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Newspaper
Ismay
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1910
Page
2
Actress Julia Marlowe extols Peruna as beneficial for digestion and nervous strength. An offer promises a free sample bottle by mail from the Peruna Company in Columbus Ohio and includes free medical advice upon request.
Washington dispatch reports John D. Rockefeller dropped plans for a national charter for a proposed foundation. Starr Murphy denied any connection and said the claim was unfounded. Murphy noted Rockefeller was not involved with the Economic and General Foundation seeking a New York charter for an aged man of wealth with about 2.5 million dollars for charity.
Crop damage reports from across the country push wheat futures higher in Chicago. The sundry civil bill for 111 million dollars advances in the House while a 241 million post office appropriation clears the Senate. Peary agrees to lecture in Antwerp and Taft speaks on foreign affairs in Pittsburgh. News of labor unrest, mine disasters in Alabama, and a Canadian bankruptcy also appear amid broader political and economic actions.
John L. Perry of Columbus Texas swore Doan’s Kidney Pills eased his Bright’s disease and dropsy symptoms after a year of illness. He credits the remedy with saving his life and urges others to try it with the familiar Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY advertisement.
Frank J. Cheney a Toledo firm owner swears to pay $100 for each catalogued catarrh case cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. The notice, dated December 6, 1886, is sworn before A W Gleason Notary Public. The ad, touting internal cure and mucous-surface action, urges patrons to buy Hall’s pills for constipation.
A color ed woman seeking to vote in an equal suffrage state balks at answering the clerk's question about party affiliation. She asks if she must reveal it, is told yes, and then declines to vote, remarking she dislikes naming the party. The exchange is cited from Ladies' Home Journal.
A street scene near the Twenty second Regiment armory on Broadway and Sixty eighth street features a guide spelling a word as def en dum to a curious aunt and youth. The old lady recognizes the phrase as deaf and dumb asylum prompting laughs from onlookers.
A sharp exchange unfolds as a stranger criticizes church management to a prominent clergyman who discovers the critic is the paper’s editor. The bemused clergyman questions the stranger’s authority while the editor defends his right to critique and shape editorial direction.
A cable from the Montana invitation to former President Roosevelt asks him to attend Bozeman's sweet pea carnival and interstate fair from August 29 to September 3. The message, signed by Bozeman officials, notes Norris may serve as lord high chancellor and predicts broad attendance with officials traveling from around the country.
Helena reports Chicago St Paul and Helena investors sealed a major realty transaction at White Sulphur Springs including the hotel and natatorium. They secured railroad rights of way to Dorsey and plans to extend toward Livingston and Helena, with $4,000,000 involved. Principal figures are R. M. Calkins Jr, John Ringling, and Lewis Penwell.
Paradise residents who registered in Trout Creek at the last general election can vote in the Paradise precinct on May 24 for the special election. The attorney general notes no new registration list is required for such elections, though no formal transfer from Trout Creek to Paradise is provided by law.
Montana's attorney general holds boxing and wrestling in a gym for exercise is not unlawful if the activity centers on physical training and no prize fighting occurs. He issued the opinion at the request of Deer Lodge County Attorney regarding a group in Anaconda seeking a gym room to train, charge admission, and box and wrestle as exercise.
Helena report from Treasurer H. E. Esselstyn to Governor Norris confirms April end balance rose to 764,122.98 from 762,455.25. Receipts totaled 94,855.84 and disbursements 93,188.16. Bond investments stood at 2,720,587.32.
In Helena 38 officers from the Second regiment National Guard of Montana joined a week long camp near Fort William Henry Harrison. Capt D T Merrill of the Twenty-eighth Infantry commanded guardsmen with First Lieutenant Bebee and Second Lieutenant B F Harding among the instructors.
A rancher faced an unknown attacker on his way home near Miles City. The assailant reportedly threw a club and then slashed with a knife, leaving the man unconscious before fleeing. Police later did not locate the three-robbery suspects reported in the morning.
A Denver Post clipping describes a quirky claim that walking on a certain ground in Colorado makes feet grow larger. The quote attributes the belief to locals with a playful exchange about men walking on their heads.
A visitor reports seeing your husband in town and nearly touching him while a hostess jokes that at home he is equally near enough to touch. The scene plays on proximity expectations in public and private spaces.
A 1908 editorial cites foreign born at 13.6 percent driving 15.6 percent of criminals 20.8 percent of paupers and 29.5 percent of the insane with aliens in institutions up 34 percent from 1904 to 1908. An Oklahoma City letter claims electropodes cure rheumatism with sleep aid, offered at $1.00 with free trial from Western Electropode Co. in Los Angeles.
An older ad snippet markets a daily fly killer claiming it kills thousands all season and urges 20 cents to H Somers in Brooklyn. A parallel line promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with 25 cent bottle, claiming gum softening and wind colic relief. The fragment ends with a remark about a woman's reaction to praise.
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