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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1899
Page
4
A vintage notice lists pricing for publications and notices including church festivals and dances, cards of thanks, obituary poetry, and job printing orders. It notes five cents per line for admissions related notices and directs where to send letters for news correspondence and manuscripts.
P Fisher of San Francisco is named as authorized agent with the paper kept on file at his office in Dron Montana dated June 2 1899.
A partisan column rails at Democrats who wavering on free coinage and predicts silver revival tied to Philippine policy and Westward wealth. It blasts Bryan era figures, cites trust hostility, and argues the silver issue will fade from politics by 1900 while expansion and Asia trade shape prosperity.
Local call to mobilize funds and community effort for a major Dillon Fourth of July celebration. The piece urges raising 700 to 1,000 dollars, inviting distant speakers, a large bowery near the liberty pole, a free dinner, and participation from miners, stockmen, ranchers, and railroad workers to make this the best Southern Montana event yet.
A Beaverhead county Democrat republishes a Seattle dispatch noting United States Senator Kenney of Delaware says the next Democratic platform will drop anti expansion language and favor holding the Philippines. He also comments on Speaker Reed and Senator Quay seating as a legal matter not political.
The Marcus Daly lumber trust drives up costs in western Montana, halting many projects. In Butte dozens of workers idle and Dillon sees about a dozen houses no longer planned. Relief is hoped soon. The piece also notes strong Army morale in the Philippines and exposes travel bargains via the Rio Grande Western Railway with routes to the Midwest and East, plus ads for cattle and gold hunting musings.
A Toledo ad offers a one hundred dollar reward for any case of Ostarrh that Hall's Ostarrh Cure cannot cure. The notice asserts the credibility of F J Cheeney and lists endorsers Wear Truax Druggist and Walpie Knixan Murvin wholesale, with further claims of the firm’s reliability.
A column from Lima to the Dillon Examiner argues against heavy fines and jury trials for petty criminals. It says Democrats and Republicans alike should curb costs by enforcing stricter sentences to deter needless jury trials and reduce county expenses, aiding the school fund and law and order.
A historical remark quotes T. De Witt Talmage praising humorists who brighten life with clever wordplay. He extols poets like Thomas Hood and Charles Dickens and Sydney Smith as having a divine mission to add sweetness to existence, placate animosities, and expose follies beyond sermons.
A mother warns her son Bobby during a long service and he asks how bad he must be to stay away. The excerpt ends with a joke about church discipline and parental threats.
Mildmay seldom punishes his children, leaving that duty to his wife. Recently one child became very unruly and he was obliged to intervene, telling Flora that discipline would fall to her when needed.
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