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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1887
Page
1
A reader cites observations near Antwerp describing 10,000 Belgian troops at a fortified town. The troops appear weak, ill-disciplined, and unable to hold against a German charge. The writer questions Antwerp’s defensive value and notes rivals could bypass forts if Belgian lines fail.
Delegate Toole secures two extra clerks for Helena post office. Anaconda Smelter Co. stocks vast wood near the quarry. Helena citizens plan support for a Methodist college. Mooney jailed for a horse-race sting. Blackfoot range reports a horse disease worsened by cold. Eastern Montana couples seek marriages at the National Park. Horses and cattle killed on Philipsburg track by a train. Witun Ply dies in Helena after injuries and cold. Billings Gazette foregrounds city tax lots. Missoula county seeks 10 to 60 acre poor farm land. County poor costs last year were 5500. Helena land offices busy listing patented lands for taxation. Delegate Woolle urges Gillespie for a Helena assay office meter. John C. Martin arrested in San Diego for murder. Notaries public’ tenure set to renew. Montana Territory Army staff appointments announced. Northern Pacific surveys iron road routes to Castle and Livingston. Hindtegene route from Great Falls to White Sulphur Springs. Ming death noted tied to recent illnesses. Northwest obituary hints at aging residents and cattle economy turning to fiddle.
Rome dispatch reports the Pope granted an audience on Wednesday to the Marquis De Armi, who presented joyful gifts from the Queen of Spain. The Chicago stir over the leak signals concern over a major brokerage instruction about barley from Iowa or Kansas. London and Rome dispatches note exhibition plans, African king movements, and naval shipbuilding progress with a 6000 ton armored cruiser.
A fragment questions artistic anger among poets and asks who composes popular songs. It cites a poor woman barely making ends meet and mentions Sean Landon World and a daby with wealth and position as contexts for discussing original art.
A fragment reports on a Jubilee medal event where not 1,000 medals were awarded, noting the medal is worn on full dress occasions, with emphasis on its rarity and ceremonial use alongside war medals.
A fragmented report describes a figure moving through European streets with cautious steps, encountering foot traffic and shadows. References to a city, pacing, and a guiding frame hint at a chase or pursuit across urban spaces with uncertain loyalties.
An old saying attributes only four plots to all stories and declares that many novels reuse variations of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Jack the Giant Killer, and Beauty and the Beast. The note appears in the New York World.
Reading notes cover geographic chatter from Tucson real estate to Oregon rail delegations and a Mexico City editor's rail excursion. It reports murder sentencing in Hollister California, suicides in Cheyenne Wyoming, tariff protests by California sheepmen, a Willamette death, land requests from Mrs Langtry, a botched bristol butchery in Sonora, Wyoming ore meetings, and stock prosperity in Idaho with winter ranges. It adds mining statistics from Major Powell and a broad mineral production total for 1880s Illinois?
A 1887 proclamation from Vauxon Ohio urges U S wool growers to unite against President proposed tariff repeal on imported wools. The letter calls for petitions to Congress, local associations, and coordinated action to protect domestic wool industry and employment nationwide.
Worth Kroowlns reports Mr W O Morgan of Lake City Phi fell to severe cough with distress and feverish symptoms. After trying many nostrums and remedies without relief he found no cure until using Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption which he credits with no return of illness. Trial bottle offered at local store.
The verdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters cure liver, kidney, and blood diseases. Druggists from Bippus Indiana and Belleville Ohio testify to long standing rheumatism and other ailments being relieved. N M Whites City Drug Store offers bottles at fifty cents.
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