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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1919
Page
4
The notice explains fees for church festivals fairs dances suppers and concerts with admission or profit from sales. It states five cents per line for admission based notices card of thanks obituary poetry and related items.
The piece argues that factory agitators mislead workers claiming wage slavery and calls for destroying the wage system. It praises current gains of higher pay and shorter hours, urges loyalty to the nation, and defends private ownership against revolutionary “workmen” control. It contrasts American opportunity with foreign conditions.
A speech warns workers against agitators and links capital to jobs while noting strong wool prices at the June 10 sale in Portland Port of Columbia Basin Wool Warehouse. Growers push better grading and warehousing to lift fleece value in western states.
The southeastern fields face an estimated 58,000,000 ton coal shortfall as United Mine Workers push for a 6 hour day five days weekly or 30 hours production at 48 hours. They seek nationalization of miners and railroads may seek control of bulk supply, worsening consumer burden.
The 1919 Oregon Fire Marshal report highlights major 1918 losses from overheaters defective chimneys and careless smokers. It notes 392 dwellings damaged or destroyed with $329 176 loss, total fire losses 1 956 costing $1 829 318, and urges careful fire prevention in homes and industries.
A Cleveland campaign of newspaper advertising by banks urged thrift and savings. One Euclid Avenue bank saw three Assyrians deposit over 30000 in currency buried in a cellar before the ads. Banks nationwide push the idea of how to get ahead first, aiming to boost deposits and public financial literacy.
Figures from the surgeon general show five and four tenths percent of draftees carried venereal disease after the second million examined, a rise due to stricter examinations. Vermont had the cleanest corps at 1.30 percent with southern states posting higher rates led by Georgia and Florida. The list by state shows per 100 men diseased, highlighting Arkansas, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida among the highest.
The House committee on interstate and foreign commerce will study general railroad legislation based on measures by Chairman Esch and others around July 1. It is expected to require three to four weeks of hearings and conferences to draft the bill, after which the panel will report proposed federal water power commission legislation.
A fragment shows a call to drastically reduce government spending to avoid tax hikes. It cites a large national debt figure, $25,000,000,000, and argues measures must be practical to keep the Treasury funded and preserve the government’s name from reproach.
A historical ad claims catarrh is a local disease worsened by constitutional factors. It asserts that standard local treatments fail and promotes a constitutional remedy by F. J. Cheney of Toledo that, it claims, works through the blood to mucous surfaces. The pitch ends with a $100 reward offer.
The Department of Labor urges the public to buy now and buy wisely to energize production. By increasing consumer demand, labor returns to work, manufacturers increase output, and the economy moves toward peacetime reconstruction with confidence and steady prosperity.
In Helena Montana on June 28 1919 leaders from both parties urged passage of Referendum Measure No 18 to allow a truer expression of party preferences in next elections. They criticized present primaries as cumbersome and expensive and argued amending the law would better reflect electors will before further changes. Signed by Republican and Democratic state central committee leaders.
Helena reports the state railway commission plans protest against abolition of removal in transit. A hearing by the freight committee is to be held in Portland to consider the issue.
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