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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1894
Page
4
Public notice from Fisher newspaper advertising agents at 21 Merchants' Exchange San Francisco outlines subscription rates and advance payment. It mentions a filing place and an authorized agent, with a dated stamp of June 6 1894 in Driton Moyrana.
The great railroad strike enters its tenth day with growing tension. Cities report clashes between strikers and authorities as trains stay idle. Business paralyzed from coast to coast. perishables spoiled and distress grows while union resistance to nonunion workers persists. Cash in advance payment note remains.
Locals scoured old papers for AP dispatches and banners from the last Cleveland campaign now scarce. A fragment found read Vote for Cleveland and get 2.25 for your whenat.
Despite hard times Dillon held a lively Fourth with many visitors and cheerful crowds. Attitudes toward news were flat and the Anaconda Standard dispatched its hand car papers to blockaded subscribers amid strikes and washouts, to great welcome.
A conservative warning argues that freedom must be balanced with order to prevent the rise of dictatorship. It contends that liberty without responsibility invites lawlessness and endangers the government, citing historical patterns of people surrendering rights to a strong hand for safety.
A Boulder editorial claims locating the state capital holds little interest for residents or the state, suggesting it could be placed anywhere in the prairie without impacting state or public welfare.
When Montana became a state in 1889 the United States granted about 5.7 million acres within the state to be sold with proceeds supporting the public school system. The grant’s value is conservatively estimated between 10 million and 25 million dollars at present.
The Burtonian alleges the national pension bureau, posing as peddlers, is sending spies into communities to gather information that could lead to removing many pensioners. It criticizes Washington for not trusting local peoples to supply data justifying pension dispossessions.
The M York Monitor says it will switch to lower quality newsprint to cut expenses amid hard times. It vows to keep essential reporting until Congress passes wiser tariff laws or elects a body not meddling with laws seen as blessings to national prosperity.
New York Recorder laments a severe industrial paralysis after the Democratic rise to power fifteen months earlier. It argues mills and mines closed, banks failed, and labor suffered, declaring responsibility rests at the doors of the Democratic party.
A local note reports Col. McCallister seen out riding with two young women while his hair appears strikingly notable. The sighting adds color to the community’s social chatter surrounding the prominent figure.
A tall gentlemanly figure described as a popular boniface walked ten miles along the U P railroad line after a blockade stranded him in Butte. He then rode six miles on a handcar and finally rode in a horse and buggy before being met by Ed Farley, who set out with a livery team to assist.
The July issue of Demorest’s Family Magazine offers unique opinions from Rev. Dr. Parkhurst Palmer Cox Bill Nye Anthony Comstock and George Francis Train on what makes a good husband. It also highlights ice harvesting with photo illustrations titled A Day on an Ice Field as a summer feature and notes the magazine’s new July cover and annual price of $2.
A reader questions Mr Hartley’s marriage plans after two years of visits to the daughter. The note suggests hesitation about a proposal and reflects local gossip style from Detroit.
A verse from the Boston Courier laments the ardent angler who draws luck yet lands only small fish. The speaker grouses that fate gives little and the dream of a big catch slips away.
Wholesale prices paid for produce at press time include butter five cents per pound, eggs at twenty cents per dozen, and home grown potatoes due to market overstock.
The Helena advocates assert Marcus Daly seeks moving the capital to Anaconda to facilitate selling mines mills and town to a foreign syndicate. They urge Montana Democrats to vote capital to Anaconda claiming Daly would depart with wealth and foreign interests would ignore politics, aiding Democratic gains and W A Clark.
A Montana brief reports a playful population estimate by a statistician claiming Texas could house all people in five acre family plots. It also highlights Red Lodge Picket curiosities about the alum cave in Stinking Water canyon, an extinct geyser site with thick alum walls and surrounding hot springs. The Coxey movement is described as never fully ice despite its wide reach.
A reader reports two odd sightings on a Saturday in town. The first unnamed noble descendant wore a furry war bonnet, clam shell earrings and a briar pipe, strolling down the street in a pompous, cyclone fashioned wardrobe. A second wooly figure from the clouds appeared later, with uncertainty over whether he was a real Wild William or a nascent follower.
A compilation of columns and quips from multiple newspapers about Lillian Russell and her marital status, opera career, and public perception. Notes tease her fame, marriages, and the gossip surrounding her, with playful asides on her love life and heavy press attention.
A satirical notice outlines outrageous hotel policies and scams. Guests risk firing for boots on bed, nightly tick charges, and extra fees for late hours and dining room meals. It mocks lavish promises and rebates while urging souvenirs, room service at half rates, and indulgent jokes about towels and linens.
A noted physician prescribes seven steps to lasting health. Eat moderate meals of wheat oats corn fruits beef and mutton. Breathe clean air, exercise outdoors, retire early rise early, wear flannel, bathe, live in sunshine and keep a cheerful temper. Lead and rise above. catarrh cannot climb.
Ohio holds one tenth of the nations school state share while Ontario reports one teacher per 250 residents yielding about 57 pupils per teacher. German Darwin Ernst Haeckel turns years as he links pedagogy with youth curiosity. Indiana official stance on Bible use in schools leaves decision to teachers.
A Philadelphian has built a four winged flying machine. Casper Wy reports a steam plant for shearing sheep in operation. An opera glass doubles as a photographic camera. A French dentist introduces potato wine from pressed water and starch sugar fermentation. Italian grape culturists extract an illuminating oil from grape seeds yielding 10 to 15 percent, clear colorless and smokeless.
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