Local news notes and arrivals in Dillon and Beaverhead
Dillon and surrounding communities report visits from Lima Grasshopper and Dell residents, a notable oil land claim near Dell, and various professional appointments. Dr. F L Albritton and Maurice A Walker relocate to Dillon. Social events include a Dart Hall hop and Baptist church topics, with local commerce updates and weather remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Brothers
Lima
James Abrams
Grasshopper
J. EB. Morse
William Conners
Charles Flynn
Dell
A. P. Brown
Blue Wing
Wooding
Blacktail
Dillon
J. G. Willis
al E. Graeter
Beaverhead County
Argenta
Missouri
Baptist Church
Dillon Furniture Co
A. J. Noyes
Ajax
Big Hole Basin
Dart Hall
Lloyd Selway
Ruby Valley Sheep Co
Sweetwater
Oregon Short Line
Scott's Emulsion Teaser Claims Quick Thin-Folks Benefit
A vintage ad snippet touts Scott's Emulsion as a cure all for thin people while insisting fat folks and strong individuals do not need it. It promises easy work and natural energy with no strain as the medicine works to add flesh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Dillon High girls vs St Patrick's game called off
The Dillon High School girls basketball return match with St Patrick's of Butte was postponed indefinitely after the auditorium was torn down. The game likely won’t be played until the next basketball season begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte School of Mines
Dillon
Tabler
Montana
Beaverhead County
St. Patrick's
Butte
Sesson
Pointed Paragraphs and a River Tale
A Chicago Daily News sample notes how cynicism is seen as less dangerous than hypocrisy from a Kansas editor. It contrasts a bragging mind reader stereotype with a farm ad claiming a prime fifty mile from a lawyer. It mentions marriage views and ends with facts about the Yangtse River length and navigability.
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Kansas
Chicago Daily News
A Scholar Not a Horseman Trains Careless Farmer
Chief Game Warden Reutinger recounts a tale of a learned man with poor judgment who left for three days with a horse in his care. The man and wife fed the horse nine seeds and watered with three buckets, assuming the horse would self regulate, but the horse consumed all the feed. The outcome serves as a cautionary note on basic horsekeeping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reutinger
Columbus Dispatch
Driving a MIII by Sound Waves
Mr. Bergen Davis demonstrated a rotating mill with four closed-end cylinders aligned end to end like anemometer cups. Placed before an organ pipe, the mill spun rapidly as the pipe emitted sound waves, illustrating the action of sound waves on objects in their path.
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England
Bergen Davis
An Easy Prison on Scotland's Western Seaboard
A new British inspector visits a western Scotland prison. He asks the solitary warder about the governor, who is away fishing. The warder notes only one prisoner is present, who is also out, prompting the inspector to seek the prisoner himself.
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Scotland
Uses For Empty Cans In A Maine House Build
Empty cans can be repurposed for kitchen and storage use. Perforated baking powder can lids make molds for brown bread while coffee tins can store soap grease safely in a cellar until enough grease is collected for soap making. Governor Hill of Maine is building a new Augusta house costing about $200000, planned as the state’s most expensive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Governor Hill
Maine
Augusta
Panoramic Folder Offer For Eastern Trip Seekers
Free pamphlet details the Denver Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western Railways scenic line. Includes personally conducted excursions and daily sleeper and dining car service to Denver Omaha Kansas City St Louis Chicago via Salt Lake City. Stop overs allowed. Apply W C McBride Butte or Geo W Heintz Salt Lake City.
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Denver & Rio Grande and
Rio Grande Western Railways
Denver
Omaha
Kansas City
St. Louis
Chicago
Salt Lake City
W. C. McBride
E. Broadway
Butte
Geo. W. Heintz
Record of $112,500 deal for Brights Disease cure in San Francisco
In San Francisco on August 90 1901 a group of businessmen completed the largest ever payment for a patent or treatment claimed to cure Brights Disease and Diabetes. They began testing November 15 1900 and reported results from over three dozen cases with eighty seven percent improving and thirteen percent failing. Details of investigations and clinical reports were published for dissemination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Bright
Will Jamillet
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Butte Tuners
Big Hole
Charles Metzel
Virginia City
Alder Gulch
Joe Young
James A. Fennell
F. L. Albritton
Bannack Street
Price
Als
Joseph Hainds
Bedrock
Miss Hainds
P. O
L. O
Hyde Thomas
Ruby Valley
Thomas Judge
Polaris
Marcellia Pyle
the Grasshopper
Mia. Saltner
Dick Haines
Grasshopper Country
Montana Gold Dredge Co
J. Ashworth
Fred Randotoph
Wm. Linkendorfer
Bannack
Maurice A. Walker
Stamm
Huants & McCants
Tribune Publishing Co
H. T. Poindexter
E. B. Sprinkle
D. B. Mason
White
Central Pharmacy
Rev. Burton
State of
California
Rev Burton
Burton
Smith
J. E
Monroe
Presbytery of the
United States
Ens Maestry
Presby
Mexico
John G. Willis
Oregon Short Line Railway
Vera Cruz
Northern Pacific Railway
W. A. White
Freigh
Vincent Roney
Philippines
Mr. Willis
Mey
Union Ditch Co
Central Telephone Exchange
Senator Murray
Anaconda
Thunder Mountain
Sheep Creek
John Meade
Olathe
Brundage
China
Mark Twain
G. C. Clemens
Topeka
Kan
Samuel B. Clemens
Mark
Miles’ Netvine
Norman Waltrip
Bankers’ Fraternal Society
Dr. Mile
Golden Rule
Kaiser & McCann
Dillon, Montana
Brate Bang Bouitpina
D. W. W. Kingsbury
Minnie Smith
South Washington St
D. James J. Jones
Bannack and
Washington Streets
Dillon, Mont
Bright’s
M. Eddy
Crown and Bripan
S Prolaltr
Yannack St
Price's Land Office
J . G. Willis
Attorney-At-Law
Dillon National Bank
C W. Robison
Cushing & Sons
General Law Business and Loans
Mont
Dillon Public Library
St. James Parish House
E. H. Sherman
Lakeview
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