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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1931
Page
6
A 1931 Western Newspaper Union recipe list offers a bridal luncheon menu with Cupid's Cocktail a fruit salad of rapes cherries pears and pineapple served on pink hearts. Dishes include Chicken Croquettes with mushroom sauce and Heart Cakes topped with pink frosting and gold paper darts.
An article fragment discusses keeping turtles in captivity. It mentions a screened box, earth filling, and notes on turtle welfare.
Peter Rabbit asks Prickly Porky why many birds fly south as cold weather nears. Porky dismisses discontent, claiming a simple need to eat. Peter admits confusion and notes Little Tom Tit seems to fare well in the cold.
Peter explains Prickly Porky is slow and lazy and doubts why birds migrate. He asks Welcome Robin and others what they eat in winter. Prickly Porky presses Peter about worms and bugs as frost settles and relief from cold remains unseen.
A dated poem fragment expresses steadfast memory through all seasons and weather. The speaker requests one person’s care to remember them, regardless of life’s changes. Written in a lyrical tone from the Douglas Mailochy service broadcast era.
Eleven leading Montana oil companies met in Billings and formed the Montana gasoline tax evasion committee with KE Battson of Continental Oil as chairman. The group says tax evasion is widespread and involves selling kerosene and other products as motor fuel. They pledge vigorous action to protect the public and state revenue and aid public officials amid a national campaign.
Peter and animals debate eating habits among birds and squirrels. Prickly Parly and Prickly Porky argue Drummer the Woodpecker finds worms and holes in trees, while Welcome Robin lacks the bill and feet to eat those insects. Tommy Tit earns countless eggs, leaving Peter puzzled by appetite and survival.
Montana wheat has fetched premiums over Minneapolis cash price as local mills and western markets bid strongly. Premiums ranged 5 to 26 cents with notable activity near Brady Dutton and Power, signaling wheat movement to mills, west coast markets, or food channels beyond the Minneapolis terminal.
A reflective quotation from John Galsworthy urges readers to slow down and savor life to avoid boredom at fifty. The line emphasizes mindfulness and deliberate living from a classic literary voice.
Up to December 1 821 Valley county farmers had applied for feed loans. Yellowstone county opened a food distribution commissary at Billings for the poor. 250 head of stock were entered for the Yellowstone Livestock Association sale at Billings January 5 to 7. Big Horn county now has 2,965 school children, 152 more than 1930. If Montana Power discontinues Missoula street cars only Butte and Anaconda will have lines. Feed loans in Phillips county total 86,393.60 from 27 communities. Checks to Grand Forks office totaled 86,393.60 on requests of 129,787.35. Over 1,190 carloads of livestock feed were moved this fall in 16 Montana counties with rate cuts September 22 and set by ICC. Montana railroad report finds 31 killed and 137 injured in year to Sept 30, no passengers among fatalities, eight at grade crossings. Melvin Black of Red Lodge Future Farmers won Montana essay honors with Lamb Production. Western states essay contest by Great Western Livestock Show awarded prizes to top essays from 11 states. 9,800 acres of alfalfa grew on Fort Shaw and Greenfields divisions of Sun River project in 1930 per Dan P. Thurber report.
Historical notes recount private half and quarter dollars issued in California during the gold era. Designs varied from Liberty with 13 stars to Indian head, some octagonal, often dated 1852, used to meet money needs though not legal tender. Pure gold specimens in good condition fetch about a dollar. souvenir plated pieces hold little value.
Time Magazine notes the swearing in of Deemster Steven son More on the Isle of Man as sole deemster of half the island. The oath references God’s six days and seven nights and vows to execute laws justly between sovereign and subjects as indifferently as a herring’s backbone in the fish.
Dr Wilfred I Ning estimates the richest 1 percent of U S income earners held about one eighth of realized income in 1926 while 99 percent shared 87.84 percent. Another estimate by Doctor King finds 10 percent own nearly two thirds of wealth with the poorest 26 percent owning about 38 percent.
A Kentucky homeowner reverses the usual setup by placing a fireplace on an outside wall. The design creates heat for an open portico in spring and autumn while an interior modern heating plant handles the inside climate.
Railway lines faced closures due to fierce bus competition forcing firms to rent out stations as homes. The move reflects a shift in transport and urban housing strategies as stations become dwellings.
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