Beaverhead County Horse Sale Advises Early Disposal
C A Smits urges Beaverhead county ranchers to sell surplus horses as market balance shifts and prices fall. He notes Canada and northern railroads create a spring market, recommends feeding alfalfa, ample water, salt with sulfur, and straw bedding to produce hardier, better selling horses for the last Thursday in February sale.
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Canada
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Canadian Pacific
Montana
United States
Beaverhead
Beaverhead County
Lifting the Air About Doughnut Label Rule
A traveling salesman chats with F C McFadden of the Dillon bakery about the pure food law. McFadden says his bakery uses the best materials and complies, while the inspector rule requires labeling the hole in each doughnut to guarantee pure air passes through.
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F. C. McFadden
Dillon Bakery
Mr. McFadden
McFadden
Wallpaper question at the Post Office book store
A customer asks if he can hang wallpaper himself. E. M. Yearen responds that it would look better on the wall, implying professional installation is preferred.
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Post Office
E. M. Yearen
Bargain Ribbons Spark Line Buck For Ten Yards
A Normal student asks about Eliel Bros sale and an athletic roommate boasts bucking the line for ten yards. The exchange captures campus humor as shoppers seek deals at a local sale event.
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Eliel Bros’ Sale
Butte Promoter Seeks A Press Agent In Mining Deal
A Butte visitor recalled a promoter seeking a press agent to write a persuasive prospectus for a mining proposition. The applicant claimed top credentials, boasting fifteen published fairy tale volumes and editing a new edition of Arabian Nights.
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Butte
the Meden
Local youths wait out cold night at cinema
Two small boys stand outside a neighborhood picture show on a freezing Saturday night. One shivers and the other jokes that he will need warmth next summer.
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Edah
Secret travels prompt cautious advice at post office
Two ladies met at the post office. One accused the other of telling Mrs. Grouch a secret. The other replied that Mrs. Grouch is unwell and needs exercise, implying the rumor would push her to move about town.
Naughty pupil's after school note sparks cheeky reply
A Dillon public school pupil was kept after class by a teacher who wrote a corrective note. The boy replied with a wry note claiming to keep engagements with the ladies and stating he would be at the tristing place at 4 p m.
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Dillon Public School
Tristing Place
Tea guest jokes about organ recital at women’s lunch
The man about town recounts a scene where eight or nine women discuss illnesses such as angina pectoris tuberculosis adenoids and tonsillitis at a luncheon. A guest quips that he felt invited to a tea not an organ recital.
Hat Pin Incident Sparks Wit at Local Theatre
Two Dillon youths leaving a picture house were struck by a hat pin wielded by a young woman turning her head. The injured man joked that Lucrezia Borgia would wear poisoned hat pins if she lived today.
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Dillon
Lucrecia Borgia
Old Car Quip Shows Vintage Model Jokes
A light exchange about cars travels from 1912 to 1913 models. The owner jokes his worn machine is a 1911 model, highlighting how time and use label the aging vehicle.
For Sale Birds in Dillon
Classified notice offers birds for sale with contact at 137 No. Pacific St Dillon. Listing code 38-tE indicates internal ad reference.
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Pacific St
Dillon
First Woman Jury in Los Angeles Fails to Agree
A Los Angeles jury of women could not reach any agreement including where to dine and was discharged. The brief item notes the unique panel's lack of consensus amid a string of other world and national notes from San Francisco and beyond.
Passing of the Montana Pioneers Captain William Sims
Helena Independent reports the death of William Sims 70 a Montana pioneer who came to Helena in the 1860s after Civil War service. Born 1841 New York he rose from private to captain in the 184th Ohio infantry and served as Helena city marshal in 1886 and 1891. Survived by wife and son in Chicago.
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William Sims
Helena
William Simms
Montana
Quicy
South Main Street
Sims
Billy
New York
Ohio
One Hundred and Ninety-fourth
Ohio Infantry
T. H. Kleinschmidt
Kleinschmidt
Rocky Mountain Club
Parden's
Cosmopolitan Hotel
Butte
Silver Bow Club
Chicago
Pioneer miner William Comber dies in Phillipsburg at 87
William Comber a Western Montana pioneer and longtime Phillipsburg resident died Sunday morning at his home at California and Granite Streets after a brief illness. Born in Oren Moore Ireland he came to the United States as a young man later mining in California Nevada and Montana. He arrived in Phillipsburg in 1877 and is mourned by partner Thomas F Hynes who recalled him as an honest man and the first partner in the camp.
