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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1924
Page
5
A hostess hosts a lively New Year’s Eve gathering with bridge mah jong and music. Curtiss Wright challenges the party by opposing drinking and reveals quirky conversations about goldfish and mermaids as guests tease each other. The tale ends with a cliffhanger promising continuation.
In Cosmopolitan’s December issue Ray Chapman Andrews argues Fifth Avenue is more perilous than the Gobi Desert. He notes heavy urban crime and accidents, cites sending accident insurance from China, and recalls a perilous Newark drive.
A Montana roundup reports varied activity including hogs shipped from Lewistown, turkeys moved from Great Falls and Billings, and oil field drilling by Kevin Sunburst. Industry lifts include $1.5 million sugar factory gravel work in Sidney and a $40 million railroad equipment purchase affecting Northwest business.
Inez Harden of Mississippi won over 350000 competitors as the most perfect farm girl in the United States for 1924. She is 16 years old, 5 ft 2 in, weighs 11734 pounds, drinks a quart of milk daily, and sleeps 10 hours nightly. She scored 99.04 percent perfect.
2080 acres closed and 1280 acres outside leased pasture with springs inside and outside. Central field area never freezes with miles of foothill grazing and light snow fall. Ideal lambing site. Details to James Kirkpatrick Box 397 Dillon Montana.
A promotional ad offers a ten cent bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds, plus free sample Foley Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets. Send ten cents and name and address to Foley & Co. in Chicago to receive the products.
Medicine Lake reports 480000 bushels shipped with 80 percent corn. Libby predicts exceptional mining in 1925. Wolf Point anticipates over 100 hog carloads from Roosevelt county this year valued at 2500 per car. Great Falls notes October pipeline deliveries from Cat Creek and Kevin Sunburst fields. Whitefish council approves free water lights and rink caretaker. Missoula crew begins Iron Mountain mine work to ship ore to Butte.
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