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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1897
Page
4
Notes from an 1897 issue include postal notices and advertisements, population figures for Russia, Cuba and Alaska predictions, calls for practical action, living pictures and the living flag, quotes about Bryan and silver, pearl hunting near Arkansas, and a mention of homing pigeons in postal service with a review in Demorest's Magazine.
The writer recalls a September journey aboard the Oregon Short Line from Dillon to Montana Wyoming Nebraska and Iowa. At Omaha fair scenes featured agriculture music and displays while Des Moines offered capitol visits and reflections on American liberty and politics in New York City boroughs and Cuba.
An ad extols Electric Bitters as a seasonless remedy for languor, liver sluggishness, and malaria poisons with claims of preventing fatal fevers. It cites relief for headache, indigestion, constipation, and dizziness at Central Pharmacy in Dillon. The passage also notes Noah Webster and discusses the newspaper as a force for progress, then pivots to a medical claim that deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian Tube mucous lining and must be treated constitutionally, warning about chronic hearing loss if untreated.
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