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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1899
Page
3
Local notes list prices for produce at sales and various shop offerings. Mentions include furniture and hardware dealers, clothing gloves, and haying materials. Other items cover pension warrants, depot construction, travelers, and local merchants advertising products and services.
Dream Vermitage claims to remove worms in children, offering thorough but gentle relief. It promotes relief for peevishness, restlessness, bad breath, and nasal picking during sleep, urging health and growth free of worms. Sold for years by L. J. Williams at 25 cents.
The Virginia City Madisonian reports that Ww. M. Oliver of the Dillon Implement Company visited the city on Monday. He said about ten days earlier a band of men unknown in identity shot and killed roughly 150 of the company’s sheep pastured in the Upper 3 Ruby valley.
The state superintendent sets fixed dates for institute meetings across Montana counties. Cities listed include Helena, Missoula, Billings, Great Falls, Bozeman, Butte, and many others with dates ranging from September to November.
A vintage ad touts Hunsrne as a harmless vegetable remedy that quickens liver regulation and blood purification. It claims relief from constipation biliousness jaundice headaches indigestion back pain chills and energy loss with a free trial offer at L. J. Williams.
Governor Smith announced plans to meet the First Montana infantry upon their arrival in San Francisco and greet them on behalf of the state. He will be joined by staff members including Gen. Stanford, Gen. Leggat, and Col. McTague, with travel and expenses paid by the individuals. The state cannot fund a full delegation but aims to give a strong Montana welcome.
An advertisement extols Ballards Snow Liniment as a cure for rheumatism neuralgia sprains and bruises claiming rapid relief. A testimonial from O W Ford of Lyon Supply Co Ft Worth Texas notes a 24 hour cure after three applications with price 50 cents and availability from L J Williams.
Word arrived announcing the death of Mrs Harriet M Tuttle wife of Bishop Daniel 8 Tuttle on the 18th in St Louis Missouri She had recently traveled with the bishop who was touring his old diocese and learned of her illness by telegram The bishop left immediately for St Louis after learning of her death
A New Orleans Times-Democrat tale recalls a reform-minded minister guiding a notorious aging burglar toward an honest living. The ex-criminal, claiming skill as a mechanic, plans to open a plumber’s shop, prompting a sharp exchange about reform.
A fashionable Philadelphia hostess, famed for style at parties but lax at home, greets a distinguished English visitor in slipshod attire. Mistaken for a messenger, she denies the mistress is in and the guest departs with a harsh impression of the city’s servants.
The United States Geological Survey marks the Montana Idaho boundary from Bitter Root mountains to the Canadian line. D L Raeburn leads summer work to resolve disputes from Gov J E Rickards era. The 89th meridian is triangulated from Spokane astronomical post with Prof Perkins crew. Monuments marking progress near Leonia.
The Salt Lake City display features a crystal palace built from Great Salt Lake brine with a Midway Plaisance including Hagenbeck’s Wild Animal Show and a renowned bicycle track. It covers about twenty acres in the city center and is tied to the Rio Grande Western Ry with stopover privileges and deluxe service on through tickets.
A tall husband and his short wife dined in a large downtown restaurant. The wife asks for an oystera and a hassock while the waiter struggles to understand. The server asks if the hassock should be broiled or fried as customers exchange puzzled glances.
A Baltimore friend receives a letter recalling the train ride from the landing to Tien-tsin. The writer notes crowded baggage handlers, desolate scenery, and thousands of grave mounds with exposed coffins along the route, contrasting with distant vegetation beyond the river.
Experiments show that a cecropia moth frozen in a snow ball revived in about twenty seconds when warmed near a stove. Newly hatched moths and other insects revived after freezing and thawing. Younger batched insects resisted cold better than older ones.
Patrick Fox killed at Bell mine in Butte after a 500 pound rock collapsed. He was 55, a veteran with 27 pitched battles and three honorable discharges, two civil war and one postwar service in the regulars.
Attend Grand Island Business and Normal College offering Business Normal and Shorthand courses with low expenses and flexible tuition. Board is $1.50 weekly and one year’s tuition can be deferred. Free college record or six cent catalogue by addressing A M Hanags president Grand Island Neb. G A R Encampment Philadelphia Sept 4th to 6th.
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