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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1900
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR text mentions themes of charity, reflections on life, and a note about the dowager empress planning a funeral for Baron von Ketteler, but lacks a coherent event or report to summarize.
The hopeful for Atlanta mayor is described as belonging to the old school of Southern chivalry and noted for a steady character. The remark adds he does not repeatedly indulge in drinking, framing his conduct as restrained and traditional.
A colossal dockyard will be built at Antwerp to handle the port’s growing shipping trade. When finished it will span at least sixty seven acres and has the backing of several leading German shipping owners.
The Houston Post notes a strange calm as buzzards, the countryside scavengers, are absent amid the Galveston disaster leaving bodies unburied. Paris introduces oil street lamps with 1,000 candle power lighting along the Tuillerie gardens and the Seine near Gare d Orleans.
A fifth century B C statue of Apollo has been found near Athens and is described as in excellent preservation. The figure is larger and finer crafted than the famous Munnich museum statue, giving it strong claims to top rank in ancient sculpture.
An educational society in Manila sent three Filipino youths to Ann Arbor for schooling. They have learned to like apples and pumpkin pies but disapprove of irregular plural forms. The youngest, eleven, wishes to see snow and ice, a novelty he has heard much about. The youths resemble other boys in these ways.
A 880 pound cannon gifted to a Grand Army post in Attleboro Massachusetts years ago was stolen from its granite shaft monument. Parts have been recovered from a junk dealer who bought the same after the theft. Much of the metal has already been melted and recast into various castings.
The Alps spill rivers that form blue lakes and now supply electric power. The Adda at Paderno already yields 13,000 horsepower and work on the Ticino below Lake Maggiore aims for 12,000 horsepower for Lombardy towns. Milan had been the target, but neighboring towns have claimed the energy.
David R Hosterman of Springfield and Mary Herpst of Oil City are mentioned as having married long ago. The fragment notes a past wedding, highlighting Herpst as the bride. The item preserves a brief social notice style from a local paper.
Mard Coady Mantue recounts the perilous five year effort to raise the Tilamoall Ligthouse at Minot’s Ledge. The piece highlights the danger faced by workers and the scientific and maritime significance of the beacon.
A review of offshore lighthouse construction and peril highlights Capt. Alexander’s 1855 Minot's Lodge effort near Boston and the Tillamook project in Oregon. Workers faced waves, wrecks, cold, tides, and polar winds while setting coffer dam stones and steel platforms. The Tillamook site saw drownings and sea lion threats, yet crews persisted to complete the beacon on a cliff above the Columbia.
The piece argues gardening relieves business stress and insomnia, citing Lord Penzance and Meehan's Monthly as examples. It praises leaving city pressures for garden life, noting the therapeutic value of cultivating flowers and sweet briar varieties for both pleasure and fame.
By the duke's death the English pension list will be eased by 20000 dollars a year. The sum includes two separate pensions granted to the Iron Duke. One pension of 10000 dollars yearly was for the brilliant victory at Talavera. The other 10000 dollars was granted in 1812 on his advancement to an earldom.
Experts report a remarkable discovery near the Ocklockonnee river Florida a pure fuller's earth vein of immense yield. The deposit claims 100 tests of purity and is said to be free of common mine materials like rock mint gravel and sand, unlike typical mines.
The article explains waterspouts form as whirlwinds from clouds and may descend to sea or land. It notes beliefs that cannon fire can destroy spouts or cyclones by air concussion. Discussions in western towns consider placing guns to fire shells at approaching storms, but no action has been taken.
Europe buys vast lobster cargoes from Halifax as demand soars while supply remains tight. Prices have doubled from 10 cents to about 20 cents per pound, with most live stock dying en route to Europe and canning filling export needs. Portland lobsters dominate New York consumption amid scarce stock and ongoing government size restrictions.
A reader asks what is good to extinguish a fire and notes a closed fund covering the extinguisher price. The message urges quick action and mentions money being set aside for the purchase.
Santa Teresa, revered by the Yaqui Indians for supposed ties to tribal uprisings, is now in San Francisco. The Yaquis face eviction from their homes in a rugged Mexican region, while her influence remains prominent in Sonora and the United States.
A Boston merchant who grew rich isolated himself in a private asylum to chase gold coin rituals for twelve years then returned to wealth, dying of yellow fever in Cuba. The tale contrasts similar obsessions with George Augustus Sala a London journalist and Paganini who both revel in gold. It cites Soulle and a French novel as further examples of money mania.
A collection of 19th century snippets argues poverty can spur industry and healthful discipline, crediting hope as essential. others report lightning caused cattle deaths prompting ground-wire safety proposals. a Chicago vitrified clay church is praised for architectural ingenuity with brick ceiling and no timber use.
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