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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1918
Page
5
A doctor en route to treat influenza patients is held at gunpoint by a rancher demanding immediate care for his sick family. The physician, pressed by time and illness, agrees to treat on the spot, writes a prescription, and is paid the fee in full as gratitude.
The Montana resorts Boulder Hot Springs and Alhambra Hot Springs report no influenza cases while the epidemic rages elsewhere. Physicians cannot explain the absence, suggesting the waters may kill germs or aid rapid recovery for convalescents who seek treatment early.
Roundup reports William Corker with a broken leg after a deer incident. Local lines resume from Lewistown to Winnett. Sgt. Hubert Wanczek, first local WWI discharge, returns from France. Mrs. W. A. Clark Jr. dies in Los Angeles.
W B Evans, a New York wool importer representative in Montana, says Montana sheepmen will get about one dollar per pound for wool this year, the highest price on record. He notes postwar demand from France, England, Italy and other nations, with U S production at one third of needs, and predicts prices will not fall for at least three years.
The New York Herald Paris edition on August 30 published a three column photo of Lieut Willis Haviland of Butte with his officers at an American naval base in Europe. He served after transferring from the French army to the U S Navy air service and was once among fliers like Raoul Lufbery and William Thaw. The Butte ace is famed for aerial battles and reportedly defeated an entire German squadron. A New York cable notes bolshevism halted in Germany by soldiers threatening a dictatorship.
Reports from Washington Berlin New York Paris and more cover postwar shifts. Cancellations of contracts total 421 million dollars. Krupp works besieged at Essen. Yale receive an 11 million dollar bequest from John W. Sterling. Flood damage along the St Lawrence totals a million. Oats price shifts between Argentina and New York. Calls grow for a November 11 international holiday. A major wage board is expected. New tech promises clearer wireless and fewer interferences.
A formal opinion by Attorney General S C Ford, cited by Miss May Trumper, holds school teachers must receive salaries during influenza related school closures unless a contract explicitly denies pay. The ruling states if contracts are silent on epidemic closures, teachers ready to resume duties when schools reopen are entitled to full salary for the closure period.
Advertises nitro phosphate as a quick reforming tonic to treat thinness by feeding nerves and supplying phosphoric nutrition to body cells. Claims dramatic weight gain and health improvement, noting nervousness sleeplessness and low energy vanish. cautions use only by those seeking flesh gain.
Vorwaerts in Berlin claimed the German fleet was ordered out on October 20 for a final battle to sink the last ship. Pan Germans believed the act would revive the 1914 spirit. The order allegedly spoke of a maneuver cruise, but the sacrificial battle rumor spread widely.
A collage of business notices and classifieds including assayers chemists and mail orders, cylinder grinding, machine work, auditing firms, typewriter sales, hotels and monuments. It also features job ads for agents and salesmen and a wartime nursery stock pitch, plus a note about influenza aid appeals in Livingston.
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