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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1920
Page
3
Mrs A E Boorman of Kalispell Montana reports Doan's Kidney Pills reliably aid kidney weakness and back ache. She says the remedy quickly cures attacks and she has given it to her children with satisfactory results. Price 60 cents at dealers Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY endorses the product.
Montana's total tax levy for 1920 is 4,977 mills, the same as 1919. No levy for the state bounty fund. the Montana state livestock commission reports the fund is unnecessary. Net levy to be paid by all taxpayers is 2,975 mills with specific small levies for livestock, health, bonds, and veterans relief.
Billings Lee Metcalf is jailed in default of bond on charges of binding gagging and beating his 9 year old son. Police report the boy was found tied to a chair with wire.
Anaconda inventor John J. Lynch received a patent for a rail guard to prevent locomotives or cars from leaving rails on steep or curved track. The device uses a plate wider than the rail head fixed by spikes with braces and a spac ing bar to maintain position, and is installed only where needed at low cost from cast iron or steel.
Large blazes in Flathead Kaniksu and Coeur d Alene forests press northern Idaho and northwestern Montana as winds and heat hinder control. Fires on Lost creek Woodward and nearby areas burn without early control while others on Noisy Pretty Watson Harding Slate creeks threaten spread. A 3000 acre blaze in Washington and Lambspeak fire detours add to a widespread firefighting effort. Bear creek crews quit after 13 men laid down tools, officials citing unknown reasons and possible stake motives.
A week ago a strong windstorm swept through Dearborn county in Lewis and Clark, tossing grain from fields and killing several chicks by striking them against buildings.
Washington attorney general Palmer orders U.S. attorneys to probe dealer conspiracies to raise coal prices. Chicago officials and Hart Schaffner & Marx workers are summoned before a grand jury investigating high living costs. The report also lists numerous brief items from across North America including a TB death in Texas, cotton market gains in New York, Marshal Foch’s potential U.S. visit, a Leavenworth discipline sentence, Japan-China guards dispute, a teen in Utah admitting patricide, a maple tree removal in Toronto, a Denver labor protest, a Portuguese steamer with stowaways, a railway union receiver suit in Columbus, a Sioux City drowning, a nonpartisan league appeal, illicit stills estimate in Washington, a ship collision in Lake Superior, a cider ruling in California, and a parachute record in Florida.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment recommended for daily use to keep the complexion clear scalp clean and hands soft. The advertisement adds Cuticura Talcum as part of the trio for the toilet routine.
Section three of the Montana act requires the standard apple box to bear on the box or label in clear figures the approximate number of apples, within five apples of the true count, when packed and offered for sale. This provision sets measurement labeling standards for commercial apple shipments within the state.
All Montana fruit inspectors are instructed to refuse to inspect or allow shipment of any apples not marked with the packing style count, the plain name of the firm or organization that packed, the locality of growth, the exact apple variety, and the grade adopted by the packer. J. C. Wood, state horticulturist, issues the directive.
Farmers' Bulletin 1055 notes hides must be salted with clean salt free from alum to avoid tanning hair and losing hides. Alum in salt even at 6 percent is detectable by a bitter taste and harms tanning quality. Bulletin details skinning curing and marketing country hides and skins, available from the US Department of Agriculture in Washington DC.
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