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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1920
Page
2
Buffalo scene recounts bootleg methods from Maine enforcement veteran J M Evans. He describes hidden depots in lumber yards and under porches, beeze schemes, fountain syringes, and pocket routes as wartime era smuggling evolved.
A narrator recounts a religious ascetic in India who endures pain for spiritual gain while discussing prohibitions era liquor tricks. The piece describes hidden saloon hides, ammonia and whisky schemes, and illegal beer sales under federal licenses, noting enforcement quirks and skepticism about nationwide Prohibition.
Berlin reports a minister of education order removing pictures of the Kaiser and the Hohenzollerns from German textbooks. Anecdotes praising the dynasty are barred to prevent monarchist ideas among pupils.
Pinehurst North Carolina spectators watched Miss Metcalf Keating of the Agawam Hunt club drive a ball onto railroad tracks near the clubhouse. The engineer saw the ball rest on the rails and halted the train to allow a safe recovery shot before continuing northward.
A Pittsburgh sale lists a wagon at 13 dollars, the harness at 9.50, and the horse at 9 dollars. The article notes Sweden's physician billing practices and a French inventors memoranium tag for watch trees alongside the Persian royal crown described as a pot of flowers with a large ruby.
Peggy Marsh a former London chorus girl sues for a share of Chicago magnate Marshall Field's estate. She claims Henry Field, Field's grandson, fathered her three year old son Henry Anthony Marsh. A photograph shows the child in Norfolk England barnyard.
The author argues that few stay well rounded characters as they rise or fall in status. A swollen ego and self pity undermine progress, while self discipline and constructing ideal opposites help overcome weaknesses. Contact with others highlights flaws, so one should replace weakness with ambition and strive toward improvement.
In a Birmingham Age-Herald style note, Uncle Hiram Witherbee recalls a promoter from the East who vowed to put Chig gersville on the map. He was tracked by detectives and arrested, with the date line appearing in newspapers across the country.
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