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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1890
Page
4
Dillon Tribune, Sept 26 1890 issue, announces advertising rates and local notices. Includes congressional and county races, prize banquets, and commentary on tariffs, lotteries, and Grant monument debate in New York with opinions on federal power and private armed forces.
Citizens across the land urge honoring Grant by placing his memory in the National city Washington. The text expresses hope that a bill will pass despite committee actions in the metropolis of the union.
The piece laments Dillon’s failure to start a fair, compares it to Twin Bridges, and urges Beaverhead County to form a stock company for a rousing autumn fair in 1891. It argues locals from merchants to ranchers would profit from annual shares and warns of stagnation or even oblivion without enterprise.
The state board of equalization clarifies that Montana will levy two mills for state purposes in 1890. They cite section 1 of the 1887 act and note section 9 of article XII limiting rates, with adjustments only by legislative change. The board emphasizes the rate is two mills unless lawmakers alter it.
Montana cattleman J M Boardman warns the industry faces a bleak outlook as third consecutive water and grass shortages strain herds. He cites drift to the Milk River region, Shonkin to Malta movements, and an overall hard winter ahead. The piece also notes Grand Army of the Republic leadership and various brief national items.
A Consul Burke report extols a Brazilian palm like tree the camanba native to Amazon frontier dry soil. It yields materials for shelter fences food medicine and fuel with trunk branches and leaf exudate used for wax roofing and crafts. The seed kernel infusions resemble coffee and the plant’s many uses are described alongside albatross plumage critique.
A Ravenswood West Virginia notary public testifies to Hood's Sarsaparilia as a remedy for a seven year old boy with a severe leg swelling and bone discharges. After starting the medicine the leg straightened and function returned with improved appetite. The ad promotes the product by Hood & Co Lowell Massachusetts. Two dollar doses marketed nationwide.
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