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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1900
Page
7
Dillon merchants push holiday bargains and stock a variety of goods while notices highlight services and sales. Attor ney Barbour travels to Butte. Rev Hooker to hold a Thanksgiving service. local firms promote cigars, toning baths, cough remedies, and medical tonics.
A 410 carat diamond found by a slave in 1701 was sold to a merchant for about £1,000 before the finder’s remorse led to suicide. Mr. Pitt, Fort St. George governor and William Pitt’s great grandfather, acquired it for £20,000, sent it to London for a £6,000 cut that took two years, then sold it to Duc d Orleans for £185,000 amid accusations of foul play and fear of theft.
A Washington Star account recalls prospectors in the northwest who habitually carried morphine to end themselves after a fatal accident. The piece notes the grim logic of self‑preservation. a life of danger in rough terrain drives the practice. The narrator admits initial shock but adopts the habit after near escapes.
A man named Bill uses his skill with horses and people to charm a passing pedestrian. Friends note his talent in horseflesh judgment and human nature as he quickly persuades a rider into his trotting rig. The episode unfolds on Riverside drive with admiring onlookers.
The aged John Lewis, BR A, recalls a long overseas absence in India and Egypt lasting about eighteen years. On returning to his mother's Portland place home he eagerly searched the parlor fender for his slippers, asking his mother where they had been left when he departed.
Crowds gathered around the Hotel Berbe and on the boulevard as Mr. Kruger made brief balcony appearances. Police formed a cordon and Republican guards arrived. Ant-British shouts were dispersed. foreign officials left cards at the hotel. He is expected to stay in Paris until Thursday and may travel to Holland afterward.
The article reports Mr Kruger’s triumphant tour through Marseilles to Dijon. In Dijon he addressed crowds praising liberty and denouncing the war, urging arbitration and expressing belief Europe will reveal truths about the conflict. He warned of Boer suffering and vowed to fight to the end.
Chicago Nov 26 The national irrigation congress adjourned with a program for vigorous legislation next year and a new president Thomas F Walsh who vows daily work by members to secure government aid for irrigation Aims include reclamation of arid America forest preservation and construction of water storage reservoirs for flood control navigation and irrigation A field day is set for Colorado Springs next July while the annual convention will meet in Buffalo in October.
Quebec reports a rescue party found only one body, Miss Page, after searching Boule Island for survivors of the St Olaf wreck. Seafaring men believe 26 passengers perished from cold and hunger during the night of the disaster. A second search is planned for more bodies buried under three feet of snow.
Chicago November 20. W H Moore president of the national good roads and improvement convention appointed a committee to visit Washington and urge a 150000 appropriation for the road inquiry office. Members include Charles Pfeister Frank Bigelow Otto Doerner H R Whitmore J H Stout George K Riepert I E Fellows and Frank C Goudy with 23 additional Chicago members named.
The Baron de Hirsch agricultural and industrial building in Woodbine New Jersey was dedicated with prominent Hebrew figures from Philadelphia and New York in attendance. The school trains Jewish youth to be practical and intelligent farmers and assistants in dairy poultry horticultural and other farming departments as part of the original Baron Maurice de Hirsch agricultural plant run by an American board of trustees.
In Mud Lake the forward boiler of the lighter Stewart exploded during ore transfer from the seamer Elwood killing Lewis Carpenter Rankin man William McKenzie and injuring seven others including Jack Henderson who may die. A man named Hilder is missing thought drowned. Also New York item reports Claudia Staples of Omaha found starving with her 18 month old seeking her husband who deserted her.
Marinette Wisconsin November 26 Roy Bennyhoff a 14 year old boy was painfully burned while playing football He had matches and a piece of celluloid comb in his hip pocket He was thrown down and combustion resulted His clothes and limbs were badly burned before the fire was put out by his comrades
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