It's All Pure Victorian! And What a Grand Cast-Brass Cash Register and Curious Brass Handrails.

…. "Something else that ought to interest you," John says. "They were talking in the bar about Bozeman, where we’re going. They said the governor of Montana had a list of fifty radical college professors at the college in Bozeman he was going to fire. Then he got killed in a plane crash."
.... "That was a long time ago," I answer. These steaks really are good.
.... "I didn’t know they had a lot of radicals in this state."
.... "They’ve got all kinds of people in this state," I say. "But that was just right-wing politics."
.... John helps himself to some more salt. He says, "A Washington newspaper columnist came through and put it in his column yesterday, and that’s why they were all talking about it. The president of the college confirmed it."
.... "Did they print the list?"
.... "I don’t know. Did you know any of them?"
.... "If they had fifty names," I say, "mine must have been one.""

Main St Miles City, MT. Must have been made at National Cash Register Co, Dayton, Ohio, 150 years ago! Pure Victorian!
….It is curious how there was even a Queen Victoria influenced here in USA.
……Also notice polished brass guard rails over the bar counter. Most unusual. Must have been to hold clear space at cash register counter for collecting money in earlier crowded, rowdy, drunken times!

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(Photo = Summer2006 0079 ...... ZMM Page = 091 ...... WayPt = 103`|i4|' 2358ft)