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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1912
Page
5
The Tribune Pustisnine Co. will not be liable for employee debts except when orders signed by the manager are provided. Subscribers who do not receive papers on time should inform the office. The papers are published regularly and all subscribers should receive them regularly.
The Deer Lodge County Fair Association endorses Judge Winston for re election without regard to members' political differences. The piece argues the bar achieved good government and notes a past Supreme Court challenge to the Non-Partisan Judiciary Act, which the court found misleading in its title and possibly invalid for other reasons.
The article argues lawyers are unfairly labeled as reactionary and, through nonpartisan nominations, help ensure superior judges. It notes lawyers’ vantage on judges comes from experience, while lay vigilance guards against corruption, and warns partisan elections dilute merit by political hurdles.
President Taft signed a proclamation on August 10 authorizing the sale at Billings on October 21 of 350000 acres of Crow reservation land in lots up to 640 acres to individuals. Prices range 50 cents to 150 per acre, with most land suited to grazing and some 40 percent capable for dry farming crops.
Montana flax harvesting progresses with reports of record acreage and yields. Estimates range from 4 to 10 million bushels statewide, with yields 10 to 17, and some claims up to 24 bushels per acre. Counties like Yellowstone rose to 15,000, Rosebud and Dawson up to 25,000 to 50,000, and Judith Basin expected to reach 100,000 in 1911 with fivefold rise in 1912. Prices discussed around 1.25 dollars per bushel, though many farmers hesitate to sell.
The article compiles sharp quips and rumors about Roosevelt and his rivals. It cites satirical lines on Taft La Follette and Wilson, plus a Dillon note on water meters. It also mentions a movement of progressives led by La Follette while avoiding explicit endorsements.
The piece notes varied public remarks about Roose velt calling him a show a circus or the whole show. It mentions Judge Lynch living in Butte and possibly familiar from the South. A reader recalls a New York cow fish story retold on Montana street with a bystander mockingly replying a sucker.
The author notes Chicago has three million cats each with nine lives. They claim all would die only after 27 million bucket kicks, recalling Mrs. O’Leary’s cow of 1871 that started the Great Fire with a single bucket kick.
A progressive song promises to follow Roosevelt anywhere and everywhere with brisk march tune. The lyric hints at travel across many places while the speaker admits not knowing exact destination but says he is on his way.
A South Washington street young lady described her beau Tuesday as the sweetest thing in town. She referenced a youth with pretty black eyes and a mustache twisted upward on one side and downward on the other, asking readers to identify him.
The fragment hints at Teddy at the Bat getting a home run without effort after Pitcher Wilson drove in a remark about forming a government unafraid to stand against tolerance. The source appears disjointed but indicates a literary or political intercession.
A political reflection laments that party systems can be used to advance individual aims and ambitions, noting broad endorsement from members of both major parties for such sentiment.
At the Metlen hotel two men argued over which drink harms the stomach more whisky or absinthe. Whisky carried the day. A renowned French physician warned absinthe makes a husband a brute the wife a martyr and the child a degenerate.
A telegram from Kansas City predicts a severe vehicle shortage in the central west with up to 60 000 cars missing by October 31. The report notes supply constraints amid broader travel and maintenance concerns across the area.
Miss Nellie Schmidt of Alameda California becomes the first woman to swim the bay, completing the crossing in three hours and six minutes. The House elections committee recommended suspending Charles C Bowman and granting his seat to George R McClain for campaign spending. Senator Stephenson admitted spending over $107000 in the senate but was not suspended.
One hundred dollars reward for an incurable case of catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsed by WaLpine Kinnan Marvin, Toledo wholesalers. Cure taken internally, claimed to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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