California Fruits Price List Fragment
Fragmentary OCR lists fruit prices including peaches pears grapes and apples with quantities per 21 pounds and 2 pound items. The damaged text hints at jellys jams and piecing together market listings.
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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1892
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR lists fruit prices including peaches pears grapes and apples with quantities per 21 pounds and 2 pound items. The damaged text hints at jellys jams and piecing together market listings.
The Dillon Tribune lists advertising rates for local notices and display ads. It notes pricing per line for first and subsequent insertions, monthly and yearly display ads, changes required by Wednesday, and types of notices such as thanks cards and festival notices with admission fees or sales items.
Official paper notice lists subscription prices by mail and prepaid options. It gives the Tribune Publishing Co address for notices and job printing and notes Dillon post office transmission as second class matter.
Postmaster General Wanamaker reports a 500 million dollar rise in gross revenue and a nearly one million dollar reduction in the deficit. The year saw 6,689 money order offices, 82 cities with free delivery, 2,790 new offices, 263 upgraded to presidential grade, 46.75 million miles of added service, 1,590 new routes, 8,500 miles of new service, pneumatic tubes, and savings of 1 million on mail contracts and 150,000 on stamped paper.
The postmaster general argues for broader free delivery including along star route corridors with minimal department cost, supports postal telegraphs and one cent postage, trims box rents, and recommends a permanent department structure with four year terms. He envisions centralized offices, mounted carriers, and machine mail processing to cut rural expenses.
Louis Kossuth aged 90, famed Hungarian patriot, is reported dying in Turin. The Kosceath family, noble by rank yet impoverished, highlighted a life spent studying law and public service.
The Box Elder precinct bids do not reach the level noted for precinct 34 and are recorded as unsuccessful. If any comparison or adjustment is pending, it will be addressed in subsequent proceedings.
The report notes Congress has convened with little progress. In the East news is scarce as Grover pursues a duck hunt. The monetary conference stalls and England remains strongly against silver, with its prejudices hard to overcome.
The will of Jay Gould is made public revealing no bequests to charities or outsiders. Critics lament the absence of aid for those ruined by his alleged avarice, noting the wealth remains confined to the Gould family.
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle appoints J Lawrence Dobel as city editor after J D Whelpley retires to enter the insurance field. The outlet teases a Christmas story by Dobel for December Rockies while praising the new editor’s talent and Bozeman residence. The article also reviews the president’s message and Secretary Foster’s annual report, noting revenue and surplus figures, and mentions ongoing interest in the normal school matter and a planned citizen meeting for a suitable site and lobbying effort.
Citizens urged to attend a public discussion on locating a state school in Dillon. A committee should prepare a monograph to present Dillon's claims to the legislature, highlighting railroad access via Helena and Southern Montana to strengthen stateinstitution prospects.
The Omaha Bee notes South Dakota will resubmit the prohibition question after years of delay. If approved, prohibition will be promptly repealed following the vote and awaiting legislative action.
A Naturalized Institution notes that the Australian ballot has arrived and will stay but thousands of men require education to learn how to vote properly. The piece argues for a campaign to inform voters and ensure informed participation in elections.
The Hon. Jerry Simpson proposes to challenge the McKinley tariff solo. The remark likens his tactic to an Indian lassoing a speeding locomotive, suggesting impractical boldness in his approach.
The ruling states that the tardy benefit for elderly pensioners is a right regardless of pension receipt, and that the republic has a duty to honor this rightful claim, noting the nation’s wealth and stability stems from their sacrifices.
A public Montreal gathering of over 8,000 people debated political independence, illustrating growing restlessness among Canadians under colonial conditions. The Monday night event featured advocates urging change and self rule.
The Philadelphia Press notes Mr. Wilson from West Virginia was a dismal failure as convention chair in Chicago showing disorder and inability to command delegates attention.
The note asserts Mr. Cleveland's pick for speaker, predicting a bear garden in the chamber with Mr. Wilson presiding, implying a chaotic session ahead.
The article reports critics note that Grover Cleveland’s friends and Speaker Crisp imply he will steer party actions in the extra session. It suggests Cleveland is seen as the party’s dictator, a view Cleveland may share with difficulty.
Inter Mountain prints a favorable report on Postmaster General Wanamaker praising him and cabinet officers as clean capable and guiding an administration of progress economy and broad public satisfaction The piece notes voter change questions and ends with a Dillon News Co Christmas ad urging Chicago price purchases and a free illustrated jewelry catalogue from L H Wallace Ogden Utah 44 8t
An advertisement claims deafness caused by inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh can be cured by constitutional remedies. It offers $100 for any case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio, with draggists selling the product for 75 cents.
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