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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1890
Page
3
A Chicago chemist, J. M. Hirsch, claims to extract aluminum from clay for fifteen cents per pound, promising a flood of new applications from freight cars to cookware. He notes the invention could transform industry and doubt remains only about the secret process while investors back his company.
San Francisco Chronicle reports Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, has become a recluse living atop Golden Gate Heights two miles north of East Oakland. He refuses to provide the annual poem for a local committee and stays away from city visitors, preferring solitude in his fifty acre hillside retreat with three odd cottages and a view of San Francisco and the bay.
A article notes embalming soon after death hinders chemical analyses in poison cases. It cites a Boatee Medical and Surgical Journal report where an undertaker injected arsenic preservative before autopsy, thwarting arsenic poisoning confirmation and rendering the chemist’s findings worthless.
A Brockton Enterprise correspondent notes a Yale style curiosity in town as a boy is bitten by a snapping turtle after sticking out his tongue to test it. The Chelsea (Glas)s Record reports the so-called meanest woman in Chelsea who hired a washwoman for fifteen cents an hour and then set the clock back an hour, later repaid by her husband who admits his own meanness but says this tops his acts.
Fragmentary OCR reads Dillon National Bank figures for capital surplus and profits. No clear figures or full context available.
Classified notice stating a well run business is for sale due to owner’s other obligations. 82 1f Charles H. Padley advertises favorable terms and easy conditions for sale.
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