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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1901
Page
5
A Dillon Tribune page lists church festival ads and rates, obituaries, and notices. It also comments on local politics, Decoration Day plans, Cuba US relations, stock market moves, labor value claims, and gambling law enforcement with editorials criticizing officials and urging adherence to laws.
The report calls ex governor Hogg of Texas immensely wealthy due to supposed connections with the New York Star and newspaper advertising. It urges inquiries to Attorney General Donivan about liquor sales and mentions beet sugar ventures at the Daly estate and Senator Clark sending beet seed from Germany to Clark's Fork, framing beet rivalry as beneficial.
A tobacco dealer cites a well known merchant who, after a period of using a cheap cut plug and a pipe, finds the smell of cut plug now sickening. He notes professional tobacco samplers also take weeks off to reset their senses.
The article explains how Manihot utilissima cassava tubers weighing 10 to 25 pounds are harvested peeled and pulped then washed until fibres pass through a fine sieve. The resulting flour is sun bleached on mats and rolled into crude frames to form moist granules. It is dried in sun and over fire before sale.
William Mestayer recalls a Frisco Julius Caesar night at Baldwin's where Edwin Booth, playing Brutus, could not hold in laughter as Charley Bishop and he, two fat citizens, shook Caesar's hand after the line Let me have men about me that are fat causing Booth to laugh openly.
A suitor declares intent to marry and take the daughter away, prompting the father to react to the crowdedness before approving, as narrated in a Boston Transcript item.
An advertisement offers a $100 reward for any case of catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It cites F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo as owners and lists endorsements from druggists West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin. The cure is claimed to act on the blood. pills also advertised.
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