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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1901
Page
4
The piece argues fusion collapsed after a recent Montana legislative session, praising the Republican party as stable and principled. It discusses shifting local tickets, blame on fusion forces, and hopes for honest politics, while touching on national issues from tariffs to military power and taxation changes following the Spanish American War.
Born July 26 1877 in Springfield Minnesota the so called Poet of the Rockies grew from a country school to a printer and dancer. He toured ports from Bermuda to Lima and sailed across the world before serving in a volunteer company in the Spanish American war and later editing the Watonwan. He settled in Montana in 1899 to keep books for a merchant at Monida and has published dialect poems and a first book of verse.
A catalog of songs from publishers includes In the Palace of the King a sacred solo by Julian Jordan and Way Down East a wandering son tale. Also listed are The Crack of the Whip a stirring march, Oh Malinda a coon song, Since Daddy's Been Taken Away a sentimental piece, Will You Forget a refined love song, For I Love You a juvenile number, Aunt Phoebe's Jubilee a cakewalk by B Stern, plus a humorous anecdote from London Tit-Bits about a manager and a lady.
Wheat prices fell amid long holdings while corn and oats showed strength on March 18. Provisions rose with pork and lard finishing higher. Cattle, hogs, and sheep receipts at Chicago markets influenced prices with mixed to steady trends across categories. A local ad for Norman horses and a 1886 Hall’s Catarrh Cure notice appear among the market data.
Robert E. Lee, described as a cattle rustler, was arrested in Billings on charges of attempting to steal 1,000 head of Crow cattle valued at $30,000. The raid, tied to the Hole-in-the-Wall refuge, is described as Montana’s boldest such heist. The cattle brand was altered from I. D. to D. D. with cross-bars.
An advertisement offers Kemp's Balsam for the throat and lungs with a free trial bottle at druggists. It guarantees relief from chronic and acute coughs, asthma, bronchitis, and consumption, priced at 25 and 50 cents, sold by City Drug Store.
A Clear Creek ranchman reports discovering a petrified structure in the Bear Paw mountains measuring about 300 feet in length and 50 feet in width, described as a cabin or ark.
The ad touts Acker's English Remedy for coughs and colds with money back if no relief, and notes 25 and 50 point prices from L. J. Williams Central Pharmacy. It also reports an attempted blackmail against Charles W. Clark demanding over $5 000 with a decoy package. an arrest occurred but the suspect was released after examination.
U J William's Central Pharmacy advertises Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets in a handsome tin box for 25 cents. One tablet promises immediate relief or money refunded.
Report notes the Helena St Peters hospital nearly burned to the ground on Saturday. Nurses lost most of their clothing as the fire was contained last minute. A separate reader message praises Chamberlain s Cough Remedy as effective against grip and respiratory symptoms. For sale by L J Williams.
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