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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1896
Page
3
A public notice announces a price reduction to 2.00 dollars annually effective from June 1. The change applies to all members and updates the subscription terms accordingly. The notice cautions readers to renew under the new rate to continue service.
Peace Evine Aug 19 reports Mr. and Mrs. Foote of Dillon visiting H Utley. Grace Baker returns from Chicago and recovers from illness. Miss Page sisters and Burtch escort visit Madison Valley for huckleberries. hunting plans for horses sent to Big Sandy. Rev S A Oliver resumes work in Iwin Bridges. eight locals forage Dry Canyon for raspberries. a boy injured by a colt’s mother. Salvation Army reps Slack and Barr in Pageville. Talcott attends Methodist conference in Dillon. tourists and prospectors increase. Philadelphia visitor Rodier spends summer at the lake. Culver visits Picnic Springs. Granger.
Miss L Redfern of Helena visits Aunt Mrs F Red fern and Miss Bess stays with Mrs A Laurin. Mrs J Beanfie convalesces. Rev Father Pauwelynn led services at the Catholic church Sunday. A baby girl arrived to Mr and Mrs F Wilcomb. Mr and Mrs Herenden of Virginia were Laurin visitors. Miss Nason returns from a five week Denver visit.
Special correspondence reports Wetmore and Nye heading to Virginia City for final homestead proof. Will Nye and wife join James M Nye. J M Nye leaves for Lima. James Blair injures leg with a slipped knife in shop. Charley Dunham haying at upper ranch. 75 to 100 people camped at Henrys lake last week en route to the park, including a group of 21 girls from Helena.
The article surveys famous individuals from Admiral Dot to Cecil Rhodes, noting quirks and achievements. It mentions Dot running a White Plains hotel, the Vike of Rutland’s shooting interests, J W Kirk’s Kansas City wardrobe, Lord Rutherford Clark’s golf prizes, the Duke of Cumberland’s facial reconstruction, Justice Wright’s eccentricities, and Stanley’s London status. It also covers General Barker’s Bermuda governorship, John Hay’s language claims, Francis Walker’s honorary degrees, J Sima’s immigrant rise, and George H Mehl’s rare numismatic and shinplaster collection valued near five thousand dollars.
In Key West Aug.7, Weyler and Ochondo clashed over the death of Ochondo’s nephew, a Spanish lieutenant who allegedly faced death orders. Ochondo denounced Weyler as a murderer, challenged him to a duel, and sailed for Spain with plans to publicize the affair and demand Weyler’s recall.
A cave on Billy Moore’s farm near Elkinsville Brown County Indiana reveals a Dev il s chamber with an ice vault. The entrance is tree blocked and leads to a 100 foot ice chamber where towers form a frozen mass like a winter ground. The report notes near freezing air and vast icy halls.
Health Officer Alvan H. Doty, returning from Havana after just two days, reports widespread yellow fever and smallpox, with the bay polluted by sewerage and 100 cases and 100 deaths at the military hospital in the two weeks prior.
A lightning caused prairie fire ten miles north of Pierre, part of an electrical storm with high winds, burned over a half township and destroyed hay and range. Separately, Sioux Falls reports the South Dakota fusion in the Democratic state central committee, deciding to call off the Deadwood September convention.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports altered silver certificates showing the Wiliam Win dom portrait are circulating in the region. Notes have been crudely modified from two to five dollars by pen and acid, with corners changed from 2 to 6 and the phrase two silver dollars altered to five. Redeemable at original value, some counterfeit notes have reached the aub treasury, including a $5 raised to $100 note later redeemed for $5, with the back bearing Columba Landing imagery and an Indian scene on the face.
Letters from Hanoi describe severe famine in Tonquin's northern districts with Lang-Son hardest hit. Six months of rice scarcity drive peasant distress, price selling, and looting. daily deaths rise as no harvest follows two years of floods and drought. officials urged to provide employment to avert collapse.
Christian Almer age 74 and his wife 75 celebrate silver wedding by climbing the Wetterhorn 12159 feet with two sons and a village doctor. They ascend from Grindelwald after rockets signal their safe arrival at the hut and reach the summit at 6 30 Monday morning before returning home. Queen Victoria drama in Siamese theaters shows a royal love triangle ending in her marriage to the king after a battleax backed confrontation.
A short health notice warns against internal catarrh tonics containing mercury or iodine and explains catarrh as a weather related local ailment. It promotes Ely's Cream Balm as a safe quick remedy free of mercury with a 50 cent price.
Dillon Letter List shows letters remaining uncalled at the Aklen post office as of August 2 1808. A 30 day period remains before sending to the dead letter office. Names include Grace Lamont Branford Cook Jenkins Jones Kinney Morgan Sullivan Turner Walton Wilson and others. Postmaster GnACE LAMONT signs notice.
The State Board of Equalization in Helena Montana on August 14 1885 ordered increases of 25 percent to the assessed value of personal property in Beaverhead county and 10 percent to horse valuations, with county clerks instructed to update records accordingly. The notices titled official action by T J Murray clerk Beaverhead County and Dean Str at the time of the meetings.
In Justice court of Springhill township Beaverhead Montana M A Berger vs A J Leitch defendant you are summoned to appear at Lima Beaverhead on September 21 at 2 pm to answer the complaint seeking 42.07 dollars plus costs if you fail to appear the court may render judgment.
M. Le Bon reports obtaining outline photographs on a dry plate via sheet iron aided by an ordinary kerosene lamp. Backing the iron with lead yields best effects. the rays do not penetrate black paper like X rays. He calls the radiation dark light.
Notice by the administrator of the estate of John Knight deceased to creditors and all persons with claims to exhibit them with vouchers within four months after first publication. Claims must be presented at Fox post office Beaverhead County Montana. Dated August 21, 1546.
A medical admonition stresses constipation as a serious health concern. It compares bowel regularity to essential needs like eating and sleeping and warns that accumulating impure matter in the bowels can lead to danger without proper elimination.
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