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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1919
Page
11
Local items show people visiting, insurance pitches with Magnus, farm loan and abstract services, and multiple real estate deeds and notices. Entries mention Tattersall's goods, Butte trips, influenza illness, and several residents moving to California or other towns.
Real estate transfers listed for the week ending January 11 1918 recorded in the Beaverhead Abstract Company title books. Transfers involve multiple properties with buyer and seller names and parcel locations within the county.
A dramatic appeal notes heavy French losses in battle and praises France for liberty despite casualties. It touts Mayr's Wonderful Remedy, allegedly imported by Geo. H. Mayr, as a cure for stomach liver and intestinal disorders with claims of universal benefit and money back guarantee. Potts druggist and other outlets are named as sellers.
A seventeen year old factory worker recalls how YWCA secretaries and helpers brought hot lunches, clean cots, towels, and comfort to 400 girls housed in farmhouses, tents, and cars near a Michigan plant. They organized double shifts, built burlap shelters, and supplied meals and beds, earning the workers calling the YWCA their Big Sister.
Four government departments have asked the American Y W C A to run foyers and procreation centers for girls employed in finance commerce war and labor Lieutenant Poncet of the Ministry of Labor requested the Y W C A begin work for girls in offices after seeing existing social and recreation centers opened at the War Ministry. Sixteen centers operate in six cities including three in Paris. The last Foyers des Alifees serves Labor Department workers along the Seine under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower overlooking the Louvre. The rooms are bright with chintz hangings cushions reading and writing tables and a fireplace. A kitchen helps girls prepare meals for themselves. They use the foyer for two hour lunches social evenings and English classes.
At Camp Lewis Washington the YWCA Hostess House served 400000 visitors including mothers wives sweethearts and friends who visited soldiers along with 25000 children cared for in nursery and rest rooms. The information desk answered 97000 questions and 11000 calls aided locating soldiers whose parents arrived unexpectedly.
The first cafeteria on Porto Rico was opened at the Y W C A Hostess House in Camp Las Casas. Natives crowded around amused by the American dishes. A San Juan group of women offered weekly sewing and mending for soldiers.
The YWCA era in Russia features Moscow’s first Women’s Co operative Association where princesses and peasant women work together on dresses and hats to fund self sufficiency. The venture supports families and individuals by providing permanent work, with women selling handiwork or taking orders at the society’s rooms or at home.
The French government expresses sincere gratitude for YWCA efforts in creating foyers for women workers in government factories. The letter notes these clubrooms improve physical conditions and morale, offer dignity and social education, and urges continued work to develop social solidarity beyond the war. Signed M. Louchir, Minister of Arms and Munitions Manufacture.
Nurses at a Base Hospital in France staged a living wild west film for fellow nurses due to lack of film and scenery. Countess Vacarescu of Roumania attended and praised the improvised entertainment.
In Archangel Russia YWCA secretaries convert blue broadcloth skirts into window curtains to outfit a Hostess House for American troops amid shortages. Archangel marks the fourth Russian city with YWCA work after Petrograd Moscow and Samara. Miss Elizabeth Boles, head of Russian work, travels via England to recruit workers for Russia.
A second YWCA Hostess House for wives and children of soldiers will open soon at Castner in the Hawaiian Islands to ease overflow from the first house. In 15 days in November the camp entertained 2,152 visitors from Philippine Hawaiian Portuguese Spanish Russian Porto Rican Korean Japanese and American nationalities.
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