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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1896
Page
3
An advertisement touts French Tansy Tablets as a remedy for painful and irregular menses. Manufactured by A Augen dre in Paris and sold by D M Newbro Drugs Co in Butte Montana for $2 per box, mailed sealed.
The Salt Lake Tribune announces a new price on June 1st lowering the Semi-Weekly to 2.00 per year. The paper pledges to keep the current high standard and maintain its front rank in quality.
The Sheridan community hosted a well attended literary and musical program by local and Miss Mahaffy from the public schools. Receipts reached 30 dollars from 25 cent admissions. Sheridan precinct reported 2885 votes, shifting Madison County toward Democratic control despite its Republican image.
Special Correspondence from Pacroniy reports Mrs McKay touring Pageville to promote her ranch holdings. Mike the peddler arrives, Frank and Mrs Wilecomb visit from Laurin, surveyor Redfield arrives, snow blocks Blackfoot work, school resumes with Edith Virden teaching, Pageville boys form a brass band and organize an oyster supper for December 4 to raise funds.
Special correspondence from Sarnipan reports Will Shafer visiting Dillon to see Mrs. Bradshaw who remains hospitalized after a Nebraska railroad wreck. Mrs. Bradshaw’s condition is serious. An entertainment for Mrs. Gunn, grand recorder of the DeMolay Honor, was hosted by Myrtelodge. James G. Walker made a quick trip to the hall amid local campaign chatter with candidates from Populist and Democratic parties. The Madison election results tilt toward fusion in the legislature.
A guild fair is planned in Sheridan during the first week of December to raise funds for church indebtedness. Women in Dillon are preparing items for the fair. Regular monthly services will begin at Christchurch.
Nov 1818 report from Putuzi Springs recalls a stormy spell with heavy rain and high winds. Metzel and Hope families returned from Red Rock with cattle aboard the Metzel herd. Threshing nears completion, grain crop labeled light, B Wonderly holding top thresh. Roads praised for Madison county paving via road supervisor Ke Pendarvis. Local visits include Mrs Gallahan and Agnes Maloney in Upper Ruby. New daughter born to Mr and Mrs Wesley Thompson with Amsden of Central Ruby visiting.
The Amity Reading club gathered Saturday afternoon November 14 at Mrs Leonard’s home five miles south of town. Members read selections The Huskers and Aurora Leigh. A dainty luncheon followed hosted by Mrs Leonard. Attendees included Mesdames Newell Taylor Lott Pease Birchard Merk Comfort and Marie Lott. The club’s membership has grown from four or five to twenty two.
An old column riffs on cycling wisdom warning that pace, not distance, harms, and cautions against tinkering wheels and chasing wealth. It quips that well paid racers can lose form trying to soften gear and notes novices pay for overreactions to minor faults.
A Michigan bicycle dealer invents a home trainer and exerciser that claims to exercise hands arms legs and eyes like riding on the road. The device is about two feet wide and five feet long and weighs about 50 pounds. Beginners may fall off the home trainer as they can from a wheel on a track.
Philadelphia chief of detectives opens a dedicated bicycle theft complaint book as a system allows instant retrieval of any missing bicycle with full description. Since spring, wheel men have filed about two complaints daily, the Exchange reports.
The Troy Times argues for licensing bicycle repairers, likening them to horseshoers as experts in their trade and urging regulation to ensure competency and accountability.
In a Chicago Times-Herald piece the girls discuss candy habits after marriage. Maud reveals her husband Dick buys no candy, saying she spends his money for treats, while another bride notes who buys and who controls the sweets in marriage.
A New York Sun excerpt notes gowns will be richly trimmed with frills and embroidery. Skirts may shed plain simplicity as bodices gain elaborate sleeves. embroidery will stamp the Parisian style and raise the cost of fall frocks, with velvets and silks driving up prices.
The article notes a blend of fur types in one garment as a fashionable trend. Persian lasub chinchilla sable sealskin and moufflon top the list with lighter gear caps and boleros transforming small fur stocks. Short coats feature trimmer basques and wide revers, appealing to slender figures.
A wandering ex candidate walks toward his home as a crowd of voters shout. He imagines reunited life with his wife now remarried and his children distant while a bulldog eyes him near fence lines. The scene blends satire and rural nostalgia with old newspaper banter.
A fragment from the Somerville Journal describes a dainty four year old child as joyous and sweet with future happiness anticipated. The speaker jokes about collecting a debt or fate, implying months or years before payoff. The text preserves a light teasing voice and lacks full context.
A collage of light verse and snippets from American newspapers offers wry lines on religion, love, late nights, stage life, and a boy’s letter. The excerpts mix humor and sentiment from Yonkers, Indianapolis, Truth, Indianapolic Star, Tit-Bits, Washington Star, and Household Words.
The Boston Courier notes two concurrent killings described as anicide with one wording as blowing out pus and the other as brains blown apart, emphasizing both acts as equally brutal and by two men.
A clipped New York Press item jokes about unexpected wardrobe discoveries and personal anxiety, contrasting marital tension with a humorous boil over of the first of the month. The brief quip evokes light domestic mishap and social irony.
A brief Cleveland Leader item cites a playful exchange about affection and thought. The verse features a speaker claiming to think of a loved one wherever they go, while another remarks on what they have to think with.
A fragment from the Indianapolis Journal recalls Watson with humor about bow leggedness as friends bid a sad farewell at a shirt waist event. The note laments growing old and the crowd’s tears.
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