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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1925
Page
11
The article contrasts letter writing with telephone communication in modern business. It argues Long Distance service offers a better, more personal way to handle family calls, hotel bookings, customer appointments, and in-town business, highlighting station-to-station advantages.
In Dillon, James Kirkpatrick's postmaster band is filled and sent to Washington. The St James Episcopal church receives a new Este organ for services. A bar fight over a six dollar debt led Bob Kimball to draw a revolver, but the altercation ended without further bloodshed. Kimball was found guilty in Justice Kirkwood's court but disappeared, likely to Alaska.
Leonard Eliel traveled from Chicago with a large stock purchase for his clothing emporium. He is expanding offerings and plans to display the new arrivals locally soon.
Ilmer M. Martinell of Dell visits Dillon as doctors Leason and Miller perform the first X ray aided surgery in town by extracting a bullet from a boy’s leg. Matt Orr set up the X ray machine, Weenink supplied the negative. J C Metlen begins hauling rock for a $20 000 brick two story hotel on Railroad avenue with steam heat electric light and sewage planned.
Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock Mrs. Goldie Selway became wife of Mr. George Stimpson in a ceremony at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Max Lauterbach conducted by Rev. Jesse Lacklin of the Methodist church.
Sheriff Gosman captured a young man named Christiansen last Monday near Dewey. The suspect resisted arrest by trying to flee on a horse, and the sheriff shot the animal, which later had to be killed due to serious injuries.
Real estate transfers recorded in the Beaverhead Abstract Company title books for the week ending April 4 1925. Listings include property transfers and related records in Beaverhead County with names and parcels cited in the weekly abstract.
Warranty deeds record transfers of thousands of acres in Centennial valley Bannack and Wise River with parcels to Dillon and Polaris areas. Quit claim and bargain sale deeds involve Wise River House Prairie Armstead and Beaverhead County. Public notices list Lis Pendens on Wise River land and schoolhouse plans totaling $27 000 and $20 000. Local projects include a $125 000 Hammill hotel extension and a $20 800 Montana Power line initiative for Harlem.
The speaker warns against chasing change for its own sake and mocks overzealous reforms. A local anecdote recalls Bill Jiggers buying a new watch, then failing to maintain it as his carburetor flooded, leading to its ruin. The piece laments ill effects of meddling with conditions that work well.
Thomas A. Edison nominates Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, for inclusion in the Wall of Fame. Edison writes to Dr. Robert Underwood Johnson at New York University, stressing Sholes as a key immortal candidate, though Sholes died in 1890 and living nominees are ineligible until twenty five years posthumously.
A vintage advertisement touts Adierika for stomach relief and gas reduction, promising digestion benefits and happiness. The passage also notes various trivia about divorce rates, school enrollments, city transportation, gender beliefs, animal defenses, and windmill decline with cost and horsepower estimates.
Ad touts Foley's Honey and Tar as a safe cough remedy free of narcotics. It claims wide sales and child approval. A separate note from The Hague cites anti jaywalking rules urging pedestrians to cross perpendicularly and stay to the right to avoid bicycle accidents.
The Bell Telephone Company of Canada reports the new five cent coin cost the firm 50444 dollars. Adjustments to pay telephones were required to fit the coin and in Toronto city alone 18000 dollars was spent.
The entry notes the King s Arms is the most popular public house name in London appearing forty eight times in the directory highlighting its prevalence among venues.
A Dillon resident James Prelat harness maker at 425 N Washington St shares backache and kidney trouble experience. He says Doan's Pills from Potts' Drug Store cured him completely after nightly awakenings and painful back pains. Price 60c at dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y Adv 15-16.
Quotation attributed to William Matthew Holderby stating that no non Christian nation has preserved its liberties.
The Forsyth-New steam shovel is now in operation at the Cole strip mine and nearly doubles the former coal output, signaling a significant boost in efficiency and production for the mine.
Spokane Washington has more telephones than the Republic of Chile according to local officials noting Seattle area progress.
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