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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1896
Page
7
An irate customer bursts into a Clark Street tailor shop and slams a bundle on the proprietor claiming a suit ordered recently fails the Perfect Fit Guarantee. The tailor coolly retorts that hysterics are the best possible result from the $30 garment.
A Chicago Tribune note recalls Da Benyon regaining sight after ten years of blindness when bandages were removed. He tears up and instinctively reaches for the bandages, his first focus a girl in bloomers.
A distressed speaker confesses a father’s business failure, trembling as the inevitable avowal surfaces. The moment pivots on the daughter’s shift from poverty to supposed wealth, exposing a strained domestic dream of joy turned to hardship.
A tiny silver skirt dancer, a novelty scarfpin, caused a stir when a passerby activated it in a Sixth Avenue car. An old lady began to scold the youth before realizing the figure’s lifelike kicking motion. The device uses a pneumatic system with a concealed rubber tube to animate the dancer.
The report recalls another public sale of enslaved people at Safi, a major coastal trading center. Sold items include a young woman for 76 dollars and a mother with a child for 58 dollars, with other ages and sexes auctioned. locals condemn the practice as a disgrace to civilization as vendors promise to return with better stock. The write up notes European disapproval and press criticism from the Tangier Dispatch, while adjacent notices praise Delftware and miniature metal curios for collectors.
The Cripple Creek and Central Consolidated Gold Mining Company president Frank B. Arbuckle was found unconscious on a New York sidewalk and died en route to a station. Money watch and jewelry missing, robbery and murder theory pursued as detectives trace his movements from the Atlantic Casino to the St. Charles hotel and a northbound elevated line. Four men were charged with involvement and held for Monday’s court appearance.
In Cincinnati and across the country the Hebrew community reacts to President Cleveland's Thanksgiving proclamation, arguing it excludes their observance and prompts critical interviews with Rabbi Isaac M Wise and other rabbis. Separately a Leadville report denies a sympathetic miners strike. Colorado National Guard numbers and costs are detailed.
Late humorist Bill Nye and magician Herrmann met by chance in an Ohio town. At a hotel table Nye joked about losing diamonds as Herrmann lifted a ring from a lettuce leaf. Nye then handed Herrmann's ring to a waitress as a "memory," leaving the magician to reclaim it hours later.
A cordial Georgia race ends in a violent confrontation as one winner, immobilized by a sprain, is thrown from a window after the other candidate declares victory. The incident follows a heated exchange over votes amid crowding accusations of corporate influence and coercion.
The fragment quotes a man claiming thieves in city hall and a woman blaming voters who helped elect them. The dialogue notes tensions between accountability and political fault lines, reflecting urban corruption satire and public distrust in governance.
The New York Herald quotes a optimistic view on china business prospects. The discussion cites a plan to provide a new cook with every unit, signaling upbeat commerce expectations and expanded service commitments.
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