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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1919
Page
6
A U S Department of Labor message urges parents to provide their children with a home environment that shows the benefits and ambitions of owning a home. It argues that a home becomes the hub of a child’s universe and a tangible example of thrift, urging immediate action to secure future generations in a nation of homeowners.
Senator Calder denounces unequal retirement pay between civilian volunteers who joined after war began and regular army members. He argues all service members deserve equal wound disability compensation, regardless of branch, noting current disparities like regulars receiving three quarters pay while national army entrants get $30 monthly. He expects Military Affairs panels to take up the issue when Congress reconvenes.
County Commissioner J M Fabian and County Surveyor Laughlin surveyed Melrose site for a proposed steel bridge to be built jointly by Silver Bow and Beaverhead counties. Results will go to the state highway commission for plans and specs. A joint board session will seek bids once plans are available.
Funeral services were held at Polson for Thomas Antiste age about 65, sub chief of the Kootenai Indians. His daughter-in-law Mrs. Joe Antiste spoke in Kootenai, translated by Father O'Malley. Death caused by pneumonia after trips to Washington on tribal affairs.
Missoula Montana reports indicate only the Sweet Grass canyon blaze near Big Timber remains serious while 86 firefighters tackle the Crazy Horse mountain fire. Headquarter notes note a recent loss from the Billings fire where offices and supervisor records of Bear Tooth forest were destroyed.
Timber-related issue on Bear Tooth prompted local attention as residents report a timber felting event affecting the surrounding area and potential impacts on nearby infrastructure and wildlife.
George H. Robinson is jailed in Helena County on federal charges of conspiring to defraud the government of 160 acres. Indicted by a federal grand jury, he allegedly acted as the agent for another in taking up a desert land claim in northern Montana.
Mrs William Flannery, wife of a Toluca area farmer, died when their ranch home burned in a fire that destroyed the residence near Billings Montana.
The July mooney defense league planned nationwide strikes by professional radicals, seen as a fundraising scheme by the International Workers' Defense League. California labor leaders labeled the league as opportunistic panhandlers, urging employers and the public to counter the agitation without jail or force, advocating work opportunities to curb radical rhetoric.
In the Meuse Argonne offensive two Sioux Indian telephone operators helped disrupt German wire tapping by speaking in their own tongue. The Sioux worked with an artillery observer and brigade commander for three days, stymieing code experts and delaying encrypted messages.
Before clocks and watches bells dominated London life. Prentices were called to work by bells, and bells served many special uses. Bell foundries left place names like Bell-sitters Lane and Belsize, with Whitechapel Bell Foundry still operating since 1570 and entrusted with Westminster Abbey bells for jubilees.
A thrift magazine warns readers about risky color coded securities pitched as get rich schemes. It mocks a Brooklyn buyer who ignored due diligence, notes stocks of various colors and a disappeared company president, and suggests using certificates for decoration, urging color matching and caution for color blind investors.
In a retrospective look, Napoleon at St Helena spoke of no kings in Germany after his era. Ten years before World War I, Lord Roberts warned of a great European war and Ferdinand Foch as a rising figure. Henri Rochfort, the marquess and anarchist, predicted Alsace Lorraine would be regained through an English French alliance when the German eagle erred, restoring lost provinces.
A British war trade report notes that Pertinax, a compressed paper substitute for metal pipes, withstands three to four times the pressure of lead, weighs one ninth as much, remains watertight and temperature resistant up to 200 C, with a tensile strength near 14 000 psi and ivory like insulating qualities.
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