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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1911
Page
7
The Tribune wishes readers a merry Christmas while noting a humorous mix of local incidents. It references a Butte Italian not using dum-dum bullets, a governor's fast drive in Indianapolis, sugar prices, a bank clerk trapped in a vault, and a light jab at sugar tax timing.
The piece urges readers to extend Christmas charity beyond family to the poor and needy. It advocates acting as Santa Claus for sick, aged, or widowed neighbors, reminding that giving fosters true Christian spirit and happiness from helping others.
The piece notes a plan for a new alfalfa product factory in the valley, highlighting the crop as highly valuable. It also references labor leadership dynamics, a sensational trial outcome involving show girls, a Pittsburgh infant’s bout with appendicitis, and snippets from the Anaconda Standard holiday issue including Dillon ads and merchant activity.
Detective Burns pursues suspects in a nine month campaign to destroy Fort Riley with dynamite and fire. The ongoing attacks have cost the government over one million dollars in damages and security efforts.
The Missoula Sentinel issued its holiday edition last Friday with sixty pages of content on Missoula county and Montana. It includes a color cover and many excellent pictures. It follows last Sunday's holiday issue of the Butte Mindr with fifty four pages of Montana topics and illustrations including a large Columbia Gardens photo from the Pioneer meeting and an early seventies birds eye view of Virginia City.
A collage of editorial takes on liquor laws drug enforcement and moral reform. Notes contrast prohibition limits with lawmaking impact. Figures like Taft Bryan Wilson Clark and La Follette appear amid a Chicago 1912 context.
New York reports a grim record as 77 aviators die in 1911, following the death of Lieut. Thomas E Selfridge in 1908. The year’s fatalities surpass the totals of 1908 through 1910 combined, with 77 deaths this year and 32 in 1910.
Bond & Bond promotes Heinz apple butter and mince meat in all sizes. The famous 57 varieties slogan anchors the advertisement highlighting product range for shoppers.
President Taft sent a message to the Senate requesting ratification to terminate the 1832 treaty with Russia due to alleged discrimination against American Jews. The Senate soon ratified the notice of termination as debates centered on Russian treatment of Jews and the Lodge substitution for Sulzer.
Mrs Jeanette Kimball Lawrence died in Salt Lake City on the 16th after a long illness of heart trouble with complications. Born February 27 1842 in Warsaw Illinois she came to the valley in 1849 two years after its first settlement and was wife of Henry W Lawrence commissioner elect. She leaves one daughter and six sons.
Reports say Chas. Burnt, a rancher thirty miles east of Colorado Springs, shook his wife after she refused to help dig a well, breaking her neck. He surrendered after doctors confirmed her death.
Frank J. Cheney swears as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo to pay one hundred dollars for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notice states the internal remedy works on blood and mucous surfaces and invites testimonials. Sold by all druggists for 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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