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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1903
Page
9
The article recalls how early settlers faced forests with neighbors' help in a communal drive to clear land. It describes chopping bees, undercutting, piling, and burning, followed by rough log houses with bark roofs and simple furniture, highlighting neighborliness, endurance, and ingenuity. It closes with notes on Henry Phipps and Senator Morgan remarks.
An account recalls a first encounter with prickly pear in Algiers. After tasting its coolness, a trespass via a ramble led to painful stings and skin irritation from minute hairs, ruining gloves and handkerchiefs and causing days of discomfort. This excerpt comes from Home Life on an Orchid Farm.
The passage notes wheat dates to ancient times across latitudes, Burley origins possibly in the Caversus, oats and rye known in ancient India and Egypt, Greeks and Romans obtaining them from northern Europe, and speculates on wild oats maturing into essential horse feed. It also says Indian corn reached the Old World after knowledge of corn in India and China prior to America’s discovery.
Central Pharmacy promotes Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets and White's Dream Vermifuge while touting herbs like Herbine and Ballards Snow Liniment. News snippets mention Spanish American War medals, a new Pennsylvania railway station, and a playful note on Sunday kissing laws.
In Ottawa, Alfred Brown describes eight years of illness ending with Paine's Celery Compound. He details severe pain, weakness, and hospital tries before recovery to good health and improved appetite after using the remedy. The letter underscores Dr Edward Phelps's famed formula and broad testimonials.
Mich Find of Silver Pedro Alvinando, a Mexican silver millonaire known as the Valmido owner, rose from a 50 cent a day peon to a rumored 50 million fortune after discovering a rich lodge. His wife arranged a dentist visit and the Alvarado family traveled from Parral to Chihuahua with about thirty relatives aboard a dozen cars.
An advertisement extols the Rio Grande Railroad as the World's Scenic Route and the Canyon of the Grand. It quotes Cy Warman praising the canyon and invites readers to obtain tickets and rates via the line with General Agent A. W. Frizzerato of Butte, Montana for folders and pricing.
Woman or girl with little spare time can earn money by joining a simple, non hard job. Send 25 cents or a P O Money Order to Brilliant Tina Co Roxbury Mass for cloth and full directions prepaid, enabling immediate start anywhere in the United States.
A group of San Francisco business men paid 112 500 dollars in coin and stock for a treatment claimed to cure Brights Disease and Diabetes. Investigations from 1900 to 1901 reported 87 percent improvement among 95 cases, with 13 percent failures. Clinical reports and committee proceedings were published and mailed free on request to Joan Furun Company at 420 Montgomery St.
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