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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1919
Page
3
An advertising column from Georgia touts Bitro-Phosphate as a remedy for thinness and nervous weakness. It claims to feed nerves and body cells, promising weight gain, brighter eyes, and healthier vitality. Georgia Hamilton cites personal success with a 15 pound gain while warning against use by those not seeking more flesh.
The dispatches report deaths and demobilizations including Colonel Robert Bacon’s passing in New York, the departure of the last American unit from Italy, and Wilson’s funding moves. Also noted are fires at Mare Island, memorials for 70,000 fallen soldiers, a planned transatlantic flight by Ruth Law, infant deaths in a Portland home, and broader global strikes and labor actions in Havana Buenos Aires Winnipeg and London.
Roundup residents recount the tale of the Doyle sapphire mine in Musselshell County near Roundup. The eccentric shepherd Doyle reportedly found a wealth of sapphires around 1903 and distributed gems to friends while eluding a clear location. Attempts to verify and locate the mine continued for years, with Doyle later committed to Warm Springs asylum for alcoholism and later disappearances. The story remains unconfirmed but many believe the dyke exists within the Musselshell river area bounded by the Musselshell, Flatwillow creek, and Roundup.
Harlem-Cabe Elking returns home from the Lost Battalion. Missoula forestry planted 248,210 trees at about one cent each in the Lolo National Forest. Whitehall fire destroys four railroad bridges and halts traffic for ten hours. Lewistown voters to decide a $700,000 road bond in September. Absaroka timber sale of 80,000 feet mostly lodgepole announced. Helena new schoolhouse contract set at $51,500. Pioneer saw filer’s trunk yields $5,000 in currency. Galen sanitarium adds moving picture outfit for patients. Scobey awards $150,000 for water and sewer upgrade. Lewistown old N-barranca land, 13,000 acres, to be subdivided for small farms. Deer Lodge chamber drops bid for state girls vocational school. Missoula Western Montana merchants' meeting plans improved organization. Harlem irrigation to double ditch capacity with $10,000 dredge. Roundup nearly 100 men intend to join no local national guard without permission. Butte crime down to record low in five months per county attorney. Wolf Point cooperative creamery to help farmers buy dairy cattle for steady milk supply.
The record notes Doyle bought lumber at Musselshell in 1910 to build flumes and sluice boxes for mining. Friends say he told others this signaled intent to work a large bar, though actual construction and development are doubted given his mindset then.
A full set of Nordyke Marmon machinery including three pair high Wix roller mill with forty bushels per hour capacity, Silver Creek grate cleaner, wire rope indicator, sapont distributor, wood heads and boot assemblies with elevator buckets and chains. Also advertised are doors, window frames, plaster board and roofing supplies with a free illustrated catalog from L Vineyard of Great Falls. KODAK services and various Montana farm listings and real estate opportunities follow from multiple vendors.
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