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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1895
Page
3
Dillon and Bannack entries describe new clocks at Kupfer's and fresh goods arrivals at Dillon Cash Grocery with apples priced at 1.25 per box. It notes traffic on Bannack lines, school building progress, heating upgrades, and local notices about auctions, sales, and medical remedies from N. M. White drugstore.
The High School Literary Society presents a Friday program on Oct 25 featuring historical rhymes, instrumental and vocal solos, declamations, debates, and selections from poetry and literature. Participants include Maggie Reinhardt Ada Talent Maud Furley Ribsen Blanche Hammer Anna Kent Agnes Staudaher Priscilla Cunger Harry Gilbert Robert Morton Lew Barbour Lilly Peterson Jennie Bishop Bert Orr Mabel Willard Eugene Martin Anna Huber Nellie Bailey Hawley Selway Nellie Black Eugene Poindexter Ethel Loughridge Minnie Marshal Hattie Christenson Grace Johneon and others.
Henry Laughlin of Argenta circulated a petition to county commissioners asking to declare and repair a five mile road from Argenta to the Silver Rule mines. The route, through unsurveyed government land, has long served as a public highway and needs bridges and maintenance to support ongoing mining development and winter operations.
A long pastiche reviews horse racing culture with remarks on William Penn Rev Santa Aute and Lord Macdonald of the Isles. It notes Warsaw Poland fatalities among 40 starters and criticizes cycle sulkies eroding trotting prestige. Mentions May Marshall Angie D Vera Capell Aitken Azoto and Klamath with racing records and a tale of Oregon wonder.
A Globe-Democrat excerpt surveys historical figures from Bernadotte to Napoleon, noting habits from Belief in abstemious meals to favorite foods like goose with onions and toasted cheese. It records Byron, Dryden, Werrick, and Thompson with vivid, albeit humorous, dietary quirks.
The snippet notes reindeer carrying capacity from 40 to 60 pounds and pulling 250 to 800 pounds. It mentions W F Williams of Six Mile ranch near Buffalo Wyoming capturing a pure creamy white blackbird with pink eyes. It also cites Sir Edward Braddon on elephants, Alaskan winter birds ptarmigan and Arctic owl, and a record crawfish caught in May 1893 near Torrey Island measuring 2 feet 2 inches, 4 feet 2 inches with an 18 inch girth and 31 pounds.
The column notes Connecticut aims for 60,000 peach baskets this season with a wooden nutmeg center in each. Georgia peaches praised for flavor and value, while Georgia watermelons fetch a nickel with a knife loan. Peanut crops vary by state, with Tennessee near average and Virginia/North Carolina planting 10 to 15 percent less land than last year.
A Jewelers Circular description notes an oval concave silver gilt brooch featuring a fully rigged yacht with sails and intricate rope coils. A silver pencil is adorned with colored enamel yachting signals in red yellow and blue. Large square buckles of silver gilt show knotted rope motifs with yacht club pennants across.
An advertisement touts Newbro Witch Hazel Almond Cream as the most delightful toilet preparation. It also promotes French Tatisy Tablets from Paris for relief of painful and irregular menses, sold by D M Newbro Drug Co. at $2 per bar, with mail delivery. Also notes Montana Sunday Excursions from Dillon with round trip fares via Union Pacific and Montana Union Bays, upcoming sale dates, and agent 171 F T Contins.
The Tribune office in Dillon offers legal blanks quartz location blanks and placers along with other blank forms for sale to the public.
An old medical claim touts Dr Miles Nervine as a cure for headaches and resulting symptoms like memory loss irritability and exhaustion. The ad asserts the remedy prevents other diseases such as epilepsy heart disease apoplexy and insanity.
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