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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1898
Page
8
The New York hit Yon Yonson will play Cochran's Opera House on December 5. Missoula was canceled to allow a Dillon performance with a large guarantee from Mr. Cochran. Tickets cost 1.25 1.00 and 0.75 with sales starting December 1 and seats expected to sell out.
Manager W H Cochran brings the Gerome Helmont Company to Dillon for Dec 12 with violinist Gerome Helmont pianist Miss Lil lian Apoll and contralto Miss Grace Preston. Reserved seats $1 and gallery 75c. Tennessee's Pardner runs Dec 14 at Cochran Opera House. strong local advance report from St Paul Dispatch.
President Sanders spends the week in Virginia City for the Madison county institute. Miss Rodgere attends the Deer Lodge county institute. Edna Squires hosted several Normal students Friday evening. Braydeen Murphy Brough join from Marysville Fort Benton. Thanksgiving travel affects Dillon students. Mr. Hazelbaker arrives from Kansas. Model class split into two sections to train more teachers. No school Thursday or Friday.
Dr. D B Cargile of Washita I T reports four bottles cured Mrs Brewer of scrofula after years of suffering with sores on head and face. Ad claims Electric Bitters cleanses blood and heals eczema tetter and ulcers. Promotes liver kidney and bowel function and digestion. Priced at 50 cents and sold by Central Pharmacy.
In Galveston a party used a new one dollar typewriter to summon champagne but the bellboy brought plain water with ice after they pretended to order champagne. The gag grew heated as they demanded proper hydration with ice to quell imagined thirst.
The New York Sun article discusses how cargo shifts during transport on ships and road vehicles. It uses examples of boxes tilting on trucks and explains methods to secure and rearrange loads to prevent accidents and ensure delivery.
A young businesswoman shows off a strong iron-banded divan from a boarded woman who inherited wealth after her grandfather died in Florida. The coffin-well box was repurposed as a couch, illustrating practical reuse in a curious anecdote from Washington Fost.
The importation of marble to the United States has nearly ceased with few cargos per port. In past years a fleet of sailing vessels brought Italian Cararra marble to Philadelphia for buildings and monuments. Granite has replaced marble in cemeteries and monuments, requires less cleaning, and polishes well without rust marks from metal contact.
A fragment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer records a tense moment as one person resists fleeing a fire, insisting the crowded escape route and oversized shoes prevent a safe descent. The dialogue captures panic and urgency amid a deadly stairway rush.
A doctor accuses a patient of not following orders to take pills every two hours. The patient insists he did follow instructions, but only 11 pills remain. The dialogue highlights a mix up in timing and the patient’s insistence that taking the first pill would be a waste and time consuming.
A night patrolman visits a bank after noticing a light and drinks with a slick clerk who later surrenders $50,000 of funds. The tale shifts to a battlefield scene where a narrator recalls brutal infantry actions, heavy casualties, and the cost of glory amid cannon and grape fire.
The note asserts Goldsmith in The Deserted Village misplaces the Altamaha line to Georgia. It argues the Altamaha mouth lies above 31 degrees latitude, not torrid, and disputes tigers in Georgia. rattlesnakes and scorpions exist, but not predatory tigers as the poem suggests.
A curious Arctic phenomenon appears in northwest Canada when thawing begins. Millions of tiny black insects emerge from dry winter snow, forming soot like patches and hopping three to four inches. They vanish again when freezing returns, not seen for months, possibly linked to red snow in the Arctic.
A narrator recalls hearing a savage exchange behind a hotel on a side street where a small black man threatens violence saying he will strike twice and demonstrate with a forceful warning. The account is attributed to the Den ver Post.
Mr F compliments a wife’s liquid voice to Mr T who explains the nickname suits it as it "never dries up." The quick exchange reflects witty banter quoted in London Fun.
During the siege of Paris 22,000,000 letters sailed from the city in 54 balloons dispatched between September 19, 1870 and January 28, 1871. A dramatic exchange features a man vow to go to the world’s end for love and a cold reply suggesting a leap.
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