Looking Backward Through Decades in Dillon News
A digest of Dillon Chronicle items notes Sheriff Jones chasing horse thief Weed and his capture near Henneberry's plantation, plus a college fund donation from George Millen. Other items cover a 1897 jail sentence for a coat theft, D. H. club straw ride, Ada Carter party, a 1907 mountain lion kill, leap year New Year festivities, 1917 coal prices, and a bank vacancy filled by Chester Gilbert.
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the Tribune
Tom Jones
Weed
Henneberry
W. C. Orr
Dillon
Orr
George Millen
Millen
Beaverhead Valley
Smith
D. H. Club
Eugene Poindexter
Ada Carter
Thorp
Innes
Tillotson
Huber
Stroup
Carter
Messrs
KF Lel
Dart
Anderson
Frank Rife
Medicine Lodge
Bessie Wall
Red Rock
Miss Wall
Frank
The
Tribune
Beaverhead Fuel Administration
Utah Wye
Mont
Singleton
Farm price drops reach new lows in 1937 for Montana
Montana crop prices ease amid large harvests and weak demand as the Agriculture Department notes domestic and foreign demand softening. Wheat cotton and fruits pull income down while dairy, poultry stay high and eggs remain cheap due to stockpiles. Mrs. Jens Bay returns home after three and a half weeks in Butte hospital.
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Helena
Mont
U.P
Montana
Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
Jens Bay
Murray Hospital
Butte
Capitol Quips Roundup of Montana Remarks
United Press reports on hearings into alleged discrimination by oil pipelines in Montana with state officials including Governor Ayers and railroad board, plus a December 13 education board meeting in Missoula. Other items note bids on irrigation sites, airmail route proposal, wild turkey gift, fur bearing season opening, sockeye catches from Flathead Lake, and traffic safety efforts.
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Montana Oil Conservation Board
Montana
Roy. E. Ayers
Public Carrier and Railroad Board
State Board of Education
H. H. Swain
Missoula
Roy E. Ayers
Joel F. Kendricks
Warm Springs
State Fish and Game Commission
Dillon mayor's daughter honors centennial library gift
Miss Carolyn White marked her father's birth centennial by giving Dillon Public Library one dollar for each year of the century. Her father served as mayor when the library was built and supported it. Mayor D A Galt and the library board praised the gift and the public's appreciation.
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Carolyn White
Dillon Public Library
White
Dillon
D. A. Galt
Congressman Takes Training Break for Caribbean Fishing Trip
The passage notes a congressman leaving Washington to travel to Florida and begin a weeklong Caribbean fishing expedition after several days of struggle in the capital.
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Congress
Washington
Florida
Caribbean
Congress convenes in extraordinary session faces four point plan
Washington reports that when Congress met in an extraordinary session last fortnight it confronted the president's four point program. Lawmakers debated measures and potential shifts in policy as votes loomed and public interest surged.
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Washington
Congress
Farm Bill Debate Highlights Funding Questions For Agriculture
Senate debate on the Pope McGill Farm Bill raises cost and funding questions as Ellison Smith dodges specifics on payments and total sums. Vandenberg presses for clarity on how much is needed, while Connally jokes about weather and a balanced budget amid stalled progress. House members meanwhile hear speeches on neutrality and Social Security as gridlock persists.
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Senate
Pope-McGill
Secretary of Agriculture
Michigan
Arthur Vandenberg
Agriculture Committee
Ellison
Smith
Vandenberg
Texas
Tom Connally
House
French priest named hero of Shanghai amid war crimes reform
The article describes Father Jacquinot de Bange, a French priest in Shanghai, praised for humane ideas amid Japanese advances. He proposed neutral Nantao as a zone, supervised shamings for looters, and secured $3,000 from Japanese leaders for Chinese relief. London reports add details of social notes including Mansfield and storks, with two housewives mentioned.
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Shanghai
China
Jacquinot de Bange
Nantao
Father Jacquinot
Father Jaquinot
Iwane Matsui
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
London
Earl of Mansfield
Dumfriesshire
Bus Strike Hits Greyhound Lines Across East
In 1985 Congress placed bus lines under the Interstate Commerce Commission and drivers joined the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Last week 1,300 Greyhound drivers led a nationwide walkout affecting 16 states east of the Mississippi with notable disruptions in Boston and Philadelphia.
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Washington
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Brotherhood of Railroad
U. S
Greyhound
Mississippi
Boston
Philadelphia
Springfield
Ill
Cleveland
Greyhound Corporation
Inventors showcase odd patent ideas at U S Patent Office
Washington reports a string of optimistic patents ranging from ear exercise air compressers and springy anti bombing nets to rubber worn bath soap, sponge bat, color smoke cigarettes, hot dog spiral wrappings, a pie pan edge markers for equal slices, car side bumpers and a shirt with built in necktie.
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Washington
U. S. Patent Office
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Dillon. Tribune
Tile Tribune ‘Publishing Company
Albert: Erickson, Publisher
National Advertising Representative
American Press Association
SRE
Capitol
United Press
Montana Water Conservation Board
Nevada Creek
Powell County
West Fork
Ravalli County
Columbus
Stillwater
James B. Murray
Great Falls
Lethbridge
Canada
Tplathead Lake
John W. Scholfield
John Bonner
Montana Railroad and
Public Ser
Vice Commission
Washington, D. C
Barclay Craignead
Montana Unemployment Compensation Commission
Lou C. Boedecker
Montana Highway Patrol
White House
Max Bi
Sparberg
Los Angeles
ITME
Northwest Bancorporation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
District Court
Fifth Judicial District
Beaverhead
Fred J. Gibson
Frank C. McFadden
Beaverhead County
Suffield Lode
Bannack
Dillon Tribune
Norman Giles
John’ Collins
Poindexter Block
Montane
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