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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1893
Page
4
The notice announces a weekly publication in Dizon Montana dated December 29 1893 and lists subscription terms including prepaid rates for one year six months and three months with single copies available.
Secretary Carlisle's annual report proposes issuing 200 million dollars of 3 percent bonds redeemable after five years to cover a 28 million dollar deficit. He also urges 2.362 million dollars of Pacific railroad currency fixes due in 1894 and warns against further Sherman act changes. He favors silver certificate expansion and calls for higher taxes on liquor, cigars, playing cards, cosmetics, and invest income, ending with a plea for strict fiscal economy.
The article reviews the 1893 railroad bankruptcies with 73 lines in receivership totaling 22 584 miles and 1 287 952 000 in stocks and bonds, notes wage unemployment rising to 800 000, and Bradstreet warnings on slow recovery while tariff politics face critique.
The piece notes Inter State Commerce Commission freight classification study stirring railroad officials. Senator Dubois dismisses Voorhees silver bill as ineffectual and not aligned with silver supporters. Northern Pacific wage cut orders face legal restraint delaying a strike. A Cosmopolitan magazine December issue order signals rising reading class growth and a large circulation estimate.
The piece highlights Demorest's Family Magazine contents including an explainer on Wall Street terms, nurse portraits, suffrage opinions from prominent women, stories and features for girls, complexion care, society items, and over 300 illustrations. Published by W Jennings Demorest at 15 East 14th Street New York for $2 per year.
Charles Graham appointed director of color for the Midwinter Exposition in Golden Gate Park. Delicate tints will complement California climate with gold accents on domes and grand court, while bamboo and date palm plantings frame a grand parallelogram. Citrus fairs from Northern and Southern counties join Fresno apple displays in January to February exhibitions.
Moon for Ladies French Tansy Tablets offer relief and cure for painful and irregular menses and claim to remove obstructions. Marketed as the only safe remedy, manufactured by A. Augendre in Paris, priced at $2 per box, sold exclusively by D. M. Newbru Drug Company in Buffalo, Montana.
In Knoxville Tennessee a boiler at the Alexandria Lumber Company mill exploded killing four men J M Whatie Louis Palmer Sherman Dupe z Harrison Caldwell and seriously injuring three others Tom Blair Solomon Henry The blast hurled boiler fragments 100 feet and toppled a nearby railroad bridge. Caldwell’s body was missing and may never be found.
Fossil hunter J W Gerdley in Wyoming badlands has gathered enough material to restore four mammoth sized skeletons to be exhibited at the American Museum in Central Park New York. A train wreck in Booth Iowa killed brakeman William Palmer when a bridge span collapsed over the Des Moines River.
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