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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1897
Page
6
A silversmith laments the vanity and risk of storing expensive silverware while recounting a tale of a $11,000 tea service copied for a wedding gift. The piece, kept in vaults for decades, becomes a public spectacle and prompts discussion on whether ownership of such fine ware makes practical sense.
A missionary pleads to abandon superstition but the Mbwpka king retorts that the thirteenth landing this year already marks a pattern. The fragmentary dialogue hints at a colonial or folkloric encounter with cultural resistance.
In the Washington Star account a sentimental woman visits a florist and rejects chrysanthemums orchids roses and pinks preferring violets. The shopkeeper touts selection while noting flowers fade and promises accurate representation.
A wife pursues bread as a patrol wagon sighting prompts her husband to rush to the grocery. He returns with a bundle, claiming the bread and noting no disturbance. The exchange ends with a calm recap and mutual relief over a simple errand.
The St Louis Republic recounts Haidin the magician crafting a near perfect artificial nightingale that sings and moves like a real bird. Created in 1816 for a wealthy St Petersburg merchant, it could flap, leap, and synchronize beak movement with song. Houdin's fame grew from an automaton boy made in 1844 that could write draw maps and talk, including a moment when it illustrated a crown before breaking its pencil.
A chaotic street scene unfolds as residents rush to a fire escape amid alarms and shouting. A Cleveland plat dealer mutters about repeated bicycle attire as authorities respond to the blaze and evacuations.
A fragmented Detroit Tribune snippet notes two cannibals debating a missionary’s merits while a separate image describes wasps detaching fibers from old wood to make paper material.
The article outlines three options tectorium fensterpappe and hornglas as glass substitutes. Tectorium is a translucent flexible gal vanized iron web with gelatin, durable and repairable, used for roofs and skylights. Fensterpappe is a cheap manilla paper coated with boiled linseed oil for greenhouses and florists, about 100 times cheaper than glass. Hornglas is a new patent product lighter than tectorium, whiter and more transparent, with two mesh grades, designed to resist sun softening.
A late night ride on a horse car on Callowhill street ends with a pair alighting near Sixteenth street after a delay. The conductor jokes about waiting for another north bound car as the scene closes with a casual farewell.
The New York Times notes Brooklyn residents still instinctively glance toward the old City Hall clock site. Rail lines once converged there and the city hall clock, housed in the cupola, was a daily time beacon until a fire destroyed it years ago.
The article notes that Babylonian towers and Egyptian pyramids likely served astronomical purposes. It asserts that by the time of Job, about 2000 BCE, stars were partitioned into constellations and names like Archurac Orion and Pleiades appear. It credits Copernicus Tycho Brahe and Newton with founding modern science.
A verse by R K Munkittrick in the New York Journal laments a harsh blizzard tailing through a winter landscape. The poem uses vivid, rhythmic imagery to describe biting winds and freezing weather affecting people and places with energetic, surreal lines.
A Chicago Tribune quip cites old Squallop as the stingiest man in the United States who has money to burn. The joke notes that if he takes his wealth with him on death, he will have a chance to burn it as well.
A lighthearted exchange notes shorter shirt bosoms as a fashion shift. Rivers references a paper fashion item and Brooks approves, saying long bosoms have bothered him and should be trimmed.
Isabel Smithson in Babyland writes of a five year old boy named Jack who resists the term kitten and asks to be called cat. The lighthearted scene shows playful language between adult and child as he asserts his growing age.
A playful exchange notes a man asking his name be withheld from the paper and the reporter confirms it was indeed kept out, in a light district gossip tone from the Roxbury Gazette.
A poem-like note from the Atlanta Constitution describes a turkey strutting by day and roosting high at night. The speaker jokes about the bird looking suspicious and wondering how high it roosts, as if guarding itself from danger.
The Chicago Record notes a newspaper can serve as a winter cheat protector for cyclists. A reader asks about concealing it inside a coat while staying at home to read.
Quoted lines critique a miscalculation during a wreck with a humorous misstep. The Cincinnati Enquirer and Chicago Record are cited as sources offering pithy observations on perception and folly.
In a playful absurdity, the Atlanta Constitution anecdote features an ostrich and a bizarre medical remark about a brick in the gut. The humorous exchange weds wordplay with a mock anatomy jab, reflecting early 20th century whimsy.
A brief item notes Misa Specie bringing her blind brother to the theater to see a man between the aota as discussed in Brooklyn Life. The remark highlights social attitudes and family support in contemporary society.
A youth born under a dark sign gives his beloved a tame parrot. The bird reveals its harsh truth by swearing whenever its name is asked, a comic yet fateful gesture reflecting his unlucky lot.
A Detroit News fragment describes a brave girl leaping from her bicycle and puncturing both tires to aid a dying man, her quick actions captured in a startling scene.
A fragment from New York Sunday Journal notes a seventh flat resident as the town’s meanest man while a New Castle Chronicle exchange recalls apples missing from storeroom now with cupboard gingerbread.
A jumble of clipped quips and fragments from Brooklyn Life Truth Cleveland Plain Dealer and other papers. The dialogic snippets include wedding cancellations music hall chatter and puzzle like phrases. The mix hints at social commentary and humorous snippets from early 20th century papers.
A popular science摘要 notes clams conceal a brain in the foot and a gland for strong fibers. They attach byssus to surfaces, wait for food, and siphon water through a two-tube system to feed. Eggs are carried by the mother on gills and released to hatch into larvae that seek fish hosts, a semi parasitic life described by Popular Science Monthly.
The text describes Sis women wearing fezzes sometimes edged with gold coins, and Greek-like festival returns beloved by Hellas youth. It mentions open air shrines near Sis, Passion plays, wax figures of Christ, and Armenian forts. Men enjoy Sunday games and horse juggling, while Armenians in Hadgin, Zeltun and Marash are portrayed as sturdy and sharp in commerce. It also notes Phidias statue Jupiter Olympius at 58 feet high, finished 444 B C.
Notice to George Code and Mrs. George Code and heirs that Benjamin Bradford of Melrose Montana claims their co-ownership in the Wake Up Jim quartz lode claim in Burnt Pine district Beaverhead county under section 2824 US Revised Statutes. Bradford states $250 due within 90 days from service failure to pay may transfer ownership to him as co-owner.
Estate administrator Scott Galbreath requests all creditors and others with claims against the deceased George Pettingell to present them with vouchers within four months after the first publication. Claims should be sent to the administrator at Deweye Beaverhead county Montana. Dated January 7, 1897. 3 4t
An advertisement claims a newly discovered remedy cures consumption bronchial throat and lung diseases with results on wasting conditions. The proposer T A Slocum M C of 98 Pine street New York offers three free bottles to readers who send address and mention the paper.
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