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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1913
Page
3
The Dillon Examiner lists advertising rates: 20 cents per line for first insertions and 15 cents per line for subsequent insertions. Business ads are 10 cents per line for the first and 8 cents thereafter. Standing ads rates available on request. Card of Thanks and obituary poetry priced per line.
OCR text lists a series of No 1 No 2 No 3 No 4 traffic directions with scattered times such as 2 12 p m 3 56 m and 8 30 p m 2 03 a m and includes malformed strings ceesevesee and ce0esecee as fillers.
Local column lists numerous individuals visiting Dillon from nearby towns such as Dell Armstead Lima Fox Grant and Butte. Entries mention hotel registrations business trips and social visits with occasional remarks on employment illness and recent travel.
George B. Conway of Helena had business in the basin. C. H. Strawbridge drove to Dillon with Miss Bertha Finsley. Mrs. T. B. Taylor visits daughter at Wildwood ranch. Mesdames H. B. Armitage and Joe Arbor left for Butte. Barry attends Odd Fellows grand lodge in Bozeman. Roy Murray of Montana Auto Supply and Chas Niblack of Dillon Dry Goods motored through the valley.
Mrs. B. R. Stevenson suffers aggravated sore throat. Miss Mary Stephens has bronchitis. Dr. Bolton deems it not serious presently. J. I. Shaw fields a six horse freighting outfit for John Ewing at Dillon to haul wheat oats and potatoes. Dana Miller leads fourteen men with six horses to move surveyors and camp equipment to Wisdom. J. C. O Neil in charge. arrival expected this evening.
Andrew Boss of the University of Minnesota details a brine cure for bacon and ham. The method covers salting, layering in a barrel, brine composition, and curing times for summer and winter use.
A playful and rambling column surveys Dillon history with quips about the Dillon Examiner, a faulty sidewalk mix, a bridge gag on the Blacktail Deer Creek, and a Pennsylvania theater slide about spit and fires. The piece mixes local jokes with sharp town lore and playful satire.
North Portland Oregon stock market notes for October 24 show large weekly receipts: cattle 1788 calves 57 hogs 5347 sheep 2658. Cattle prices fell with prime steers to 7.50 and cows around 6.56 while trade slowed. Swine bids hovered and lamb sales were weak with mutton and lamb largely steady to firm.
In The Glory of Panama, Ray Stannard Baker describes Uncle Sam’s canal project and notes cheaper living on the isthmus. He asserts meats groceries and clothing cost less in Panama than in American towns, with government stores offering 25 to 50 percent lower prices.
The article explains inoculation to introduce nitrogen-fixing bacteria to alfalfa soil. It describes two methods, favoring the soil method: spreading inoculated soil from a known field at two hundred pounds per acre and borrowing soil from the new field the following year. Caution is given to avoid transferring weeds like dodder from one field to another.
A statement extols that credit is perfect and middlemen are eliminated. It asserts every employee regardless of race has an equal chance to buy at standard government prices.
Orders from the local assay office announce that without a congressional appropriation for bullion movement, gold purchases must stop. Prospectors who sent bullion for value will face delays as officials await funding.
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