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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1916
Page
4
In Sugar City the Billings Women's Club quietly organized a Christmas relief effort for a destitute family of six. After a call published in the daily paper, the home received furniture coal food and clothing within 24 hours. The club keeps its aid modestly silent, yet the stockings surely filled with Christmas spirit.
The Montana Parent-Teacher association aims to establish a statewide moving picture circuit for children's matinees. Helena reports strong attendance with two shows each Saturday. Films featured include The Birth of the Star Spangled Banner Pied Piper Paul Revere's Ride and Alladin and His Wonderful Lamp.
The first and only statement from Miss Jeannette Rankin, congresswoman elect for Montana, pledges deep sense of duty and hopeful service to Montana’s people and to the country. She expresses earnest desire to be of substantial help, however slight.
Col. Robert C. Galloway of Nashville blames hand to mouth living for high costs. He calls the era a paper bag age and recalls past seasons when families stocked up from farmers, noting prices have risen as households now buy as they need.
In Butte, a group of women led by the Good Government club plans a boycott of certain foods until prices fall. Turkeys must drop from about 35 cents to 28, eggs to 50 and 35 cents for ranch and case eggs, and butter to 40 cents per quart.
A meatless diet for about three to four weeks is advertised as the best treatment for those with rheumatism tendencies, coarse skin texture, blotchy color, or flushing after rich foods or sweet drinks. The piece promotes a meatless regimen as a health remedy.
Mrs. Magegis Smith Hathaway, Ravalli county representative elect, opens Helena headquarters to push laws benefiting women. She advocates women deputy sheriffs to guard women prisoners, laws to compel men to support their children, revisions to the mothers pension act, and a constitutional amendment on prohibition. She notes Ravalli leads in prohibition votes and suffrage support and has long worked for women’s causes despite being a widow with Jersey cattle interests.
Miss Clara Bischoff aged 19 of Brooklyn seeks a husband with at least 50 dollars weekly income to support her and her mother. She desires a tall, healthy man with black eyes and hair, preferably with black eyes, and willing to provide a good home. She has already received hundreds of applications.
Dr. A J Mac Donald says a new hospital pavilion will double the capacity at the Galen sanitarium to about 60 patients, with indigent TB cases given priority. The Red Cross selling campaign and education aid TB prevention, while current clinic work continues under Dr Lanzaistrong and Spiers.
Mary Davies of Ris-Orangis Hospital in France saved lives by sterilizing dirty soldiers uniforms to prevent infection and by testing a new antidote for gangrene from gas poisoning. She is hailed alongside other national heroines in Europe.
The notice advertises patterns for girls women and misses with sizes ranging from 1 to 46 bust, detailing yardage for 36 and 44 inch materials, prices at 10 cents, and patterns for dresses night gowns and house dresses. It promotes a 400 design catalogue with embroidery and home dressmaking hints and instructs to send 10 cents plus coupon to obtain patterns and article.
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