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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1916
Page
6
Charles Page, oil millionaire and Sand Springs creator, is developing a tent city near Tulsa for working girls. The camp provides a railroad to Tulsa and housing with two girls per tent, guarded at night, plus a bathhouse and park concessions. He plans two hundred more tents next year.
Mrs Ernestine Smythe of the Chicago Consumers league says canned vegetables and fruits will jump in price due to reduced canning capacity and war contracts. She urges Montana women to can and preserve now, noting flour and meat costs will be higher and suggesting home curing of ham and bacon for profit next spring.
James O'Hara a wounded soldier and civilian two neighbors clash in Glasgow with a bomb thrown in a noisy dispute between a man and a girl. Details describe a tense street incident involving local residents and a military presence.
Butte grocer William Luty introduces a cafeteria style grocery store letting customers self-serve from samples and carry their selections to the front. The system cuts clerk costs and lowers prices, with no service complaints and faster shopping for customers.
Washington reports Panama faces upheaval as Dr Valdez is certified winner in a controversial election. US supervision ended earlier, opposition accuses Valdez of using Latin style tactics with ballot tampering and bayonet intimidation. Outs claim control of the legislature and move to elect three vice presidents.
A compendium of war and world items notes battles on the Somme with huge losses, new ships like the Arizona, rail shortages in the U.S., floods in China, and policy moves on Mexican border national guards. Also reports deaths, legal actions, and industry shifts from London to Havana and New York.
Charles M Russell and Don Price bargain over a massive 1900 pound workhorse traded from a roan trio headed for the Flying U ranch near Choteau. Jake De Hart, Montana game warden and former cowman, delivers the horse you could call a monument of decrepitude and impracticality.
Helena Debating League cites Pete Snelson, editor of the Helena Record-Herald, as the most versatile Montanan. The feature recounts his varied career from sign painting to journalism and baseball, notes his birth name Pypsy Burr Snelson, and records his military service and Balky Horse Pete nickname.
Mays Landing New Jersey cashier Morse of the First National bank reports a curious case. He received a five dollar note issued sixty five years ago by Merchants' bank of Mays Landing from R L Dittrich of Lorraine Virginia who found it while settling an estate. The note remains puzzling in origin and legality.
Multiple Montana items report a range of events including a suicide near Malta, murder trial in Walter James Hutton case, hospital expansion in Bozeman, a new railroad depot in Melstone, a new depot project in Dagmar, a forest telephone line in Townsend, a city hall election in Conrad, a sugar factory plan near Malta, a 20 year electrical heating franchise in Malta, an unconscious man found near Weslby Fredericks, militia recruitment shortfall in Helena, Equity clubs forming in Wibaux County, fishing licenses tally by State Game Warden, a motorcycle couple arriving in Cascades area seeking homesteads, milk price discussion in Helena, Gold Creek gold discovery monument dedication in Butte, and a Gold Creek site shaft location by Granville Stuart.
Married couples waste time arguing before yielding to the woman’s preferred course after a long discussion. The piece notes that after an hour of wrangling, she achieves her desired outcome.
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