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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1919
Page
3
Community brief listing includeins insurance ads Magnu s and Mutual Life and Tattersall advertising goods services and real estate transfers. People like H A Dowling Carl Decker J W Scott and J J Smith appear with travel visits sales abstracts and land dealings in Dillon Montana during the week.
Transfer records from the Beaverhead Abstract Company title books for the week ending January 11 1918 list property movements and grantee names in Dillon Montana with dates and parcel notes reflecting the local real estate activity of that period.
An advertisement recounts French casualties with 1 500 000 soldiers killed and half the army lost or wounded while praising France for liberty. It then sells Mayr's Wonderful Remedy, a stomach and intestinal treatment imported by Geo H Mayr, claiming cures for catarrhal mucus and related ailments. Potts druggist and others carry the product.
An eighteen-year-old Michigan factory worker recalls how two YWCA secretaries and crews of helpers built a dormitory setup with cots, towels, and hot lunches for forty arriving workers. They transformed bleak lodging into a humane aid system, earning the workers' gratitude as the YWCA’s Big Sister.
Four French government departments have asked the American YWCA to establish foyers and recreation centers for women workers. Sixteen centers operate in six cities, including three in Paris. The Paris foyer near the Seine offers bright rooms, reading and writing tables, a fireplace, and a kitchen for meals during two hour lunch breaks and social evenings with English classes.
The YWCA Hostess House at Camp Lewis Washington served 400000 diners in a year. Most were visitors such as mothers wives and sweethearts with 25000 children cared for in nursery and rest rooms. Information desk answered 97000 questions and 11000 required telephone coordination with commanders to locate visiting soldiers.
Porto Rico hosts its first cafeteria at the Y W C A Hostess House in Camp Las Casas. Natives crowded around amused by the American dishes. San Juan women volunteered weekly to mend socks and sew on buttons for soldiers.
The YWCA in Russia funded a Women's Cooperative Association in Moscow where princesses work with peasant women to produce dresses and millinery. Funds support self sufficiency for families and notable women, with orders taken at the association or at home. Her husband, a great general, benefited as prices and opportunities grew.
The French government expresses deep gratitude for YWCA efforts creating foyers for women workers in munition factories. The minister praises these clubs for improving physical conditions and morale, noting continued support to develop social solidarity beyond the war. Signed M. LOUCHIR.
Nurses at a Base Hospital in France produced a live silent Western style show without film or scenery. They invited nurses from a nearby hospital and acted bucking broncos and desert chases with improvised props. Countess Vacarescu of Roumania praised the performance amid improvised, camera-less entertainment.
In Archangel Russia YWCA secretaries facing shortages repurpose blue broadcloth skirts into curtains for a Hostess House aiding American troops. Archangel marks the fourth Russian city with YWCA aid after Petrograd Moscow and Samara. Miss Elizabeth Boles leads the Russian work and travels via England to recruit workers for famine era relief.
A second YWCA hostess house for wives and children of soldiers will open soon at Castner Hawaii to handle overflow from the first house. In a 15 day November period the facility entertained 2,152 visitors including Philippine Hawaiian Portuguese Spanish Russian Porto Rican Korean Japanese and American nationals.
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