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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1896
Page
3
Special correspondence from Rochester and Maaparen with holiday wishes, school plans, a Christmas Eve tree, and a tale of chicken thieves foiled by a shotgun. Local folks like Mr Cornforth, Mrs Monehban, and many residents are mentioned along with weather, travel, births, and weddings.
Local events include a skating and taffy party hosted by Miss Flora Drehmer. Sheridan fair draws residents Friday and Saturday. D W Birchard loses a fine brood mare after it falls on ice. Youth dances at Abe Goetschius on Friday. Mrs Linder remains bedfast. Degree of Honor to meet on the 23rd with officers nominated. Home Forum sessions moved to Saturdays for the next three weeks. Grace Baker shows health decline. Quilhursts plan to move to Ohio. Post office to relocate to the drug store. Mrs Laurin's sale averages about 12 dollars per horse with over 80 head sold. Wm Heller starts a 20 by 40 building on Main and Fifth. Minnie Siprelle to take Evans book shop post after holidays. Clara Mueller of Rochester visits J R Stark. School ends on the 2th. Mabel Wheat in Salt Lake improving.
A Boise City report says Dr E J O Callaghan was pardoned by the Idaho state board of pardons on condition he leave the state, the pardon taking effect Christmas Day. He practiced in Dillon a decade ago and later operated in Blackfoot where a 1885 murder conviction of John Breene was altered to second degree. Breene was imprisoned for life.
Tribune lists quartz and placer location blanks along with other blank forms for sale. Dillon typewriter ribbons and pads available at Dillon Tarzuns office.
An exploration of Christmas sports from old England highlighting boar's head feasts Lord of Misrule Shakespeare Bacon and Druids origins. It contrasts modern December festivities with Tudor and Elizabethan revelry and notes gifts of misletoe tracing to ancient rites.
The New York Herald shares a playful Christmas menu concept using quotations instead of dish names. It suggests two holly leaf menu cards placed by each plate and describes witty lines about soup, pies, cheese, coffee, and tobacco to represent courses.
The New York World notes Austrian mid level meals differ from Germany with fried carp and noodles on ordinary days. Christmas features roast turkey or goose with potatoes, apples, honeyed German vermicelli, poppy seeds in bread forming a cross, and hasty pudding dessert with almonds served as individual tarts.
A Devonshire farmer sends a messenger to tell the bees that Christmas day has arrived and they should greet the glad tidings with a joyful hum.
The text explains that Santa Claus was brought to America by Dutch settlers from Holland and serves as the American counterpart to the German Knecht Ruprecht.
A fragment from a Christmas song sung with rhythmic cadence about Christ, light, and celebration. References to fife and drum, cider foam, and believers convey a rural festive mood near Atlanta.
The article links the mistletoe of Balder the Beautiful to ancient tree worship myths across cultures. It traces Norse and Greek sources, Virgil and Aricia’s grove, and Strabo’s priest-king tale, showing how the sacred oak’s life and death are mirrored in Balder’s fate and the doomed role of mistletoe as the tree’s lone weakness.
The verse proclaims the coming of a chosen king who will end woes and wrongs, turn sighs into songs, and set the faithful on a throne. It frames the Messiah as a redeemer who leads a beloved reforming church.
New York World describes Swiss Christmas customs with roast goose as the centerpiece and a national dish called Geneva fritters. The recipe uses pears stewed, mashed, with sugar and raisins, wrapped in a flour paste and served with egg yolk and sugar.
The national dish goulasch, meat with onions tomatoes and paprika, marks Hungarian Christmas meals. Roasted pig and cabbage dishes accompany it. late prayers return to cold pork bonbons and corn brandy after midnight, per the Exchange.
The Swiss name for mistletoe is don nerbesen-thunder besom and when hung from rafters is believed to protect the house from fire.
From the New York Press a whimsical note on Christmas mince pies shaped like coffins to symbolize the manger. It also quips on marriage and gender roles with wry social commentary.
An advertisement touts Ely's Cream Balm as a mercury free remedy for catarrh priced at 50 cents. Also promoted is The Penny Press a cooperative Twin Cities paper supporting free coinage of silver with telegraphic reports and markets. Subscription to Dillon Tribune combo is 4 dollars annually with samples free.
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