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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1929
Page
4
The Dillon Tribune announces weekly publication from Dillon Montana with F E Foote as publisher, lists subscription rates in advance for one year six months and three months, notes post office mailing status and telephone contact.
A Dillon Fourth of July celebration drew crowds from Salmon City to Wisdom and beyond. The event featured a grand parade with impressive floats, music by the Butte Mines band, day and night fireworks, a free-for-all prize fight, airplane stunts, and spirited prize contests. Community plans and volunteers earned lasting thanks.
The article notes road detours around Dillon due to highway construction north and south of town. Detours, while rough and confusing, are a necessity as the main road is blocked. Authors urge graceful detour use for eventual greater comfort from the new highway.
The state road program expands with new detour signs across Montana main routes. Drivers, regardless of vehicle, seek speed and dislike delays as they navigate altered paths on the way to their destinations. Mr. Detour is portrayed as having the upper hand in this travel mood.
A Delta region flight near Fairbanks reported by Alaska game protectors tallies about 500 caribou and nine moose, then 20 moose near Toklat river three days later. Moose largely ignored the plane while caribou fled. Airborne hunting is illegal, with fines or imprisonment as penalties.
A reader is told how to gauge layer performance by comparing to standard figures. A top blue ribbon hen lays about 800 eggs annually, an ordinary hen averages around 100, and in a major national contest where hens receive scientific care ordinary birds laid 182 eggs yearly after ultraviolet light was introduced via a glass substitute in the poultry house.
Diced pineapple and orange rice with cream accompany creamed codfish and potato cakes as part of a Sunday breakfast dish lineup.
Early in April 21 states passed enabling legislation authorizing the U S government to purchase or lease lands for federal migratory bird refuges. Legislatures remained in session and more laws likely followed. Some feared states would block land acquisition but the Bulletin of the American Game Protective Association asserts such fears were unfounded.
Two frogs valued at 15000 were taken from a tank at the rear of Dr. Robert Wald’s home. The amphibians, raised on artificial food and imported from Louisiana, were part of an experiment to test the viability of raising amphibians in artificial surroundings for commercial use.
A light summer meat and vegetable dish uses mashed potatoes two cups and one beaten egg with two tablespoons milk. Add flour to form oblong croquettes, wrap each with bacon, secure with a toothpick, bake until bacon browns and crisps, and serve immediately.
A simple dish where 8 or 4 small squash are boiled till tender then mashed. An onion is sliced and softened in butter until light brown, added to the squash with pepper salt and a pinch of sugar, and cooked five more minutes.
A historic quick recipe blends five pounds of peanut butter with five pounds of tomato catsup or chili sauce. Mix in sufficient cold water to reach a spreadable consistency and beat well before spreading on unbuttered bread.
Instructions describe reviving shiny fabric by sponging with hot vinegar or a solution of one tablespoon ammonia to one quart of water. Cover with a damp cloth and press on the right side, then remove the cloth and brush the fabric.
The Al. G. Barnes Circus, in Dillon for a single annual stop, shared a Fourth of July banquet and menu notes. The piece celebrates the circus as a joyful, unifying force for children and adults, with colorful imagery of wagons, bands, costumes, and calicoes. The essay emphasizes the troupe's transient life and its gift of lightening hearts.
The study estimates daily education value at 9 dollars for elementary schools 40 dollars for high schools and 100 dollars for colleges. It notes the survey involved fewer than a thousand people and is subject to inaccuracy.
Carl Newton Mahan age 6 of Paintsville Kentucky was sentenced to 15 years in the State Reformatory for alleged homicide after shooting a friend. The youth will not serve the term due to a writ of prohibition issued by authorities.
The report of guardian Lita Grey Chaplin of Los Angeles states that Charles Chaplin Jr. and Sydney Chaplin, along with Earl Chaplin, require about $500 per month each for living expenses. The guardianship details arise from the Chaplin family’s ongoing financial arrangements.
An old health notice warns that constant fatigue may signal kidney trouble and promotes Foley Pills diuretic as a remedy. The ad cites long standing use and urges both men and women to seek normal kidney and bladder function, with Kor sale by Geo. M. Gosman.
A writer argues that the framers stamped In God We Trust on currency and that modern doubters threaten the Constitution. He laments a drift from old religious principles and warns against hypocrisy and self worship as the nation faces a clash between faith and secular accusing voices.
The earliest public inn in the country was licensed by the General Court of Massachusetts in 1684. Inns grew rapidly after that period. Around 1675 Cotton Mather opposed tavern culture and claimed every other Boston house became a tavern.
The yakamik, a crane species, is used by Venezuelan natives as guard and herding animals for sheep. It guides flocks across wide distances and reliably returns at night, driving all entrusted creatures before it.
In 1861 Paul Broca, a renowned French anthropologist, announced the discovery that articulate speech resides in the third convolution of the left frontal lobe, which has since been named the Convolution of Broca.
The phrase coup de grace refers to a finishing stroke and is traditionally linked to the dagger’s thrust used to end a battle or kill a wounded foe. It appears in historical discussions of lethal combat terms.
A quotation attributes wit as the gift to pierce through things without getting entangled, credited to Bersot.
Hoquiam Washington July 2 special report describes a jail without keys. Prisoners were moved to a new jail and placed in cells but no keys existed to lock them in. They were returned to the old jail.
At Anderson Indiana on July 2 a double wedding united twins Alverta and Lavera Morgan of Vincennes Indiana and Ruth and Mildred Cooper and Bernice and Pauline Bond all from Vincennes with Mildred and Mirian Fossmeyer of Indianapolis singing before the ceremony. Martha and Mary Lakey four year old twins of Anderson served as flower girls.
Farmland craft is described as more than a trade, a personal vocation and lifestyle. The piece portrays farming as a fundamental human impulse to create meaningful, lasting work, beyond mere business activity.
The State Bank of Dillon files foreclosure with a sheriff sale set for July 27 1929 at 2 PM at the Dillon courthouse front door Beaverhead County Montana. It lists property including Lots 11 12 13 Block 27 Poin Dexter and Orr Addition and all of Sections 5 and 8 Township 6 South Range 8 West. Cash terms. Sheriff Orr announces sale.
Several large and small tracts offered by the Denver Joint Stock Land Bank. A 320 acre land near Twin Bridges and Dillon with spring, fence and buildings. 320 acre farm 7 miles southwest of Dillon with small buildings. a 1400 acre stock ranch with forest reserve proximity, hay yield, and water rights. Liberal down payment and terms. Inspect and offer.
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