Montana News Roundup Highlights Markets and Politics
Silver dips to 91 cents per ounce in New York. Montana plans a state milestone with a quarter and half centennial. Wool shipment from Billings heads to Boston. Prosecution of Montana doctors under medical practice law begins in Butte. New York Presbyterian Assembly rejects Prohibition sympathies. Montana Idaho Washington and Dakotas poised as states by July 1880. Berlin reports friction in Samoa Congress and Samoa indemnity dispute. Butte Miner praised for accuracy in reporting. A Butte suburb birth reports three babies, two girls and a boy, weighing up to forty pounds collectively.
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Butte
Edison Promotes Electric Rail Power To Ten MPH
Tom A Edison asserts electricity will be the main motive power for all railroads, proposing stationary dynamos along the line and power sent to locomotives via wires in the rails to drive trains at ten miles per hour.
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Tom A. Edison
Chicago Boars Trade annual report highlights large city volumes
The 209 page nok form report from the Chicago Board of Trade claims Chicago's past year manufacturing value at 4.62 billion and wholesale trade at 455 million. Beef and mutton trade exceeds 150 million, flour and grain receipts reach 18 million, lumber at 2,067,090 feet, coal at 517,350 tons. City population listed as 902,000, Illinois state population 3,077,871.
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Chicago
Helena
Montana
Board of Trade
State of
Illinois
ExGovernor Crosby Entangled in Washington Tailor Dispute
The column recounts ex governor John Schuyler Crosby of Montana accused in a libel case involving Russell B. Harrison, and now tied to a Washington tailor named John Thompson over a long standing bill for clothing and diamonds. The tale ties Crosby to alleged lavish spending to impress a widow while in Washington.
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Binceia
John Schuyler Crosby
Montana
Repubican Party
John Schuyler
John
Washington
United States
John Schuster
John S
Schuyler
J. Schuster
J. Schuster Crosby
Russell B. Harrison
John Thompson
Washington City
Thompson
Crosby
Helena Favors Permanent Capital for Montana
Sualing e voices strong in Helena argue the capital should remain in Helena with a constitutional clause fixing it as the permanent seat. They contend the earlier capital removal pledge was temporary and deny any intent to move the capital to Lewistown or Clarke county.
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Helena
Sheol
Montana
United States
Lewie
Clarke County
Meeting of the Press Gang in Missoula
The Innocents of the Montana Press Association begin their annual meeting in Missoula on Thursday June 11. The program will be issued soon. The group consists of married men with two bachelor members remaining unattached and proud. Wives are expected to attend, and the gathering is described as lively and camp meeting like.
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Innocents
Montana Press Association
Missoula
Press Gang
Prohibitionine Iowa sales rise under license surge
An Internal Revenue officer in Iowa says prohibitory legislation has increased liquor sales. Webbster the Internal Revenue Collector notes he issued 232 more liquor licenses this year than last, a fact drawing attention in temperance circles about enforcement outcomes.
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Internal Revenue
Iowa
Webster
Fragmentary OCR History Note on Seals and Banks
An unclear OCR fragment mentions US Seals securing beings or higher aspects, with scattered names and places. The text references Daan, Drecuate, Oserdrifts, Nathe, Binks Droe, Staite Banks, Montenals, and Joseph in a garbled sequence with no coherent narrative or dates. It reads like a broken historical note or montage with unidentified entities and actions.
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Beri
Doe
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