Road Spending Two Million Dollars Between Butte and Pocatello
The Oregon Short Line plans 2 million dollars in permanent improvements from Butte to Pocatello, including curves straightened, trestles filled, grades raised, tunnels where needed, and hill tops clipped. 80 pound rails will be laid, new engines and rolling stock added, and exchanges with B A P compared. old engines with large smokestacks are replaced by sleek front extensions.
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Butte
Pocatello
Oregon Short Line
H. Q. Wilson
Southern Pacific
City uses China pump to water streets from Blacktail head
Chief Stone proposed a novel sprinkler system using a $20 China pump at the Blacktail head of Montana street. W A Gills built the pump powered by a threshing engine, filling a 1000 gallon tank in three to five minutes. Fuel costs are minimal and a small tax on benefiting property owners will fund it.
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Montana Street
W. A. Gills
Chief Stone
Ialeo
Dillon
Inat
Instruments Filed With Clerk and Recorder
The county clerk’s office reports a light week due to heat. Five road commissioners filed official bonds: Mackay, McVay, McKnight, Dunbar, and Rife. Deeds filed include Flynn to Flynn for a water right. Klein to Knoch. Gowen to Nelson. Morse et al to Birchdale stock farm. First National Bank to Retallack. Benton filed a declaratory statement for a quartz location. Bond, Bond filed two water rights and Paxion one.
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Wm. ‘Mackay
A. H. ‘McVay
McKnight
Stanley Dunbar
Isaac Rife
Thomas Flynn
Mary A. Flynn
Frank Klein
John Knoch
Justin B. Gowen
Theodore Nelson
J. E. Morse
Birchdale Stock Farm
First National Bank
Chas. Retallack
Frank Benton
Clifford Bond
Jas. Paxion
Polaris Mining Company Incorporates in Silver Bow County
Polaris Mining Company files articles with the Silver Bow clerk and recorder establishing a $250,000 capital stock, 1 per share, with offices in Butte. Directors include J E Rickards and others. incorporators include George W Tower and Fayette Harrington. The note highlights Beaverhead county mining promise and a county jail count of four prisoners.
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Polaris Mining Company
Polaris
Silver Bow County
Butte
J. E. Rickards
Joh MacGinnis
A. H. Wethby
George H. Robinson
A. J. Haneke
Jas. K. Hesyer
W. C. Jones
George W. Tower
Fayette Harrington
James A. Talbot
B. F. White
Charles A. van Zandt
Beaverhead County
Ackers Blood Elixir Promoted for Health and Blood Disease
An old advertisement claims Ackers Blood Elixir can cure all blood diseases and restore a healthy appearance. It urges readers to use the product if they feel weak and notice impure sallow skin and eruptions.
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Ackér
Short Line Plans 90 Mile Blackfoot to Houston Branch
OG Wilson, Ga Short Line agent, says a northwest branch from Blackfoot Idaho to Houston Idaho, about 90 miles, is surveyed and rail laid for forty miles. It will finish by December 1 and serve the main line before entering the Salmon river country. The route would then extend toward Salmon City through rugged terrain and mountains.
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Sh Simon River
OG Wilson
Butte Inter Mountain
Blackfoot
Salmon
Idaho
Houston
Salmon River
Salmon City
Dillon
Rockies
Campbell Bros Show Claims Respectable Image
The Campbell Bros Show emphasizes honesty with no fakirs or games of chance. This straightforward policy has boosted their popularity, inviting both refined ladies and gentlemen to their exhibition as they would a home entertainment event.
Our July Songs A Fresh Season for Musical People
A Tribune Store listing highlights the top tunes of the season from eastern music houses. It features I Want's to Be the Leadin Lady and Just as You're Growing Old by Horwitz Bower, My Lady Hottentot in New York, When the Band Begins to Play in Von Tilzer style, My Saphire Sue, Rosabelle, Betsey Rose, Oh Oh Oh Oh, The Lamb that Strayed from the Fold, Harrah Boys by Lacalle. All songs are for sale at the Tribune Store.
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Coon
Horwitz & Bower
New York City
Paradise Roof Garden
Elinore Falk
Mr. von Tilzer
Saphire Sue
von Tilzer
Rosabelle
Max 8. Dewitt
Betsey Rose
Warner Crosby
New York
Lacalle
Bucklins Amioa Salve touted for skin eruptions and cures
An advertisement extols Bucklins Amioa Salve claiming it clears sores eruptions and various skin conditions with a guaranteed cure. It also notes prices and availability at City Drug Store and promotes other products including Dr White's Electric Comb for baldness and scalp diseases.
