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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1897
Page
7
In a humorous exchange a couple argues over buying a marked down lap robe they cannot yet use. She cites a store bargain while he notes they have no vehicle and may never need it, ending with a quip about future wealth and horses. The Mercantile Journal records the scene as a light domestic vignette.
The London Globe reports M Michael Corday of the Ecole Polytechnique in France uses the cinema photograph apparatus to capture a plant growth from seed to bloom. The sequence is photographed at intervals and projected as a rapid evolution of the plant, suggesting broader scientific and natural process applications.
Chief of Police Keefe reports possession of a rare weapon in Jacksonville a combined double barreled pistol and 12 inch bowie. The blade protrudes from a single hilt which also houses two concealed triggers. Report notes Missouri regiments used similar arms sourced from Paris amidst slavery debates.
The article surveys ancestral gaming practices from 4000 B C dice tablets to 17th century chess in Europe. It notes licensure of gaming houses in 1630 London, billiards in French courts under Louis XV, and early card manufacture hubs like Nuremberg Augsburg and Ulm.
A dialogue notes a home break in with a few valuables taken including two watches silver items a suit and even a painted portrait cut from its frame. The startled artist exclaims that the theft might make him fortune, amused by the audacity of the thieves.
The fragment lists varied trades and foods in a string of odd pairings such as carpenter with hardtack watch maker with minute pudding printer with pi wheelman with uphol sterer stuffing plumber with long bill ed snipe blacksmith with hammered steak bunker with golden pheasant balloonist with angel food clown ct pers thetwlovemaker lady fingers shoemaker soles political speaker his own words bummey swallows ourgmiin Crabs tramp any oh thing Up To Date.
The four leaf clover is described as a lucky find in England Ireland and America with accidental discovery viewed as foretelling fortune for the finder. In parts of Ireland a four leaf clover given by a young man to a young woman is likened to proposing marriage.
Dialog notes a character teasing why Skinner's funeral was private, with quips about grief and public display. The exchange hints at social sensitivities around mourning and privacy in a period context.
February 3 report from Houghton Michigan describes four workers trapped after a mine fire at the North Tamarack mine. Death is believed likely due to poisonous gases. Names include Pere Limpara, William Limpara, William Tommacgiosnt, and Antoise Tomaczhoski.
In San Francisco on February 3 the bark Swanhilda docked at 6:30 after a 70 day voyage from Newcastle. Police and detectives, after a three week vigil, boarded the vessel as she entered the harbor and took the fugitive Butler into custody.
Chicago market shows wheat up 13 to 15 cents with May at 7.53. Cattle and hogs at Chicago and South Omaha mixed with steady to lower cash prices. Liver pool factors and big cash business cited as drivers, with corn and oats advancing modestly and provisions slipping slightly.
A Pittsburg mill worker dubbed the wild hair man travels the city pulling out eyelashes to cure eye ailments. The Leader reports residents, lawyers, judges and officials claim they were treated, while an oculist debunks the belief, noting many patients were uninjured by the practice.
A London Telegraph piece jokes about statutory wording and a magistrate who freed a prisoner due to dictionary scope. It also recalls Musa Kussoloa a Koroshan Turk famed for an extraordinary beard growing from 4 feet 4 inches in 1893 to 9 feet 8 inches, and compares to Adam Kirpen whose beard reached over 12 feet in 1882 Chicago.
In Loochop China a tiny 20 inch tall man with a long gray beard appears to be about 560 years old. He speaks several Chinese dialects fluently and claims origins in the kingdom of the dwarfs by the western ocean though details remain unknown.
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