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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1912
Page
3
The Dillon Examiner lists pricing for local notices and advertisements. Rates include 20 cents per line for first insertion and 15 cents per line for subsequent insertions, with business focal ads at 10 cents and 8 cents per line, and 5 cents per line for festival notices, card of thanks, obituary poetry at 5 cents per line.
The note lists rail or road line directions with bound numbers and approximate times. It includes West Bound No.1 North Bound at 2:22 PM and East Bound No.2 South Bound at 8:45 PM along with other directional markers and odd text fragments.
Dillon newspaper items list sales, horse trade, and visits. Advertised goods from Harrison’s and Acacia, local shop screens, farm and ranch notices, names of residents traveling to or from Dillon, and a funeral notice for Thomas Porch with biographical details.
Twenty years ago Col Phil Shennon and other residents arrival in Dillon are noted amid social visits. Tramps’ activity rises with thefts and a botched arson attempt. A fur coat theft leads to a dramatic pursuit and arrests. Emil Timer wedding to Kate Swartz links to a cross country wedding trip.
Grant community notes report social visits and dances, cattle business, and upcoming travel. Items include Miss Crowder and Miss Barrett visiting Dillon, a Valentine social at the Country Club with a large auction fund, and a horse sale drawing ranchers from Grant. Also noted are road inspections to the Oreway mine, a fish and mandolin anecdote, a funeral in Wisdom for Mrs Errand, and club meetings with lectures and a Burns prize.
Notice reports a mare about 1500 pounds and a colt missing or stolen. The mare carries no brand described, while the colt is branded 1T on the left shoulder and lazy DL on the left thigh. A reward is offered by Wm A Lovell.
Notice promotes Jewell’s heavy derrick irons for substantial loads with a call to examine and compare prices. Claims the best option is cheapest, inviting inquiries at 2616.
LaDue and Sanders offer three stallions all imported and four years old. Percheron Belgian and Shire each weigh 1900 to 2000 pounds. Any one of the three is for sale.
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