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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1920
Page
4
In Glen Station Reichle P D expresses busy week crafting goods to bring happiness to friends. He hopes readers feel joy as they receive best wishes for a Merry Christmas and God's blessings. Rhodes Wilhelm ran a brief errand.
A minstrel lad sings of a fair high-born girl who gives her heart as a Christmas gift. The chorus calls joy bells to ring and minstrels to sing, blessing love and Christmas cheer throughout the year.
Reports from Melrose area recount daily life and travel: residents visiting towns such as Rock Creek and Lima, Rev. T Clifford conducting masses in multiple places, families moving into the Swain house, new foundations being laid by John Waters, and several residents including Fay Gransberry and Elsie Garrison making or returning from trips to Dillon and Butte.
A letter from the Oregon Herald mocks Henry Ford by saying the inventor should focus on selling porterhouse steaks rather than lowering car prices. The piece notes Ford’s rumored price-cut talk and lampoons the idea with a culinary twist.
Sheridan News details a Christmas program at the local schools with living pictures and musical numbers, praises teachers Mrs. Paul Duncan and others, notes basketball wins by the Sheridan high teams 32 to 28 and 7 to 2, and reports Mrs. Mary Nesbitt’s 93rd birthday at her Nesbitt ranch home with family attendance and long residence in Sheridan.
A Detroit Free Press account notes a hill near Port Arthur bearing a grand Japanese memorial for 22 000 Japanese soldiers buried in unmarked trenches and another hill with 15 000 Russians commemorated. It recalls the siege that began fifteen years ago and lasted almost a year.
The December crop report from the U S Bureau of Crop Estimates notes a drop in winter wheat and rye plantings in Montana. Winter wheat acreage fell to about 292 000 acres, 65 percent of last year, with rye at 58 000 acres. The report cites low prices high costs and moisture shortages as causes and highlights favorable livestock ranges and weather for fall farm work.
European districts face famine and disease with millions of children at risk. Eight American relief groups unite as the European Relief Council to raise 83 million dollars for aid before a severe winter. Organizations include the American Relief Administration, Red Cross, Quakers, Joint Distribution Committee, Federal Council of Churches, Knights of Columbus, YM and YWCA.
In Kansag City Star reportage, Hon. Thomas Rott challenges Mr. Gloom to name the many friends who urged action. J Fuller Gloom counters with a demand for names amid the heated exchange.
The Concordia Kansas Blade-Empire notes that harvest participants faced a tough season avoiding distractions from enticing advertised trips to Europe, which threatened timely gathering of the wheat crop.
Mary McNeil Fenollosa writes in the Craftsman that Christmas shines in every babe and soul light and pain unite as the Christ-child lives again. Wise men seek the star in the East as prophecy and death meet in the Christ child’s journey.
In Highland Wisconsin the press notes that law declares the husband as head of the house. The item stresses this interpretation and emphasizes clarification that no other structure is implied.
Western Motor Supply Co. offers winter storage at three dollars and fifty cents per month. T. D. Moran is the proprietor.
Miss Delia Dorchester is confined to her home by illness. Mose Smyth traveled to Butte on business. Mrs. J. R. Crook of Brown's shopped in town. Frank Paul visiting Missoula students for holidays. Hugh Anderson and Aldin Telin home from Missoula. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kellum and Polaris children in town. F. F. Nash of Roseburg Oregon visiting Nina Nash. Miss Alice Russell of the Training school to Helena for holidays.
Allie Hewes was in Cimarron recentley with a broken knuckle. He claimed the injury occurred when a cow kicked him. His father says Allie does not milking and that the cow was sold. he adds the cow did not kick.
In Glarus Wisconsin readers note a fashion clash as short skirts rise and bootmakers respond with thigh-topped boots, signaling a evolving style dynamic in the local scene.
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