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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1921
Page
8
Local Dillon items report visitors and business notices including Walter Buford and Ike Edinger in town on Monday. Advertisements for Tattersall’s supply sewing machines and carpets, with other goods mentioned. Civic notes cover sewer work and land deeds, plus office moves and readership updates from the Beaverhead Abstract Company.
President Wilson writes to the American Forestry Association, unable to choose a single national tree amid America's rich forests. The association compiles a national referendum to determine which tree best represents the nation.
Montana Hardware and Implement Co announces reduced prices on drag harrows disc harrows grain drills and disc gang plows for a limited time. Sale begins September 16 and offers capacity for local farmers and equipment buyers.
Advertisement from Salmon Creamery in Salmon Idaho proclaims Lemhi Creamery butter costs no more than current butter and is churned thrice weekly from Jersey cream. It ships to Dillon stores three times weekly and offers mail service to ensure fresh butter if stock is low.
Dr Frederick Monson of New York and Pasadena argues that American aborigines from Hudson Bay to the southern tip form a single race. He notes regional physical differences arise from diet environment and living methods and cites Maine southerners westerners and Eskimos as examples. He remarks on historic treatment of Native peoples by whites.
A visit to Trengganu on the Malay Peninsula reveals a sultan who weighs debts against political risk. He admits withholding payments to avoid angering people, and justifies neglect of starving prisoners by arguing feeding them would trigger nationwide demands for relief.
A New York lawyer discusses honor in business. He cites Honest John Jones as an example who refused to steal ink from a hotel inkwell, arguing it would not be honorable to misuse the hotel's ink.
A compact history tracing Louisiana from early Spanish exploration to statehood in 1812. Key milestones include Pineda and De Soto voyages, La Salle naming, New Orleans founding, Law’s Company, Franco-English handovers, and the 1803 U S purchase culminating in state admission. The Pelican State nickname is noted.
In a brief Alamosa Colorado Empire note two elderly men recall frontier times in Kansas. One says he joined a mob to hang felons while the other avoided capture by offering a fine to spare his life.
Dr. Walter Ei. King cites 88 infectious diseases with organisms too small for standard filters. Diseases listed include chicken pox rabies dengue fever smallpox trachoma measles poliomyelitis scarlet fever typhus mumps and yellow fever was removed from the list after Noguchi’s discovery. Eradication efforts for yellow fever were aided by targeting the mosquito carrier even before the organism was known.
Desdemona Tex resident R M McLain proposes that oil well fires are caused by wireless waves gathered by metal in derricks. He cites several fires at deserted sites as evidence for his theory.
The new patron demands the order time while Romeo the waiter urges patience. Cooks are on strike and expect an agreement soon, per the cartoonish exchange in the American Legion Weekly.
In Paris a box audience member sparks chatter with remarks about a woman appearing nearly unclothed. Le Journal Amusant notes the spectacle while labeling the subject as the city’s best-dressed woman.
A quip from Ubinilften Plerald ponders a world where punishment matches folly, imagining retribution as a universal reckoning and moral balance in a wry historical voice.
J. E. Morse, office Idaho St., seeks fresh eggs in any quantity.
A brief notice from Southern Montana Abstract and Title Co announces prompt abstract services. Frank Hazlebaker, president, oversees operations in Dillon, Montana, with an advertisement dated the ninth.
Ed ward Smith minister announces Sunday school at 10:00 with L R Light as superintendent. Morning worship at 11:00 Epworth League at 6:30 evening worship at 7:30. Pastor in pulpit for day services. General welcome extended. Phone 158.
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