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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1896
Page
3
An advertisement touts a Paris manufactured remedy for painful and irregular menses. The tablets claim to remove all obstructions and are sold by D. M. Newbro Drug Co., Butte Montana, at $2 per box with mail delivery.
The Salt Lake Tribune announces a reduced rate of 2.00 per year after June 1 1896 and sets the Semi-Weekly price at 2.90 per year starting June 1 while promising to maintain the high standard and keep the edition in the front rank.
Pageville residents welcome Rev Cruger and family while gatherings at Centerville promise political and social interest. State land and local officials discuss timing for timber valuation and justice posts as community prepares for a fall festival and a county election aftermath.
Special correspondence notes Mundison County swung Democratic in the recent election. Republicans may keep only three offices: treasurer county attorney and recorder. Fusion candidate James G Walker for district court clerk drew the largest majority in the precinct history with 191 votes, while totals for other offices show Democrats ahead overall and Beaverhead reportedly flipping.
The passage surveys varied figures from history and regions. It notes Joseph D. Jones as a 99 year old voter in Boston, Chauncey Depew’s 1884 oratory, and Prince Lobanoff’s silver horse shed. It mentions M Casimir Perier’s dinner appearance, Gov candidate W H Ellerbe’s large family, and several other biographical snippets.
A note lists Mark Twain at work on a new world tour volume. It mentions W. Lewis Traser of Century Magazine, Carl y le praised for manners, Louise Imogene Guiney and Stephen Crane gaining popularity in France, and Pavia de Chavannes’ panels for the Boston Public Library displayed in Paris.
Ex Empress Eugenie bathes in milk each morning while Siamese princes study in England. The Prince of Wales has often had private fortunetelling. The Russian dowager empress drives a troika with three horses. The Duke of York speaks with a German accent. Only three Indian rulers receive 21 gun salutes: Baroda Mysore and Haidarabad. Queen Victoria’s health confines her to a wheeled chair at events.
A fragment from the Atchison Globe presents humorous maxims on love and marriage. It notes people often misjudge themselves and warns against implying a woman's unattractiveness. It also mocks the habit of teachers correcting grammar in personal letters.
Feature sketch of Antone the Firstborn a self styled seer of Petaluma Creek living aboard a sinister black boat bearing a skull when visiting nearby bay settlements. He charges ten cents to sixty cents for horoscopes claiming 10 000 years of legitimacy while describing himself as the firstborn with powers that outstrip electricity.
London truth rails at the harsh discipline handed to a boy named Kavanagh of Blenheim who struck Commander Currey after receiving 12 birch strokes. The court martial sentenced him to 24 more strokes, 12 months hard labor, and dismissal, provoking condemnation of “discipling” as vindictive and backward.
The Daily Courant editor avoided commentary while Henry Bate of the Morning Post issued sharp jabs that stirred coffeehouse amusement and peril. Captain Stoney demanded satisfaction for a personal paragraph, choosing a duel over a horsewhipping. The men met at Adelphi tavern in the Strand, closed the door.
A man reads a note aloud twice and calls it moving literature, while his wife asks if it is for aid. The punchline reveals the note is actually a rent increase from the landlord, as reported by London Fun.
A London hospital recalls a visiting surgeon who, during a cancer operation ten years ago, halted a life threatening artery bleed with a forefinger cut. His grip delayed the knife until ligature could stop the blood, saving months of the patient’s life but exposing him to cancer poison and leaving him gravely ill for weeks.
A passenger on a Buffalo bound train is rumored to be worth 20 million dollars. The porter confirms the story, noting the man is in a different car and cannot be verified until morning as passengers trade coins and questions spark curiosity.
The Minneapolis Penny Press proclaims itself the only Twin Cities party paper backing free coinage of silver and defending people's rights with full telegraphic reports and markets. Annual subscription offer includes Dillon Thevne at four dollars for both papers. sample copies available.
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