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Martin William Comber
Montana
California and
Granite Sts
Mr. Comber
Oren Moore
County Galway
Ireland
Boston
Salem
Mass
California
Virginia City
Nevada
Pioneer
Beartown
Emmetsburg
Henderson Gulch
Mr. Hynes
Pioneer Anaconda Resident William Parrott Dies in Williamsburg
Anaconda resident and pioneer William Parrott died yesterday in Williamsburg while visiting his daughter Mrs Hudson. He was 76, with heart trouble and general infirmity. Survived by Mrs Parrott and two daughters Mrs Hudson of Williamsburg and Mrs Harry Ford of Anaconda. Interment in Gregson Cemetery.
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Hudson
Williamsburg
Harry Ford
Anaconda
Gregson Cemetery
Pioneer Joseph Choiniere Dies at 71 in Quebec
Butte man Oliver Choiniere learns of his father Joseph Choiniere’s death at Northstanbridge Quebec at 71. A Montana pioneer who crossed the plains in 1864 and roamed Nevada and the Black Hills his life story reads like a frontier romance. Survived by eight sons eight total in the west include Oliver of Butte and S Choiniere of Melrose with others in Connecticut.
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Oliver Choiniere
Joseph
Montana
Northstanbridge
Quebec
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Choiniere
Plains
Nevada
Black Hills
West
Choineire
Oliver
S. Choiniere
Melrose
Connecticut
Substitutes Are Dangerous Substitutes Are Dangerous
A remedy long before the public for over fifty years, prescribed by top doctors and used in leading hospitals, has brought health to thousands of homes. Imitations of Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey are inevitable as strong popularity grows.
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Duffy
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey Promoted as Medicine
An aged advertisement touts Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as beneficial for throat lung and stomach ailments and general wasting. It notes government taxation as a medicine during the Spanish American War, insists on sealed genuine bottles, and warns to check the engraved seal over the cork. Sold by druggists grocers and dealers, or direct from The Duffy Salt Whiskey Co Rochester N Y.
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Duffy
Duffy Salt Whiskey Co
Rochester
Immense Swing Span Bridge Under Construction in Sacramento
The Southern Pacific is building a steel bridge over the Sacramento River with the world’s heaviest swing span at 400 feet and an estimated total weight over 10 million pounds. It surpasses other spans in length and weight, joining double tracking, a wagon road, and automobile access on concrete piers. The American Bridge Company fabricates the steel, noting no heavier swing-span records.
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Sacramento
California
Southern Pacific Company
Sacramento River
Willamette River
Portland
Seattle
Omaha Terminal Company
Missouri River
Southern Pacific
Harriman
American Bridge Company
Southern Pacific Builds Steel Structure with Pneumatic Piers
Piers for the structure were sunk by a pneumatic process under direction of Southern Pacific engineers. Abutment construction and erection of all steel superstructure are being carried out by the company’s engineering forces.
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Southern Pacific Engineers
Mark Twain Home Preserved in Hannibal
The birthplace of Mark Twain has been preserved and given to Hannibal Missouri for future readers. The simple frame house built by his father in 1839 sits as a reminder of Sam Clemens and the characters Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. The site offers a backdrop to the free democratic life of the Mississippi Valley before the Civil War.
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Mark Twain
Hanni- Hannibal
Sam Clemens
Tom Sawyer
Huck Finn
Tom
Huck
Mississippi Valley
Mandel Bros. founder Leon Mandel dies at Chicago firm
Leon Mandel of Mandel Bros. Chicago died at age unknown. He led the firm founded in 1871, with Mandel serving as its president.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Leon Mandel
Mandel Bros
Chicago
Bishop Holmes Discovers New Eskimo Tribe in Mackenzie River Region
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Holmes bishop of Athabaska reports a previously unknown Eskimo tribe numbering about 1,000, discovered after his voyage down the Great Mackenzie river. They hunt with bow and arrow and use stone tools.
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Winnipeg
Holmes
Athabaska
Mackenzie River
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