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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1920
Page
9
Notices rates for church events and obituaries
Notice printed at the Dillon Postoffice specifies second class mail. It states that notices of church festivals fairs dancing parties concerts sociables suppers with admission fees or profits from sales will be charged five cents per line. Card of thanks obituary poetry are also five cents per line.
Blame and Relief Amid Paper Stock Shortage Debate
A Portland card printer notes a sixty day price rise for 2x8% inch cards and calls middlemen who control paper stock the cause. The piece argues for more mills and relief from labor shortages while urging curbs on profiteering by paper jobbers and distribution firms.
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Congressional
House Journal
Sugar replaces alcohol after prohibition enforcement
Increased sugar use in confectionery and other forms substitutes for alcohol as an effect of enforced prohibition. The report notes per capita consumption rising in response to saloon closures and temperance policies.
Sugar consumption surge noted in United States report
The United States Sugar Equalization Board reports per capita sugar use rising to about 14 pounds above 1918 with domestic consumption reaching 4,601,000 tons in the year. This marks a 7,000 ton rise from 1918 and well above prior records, prompting questions about a luxury tax amid high sugar use.
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United. “States
Equalizati Board
Beav erhead high seeks dormitory bond to aid non resident students
The board proposes a $70 000 dormitory bond to provide low cost housing and supervision for out of town high school students in Beaverhead county. At 6 percent interest the levy would be 55 cents per thousand dollars of taxable value, payable over twenty years, with the dormitory expected to become self supporting after start up. Next week the home needs of out of town students will be discussed.
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Beaverhead County
Beaverhead County Heads to State Basketball and Speech Contests
Beaverhead County high school plans strong showings in the upcoming Mining district tournament in Butte February 26 to 28. Teams from Butte Helena Missoula Anaconda Dillon Philipsburg and Boulder compete. Dillon aims for success in the extemporaneous speaking contest with two entrants. The district winner advances to the state finals in Bozeman on March 14.
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Butte
Helena
Missoula
Anaconda
Dillon
Philipsburg
Boulder
Beaverhead County
Bozeman
Beaverhead Beats Freshmen in Lopsided High School Game
Beaverhead defeated the freshmen team at the local high school gym Saturday evening. The Beaverhead quintet showed marked improvement in teamwork and shooting as the game progressed.
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Beaverhead
Student Association appoints committees at meeting
Stars of the evening included Starbuck and Lee for the Mines with Hatfield Hildreth and W Smith scoring most of the winner’s points. President Wyman Smith announced committees in social literary censor athletic and finance with members listed and duties outlined.
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Iyick
Starbuck
Lee
Hatfield, Hildreth
W. Smith
Students’ Association
Wyman Smith
Catherine Jones
Jewell Clapp
Edwin Whitworth
Henry Wilcomb
Miss Connell
Dagmar Nelson
Jeanette Garver
Lester Opp
Ella Free
Miss Lane
Geraldine Smith
Ralph Nelson
Emery Smith
Daisy Moran
Miss Dillon
Aldin Telin
Frank Hatfield
Lee Williams
Frank Sweeney
Mr. Knudson
Alice Stewart
Albert Nelson
Annabel Desmond
Clifford Thompson
Miss Lehr
Marie Roger
Currency melted in China coins flow to be melted for metal
War price spikes drive locals to buy coins to melt for brass and copper, hindering circulation. Authorities outlawed the practice, but wheelbarrows still haul coins to the melting pits in cities like Tsinan and Tsingtao. The article recalls 3,000 years of Chinese cash evolving from knife and axe shapes to round holed coins.
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Tsinan
Txingtao
China
Floors 160-Year-Old Pine Survive Demolition
In Pike County Pennsylvania workers uncover pitch pine floorboards 160 years old when an old house is torn down. The planks measure two feet in width and about one and a quarter inches thick, astonishing the carpenters.
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Pike County
Pennsylvania
American Forestry Magazine of
Washington
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Offers Reward and Cure Claim
An early 1900s advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine with a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh. It claims blood-borne action, quick health improvement, and urges readers to begin taking the remedy, with a Toledo, Ohio address for F. J. Cheney & Co and nationwide availability.
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Hall
Wall
Tee
F. J. Cheney
Foley's Honey and Tar Stops That Distressing Cough
An old Spokane woman testifies Foley's Honey and Tar stopped her bad cough quickly and soothed inflamed throat. She praises the genuine product from Potts Drug Store and warns against imitations.
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Seale
Mary Kisby
Spokane
Foley
Potts
Training School Notes From Dillon February 19 1920
School notes report final plans for a new building with spring start, strong language and grammar course nearing completion, and record Junior High enrollment of 126. incidents include a pupil breaking a tibia, illness of the assistant janitor, and a trout fishing feat of 15 in 30 minutes. Lincoln birthday treated with ice cream. school closed February 12. Convocation plans, Proverb game in 8B, kindergarten entertainment, rural transport by Mr Crouse, and good road conditions.
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Dillon
George Drake
E. K. Frye
Lincoln
Crouse
East Beach
Opening Gun In Field Work Campaign In Montana
The Montana Development association launches its field work campaign with meetings in Glendive and Sidney. C W Fowler outlines the association history growth and goals while Robert C Line discusses issues for merchants farmers and the public. Line will tour statewide as the campaign speaker to educate Montanans and foster closer understanding.
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Montana Development Association
Glendive
Sidney
Association
C. W. Fowler
Robert C. Line
Miles City
Fowler
Line
Ings
For Sale Ranch and Stock Operation in Dillon Montana
For sale a 460 acre improved irrigated hay and grain stock ranch with fine water rights, open range, and brush and water. A paying going concern near station and market. Price and terms on application. Contact C. C. Newman at 8 9 Metlen Hotel Dillon Mont.
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C. C. Newman
Metlen
Dillon
Mont
Strikes in 1919 Hit Montana Harder Than Most States
The 1919 strike wave totaled 580 actions nationwide with worker losses around 723 million dollars and employer losses about 1.27 billion. Montana’s share was nominal overall, but Butte Anaconda and Great Falls bore the largest impact within the state.
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United States
Montana
Butte
Anaconda
Great Falls
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