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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1917
Page
3
Frederick S. Strong, born in Michigan in 1855, is named among recently appointed major generals. A 1876 Military Academy graduate, he became brigadier general in 1915 and has served in the artillery branch.
With gasoline at 60 cents or more, British cities test coal gas for autos. Consul Claiborne notes bulk limits. storage and compression needed for full adoption. Grimsby trials cut fuel cost per mile by about two thirds, using a rubber bag gas system fed into induction, with a butterfly valve regulating air. The engine remains cleaner and requires less valve grinding.
Mrs. Joseph Quinlan reported multiple household items missing over weeks. In Philadelphia hospital surgery revealed and removed items from his stomach including 34 silver teaspoons 12 screen door hooks 36 carpet tacks 247 pebbles and 40 printers type. Doctors diagnosed disordered nerves and Quinlan confessed appetite temptations by nickeled items such as a screen door hinge.
Frederick Clough of San Francisco, once a sailor on the clipper Hornet, receives a life monthly beacon of $100 from Henry Ferguson of Hartford. Fifty years after escaping a South Pacific blaze with 18 crewmen, their bond formed in a lifeboat saved them, with Ferguson later returning to Hartford and Clough staying in San Francisco.
Calexico California man Hugh W Willis sent a love message inside a cantaloupe wrapper, reaching Misa Rosetta Saylor of Mattoon Illinois. The couple recently received a marriage license from County Clerk Cook and are understood to have wed. Willis, in the cantaloupe business at Heber last year, penned the note seeking the lonely girl who would receive it.
In Livermore Maine Toto a water spaniel owned by Dr George Johnson escapes the dog catcher by leaping into a storm sewer After a heavy rain Toto reappears behind the catcher at the town’s far end and bites him He returns home through the sewer and now lives among sewer rats. Cooking and girls have dens about cooking with stove work described as fun on a chafing day.
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