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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1913
Page
2
The 1913 Dillon Examiner lists advertising rates in the local column 20 cents per line for the first insertion and 15 cents per line for subsequent insertions. Business locals are 10 cents per line for the first insertion and 8 cents per line for subsequent ones. Standing ads rates available on request.
A garbled OCR passage lists train directions and vague times such as West Bound No 1 North Bound No 3 and East Bound No 2 with scattered year-like text. The strings include odd sequences and a late night time 2 03 a m, offering no coherent schedule or clear entities.
Local items record professionals visiting or leaving Dillon including Dr. Rathbone and Dr. H. F. Best dentists, Prof. L. R. Foote and Father Scullon away for study or teaching, and Mrs. Goodwin T. Paul visiting from Horse Prairie. Advertisements list M and M Pride of Dillon cigars, Turkey Red seed wheat for sale by J. W. Kemper, sewing machine needles at Tattersall's, and a mid summer shoe sale at City Shoe Store. Also notes on trips to Butte and Anaconda, and two sorrel horses missing from John Sorenson with a reward offered.
In the Mount St. Charles College Scholastic at Helena Robt Barrett of Dillon receives the college C for general athletics. He starred in indoor base ball and football four years ago and has been a mainstay of the basketball team. This season he led the baseball team in batting and pitching and is the first to be decorated with the C. The coming year is expected to bring more honorees.
Roy Murray of this city races his Cadillac against rabbits and a coyote on a 16 mile stretch between Madison and Sheaverhead valleys. Rabbits sprint ahead under bright headlights but end up in the road center as the car passes. A dazed coyote was overtaken after a mile and a half, its body found the next morning by Otto Schultz.
A collage of detached observations from a mid‑century reader’s note style. It mentions a father’s late return and a mother’s rumored Florida trip, seaside fashion talk, panhandlers on street corners, and a friend’s anti‑suffragist stance, all tinted with wry social commentary.
A columnist praises the county seat's unchanged streets and faces while urging bold promotion to attract new money and blood. He argues towns must advertise loudly to grow, proposing new deals and active newspaper efforts to draw growth. Written by Bill Chapman.
Government botanists report 125 entirely new plant species found during a survey of national forests. About 9 000 specimens were collected to assess grazing value, forage readiness by acre, water sources, and suitable stock types. The work aims to map each area for improved range management and stock carrying capacity.
A rare Billings sale will offer the Louie King collection of Indian and Western relics. Items include General Custer shoulder straps, Army revolvers from battlefield founds, Sitting Bull chair, Chief Porcupine war bonnet, a rifle used by Chief Joseph, and the last wild Montana buffalo mount weighing 2,250 pounds, plus many hunting trophies gathered from Montana’s early days.
William J Burns touts rapid screening of applicants for his staff. He recalls discharging a Yale first honor man after 24 hours due to a worthless first case. The Harvard oarsman asks what it was, and Burns answers theft of a box of soap from a freight car, noting the culprit arrested a tramp.
Notice to farmers offering to buy old castings such as mowers rake teeth etc. George Jewell offers payment from 2.00 to 5.00 dollars per ton for all old castings delivered to his shop. 44 tf
Horses for sale listing mixed Percheron mares and geldings and registered stallions advertised by E H Kates of Dell Montana. Readable details note ranch setting Big Sheep basin and buyer contact Dell Montana listing.
Ranchmen are urged to order derricks now with heavy models available at Jewell's, priced no higher than inferior versions. End of notice mentions "25-¢" indicating a coarse price cue.
For sale, rent or lease house in town and ranch. Phone 171 red. C. T. Shoudy. ady tf.
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