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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1888
Page
5
A fragment cites Grover Cleveland as LOR president with a possible New York association and mentions a vice president placeholder as Outro. The text is incomplete and lacks clear context or dates. Entities include Grover Cleveland and New York.
W D Howells recalls a Sunday election in a Swiss village at Villeneuve where voting occurred after church services. Ballots lay on cafe tables and in church pews, with gospels and a sealed ballot box under judicial oversight. The precinct allowed cross precinct voting with proof of no prior vote, all conducted in a solemn, orderly setting.
Excerpts discuss the Cossacks as cavalry and guerilla fighters with the gaucho image, their land communes, and nonpolitical taxes. It contrasts views outside Russia with local authority opinions, noting their free man status and communal landholding. It also recounts anecdotes about race, language, and a Kaiser Wilhelm window scene as reported in period magazines.
The story recalls FE Wolcott of Denver who during college filled in for a lecturer with Arctic stereopticon views in New Haven. When asked how fast a glacier moves he guessed a mile a minute and then corrected himself to inch in ten years, mistaking the question for wind velocity.
A reporter learns from an uptown druggist about colored water pigments used in window displays. Red uses iodine compounds, blue from copper sulfate and ammonia, yellow from bichromate, green from nickel nitrate, crimson from alkanet and oil, lilac from cobalt oxide, and royal purple from logwood or cochineal with ammonia or indigo sulfate. The expert notes these colors as principal shades and stresses chemicals as essential store equipment.
The New York Press describes two kinds of stage actresses: one group guards glamour in private life behind darkness and shading to preserve beauty, while the other flaunts disregard for appearances, enjoying freedom from wigs and makeup.
A column explains why driving rods breaking and crank pins failing at speed cause spectacular locomotive wrecks. It notes the flying rod smashes the engine and ground, detailing how cab crew survive as a near miracle and cites older engineers with tales from the Albany Express.
In Cardiff Mr Leonard Boyne recalls a fatal Italian stabbing, comparing the scene to Tybalt and Mercutio. He notes the crowd’s emotional silence and a spectator who feared the actor was truly stabbed, pondering whether genuine emotion can be recalled in cold blood.
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