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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1904
Page
6
An amused piece offers humorous tips for handling a Thanksgiving carving scene. It warns against table mishaps and suggests evasive actions if the turkey proves tough or slips, including keeping calm, avoiding family targets, and joking about the dish while shielding oneself from blame.
The Indians of the southwest have accepted Thanksgiving day with white neighbors yet adapted it to their ways. Government agents on Oklahoma and Indian Territory reservations set Thanksgiving for the great beef feasts and annuity payments, giving cause for gratitude and a chance to demonstrate it in traditional fashion. One might travel a reservation on Thanksgiving day without seeing an occupied tepee.
In a gathering camp the agent signals Boone to join the herd grazing hillside. Blue men hold executive sessions as squaws and children race in glee. Indians dance and chant as hunters prepare then chase the herd with rifles. A battlelike chase ends with warriors returning, singing and sharing spoils while medicine men bless the feast.
A nostalgic piece by Earl Marble recalls farm memories of Thanksgiving as a sacred homely day. It reflects on family presence, feasts from turkey to pumpkin, and the joy of shared conversation that defines the holiday across generations.
Cheyenne Wyoming November 14 a dead end collision near Granger six miles east at Azusa siding leaves fourteen dead with two or three missing and four seriously hurt. The freight crew misread orders and property loss is about 100000.
A northbound Wabash passenger train left the rails on a sharp curve near the Mis sissippi bridge in North St Louis. Fourteen were injured including engineer Joseph Haines and fireman J D Llewellyn both fatally burned. The tender jumped the track. carriages toppled. A second dispatch reports Adolph Weber under arrest for family murder and arson. Roosevelt to visit St Louis. massive protection planned with plainclothes officers and federal guards.
Elmer Breeper the night clerk at the Columbia hotel in Spokane Washington was found suffocated in his room from gas released through an uncapped pipe. His father resided in Albion Michigan.
Nicholas White a 70 year old farmer living near Halts Station near St Joseph Missouri suffocated in a bog along the river while intoxicated and mired in soft marsh near the terminal tracks.
Colonel D. R. Anthony editor of the Leavenworth Times and brother of Susan B. Anthony died this morning in Leavenworth of heart disease at age eighty. A veteran journalist and noted abolitionist sister, Miss Susan B. Anthony, is mentioned as his sibling.
The World’s fair balloon ascent from the aeronautic concourse tested wireless message reception. Over twenty messages were transmitted from the wireless tower and received by the aerial craft, proving altitude and distance accuracy. Pilot Paul Knabenshue, with A W McQueen and W S Foreman, completed a hour and a half flight and landed four miles southwest of the concourse.
The Reed Smoot Mormon inquiry stalled as a Senate committee sub panel cancels plans to travel to Utah. In Chicago, Senator Dubois remains active with the prosecution while Chairman Burrows cites difficulties assembling members. Testimony gathering before Congress next month appears likely to end.
In Missouri for president and governor the Globe Democrat reports a Republican plurality of 30,028 for the national ticket, while the Republic cites 15,572 for Roosevelt. Both papers agree Folk leads in the gubernatorial race with about 29,956 to Folk's favor per one tally.
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