Unclear Rail Freight Note Baffles Readers
Fragmentary OCR text from a rail notice or article presents scrambled freight terms and place names. Readable bits mention a barong area and focal freight but specifics are not discernible.
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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1896
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR text from a rail notice or article presents scrambled freight terms and place names. Readable bits mention a barong area and focal freight but specifics are not discernible.
Dillon notes include references to political figures Gov Bob Smith and Judge Showers, reports on the Republican convention, court actions, and social visits. Local commerce highlights Crowell s hardware Mortons plumbing and the Dart Hardware while O E Morse promotes canning supplies and groceries. The town also hosts the Dillon Female Minstrels at the Opera House with a full program of tableaux and songs.
John J. Stevens Chas Nelson and Chester Thornton faced grand larceny charges with Stevens granted bail of 500 while Nelson and Thornton were discharged. A dialog and ad for Parks Tea at N M White Drug Store appears adjacent in the text.
Wholesale prices show butter at 25 cents per pound eggs at 20 to 25 cents per dozen potatoes 6 to 5 cents perwt wheat 1.00 per hundredweight data 55 Timothy baled 7 to 8 dollars blue joint 7 to 8 dollars wild hay 7.50 to 10 dollars alfalfa 2.0 to 8.00 If you cannot afford Parks Cough Syrup it will be handy for croup whooping cough and colds in children sold at N M White Drug Store.
Blank forms including quartz location blanks and placer location blanks are offered for sale at the Vareunx office in Dillon. Additional blank forms remain available for multiple use and procurement.
In Dillon a large crowd welcomed Hot Charles 8 Hartman as the southbound train arrived. The silver champion spoke ten minutes from the Pullman platform, urging silver and liberty for the toiling masses amid a boisterous, bipartisan crowd and cannon salutes.
The notes list major height figures for landmarks and mountains. Cologne’s cathedral towers reach 611 feet, St. Stephen’s Vienna steeple 460 feet, Mount Washington 6,288 feet, Mount Olympus 9,754 feet, and Vermont Mount Mansfield 4,430 feet. Nevada and Washington each have multiple peaks over 10,000 feet.
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