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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1895
Page
7
A garbled ad touts a weekly Denver publication begun in 1890 claiming grand western scenery and love stories. It offers a three month trial for twelve two cent stamps with a premium gold ring for yearly subscribers, urging readers to write with address as given.
Public and county officials for Dillon and surrounding areas are named including senator Thomas Power representative C S Wartman governor John Wy Richards lieutenant governor Alex Botlitt secretary Louis Botwits state auditor Andrew B Cook state treasurer Franklin W Wright attorney general Henri J Haskell superintendent Miss Millie Coffin and others in the county and city offices of Dillon City of Dillon.
A bustling child loses then retrieves a post stamp after a dog’s tail disruption. Cyril and Miss Birch pursue a hurried romance across London, aided by a prankish telegram mix up and a penniless suitor’s fate, ending with a quirky revelation from a maid.
St Louis Republic notes a limestone natural bridge in Gila County Arizona rising 200 feet above Pine Creek with a 24745 foot span arching 400 feet wide and nearly 1000 feet long. Caverns surround the site and geologists suggest Pine Creek once housed a vast cavern roof now reduced to the bridge.
A Cincinnati Enquirer report recalls a vast ancient lake along the eastern face of the Rocky Mountains inhabited by colossal beasts. Professor Marsh identifies Tri ceratops a horned monster with a 7 to 8 foot skull, beaked mouth, and a large neck frill.
Beavrecdis is cited as the longest plant, with a tropical variety growing up to at least 600 feet when fully developed. Seaweeds obtain nourishment from air and minerals dissolved in seawater, not from the sea bottom sediment.
The narrator recalls meeting Lincoln in his youth and recounts how the plainspoken honesty, earnestness, and rational, nonpartisan approach to slavery won him over. Lincoln’s calm, practical oratory contrasted with factional bias and left the speaker convinced that a new political force had emerged.
Von Blumner asks if the garden did well last summer. Plankington replies with a joke about making holes in a fence to trap chickens, noting they had plenty to eat. The exchange appears in Brooklyn Life.
Mr. Nevergo asks if it is time to go and Miss Weeree replies that it is almost time to call again. The dialogue reflects social norms of polite visits and recurring visits.
A light exchange in Buffalo Express notes a man asking about a black band on a hat. The reply reveals the band honors the speaker’s late wife’s first husband.
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