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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1913
Page
7
The February 1 ballot asks Dillon residents to approve bonds not exceeding 5 percent interest for up to 20 years to build and equip a larger central school. With crowded facilities, plans call for tearing down the old wing and adding twelve modern rooms to create a sixteen-room complex in a prime location.
The Dillon school board argues a ward building is costly but needed as current facilities are subpar. A ready site exists for the addition, with running separate schools costing more. the Tribune foresees an almost unanimous affirmative vote tomorrow and promises next week coverage.
Montana barley wins top prizes at national expositions in Salt Lake City and New York. Gallatin County receives awards for finest barley while Germany notes U S barley quality. Montana barley exports reach Germany, England, Australia and Japan.
W J Bryan argues in the Commoner that a president elect should not fill cabinet posts as payment for loyal service. He stresses that cabinets are responsible positions for the future, not rewards for past political effort. The individual counts little. the cause counts most in choosing officials.
Dr. Stewart Paton of Princeton argues in support of rising insanity levels saying there are more insane persons than students and they outnumber military branches. He claims insanity manifests in 27 varieties and no two patients share the same form, noting anyone may become insane at any time.
Frank Perrault with sisters Delta and Eleanore and Hans Albright with Miss Marie and Miss Blanche Moore traveled to Dillon last Sunday and returned the same evening. They called the trip pleasant though a trifle chilly on the return.
An admirer at Roosevelt’s inauguration called it Sangly immense. A Watson man replied noting Wilson’s upcoming inauguration would be immensely simple.
John C. McCarthy of Bozeman arrived in Washington with Montana's electoral vote and filed it with the secretary of state. He received mileage compensation at 25 cents per mile for the trip.
In 1910 a New York grand jury examined white slave traffic and led to a permanent Bureau of Social Hygiene. Miss Nathanine Bement Davis heads a Bedford Hills Laboratory of Social Hygiene to study reformable inmates, while George J. Kneeland and Abraham Flexner supervise comprehensive citywide inquiries into vice. The aim is humane, scientific methods to curb crime and vice.
Great water damage north of Vicksburg on the east side of the Mississippi River. Last Saturday the flood inundated lowlands destroying crops and forcing hundreds of families to higher ground. Engineers estimate at least 1,000 square miles of plantations and swamps will flood as 1,500 workers including state convicts work to seal the break under Maj. J. A. Woodruff. News of the breach travels by telegraph and horseback messengers to plantations south and east seeking to save livestock from drowning.
During the 1745 rebellion a high lander acquires a watch. He finds it strange and beautiful but it stops after he buys it back from a purchaser who learns the watch died the night before. The tale turns on a grim twist of fortune.
Advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional disease and cannot be cured by local applications. It endorses Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally to purify blood and mucous membranes, noting it was prescribed by leading physicians and is a regular prescription. Sold by druggists for 75 cents with testimonials available upon request. FP J Cooney & Co Toledo Ohio. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Immigrant scientist Aaron Aarongwaahn outlines wild wheat found in Palestine, saying eighteen varieties have been developed in Haifa’s experiments. He argues the proto wheat survived in wild form, shaping early civilizations and suggesting Palestine as humanity’s origin point for wheat and migrations.
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