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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1923
Page
8
Four Australian boxing kangaroos join the Hagenbeck Wallace Circus for Sunday afternoon bouts on the hippodrome track. The quartet trains under strict rules on a vegetarian diet and are presented as the universe’s champion boxing kangaroos with one fighter offered 5000 dollars for Bob, which was refused.
Major Henry H. Curran was appointed Immigration Commissioner at Ellis Island to succeed Robert L. Tod who resigned. Curran is 45, Yale and New York Law School graduate, former New York Tribune reporter, served in the A E F, and in 1919 won the Manhattan borough president race as the first GOP straight-ticket victory. He is a writer and lecturer on politics.
In Spanish cities at eleven o'clock at night the doors of all rooming houses are closed and locked. After that hour one can get in only by calling the guard or watchman of his particular block. This is an old Spanish custom which holds over to the present day in nearly all the cities of Spain. The watchman carries a lantern and the keys of all the houses under his charge.
Hardin Tennessee Montana Oil company schedules resumption of drilling operations at the Sarpy basin as it prepares equipment and crews for renewed activity in the field.
Simple glycerine buckthorn bark and Adlerika mix ease gas in ten minutes. It acts on both upper and lower bowel removing gases and poisons, may help obstinate constipation and guards against appendicitis according to the druggist Potts.
Local notices show Tattersall's inventory ads for carpets sewing machines and rent, plus a Walgreens style mix of visits from Mike O'Brien Earl Nyhart and many Dillon residents. Several trips to Butte Melrose Salmon Armstead Reichle and Oregon Trail references appear with social news, birthdays and upcoming events.
During Mount Etna’s eruption a Sicilian peasant dug into cooling lava and reached near boiling lava below. He lowered a water filled pan and heated it to cook food for himself and other refugees. Powell county wool clip totals exceed one million pounds. Billings Soap Creek oil activity rises.
The Dillon Methodist Episcopal Church marks the closing of the church year with a Sunday schedule. Sunday school at ten, Holy Communion and sermon at eleven, and an evening service at eight led by the Haworth League followed by a lay address by Prof. Calvin Crumbaker, formerly a speaker in Helena. All services open to the public.
Dillon residents prepare to travel to Wisdom for the annual Harvest Festival in the Big Hole basin on September 2 and 8. Organizers promise traditional crafts, food, and community celebration.
The National Department of Labor of Argentina reports recruiters lure Indigenous families from northern villages with promises of high wages. Workers are moved in flatcars, housed under the open sky, fed poorly, and paid mainly through plantation store credits at inflated prices. Any small balance is steered toward liquor.
Dr H H Scarborough the eye specialist will be at the Andrus Hotel Dillon on Thursday August 16th. Patients seeking relief from headaches dizziness or eye defects should plan to see him on that date.
Relieved her troubles by using Foley's Kidney Pills for kidney and bladder discomfort. Mrs. A. Faust of Knoxville Mississippi reports it stopped her nocturnal urge. Potts the druggist advertises the product and urges readers to try it for fast aid.
Montana crop notes report generally favorable conditions in July with widespread moisture but eastern areas face drought and heat injury to wheat and small grains. Hail damages, grasshopper losses, and variable yields occur. winter wheat harvest begins with potential higher yields in some areas, flax and sugar beets outlooks are mixed, Bitter Root fruit hail-damaged, cattle gaining on grasses, and Butte noted as world’s largest copper center per 1922 Interior figures.
A family recounts relief from long time gas indigestion and liver pain after taking Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. They celebrate with a reunion and note one dose may convince of money refunded, as Potts druggists advertise nationwide.
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