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City Drug Store
Bear and Chain Cartoon Goes Wrong in German Sign Pact
A German hotel owner hires a barroom artist to paint a brown bear on his sign for two dollars. A chain addition costs a dollar more, rain washes away the chain, and the bear vanishes until the artist returns with another bear and a chain to make the image permanent, earning eight dollars in total.
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Syith Soap
Philadelphia
Milwaukee lawyer visits Bouck on Masonry tale
A well known Milwaukee lawyer visits Colonel Gabriel Bouck in Madison and harangues about Masonry from temple lore to the present. Bouck, yawning in his shirt sleeves, quips that the talker must learn to talk with his hands, then mentions an early trip to Janesville. Milwaukee Sentinel.
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Milwaukee
Madison
Park Hotel
Gabriel Bouck
Oshkosh
Nestor
Wisconsin Bar
Grand Lodge of Wisconsin Masons
Bouck
Brotherhood
Solomon’s Temple
Gabe
Asylum For the Deaf and Dumb
Janesville
Land’s Sake
Which Eye Weeps First in Emotional Cry
The piece notes that tears may originate from one eye, often the right, in emotional moments. The author suggests observing a tear as a signal and wonders whether handedness or posture explains why the right eye leads.
Post Office Conversation Sparks Rural Gossip
The Atlanta Constitution recounts a village postmaster encounter with an old darky asking about letters and cards. He then inquires about almanacs and whether anyone would buy a live alligator, highlighting rural information channels in Georgia and Vermont.
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Bureau of General Information
Georgia
Vermont
Atlanta Constitution
Darky
Sliding to Happiness
A dialogue about marriage expectations from a young girl and the idea of sliding down the balusters to meet a suitor. The girl expresses confidence in marriage and denies becoming an old maid, while the aunt warns. The tone reflects playful domestic fantasy and social norms of courting.
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Lucy
Cement for repairs of jars and metalware
A cement made from litharge and glyc erin forms a thick cream to mend earthen or stone jars and to seal tin pans iron kettles and loose joints. It resists acids heat and cold when the mixture has properly hardened before use.
Round Bill Squared as Negotiations Move Forward
A sharp exchange quoted in the Baltimore Jewish Comment notes the circulation of a bill regarded as seemingly final. The speaker hopes to finalize and settle the matter, signaling ongoing fiscal or legislative maneuvering.
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Baltimore
Microscopic hairs drive feeding currents in shell
In its native habitat the shell uses waving hairs to produce currents that bring food to its mouth where particles are engulfed and digested.
Woman Uses Fake One Thousand Dollar Bill At Store
A department store on Sixth Avenue halted operations briefly after a customer presented a counterfeit one thousand dollar note. A clerk misread the bill during a small purchase, prompting the manager to intervene. The shopper admitted she had used the fake, then paid with real currency. The incident stemmed from a business college prank.
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Ther
Sixth Avenue
New York Herald
Culinary Tips From Old Cookery Notes
Parsley kept in wet cheesecloth lasts longer. Nutmeg enhances spinach flavor in Italian cooking. Rose geranium adds a delicate note to crab apple jelly. Ginger boosts cranberries in dishes. Do not boil cranberry jam. keep separate as candied cherry look. For puree use young turnip tops or young nettle tops. boil and press through sieve then add to cream. Salsify is good when soaked in vinegar and water then fried in white sauce with cheese. Peas pudding remains popular and is served with cream after sieving.
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Great Britain
Small Screw Size Proved More Efficient By Accident
A boiler maker notes that early steamers used oversized screws for speed. A Lake Erie vessel broke welded blades in a storm, shrinking diameter by two thirds yet achieving unprecedented speed. Engineers then found smaller propellers worked better, altering practice.
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Lake Erie
DIY Glass Cutter From Mapping Pen and Carborundum
A simple glass cutter can be fashioned from a mapping pen, a small carborundum piece, and seccotine cement. Modify the nib into a tube, insert a crystal, cement, wind thin wire around the tube, and let it set. The improvised cutter matches the performance of diamond or wheel cutters.
Cleaning Benares brass work with soap and lemon
The article explains cleaning brass items known as Benares work by washing in hot soapsuds, drying, rubbing with a lemon, rinsing in warm water, drying again, and polishing with chamois skin. It warns against using powders on chased work.
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Benares
Birth of Edward VII Sparks Jubilee at Buckingham Palace
Readable text recalls the royal infant Edward VII born November 9 during Queen Victoria's reign. Bells rang and cannons fired across Britain as the nation celebrated the prince's birth, with observers like Douglas Jerrold commenting on the festive scene.
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Edward VII
Queen Victoria
Buckingham Palace
Douglas Jerrold
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