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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1928
Page
6
Old Dillon notes discuss a possible railroad from Dillon to Boulder and up to Helena via the Jefferson. The year reports eight new brick businesses and six fine homes, with Bud Sprinkle visiting Anaconda briefly and a Christmas tree message to all citizens.
Joseph Shineberger pays $1 214 94. The new kiss has invaded. Dillon also. Science says microbes in kisses as two young ladies meet and press their rosy cheeks. Hon D E Metlen left for Helena to spend 60 days with senatorial candidates in law making, accompanied by Hon G T Paul.
The Tribune notes the Oregon Short Line depot will be formally opened on New Year’s Day and evening with a grand reception and a ball. Brundage brothers have installed a feed grinder in their father’s store and offer grinding for poultry feed. Cashmore’s report shows delinquent taxes for 1908 totaling 513.37 with 30 Navy payments reducing the year end balance to 486.09. Patrick Flynn sustains a broken leg after his horse fell.
From the title books of the Beaverhead Abstract Company for the week ending December eighth, 1928, transfers of property are recorded detailing grantees grantors and parcel descriptions within the Beaverhead county area. Official summaries note recorded deeds and filings as part of the county land records.
Notices record patent to Charles F Stoll for 640 acres on Shesser creek in Bloody Dick mining district. Henry Lehman to Ernest Waters deed for property near Glen station. John F Bishop to Lenore Thompson and Reynolds Thompson in Mauldin's and P O additions to Dillon. Bishop to Mildred Bishop Thompson multiple lots and street frontages in Dillon. Bishop to Jean F Bishop property in original Dillon townsite. Notice of Appropriation Albert Johnson for 160 miner's inches of Steel creek waters Beaverhead County. Certificate of Location James A Anderson James a quartz lode claim in unorganized Beaverhead district.
The Watchery Chicks for Greater Profits slogan represents a national hatcherymen organization advocating improved breeding and higher returns from incubator raised chicks.
Help for weak kidneys and related ailments promotes Foley Pills diuretic to regulate kidney activity and aid elimination. A testimonial from Mrs. J. E. Stevenson of Emporia Kansas claims it relieved her illness and improved her life. Sold by Geo. M. Gosman, successor to Potts.
Delinquent taxes total about 4955.94 with final balance to be struck in the office of Miss Norah Connelley county treasurer. November collections were 231181.35 with 122926.28 from the first half of 1928 taxes on real property. Next May the amount due will rise to 354107.63 or less than 8000 of the year’s total 362796.27. The delinquent list is about one sixtieth of the total, largely automobile and personal property moved from the county since 1927 assessment.
The Naval Observatory cannot confirm a definite number of earth motions. Flammarion and Gore list eleven principal motions including rotation about its axis, sun orbit, equinox precession, earth–moon center of gravity motion, nutation, obliquity variation, eccentricity change, perihelion movement, planetary perturbations, solar system center motion, and the sun's travel through space.
In autumn 1874 Mark Twain bought a primitive typewriter after seeing it in a Boston stationery window. He then had the manuscript of Life on the Mississippi typed on the machine, marking one of the first typewritten author submissions to a publisher.
A Mobile Register column quotes Grove Patterson arguing that people should invest more time in quiet deliberate thinking and less in bustle and false motion to improve work and outcomes.
In a Brighton police court trial a husband says he married to get a clean shirt. The judge sentenced him to a year of household washing and told the wife to report if the work isn’t up to scratch. The magistrate quipped that now she would have clean shirts.
A vintage ad touts California Fig Syrup as a reliable laxative for feverish or constipated children. It promises pleasant taste, no narcotics, and gentle action without cramps, urging mothers to ask for genuine bottles with printed directions for babies and children.
A congressional suggestion argues Florida has shifted Republican and advocates tax repeal to favor Florida. It urges federal regulation of Lake Okeechobee flood conditions and cites past dam age from navigational water levels. It notes a growing Florida prosperity and signals the Old Spanish Trail remains open from the East Coast to California with minimal ferry links.
The article notes watermelons were cultivated by Massachusetts tribes by 1629, Florida tribes by 1664, and western tribes by 1653, with Father Marquette observing red seeded melons. It explains rapid spread due to easy seed transport and native fondness for the fruit.
In a classroom scene a teacher tests a child named Leonard on a simple addition problem. Leonard answers by listing items he would buy, saying his father would have a graphophone, a new suit, a wireless set and new furniture after four weeks of saving five dollars weekly.
Capper's Weekly notes a practice where wives supervise raising their own husbands in China. It claims 12 year old boys may marry women aged 20 to 25, chosen by the groom's mother who uses the daughter-in-law as a household assistant. When the mother dies the wife aids the father-in-law in shaping the boy into a model husband.
The article notes that several trees require different growth periods: six to ten years for decorative trees like Norway spruce and balsam fir, twelve to twenty years for posts from locust and oak, and twenty-five to thirty years to produce telegraph and telephone poles. It cites the American Tree Association and Popular Science Monthly.
The article describes gorilla social life as monogamous and stable with family groups often lasting until death. Young stay with their parents, sometimes bringing mates to join the habitat. Naturalists say apes are not inherently ferocious and only attack in defense or when threatened.
A journey through Northern Florida passes by the Old Spanish Missions near energetic modern San Antonio. Once started, you can sleep outdoors and leave the motor outside. No more freezing until returning to the Northeast.
A speech frames the United States as a single empire from Alaska to Florida, rejecting militarism while warning against harsh approaches. The piece also notes a Massachusetts woman, sixty, who marries her twenty one year old Sunday school pupil, drawing widespread criticism. The boy’s mother laments for him as sensible commentary counters the decision.
The piece contrasts laughing at Papuan dogs teeth used as money with American shell and tooth charms. It notes ivory carved objects and bone as civilized treasures, and questions taste in beauty from dogs teeth to turtle shells, pearl oysters, conch cameos, and the phrase clean as a hound's tooth.
Popular Mechanics Magazine notes railroads salvage old metal roofing containers and junk to produce tin buckets cups and other articles. Old broom handles become signal staffs and canvas becomes cab curtains and aprons. Thrift efforts save the carriers hundreds of thousands of dollars annually per the American Railway Association.
Historical endorsement praises Dr Caldwell's laxative syrup pepsin for constipation biliary issues and indigestion. Claims simple vegetable laxatives herbs and pepsin provide safe mild relief for all ages with no narcotics and bottles lasting months. Free trial offer via Monticello Illinois address.
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