piece follows with notes on a Dillon visiting Miss Squires and a social game night hosted by Miss Farrell and Miss Davis, ending with mining camp news and plans for a concentration plant in Greenwood.
The Salt Palace at Salt Lake City built from Great Salt Lake brine crystals showcases a crystal palace in the West with a Midway Plaisance featuring Hagenbeck’s Wild Animal Show and the world’s fastest bicycle track. The Rio Grande Western line offers through tickets with stopovers, Pullman cars, reclining chairs, and dining service. inquiries to W. O. McBride, General Agent in Butte.
A guide claims to obtain cold water from deep lake bottoms by sounding for a clay bottom and dropping a corked bottle with a weight to the bottom. A quick jerk frees the cork and fills the bottle with cold water for drinking. Phillips Phonograph.
An advertisement claims Hensrex, a herbal liver remedy, cures constipation biliousness jaundice and indigestion by purifying blood and boosting energy. It touts rapid results with a free trial at L. J. Williams and lists a price of 75 cents.
A method to obtain an almost perfect vacuum in one minute uses liquid hydrogen to freeze air in a glass tube. Dip the open end into liquid hydrogen so air solidifies and settles. Heating and sealing the upper portion creates a near airless chamber where electricity struggles to pass.
Advert reads for sale a collection described as the finest variations on old folk songs at home. It highlights quality and desirability without listing specifics.
A Bank of England note, burned in the Chicago fire, remains legible enough to prove its authenticity and be cashed. The authorities display the charred fragment in a glazed frame to demonstrate the note’s durability and genuineness.
The piece extols Cr. 10N Beaverhead county Montana as a growing county seat with a population around 2,000. It highlights a state normal school, a large public library, five churches, a water works plan, an electric light plant, and numerous secret orders. The report notes strong commerce, mining nearby, ranching potential, and Dillon as a center with ample housing and amenities, praising social life and growth prospects.
The smallest inhabited island, home to the Eddystone lighthouse, supports three people. At low water the island measures 30 feet in diameter and the lighthouse base spans 28 percent feet, while at high water the structure covers the area.
In auspicious times educated youths have a grand chance. Grand Island Business and Normal College, fourteen years leading Western states, reports strong demand for graduates. Courses in Business Normal and Shorthand, low costs, board $1.60 weekly, tuition extended a year. Catalogs and records mailed from 30 52 A. M. Hanazs, President, Grand Island Nebraska. Also notice of bay horses for sale near Red Rock Montana, 1100 pounds, branded 69.
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