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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1923
Page
5
Helena reports say Lester Lobel Democratic member from Lewis and Clark is targeted by vigilante threats and Ku Klux Klan intimidation. The danger is treated as harassment of a legislator with a free hand and no place for such actions.
The piece argues residents favor reducing state expenses over higher taxes. It contends the state grew too fast with excessive government machinery, many officers and clerks, and wasteful mileage costs. It says both parties share blame for past excess and urges slowing expansion to avoid ruin.
Representative H. G. Rodgers of this county has introduced four companion bills relating to the insurance of county city town and school district bonds and providing for a sinking fund to pay them. We believe Rodgers is headed in the right direction as many bond issues in other parts of the state are ill advised.
Investors warn that assets placed on the market can be quickly snapped up by unwary buyers, leaving them with regret and financial losses.
Dispatches describe York-Ye bor bounded on the west by the Ambrose light and revenue cutters and on the east by a flotilla of rum runners. The fragment notes tensions along the three mile limit with ongoing enforcement actions.
A growing demand for bootleggers to sample their own illegal alcohol is described as a body blow to bootlegging. The piece cautions that continued insistence could thin ranks despite Prohibition laws.
The article portrays the death of J C Sloan of Casper as swift justice for a murderer and robber. It casts Sloan as a reckless figure whose end serves as a cautionary tale for American youth and those who dream of outlaws like Jessie James.
Helena Independent recounts how W W Boyce, a Chicago businessman, met a Scout in London who refused a tip, inspiring Boyce to launch Scouting in the United States. The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated in 1909 and received a federal charter in 1910. By then 2,500,000 boys had joined, gaining discipline and citizenship.
A reader questions whether authentic cases exist of wolves killing humans. The letter to the Dillon Tribune asks readers to cite any genuine instances, referencing a Canadian tale of Indians killed by a wolf pack and inviting documented reports.
Mr. Poulter of Rodgers Bros Seed Co Idaho Falls will visit Dillon soon to sign contracts with farmers for the 1923 pea crop. The company favors Beaverhead Valley as a pea raising area.
The French healer Emile Coué, famed for the phrase Day by day in every way I am getting better and better, is visiting the United States to teach autogenous suggestion treatments. He claims repeated belief cures sickness and improves health.
Tom Olmstead of Dillon, son of Mr and Mrs T D Olmstead wins first place in the state Good Roads Essay Writing contest and ties for fourth in the national competition sponsored by Harvey S Firestone through the Highway Education Bureau. The essay argues road improvements boost farming, transport, and social life, noting gains in grain handling, land values, schools, and rural services.
Governor Dixon urges the legislature to pass new tax laws to raise over 5 million dollars and address a cumulative annual shortfall of 300 thousand. He calls for self sustaining state agencies, an income tax, increased levies on sectors including livestock and utilities, and a two percent gross income tax on utilities plus higher gasoline and crude oil taxes.
At Butte the Mountain States Telephone company will install a fully equipped repeater and toll test room at a cost of more than $35,000. The project aims to improve long distance service and testing capabilities.
A new oil company is established in Glasgow Montana with capital stock set at 20 000 shares. The note includes a personal quote from E W Howe on deceit and risk in business.
Cut this slip and mail with 5 cents to Foley & Co. for a trial package of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets Potts drug gist. Chicago Illinois address appears in advertisement.
Catarrh irritations worsen when health is poor, suggesting constitutional influence. Hall's Catarrh Medicine combines an ointment for local relief and an internal tonic to boost general health. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio.
Advertisement for abstract and title services by Southern Montana Abstract and Title Co in Dillon Montana led by Adv Frank Hazelbaker with promotional wording about prompt abstracts and completeness.
A sermon argues the nation faces three armies: six million illiterates over ten, sixty million unaffiliated with any church, and twenty eight million children not in Sabbath schools. It urges enlistment in a campaign to educate, regenerate, and train for church home and country. The call targets patriots to join this crusade.
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