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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1913
Page
3
Thirty four Montana counties prepare displays for the State Fair from September 22 to 27, each booth reflecting a county’s natural wealth. Last year county booths totaled 6680 exhibits, up from 1003 a decade earlier, with districts competing to outdo each other.
The Helena State Fairgrounds double the cattle barns to two for beef and dairy exhibits and add a new horse barn with ample stall space. Prizes total near seven thousand dollars across cattle divisions, plus an auction sale and dairy products competition.
An infirm old man dismisses talk of others funerals and notes his own struggle to reach his. This brief quip appears in a London Answers collection.
A vivid fragment describes a man ejected from a hall erupting in rage and fire after others allegedly subdued him. The quote emphasizes an intense emotional surge following the incident, with no clear outcome provided.
A London medical student leaving for Hobart to practice left a souvenir portrait with his landlady. The picture stayed unseen for decades until a visitor urged sending a description to London. The portrait, a Rommey, sold for 8500 guineas, though a Tasmanian editor claimed 850 guineas doubting such value.
A London anecdote recalls Mrs Wiffles punishing Master George Wif fles with a carpet beater. The boy sobs loudly, prompting a neighbor to ask why. She explains the boy swallowed a coin she saved for the gas meter, a humorous misadventure with gas meter readings.
A long standing eastern Alpine custom involves 100 eggs laid on sand as youths dance around. If a couple finishes without breaking an egg, it is seen as a sign of compatible temperaments and they are betrothed.
A maid explains burglars entered a house on this street last night and stole all the silver. The mistress notes the folly of leaving doors unlocked and learns the house involved is No. 7, revealed by the maid to avoid alarm.
A quip exchanges about timing and judgment in a lighthearted crowd-pleasing moment. The speaker admits wiser advice comes too late after a fools mistake.
A 15 man survey crew led by J C ONeill camps at Divide to begin surveying for the Butte Wisdom and Pacific railway. The plan covers Divide to Ralston then through Big Hole valley to Jackson with branch lines to Wise River Elkhorn district and French Gulch mines. Construction may start on Divide to Ralston before winter. Governor Allen and company directors head to review route.
Manager Wheat presents a Montana program at the Pastime featuring Aeroplane Flight of T. T. Maroney at Gregson Springs Belton Glacier National Park State Fish Hatchery Somers and the Somers Lumber plant Kalispell and the Good Roads Convention Automobile Parade Picnic and boating at Swan Lake summer home of C. F. Kelly and L. O. Evans Rev H Stubenwoll of Allison Iowa praises Dr Kings New Life Pills as a liver bowel regulator. Horse dies at Anderson Livery Co with carcass wheeled on a hay rack. Mesdames Cushing Bernstein and Miss Callaway enjoy country life at Mrs Williams ranch on the Rattlesnake. Boxers Danny OBrien and Frank Lombard visit to see wrestling and meet friends Micky Flynn.
The item promotes Foley Kidney Pills as a quick and permanent relief for backache and kidney related symptoms. It notes a local note about a newspaper delaying due to machine trouble and includes brief society and business mentions from Dillon Montana.
The judge defines poise as a man able to pick up a pretty woman’s handkerchief in a street car and then gaze at other passengers without embarrassment, exemplifying self control in public.
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