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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1919
Page
14
The term junker denotes a noble Prussian aristocrat who serves in the officer corps and upholds feudal privileges. Since 1862 Germany’s aristocratic party gained power under Bismarck, and junkerism has come to symbolize reactionary aims, elitism, and a push to protect large estates and the officer corps from civilian influences.
A religious cult known as Babaism or Babism spreads after Turkish power breaks in Palestine. Abdul Baha Abbas Effendi, son of Bahaullah, leads the movement. Imprisoned in Akka for 40 years, he was released in 1908 and travels to France, England, and the United States promoting its doctrines. He tours the Orient and forms colonies in Chicago and Kenosha. The faith links with Christianity and Judaism.
Charley Brown, a 4 yard brakeman, profits by muskrat fur after war. Muskrats flood marshes around the Boston and Maine yards to Boston. A muskrat chewed grease at signal tower C, pinning the interlocking switch and halting an express train.
The belt along the Trans Siberian railway spans 6000 miles and houses about 20 million people. After the war German firms dominated foreign trade in Siberia, likely to push hard to regain access to general merchandise, rolling stock, and agricultural machinery. Yet eastern Siberia, though close to Germany geographically, will be best reached via Vladivostok once railway service is reorganized. The piece urges American attention to this commercial opening.
The Confused Hon Dr Thomas C Ely of Philadelphia tells a Fort McPherson tale of Lieut William Ely illustrating heroism of negro troops. A German officer captive says Americans fear no shells or gas as troops advance under heavy fire.
Yale University takes possession of the Noah Webster house at Grove and Temple streets as part of a scheme to repurpose the square bounded by Wall Temple Grove and College streets for Sheffield Scientific dormitories. The property once housed Webster during his New Haven years and later served as quarters for U S troops in war times. The transfer is tied to Frederick W. Van derbilt who funded large dormitories after graduating in 1876.
Lieut. Harry B. Henderson recalls a wartime letter from the Wyoming State Tribune describing a moment of levity. He notes a gunner in a Prince Isaac coat pushing a potato and dynamite filled baby buggy while under fire, and a vivid image of a paper weight Austrian shell with painted scenery.
Canadian papers report Japanese syndicate agents negotiating for the purchase of mines flour mills brickworks sawmills and other industrial undertakings in Siberia. Japanese firms newly established at Vladivostok are expanding operations to gain a larger share of regional trade while scouts scour Siberia and Manchuria for scrap iron hides wool bristles beans and other required products.
A spring unveiling will feature a heroic bronze statue of a man and horse on a Texas prairie. The sculpture memorializes Charles Noyes, a six foot four rancher killed in a range accident, modeled as he lived. Sculptor Pompeo Coppini also worked on Chicago’s monument to its heroes.
The eminent American diplomat Andrew D White, who died recently, owned one of the nation’s finest private libraries with about 40 000 volumes. He began collecting early in life focusing on world history and left the collection to Cornell University.
Before the conflict Russia needed about 6 million scythes annually with half from Siberia. About 4.5 million were imported and the rest made domestically. Now imports are closed and domestic industry is at a standstill with hardly any scythes available.
The Tribune in Dillon Montana partners with the U S Bureau of Naturalization to answer readers questions on naturalization laws declarations of intention petitions for naturalization citizenship rights and English classes. Questions must include name and address and ask to the Editor Americanization column.
Notice fixes March 7 1919 at 6 p m as the closing date to register for Dillon Beaverhead County Montana city election on April 7 1919. Electors must register if they did not vote last general election or moved wards. Registration before county clerk court house Dillon or before a justice of the peace or notary public. Vera M Baker county clerk registrar.
Electors who did not vote at the last general election and have not registered must register. The notice indicates a town meeting in Lima Beaverhead County on Monday April 7 1919 with the clerk at the courthouse handling the process as provided by law.
A flyer advertises a loan style investment on irrigated grain farming near Dillon Montana. It promises principal repayment plus 10 percent interest and 16 percent of net profits within nine months with profits estimated at 80 dollars per acre. Box 425 Dillon Montana. tf.
FOR SALE AN 8 ROOM 2 STORY brick house with hot water heating full size basement and attic within three minutes walk of business center Terms reasonable Apply A S Rife 207 Rife st Dillon Montana $1100 WANTED WOULD LIKE TO lease 200 or 300 acres of good irrigated grain land close to Dillon We have our own stock and equipment C P and Q Ranch company Inc Dillon Mont
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