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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1888
Page
1
A writer of obituary poetry offers solace to mourners with short rhymes and variable prices, claiming skill with many names and lines. The piece shifts to commentary on Greece where rich costumes fade in islands and Peloponnesus women wear bright, outdated styles, described in vivid color.
A writer in Prophylactic Magazine urges campers and vacationers to boil water before drinking. It warns that well or spring water at resorts may be unsafe and urges thorough boiling for a few minutes to prevent typhoid outbreaks. The advice stresses testing and avoiding unknown sources at inhabited or remote areas.
A distressed mother on a streetcar asks a man to cradle her crying infant, pleading in a fretful voice for someone to pretend the child is his father. The cheeky exchange captures a moment of urban life and parental concern.
A period of ill health and unrest unfolds with a small pox case, hospital counts, a Philadelphia area church letter, and labor action in Chicago. Reports cover national nominations, a Missouri legal case, and a tale of a Bevier marriage saga with a returned husband and a waiting wife.
Don't experiment with substitutes for consumption relief. Seek the genuine Dr. King's New Discovery for coughs and lung ailments. Trial bottles free at N. M. White's City Store.
Notice warns mothers against giving laundanum or paregoric to children for stimulation or calming. Claims Acker's Baby Soother is safe and effective with no morphine. Sold by N. M. White at City Drug Store.
The report surveys libel action against a sheriff in Seattle, pox outbreaks in Surrey, wartime notes from Westminster, and Canadian Pacific finances at Winnipeg. It cites the Wyoming Fair opening in Cheyenne, quarantines near McMinnville, a fatal shooting tied to local feuds, and freight train wrecks on the Oregon Short Line with several deaths and damages. It also mentions a morphine distress case in Victoria and a bear attack incident near the Salmon River.
London dispatch reports two murders in Whitechapel. Both victims were destitute women. one body was found near a foreign socialist club as a concert occurred. A second killing followed minutes later with brutal disembowelment and severe throat injuries. police patrols increased in the square.
The verdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters cure liver and kidney diseases. W D Sult of Bippus Indiana testifies relief in rheumatism after six bottles. Abraham Hare of Belleville Ohio adds praise from twenty years of experience. N M Whites City Drug Store sells bottles for fifty cents.
A El Paso dispatch notes Mormon movement toward Mexico, but claims of government land concessions are unfounded. Mormons have purchased large private tracts in Northern Chihuahua near the Casas Grandes valley and seek more, while Zuni tribal lands remain in New Mexico.
Albuquerque dispatch reports a half breed named Mickey captured the Apache killer who ambushed ten prospectors near Fort Apache two years ago. Seven men were killed and the rest escaped. A $2000 government reward prompted the arrest. The suspect was handed to military authorities at Pt Apache. This is his third capture in two years. Lieut Halbof of the Peath Cavalry led the escort.
A Nebraska City notice describes a betting contract between Ole Johnson and Ilaas Erickson over the 1892 national election. If Cleveland is re elected Johnson forfeits his wife Johanna to Erickson. if Harrison wins Johnson receives property from Erickson. The parties sought a stakeholder but none was found.
From Our Territorial Exchanges and other sources report the new Montana Central depot at Boulder is completed and coal shipments from Sand Coulee mines begin daily for use by the railroad.
A Shelby North Carolina woman named Mrs Leather is described as having suffered seven years from a consuming illness with lung and organ damage. After a three month coughing spell she took Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption, slept through the night after the first dose, and is claimed to be miraculously cured with one bottle. The ad urges readers to obtain a free trial bottle at Wirre’s City Drug Store.
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