Parade Drills Montana Streets As City Hosts Grand Celebration
Epic present for the parade credited to Epic and Stoller with 300 participants across streets Montana and Bannack. Balloon and parachute events canceled by wind, but the day ran smoothly with no injuries. Ten Dag, Bannack Indians chief, led the procession in a carriage.
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Kodak
Epic
Stoller
Buck
Squaw
Buckletts
Equawiletts
Butte
Dillon
Will Tash
Montana
Bannack
Charles Wells
Committee On Public Comfort
Tash & Lenkersdorfer
Ward
Swainbank
Ten Dag
Ninefold belief and superstition across history
A compact survey traces the number nine in folklore and culture, from theology and heraldry to Shakespeare and traditional rhymes. It links ninefolds to angels, hell, magic, and social rituals, noting phrases like nine lives, nine tails, and nine sacred or cursed items.
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Hell
Beotland
Tobacco Legend From Menominee Tradition
An ethnologist recounts a Menominee myth in which the god Manabozo discovers a mountain cave tavern of a giant and bags of dried leaves. He steals a bag, flees up the peaks, and transforms the pursuer into a grasshopper for stinginess. The leaves are spread among ancestors for continued use.
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Manabozo
Peni
Mannabozo
Dillon Council Sets Water Service Upgrades
The Dillon council orders immediate filling of old Montana street wells and requires residents to connect to the city water system or haul water from farther away. The water issue, long awaited, is pushed forward with a call for users to pay for the service. A fire hose dispute is resolved with a sale of 750 feet to Helena and approval of another 750 feet ordered by John W. Morton at 78 cents per foot.
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Montana Street
Dillon
Helena
John W. Morton
Leonard Bacon and the limits of belief in New England
Leonard Bacon, a leading nineteenth century New England theologian, faced sharp objections at a conference. When a critic claimed he had never heard of such a thing, Bacon replied that one cannot let an opponent's ignorance offset one’s own knowledge.
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Leonard Bacon
New England
Harper’s Weekly
Remarkable Marriage Custom Among a Mountain Tribe
In a frontier region between India and Persia a powerful mountain tribe allows women to choose their husbands. A single woman signals her choice by pinning a handkerchief to a man's hat. he must marry her unless he proves he cannot afford her price set by her father.
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India
Persia
Left Handed Criminals Questioned in Officer Joke
A doctor asks about the finding that 32 of 100 criminals are left handed. The professor replies that the rest, 68, are right handed, delivering a dry Chicago Tribune style quip on motive and statistics.
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Chicago Tribune
Question about horses and racing duties from Mrs. Torkins
A Washington Star quotation shows Mrs. Torkins saying her husband owns many horses but others own and run the races. The fragment notes a woman’s conscience as a heavy burden and hints at social expectations.
Treasure tale of silver bars on Triton Island
A sailor recalls a 1904 plan to recover silver bars worth $80,000 from a wrecked Chinese junk off Triton Island in the China Sea. The scheme collapses after Andrews dies and another crewman discovers a lone bar while the others realize the loot was claimed by a dodgy dhow and its American mate.
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C. B
John Andrews
Liverpool
Triton Island
China Sea
Andrews
Singapore
Gulf of Siam
Ben
City Officials and Aldermen Listing
City names Mayor B F White and City Attorney Edwin Norris along with Treasurer A B Johnson Police Magistrate Wm Cushing and Chief of Police Fred L Stone. Aldermen listed by ward Leonard Eliel George French A B Graeter Wm Phillips A B Rife George Wolf.
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Frank G. Higgins
George M. Hays
A. H. Barrvit
J. HL. Calderhead
James Donovan
W. W. Wolah
Supreme Court
T. F Brantley
George BR. Malburn
W. T. Pigtt
W. H. Holloway
Cleair
Henry G. Rick
James P. Murray
B. F. White
George Woodsworth
Duke Gist
B. N. Stevenson
Lerk
John 8. Baker
George W. French
A. I. Beardaley
W. Robison
Mias Mae Rich
Isaiah Cashmore
M. A. Walker
George KR. Metlen
Edwin Norris
A. 8. Johnson
Wm. Cushing
Fred L. Stone
Leonard Eliel
George French
A. F. Graeter
Wm. Phillips
A. 8. Rife
George Wolf
Acker's Blood Elixir Sold With Guarantee
Purported warning of blood impurities and listed symptoms as evidence of disease, claiming Acker's Blood Elixir cures scrofulous or syphilitic poisons and other blood diseases. Advertisement notes positive guarantee and sales at Riley's Drag Store.
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Acker
Riley's Drag Store
Ely's Cream Balm for nasal catarrh promoted by druggists
Announcement offers Ely's Cream Balm in 500 size and 10 cent mail trial. It cleanses and heals nasal surfaces after application through nostrils. Liquid form named Ely's Liquid Cream Balm available with spraying tube at City Drug Store.
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Ely
Ely’s
City Drug Store
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Nece
Hebischstessees Jereol &. Dizon
M. H. Parker
T. J. A. Monaghan
DeWitt & Co
Chicago
Riley’s
Paul
the Tribune Fangy Stationery Dept
Dillon, Mont
The
First National Bank
Airibune
Voaler
Mgr
K K. Aina
Bedrock, Salmon & Gibbonsville Stage Co
U.S. Mail
Gibbonsville
Ida
Leesburg
Blackbird
Forney
Yellow Jacket
Bilven Creek
Prairie Basin
Opellis
Salmon
Red Rock
Mont
Ogretta Stage Co
FF. W. Vogler
W. Vogler
Gen. Mgr
Red Rosk
Tribune Pub. CO
SUN_YUEN
Irwin
Idaho St
Bro Brothers
Bannack Tribe
1.C. R.M
C. F
T.B. Landers
Cras
Cunkard, Sachem
Morrison's
Tribune
Bon Ton Restaurant
C. C. George
Stockmen’s, Directory
Stockmer
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