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This undated photo shows the buildings of Fort Assinniboine.
The July 18, 1893 issue of The Havre Advertiser had only one full article dedicated to local news, and it came from Fort Assinniboine. It contained news of a new firearm called the Krag-Jorgensen; the inventors were Norwegians. It weighed about 8 ½ pounds with a 12-inch knife bayonet. The magazine held five cartridges and the bullets weighed 220 grains as opposed to the current 500 grains. Calibre was 0.30. Another article said Chaplain C. C. Bateman attended the World’s Congress of Chaplains in Chicago and part of the column detailed the activities. The third story was the following. One of the great things about reading newspapers of old is not just the information, but the style. They just don’t write them like they used to — complete with missing punctuation:
Assinniboine Items
About 9:30 p.m., on the evening of the 10th inst., a violent storm arose and for about thirty minutes made things very uncomfortable Buildings trembled as if they were going to collapse; carriages and wagons ran without horses or mules; shingles and chimney tops whirled through infinite space, while barrels and old oil cans in frolicsome motion, dashed around the corners with the melody of Ta-ra-ra-boom-de ay. The flower beds and young trees along the officer line suffered severely. Messrs. Carey & Sons, of St. Paul, contractors for sinking the artesian well, suffered a loss of about two hundred dollars by the complete destruction of the derrick and other paraphernalia.
In the city and state social pages, this column of little paragraphs of local goings-on proves it is invaluable — complete with misspellings:
We understand that Paul Decelles has secured a $1,200 contract to build a brick residence of six rooms for Mr. S. Pepin.
An article about what would become if the Pepin Mansion appeared in the May 28, 2013 edition of The Havre Daily News. If you missed it and would like to read it, it is available online at http://www.havredailynews.com, or if you do not have access to the internet, please call me and I will mail you a copy.
Joseph S. Bruno, merchant tailor, has opened up a cleaning and repairing establishment on Main street this city, where he will be pleased to attend to the slightest wants of those desiring work in his line. Mr. Bruno is too well known to many of our residents to need an introduction at our hands, but by square dealing he hopes to gain the good will of all desiring first-class work done at a reasonable rate. See his ad. in another column.
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Rev. Allan Roger was down here last Wednesday to superintend the putting in of the windows and getting the new M. E. church in readiness for service on Sunday. On the third day of August at the Great Falls convention the M. E. appointment to our new church will be made, which is generally understood here, will fall upon Mr. Roger. If the M. E. authorities are influenced in their decision by the commonly expressed preference of the local congregation, unquestionably Mr. Roger will be elected to officiate at the new church.
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Rev. W. W. Van Orsdell, superintendent of the M. E. mission came down from Great Falls to officiate at the inaugurative services held in the M. E. church last Sunday. An opportunity was offered in the morning to those desirous of participating in the impressive ceremony of communion, the occasion attracting an especially large attendance in the spacious new building. A sermon by the same clear exponent of modern Christianity, calculated to lend fresh interest to old and familiar truths, was listened to with appreciative interest by a still larger congregation in the evening.
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Under the auspices of the ladies’ aid society, an association still in the embryo stage of organization, a meeting presided over by Rev. Guyer, a minister of the Presbyterian church, was held last week, for the purpose of forming, with reference to forwarding the higher religious interests of the community, a ways and means committee, and discussing possibilities in the direction of opening up a more social programme for the future. With the evidence before us, in the fine church already built, another immediately to follow and still another in the prospective, of what has already been accomplished, it would be difficult to exactly estimate, what may not be attempted by the Havre ladies’ entered upon a field of social enthusiasm and assuredly with analgous success.
Certainly nothing could well have been more oppportune, than the discussion of a more extended social programme, calculated to promote the impulse of association and exercise a restraining influence upon the community, at the very juncture of resident aspiration to the importance of incorporation. If it is only one step from nothing to an ice cream festival, it can only be another to something equally legitimate, profitable, and more ambitious. The better sex have invariably been the pioneers of refinement and in no exception, it will be found that the ladies’ aid society has fortultously happened in civilizing an augury of social advancement in our little town. Diversion, amusement, recreation is notoriously most distinctly wanting and anything up to dramatic entertainment will be well in order and must meet with liberal response from the residents of Havre.
Two new advertisers appeared in this issue, Joseph Bruno’s “Merchant Tailor” ad and Dustan, Brown and Company, commission merchants in horses, cattle and sheep.
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