Local and Personal News Briefs From Dillon
Roy Ayers visited the city from Divide this week. Miss Lelia Graves of Bannack is in town visiting relatives. A Hedden left for New York to buy goods for the Golden Rule store. Rita Evans of Roberts Idaho visits Charles and Mrs Price. J T Cox and family plan an extended trip to California. Mrs Frank Landon returned from Ogden Hot Springs. Mr and Mrs William Orr visit Helena and attended the inaugural ball. Jean Bishop enters college after holidays. Union church services planned for Sunday and a week of revival. Mrs Clark Anderson to Los Angeles for two months. Dr Morton Egbert left Dillon for the east for a two week trip. J F Bishop and Jean Bishop plan a three month trip to the southern states via Panama Canal.
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Roy Ayers
Divide
Lelia Graves
Bannack
A. T. Hedden
New York
Golden Rule
Rita’ Evans
Roberts
Idaho
Charles Price
Inquire
South Dakota Street
Carrie Telin
South Atlantic Street
J. T. Cox
Missoula
California
Frank Landon
Ogden Hot Springs
J. F. Bishop
Jean Bishop
Panama Canal Zone
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Promoted in Ad
An advertisement touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as superior for coughs and colds. It claims the remedy is pleasant to take, free of opium or narcotics, and always cures, with sale through all dealers.
Grand Right and Left Swing Dry Farmers Dance
A dry farmers dance is scheduled for January 11 at Burfiend hall. It features old folks music and old time quadrilles, promising a life time treat for dancers old and young, with an invitation extended to all.
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Missouri
Burfiend Hall
Buckthorn Bark Remedy Alderika Claims Quick Gas Relief
An advertisement notes a single dose of buckthorn bark glycerine and Alderika relieves stomach gas and constipation. A Potts, druggist, promotes the German appendicitis remedy in this classified brief.
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Dillon
A. Potts
Boy Treed by a Lion Near Georgetown
Jan. 5 report from Anaconda details young Eastrum living on a mining claim near Georgetown found 20 miles west. His feet were severely frozen after he walked four miles for the mail. He climbed a tree to escape a lion at the base as temperatures dropped 20 degrees below zero. his condition is feared serious.
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Eastrum
Georgetown
Chronic Constipation Cured by Chamberlain's Tablets
A Brooklyn Michigan resident, F. F. Fish, claims a five year severe constipation was cured by Chamberlain's Tablets. Ad copy notes the medicine is for sale by all dealers.
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Chamberlain
F. Fish
Brooklyn
Mich
For Sale Stove and Range Advertisement
For sale one favorite range with reservoir and coal heater in good condition offered as gold cheap. Sold by J. W. Forsgren at Forsgreff and Thomas Store in the advertised notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Forsgren
Forsgreff and
Thomas Store
Eighth Grade Examinations Set for Dillon and Wisdom
Notice lists examinations to be held Wednesday and Thursday January 15 and 16 in Dillon and Wisdom. Margaret Ross County Superintendent. Also notes rise in purse snatching and holdups in Kansas City with harsh orders for police to capture offenders dead or alive, granting ten days paid vacation for each capture.
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Dillon and Wisdom
Margaret Ross
Kansas City
Parcel Post Unit System Begins New Year
The new parcel post law allows any U S resident to mail merchandise up to eleven pounds and six feet in combined length and girth. Senders must personally bring packages to regular post office stations for processing and delivery will follow in wagons like the letter service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Parcel Post Service Expands With Eight Zone System
The article explains eight parcel post zones, with New York in zone one and Buffalo in zone two, and outlines how clerks weigh parcels and quote postage. It notes a 75 cent guide map, insurance up to $50, and items not accepted such as intoxicants and firearms. It highlights benefits for farmers shipping eggs and other produce and predicts parcel post will affect express carriers.
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Pargel
Parcel Post
Diagram of Parcel Post Zones From Chicago Map
The article describes a proposed parcel post zone system inaugurated Jan 1 with eight zones. It explains zone radii from 50 to 1,800 miles, base rates 5 to 12 cents for the first pound, plus extra per pound, plus a 1 cent per ounce rate for packages four ounces or less, and mentions maps guides and unit divisions for post offices nationwide.
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Chicago
Philippines
Island
Buffalo
Wireless Phone a Success from Harvard Professor
Assistant Professor G. W. Pierce of Harvard physics devised a wireless telephone instrument capable of long distance communication. The device earned endorsement from John Hays Hammond Jr at his Gloucester Fresh Water Cove lab. Experiments sent wireless power about fifty feet up and connected Pierce to the Harvard Wireless club thirty five miles away for a fifteen minute talk.
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Harvard
G. W. Pierce
Department of Physics
John Hays Hammond
Pierce
Hammond
Gloucester
Fresh Water Cove
Harvard Wireless Club
At 80 Gives Health Rules Enjoy Yourself and Ignore Diet Tables
Sir George Birdwood, 80, offers views on aging. His maxims urge not to worry about health, to enjoy life, and to ignore strict dietary tables. He mocks a two-egg bread and butter regimen as not worth living, insisting the aim is to live well rather than long.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Birdwood
Legion of Honor
French Academy
Bombay
Sir George
Russia's Biggest Forgery Ring Nabbed in Moscow Case
Russia's secret police chase a vast counterfeiting operation moving notes through Moscow and abroad. Four captured men Dunaievsky Bemronev Liebenthal and Rochlin hold forged notes totaling nearly 250000 rubles. Interrogations yield no factory details. two suspects linked to France remain under scrutiny.
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Russia
Dunaievsky
8Emonev
Liebenthal
Rochlin
France
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Uniting
M. E. Church
New York City
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Alaska
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Erin W Bey Ceweid
Peter Everaenenee
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Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
H. E. McAfee
Dillon Furniture Company
G. T. Paul
the Tribune
America
Europe
First — National Bank of Dillon
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Rochester, N.Y
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Harlow, Pease
Roy B. Stephenson
Pease & Stephenson
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Parisian Dye House
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