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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1897
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR reads ad rates and mail correspondence notes. Mentions Eprrok TarBUNE and P Fisher San Francisco as advertising agent with 21 Merchants' Exchange. References to mailing to sarget department and San Francisco office details are garbled.
Dito Montana on May 14 1897 notes a harsh view of the new Dingley tariff bill sixty three pages long while Greeks are blamed for defeats and Turkish Greek war actions fade into history. Dillon reports a stronger city treasury a fair stock drive the Dillon schools appoint Miss Millie Coffin as assistant principal and local coal petroleum natural gas and other mineral values are tallied. A Butte Bystander pamphlet titled The Story of Butte is praised for its thorough historical sketches priced at 50 cents.
The article argues for affordable housing for 40 to 60 nonresident students at the new state normal school. It urges local citizens and property owners to provide room and board, notes hotels as a possible solution, and stresses public support as essential to the school’s early success. It ends with a humorous aside from the Indianapolis Journal excerpt.
A column mixes medical quackery with travel notes and trivia. It jokes about a 105 degree refrigerator cure for dyspepsia, cites dangerous sea routes off the English coast and around France and Spain, highlights Corsican head porter customs, and notes India’s prison rate relative to Britain. The piece also advertises cheap 1000 mile book tickets by the Oregon Short Line and endorses Hall’s Catarrh Cure with boilerplate testimonial language.
The article notes over 10 000 tandem riders in New York City and reports a Pennsylvania bill taxing bicycles at one dollar failing. It cites sea water harming rubber, cautions against riding on salted roads, and mentions a Detroit high school bicycle room for at least 300 bicycles. The piece also trends toward Arab bicycle sales and a court fine for a Wilmington tandem rider. An English doctor argues low gear wheels are safer than high gear due to heart strain differences.
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