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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1888
Page
2
The piece lists a Democratic ticket with Grover Cleveland for president and Allen G Thurman for vice president along with W A Clark as delegate to Congress from Butte and Beaverhead County, followed by an observant citizen's cateulation noting miscellaneous public behavior habits in a humorous tone.
A New York Tribune correspondent notes the need for hotel advertisements to publish room rate classifications. The piece argues proprietors seldom or never print rates, hindering travelers planning summer outings who must study ads to know prices. It suggests printing average rates would meet a clear demand.
The New York Sun notes that all Jewish associations whether clubs debating societies mutual aid groups or business leagues are judged by their charity work. At weddings festivals memorials and even funerals, voluntary gifts to charity are prominent and public appeals in synagogues draw unique responses.
The article surveys flowers like the rose, anemone, amaranth, and asphodel in world folklore. It links roses to immortality and fate, describes anemone as sickness symbol, amaranth as lasting color, and asphodel with spirits of the dead. It notes daisies and buttercups in folk credos and cites lilies, violets, and other blooms tied to luck, love, purity, and protection.
A small boy cut through a pasture as a new Strinesville brass band performed nearby. The bull charged toward the boy, leaped a wall, and fatally struck its head after the band played a second time. Harrisburg correspondent reports from New York Sun.
A prominent English woman claims American women have nasal tones and false teeth due to a dry climate and catarrh. The article promotes Warner’s Log Cabin remedies for catarrh and consumption, citing a Salem Iowa testimonial and urging regular use to prevent pneumonia and other illnesses.
A section of a petrified tree was uncovered in a solid sandstone rock quarry at Zanceville Ohio. The tree, about the thickness of a telegraph pole, shows bark and roots and lay sixty feet below the hill’s top in layered rock including shale limestone and sandstone.
A Norfolk report notes preserving telegraph poles by boring an auger hole about two feet from the ground and placing four to five ounces of coarse copper sulphate. The chemical slowly soaks into the wood, turning its outer surface greenish. The sulphate needs occasional renewal and is described as a perfect preservative.
A New York truck driver trains his terrier to ride a horse. A carpet is laid over the horse’s back to help the dog footing while the rider balances and enjoys the unusual spectacle in Chicago Herald reporting.
A New Hampshire man who had fished all day returned with two small fish and was approached by a neighbor who boasted of a much larger haul saying it netted a hundred or ten. The Detroit Free Press notes the humorous exchange.
A Foreign Letter notes the French possess the finest guns and projectiles in Europe. It claims their worming shell pierced a twenty inch armor plate and emerged with its steel point unscathed.
A man asks a doctor for sleep guidance and is advised to sleep during the daytime to overcome sleepless nights. The exchange appears in a street scene cited by Life magazine.
A St Louis Globe writer envisions future homes with malleable jetass walls ceilings and floors enabling cleaner living. Frederick accepting honorary academy membership urges equal rights for all. George Macdonald is cited as an influential poet and prophet of an era.
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