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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1921
Page
4
The Luxemburg Zeiting reports on cosmopolitan spirit at parade ground events July 14 France, July 20 Belgium, and a Luxembourg evening. Attendees filled the space with enthusiastic patriotism, applauding loudly as Luxemburg music echoed, proving national sentiment runs deep beyond borders.
Ranch listing describes 1129 acres suitable for cattle or sheep above Ralstons with log buildings, hay land, good water, shelter brush, and forest permit. Price 12000 dollars, 44 cash, balance on time at 6 percent.
Capt Rutherford comments on prohibition and whisky prices at Chevy Chase last month. He jokes about treating at banquets and recalls a humorous near-arrest with a friend named Rogers during a chance exchange about alcohol.
The article notes doctors influence baby names, citing Elizabeth Ann named after a spur of the moment question. Nurses report observant practice, with Elizabeth Ann pleasing parents who decide the name. similar instances include Thomas James on Long Island and Alfred Henry in Mount Vernon.
A 1919 Bombay coroner report lists methods of suicide: six cut throats, 28 drowned, four hanged, 15 jumped from windows, 20 used poison, four shot, eight burned. Drowning led, while self poisoning was dominant in 1918 with 21 cases. Stabbing and wall banging are noted as scarcely used in recent years.
A Massachusetts inventor designs a machine that uses two opposed belt faces to soften leather. The hide is placed on a metal plate and inserted between belts. the upper belt is pressed down, replacing traditional graining boarding and staking, a normally laborious manual process.
A Massachusetts inventor introduces a glove cleaning machine that resembles an ice cream freezer. Soiled gloves are dropped into cleaning fluid and spun by a perforated blade. after about three minutes of turning the handle the gloves emerge spotless.
Sheridan notes a quiet New Year with dinners and gatherings at the Gentry and Cunningham households, hosting Rev. and Mrs. Cunningham and others. Edmund J. Watters, longtime Bedford mine superintendent, died of a brain hemorrhage in Lesterville after visiting with Dan Sundridge. funeral held at the Catholic church with burial preparations led by Rodney Herndon. J. E. Watters of Boise is a surviving son, and other family members traveled to Dillon and back.
A Columbus family outing Sunday night featured an oddly bright display of fireflies along country roads. Four-year-old William Jason Tucker quipped that fireflies have headlights in their stomachs, provoking laughter as his sister asked about the insects’ glow.
The records describe St. Louis as the largest horse and mule market in the world with Kansas City listed as the second largest. The text emphasizes market prominence of these two cities in the industry.
An elderly countryman on a Broadway curb faces a street crowded with streetcars trucks and cars. He recalls past fears of horses and trains as a steam roller passes, declaring New York a great city and that some things still surprise him.
A Bahar style tale from Rehoboth Sunday Herald recounts a man accused of a private drive for relief. The caliph questions the charge and shows pity, noting the man, a middle class citizen with a large family, has faced heavy costs and burdens. The judge opts for compassion and mental restoration.
France's 83 year old Mme Hemery, a charwoman, first flew in 1878 after ballooning fascination. She has encouraged younger generations to use locomotion, plans to loop the loop once funds permit, and surprised her grandchildren with her airborne hobby.
The Cincinnati Enquirer ponders how many civilizations rose and fell before Sargon and what portions of art literature science philosophy religion we deem new but were already old in those distant days.
The Canadian and U S fisheries agencies report a chinook salmon caught in a British Columbia river with an aluminum tag marked B F 1911. The tag was used in migration studies along Puget Sound and Fraser River, attached at Point Partridge Whitbey Island in 1918, suggesting two year journey far from the sea and about 600 miles by water.
Louis Ruth manager of B F Keiths orchestra asked a local piano tuner to tune the Keiths piano to four forty a standard tone for theaters. A day passed with the piano still untuned and Ruth complained the tuner had not touched it. The tuner said he was there late yesterday and could not get in.
An international institute of agriculture bulletin reports northern hemisphere wheat and rye totaling 62,400,000 metric tons, up from 61,700,000 last year. Barley output rose, oats up 21 percent, Southern Europe maize and American maize both higher, beet sugar yield favorable, and a 400,000 ton wheat export from British India urged by the institute.
The saying encourages viewing errors as lessons that sharpen effort. It warns against arrogance or idleness, noting that facing mistakes builds character and resilience through steady learning.
Dr L Haden reports to The Lancet that Russia is swept by typhus relapsing fever and cholera with widespread small pox. He warns of a formidable epidemic next winter unless urgent, effective action is taken. The League of Nations council has prepared a program and appointed commissioners but awaits funding from nations, Britain and Canada among those contributing.
A brief note recalls Ming dynasty bank notes with the warning who makes a copy of this will have his head cut off. The countenanced threat was not idle, unlike the fantastical scenes in Lewis Carroll.
A pithy quotation reflects on social irony as people laugh behind others and, in turn, face laughter from others. The note attributes the line to a Cincinnati Enquirer mention.
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