This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 19 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
4
Readers are invited to send correspondence to the Tribune editor. The note outlines that letters addressed to the Editor TRIBUNE are intended for editorial consideration.
The post office department rules require prepayment of subscriptions by January 1 next year or papers will lose second class mailing status and incur one cent per unpaid copy. Wrapping and stamping costs force discontinuation without six months’ advance receipt by January 1, 1908. Tribune Pub Co.
The Tribune wishes readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The column praises Dillon and surrounding Treasure State county for an anticipated era of prosperity and optimistic prospects for the city and region.
A brief notice invites attendees to attend the sugar beet meeting scheduled for next Thursday afternoon. The event details include no location or organizer in the readable text.
Inquiries to banks, assessors, and postmasters show sugar beet sites boosting farm finances. Reports indicate average per acre gross proceeds of 69.40 and rising interest in beet farming. Mortgages mostly declined since factory openings, with some areas showing higher purchases by renters.
The report notes land values rising from $34.28 to $75.55 per acre as beet sugar facilities spread, with increases averaging 124 percent. The gains extend to merchants and real estate men, benefiting the whole community, while preventing a single trust by requiring farmer participation and dispersed factories.
The Montana Legislature passed a law making it a crime to publish misleading mining property statements and to advertise quack medical services. The paper argues for further limits on fortune telling ads, noting widespread sensational notices in Montana dailies and calls for protecting the public from such solicitations.
Frank Starr of the University of Chicago argued in a Chicago church that Filipinos are capable of self-government. He compared cultural practices and noted that condemnation of dog meat does not prove incapacity for governance. The piece ends with a permissive view on Filipino self-rule and questions U.S. involvement.
A vivid city note recalls a Butte football game last Saturday praised as the finest spectacle in the west with about a thousand attendees. Reporters describe the event as an unparalleled display of sporting grandeur that thrilled local fans and stirred regional pride.
A rousing but brutal game left four players with broken noses and a broken collar bone, one woozy and unconscious, others exhausted yet sent back in. Physicians offered hope as nerves strained and ligaments tore, with bruises and injuries tallying high. Butte had funded the event, yet refuses a six-round sporting match.
The article argues that promoting sugar beet culture is essential for the city and would greatly enhance the prospects for a YMCA. It warns against spending all enthusiasm on a YMCA while neglecting agricultural development that could double the population and ease YMCA promotion.
The McCutcheon tour of Salmon Idaho diverted attention from a proposed electric line. Locals believe the Armstead Gilmore railroad would be built far beyond the reach of the shorter electric project, potentially extending hundreds of miles compared with the electric line.
Opinion notes that opposing Dillon Y M C A is misguided while pointing out the town keeps eleven saloons funded by the same money. The remark emphasizes frugality and reform in local spending.
Advertisement at the top of her voice signals a bargain nest, while the Twin Bridges Monitor notes Christmas spirit can be enjoyed in unlimited quantity but should be regulated. The Missoulian echoes the call for mindful festive indulgence.
The Butte Inter Mountain reports Miss Lucinda Buck from Dillon, a Normal College graduate, wed J W Scott of Helena, a veteran journalist with The Montana Lookout, on Wednesday afternoon. Friends here send warm wishes.
A cautious buyer can secure a Dillon home at a lower price today than in the coming years while noting current prices exceed prior records. The prudent buyer should act promptly to lock in a favorable deal.
The piece notes post office receipts for subscribers, promises a new sugar beet factory and depot, and urges Dillon to push for the Short Line shops and division point. It praises Livingston Post and Fergus County Argus, and calls for community booster efforts in 1909.
Short clipping presents light humor about Christmas chores and gifts. A girl hangs mistletoe as stockings end, a banner note tethers giving over receiving, and a quip about English heating terms and a clever advertising anecdote with a hen laying an egg.
Toigo Ohio February 1886 Frank J Cheney swears his Toledo firm will pay one hundred dollars for each cured catarrh case. Hall's Catarrh Cure claims to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Notary A W Guieason seals oath.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.