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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1902
Page
9
The piece surveys John Quincy Adams and his generation, tracing his education in Europe, travel writings, and role as a man of letters. It contrasts Adams with contemporaries in Salmagundi, notably Washington Irving and James K. Paulding, and discusses their influence on early American literary independence from British models.
Items of interest note cemetery employees in San Francisco have formed a union. The report lists various odd facts including ostriches in Uganda and cattle markets in Texas. It also mentions prison gender ratios in the United States and France and a Texas railway wireless telegraph system under installation to prevent collisions.
Mrs H Newsom of Decatur Alabama says three years of indigestion and dyspepsia left her near death until Electric Bitters healed her. She reports she now eats well and has gained 35 pounds, praising the medicine as a guaranteed cure for digestion liver and kidney troubles. Available for 50 cents at the City Drug Store.
A German confidential worker at Krupp’s Essen works recounts Krupp’s life. He left the army due to heart weakness and told Kaiser Wilhelm I that he would rather be Krupp the first burgher than Von Krupp the last noble. He lived simply, treated workers well, entertained royalty at Schloss Huge, wintered in Capri, and refused titles. He was five feet eight, had a high forehead, wore glasses, and dressed in his grandfather’s tailor’s clothes. He joined the National Liberal party, served three terms in the Reichstag, and lost support from Catholic voters. His first election crowd toasted him at the castle, then raided the wine cellar. He enjoyed rowing on the Ruhr with an English trainer.
The gray cat Tom, belonging to Senator Depew, is entered in a Washington cat show. Tom is clever and devoted, often outwitting his master and even learning to press an electric dining room bell to summon a servant and trigger doors open.
E J Lucky Baldwin the California horseman plans moving the birthplace house from Millville near Hamilton to his Santa Anita ranch near Los Angeles. At seventy four he aims to spend his last days in the home he was born in. Parts of the building came from Virginia with his grandfather, the first Cincinnati Hamilton mail carrier. Removal will begin soon.
The Montana State Teachers Association will hold its annual meeting in Bozeman on December 29 and 30. Attendance is expected to be the largest in the association’s history with elaborate preparations and a guaranteed good time for attendees. Railroads offer a round trip fare of one and a half fares for members.
Anaconda figure Anaconda Charles Gultbrite once known as Charles Davis Blair died Monday at the county poor farm. Once a prominent Montana stage actor with the Katie Putnam company his dissipations led to his decline and eventual confinement.
A notice touts Acker's Blood Elixir as a universal cure for impurities and a range of blood diseases including scrofula and syphilitic poisons. It claims positive results, guarantees satisfaction, and emphasizes the product’s sale at Central Pharmacy.
Helena resident John W. Buskett, a notable early settler and respected citizen, died at his home on Monday. He had been near securing a substantial fortune from a mine he had operated for years.
An advertisement claims catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated internally. It touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood and mucous surface remedy prescribed by a physician, says it is not a quack medicine, and promotes testimonials and a Toledo origin.
The Paris scene reports a soot scare and rising demand for clean chimneys after Zola's death. Citizens greet each other with notes on chimney sweeping as a memory of the tragedy looms large in everyday life.
New use for crematories. Crematories for the destruction of the bodies of animals which have died of infectious diseases are to be erected in Silesia.
In San Francisco on August 30 1901 a group of business men paid 112500 dollars for a specific treatment claimed to cure Bright's Disease and Diabetes. They began serious testing November 15 1900, interviewing cured patients and placing over three dozen cases under treatment with physicians as judges. By August 25 eighty seven percent showed improvement and thirteen percent failed. Details and clinical reports will be mailed free on request from the Joan J Foxton Company 420 Montgomery St San Francisco California.
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