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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1896
Page
4
Official Beaverhead County paper outlines subscription rates prepaid in advance for one year six months and three months. Advertising, notices, and job printing orders should be sent to Tribune Publishing Co. Editorial correspondence goes to Editor Tribune. Entry filed as second class mail at Dillon post office.
Fisher, a newspaper advertising agent at 21 Merchants' Exchange in San Francisco, is named as the authorized agent. The paper is kept on file in his office and at E C Dake's Advertising Agency for advertising contracts at 64 and 65 Merchants Exchange, San Francisco California.
Dillon letters discuss preparations for a worthy Fourth of July celebration amid a country plagued by deadly cyclones. The piece notes a fatal St Louis tornado, a criminal case involving Rev Francis Hermans, Cree Indians near Great Falls, populist convention plans, and literary notices from Bret Harte and Jerome K Jerome.
Crowned rulers and notable aristocrats are profiled in a column noting King George of Greece’s interest in visiting a country, Emperor Menelek I of Abyssinia’s remarks about an English reporter, Leo XII as Catholicism’s oldest bishop, and the Kaiser’s famed dress sense aided by his wife’s keen eye for fashion.
The Newport track offers daily prizes totaling 1800 dollars. Horses change hands with Ole Hutch sold to J Lang of Buffalo, and Loumont bought by Liverpool’s William Craft. Minnie Patchen, a brood mare, sired foals including Minnie, and other horses like Sharp as Blazes were injured, halting training.
Harry B. Smith and Ludwig Englander will supply Francis Wilson with his next comic opera. Hetty Green’s son may own the Della Fox Opera company next season. Henry K. Dixey says he has had enough starring for a long time. The Caliph was written for Thomas Q. Sea brooke. Milnes Levick will accept special engagements around New York. Abbey Schoeffel Grau’s Metropolitan reportedly underperformed. Americans patronize Henry Irving. Paulus the ranch Chevalier plans a U S visit again. A. Q. Scammmon to present six attractions on the road. Verence Rockwell re-engaged with James L. Neill. Miss Rockwell is 17. Henry Miller seeks a comedy sentimental star vehicle for October. Leonard Layne may tour America with Julia Arthur as leading lady. Frohman says there was no better opportunity for young playwrights to write and be produced.
The piece notes 1,300,000 Irish in Australia and higher unemployment in New Zealand than Ireland or Scotland. It mentions Ross district gold miners growing tobacco, long English advertisements for missing friends, and a hobby of collecting matchbox labels with thousands of trade marks. It cites 72,245,295 coins minted last year with values for gold, silver, and bronze coins. It also lists 197 New Zealand newspapers with publication frequencies from daily to monthly.
An Irish paper quotes a correspondent on receipt acknowledgement with a mock posture. The London Globe recalls a Bank of Singland order barring mustaches in offices. Miscel lanea notes a turnip grown in Waidan with a bus like a human head. An English cleric questions antiquity of great cities. Calcutta reports a snake humor about two pythons where one eats the other.
A collection of remarks on ancient Greek games and modern echoes from American writers. The piece references Homeric praise for Greek athletic feats and Western misreadings, noting a 1500 year abolition of the Olympic games and a playful contrast with current sports.
Crockery and Glass Journal highlights white china for amateurs, Bohemian gold embellished vases, Egyptian shaped art pieces, cut glass decanters, Delft decorated sets, and new silk lamp shades. Also notes Hall's Catarrh Cure ads and testimonials from Toledo druggists West Truax Walding Kinman Mangtn.
The article counsels husbands to be patient and kind to their wives during trials, advising a cheerful demeanor and tender looks. It promotes keeping Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at home and notes it is sold at N. M. White Drug Store.
Inventors both with and without patents are urged to mail their names and addresses to the editor. Rag carpets woven in a first class manner by Mrs. D. J. Kenney, opposite Anderson's livery stable, Dillon, Moat.
June 9 special rates announced for Bozeman K P meeting. One and one fifth fare under the certificate plan. Date of sale set for June 7 and 8. 20 4
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