Looking Backward 50 Years Ago in Dillon
A 1891 column notes Governor White praising the First National Bank home with builders including Shoppell Wall Conger Smedley Pine and Detroit. It reports alley and ditch filth concerns, Dillon Lodge delegates, and Eliel building reconstruction. Superintendent Stone’s summer school trips are logged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Governor White
First National Bank
R. W. Shoppell
New York City
George C. Wall
James Conger
M. Smedley
Detroit
Oe Board of Health
Arthur
H. D. Brainard
Dillon Lodge No. 8
Grand Lodge
Helena
Eliel
A. L. Stone
Big Hole Basin
Wodehouse in Nazi Camp Is A Curious Comedy
A magazine-like piece notes P. G. Wodehouse lives in luxury in Berlin’s Adlon, broadcasts from a Nazi station to England, and the critique that humor cannot veil wartime cruelty. it contrasts with harsher realities faced by many internees and the broader European chaos.
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P. G. Wodehouse
Berlin
Swanky
Adlon
Germany
England
Jeeves
Wodehouse
le Touquet
France
Humohrist Wodehouse
Hitler
Europe
Fragmentary Northern Rocky Mountain forest description
Readable fragments describe a northern Rocky Mountain forest area with substantial timber and population consumption figures. The text mentions forest extent and compares timber usage to another region, but details are incomplete and names are obscured.
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Rocky Mountain
Teg Bsa
Iun
Himber
Tegiona
Montana ranchers net eighty two million from meat sales
The American Meat Institute reports Montana ranchers earned nearly 82 million dollars from meat animal sales in 1940. Cattle and calves brought about 20 million, hogs over 2 million, and sheep and lambs nearly 10 million. Farm and private sales not included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
U.P
American Meat Institute
Montana
Calé of
Meat Animals
Oiling Petitions Circulate For Dillon Streets
Citizens discuss curb to curb oiling and city wide drainage options in Dillon. Proposals include financing, maintenance costs, and feasibility with engineers supporting a two inch mat for durable roads. Also included is a Montana district court summons for Annabel Burwell versus Hugh Burwell seeking divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillon
George R. Metlen
State Highway Division
Deer Lodge
Hamilton
Infant prodigy Billy Steck to tour Montana towns
Great Falls reports seven year old Billy Steck Montana's infant violin prodigy prepares for a summer concert tour. Recitals planned at Billings Helena Butte Anaconda Kalispell and Livingston before studying further east.
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Great Falls
U.P
Billy Steck
Montana
Billings
Helena
Butte
Anaconda
Kalispell
Livingston
Old Belt Man Drives 28-Year-Old Truck on County Roll
Great Falls report says Samuelson of Belt owns a truck aged 28 that still runs. Assessor W J Burton notes it as the oldest vehicle on the county assessment rolls, valued like a 1933 model with minimums of 50 dollars tax valuation 10 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Falls
Oscar Samuelson
Belt
W. J. Burton
Unions Oust WPA Labor at Great Falls Park
Labor unions pressure the Great Falls park board to ban skilled WPA labor in Black Eagle park construction. Three unions pledge not to patronize the new American Legion baseball day, threatening fines for members who do. The board votes to stop using WPA skilled workers on the remaining park work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Great Falls
U.P
Great Falls Park
Divorce Suit Filed in Beaverhead Court Against Haden
Publication summons issued in Montana Fifth Judicial District Beaverhead County for Naomi Haden and Robert Haden. The case seeks dissolution of marriage on grounds including neglect of life’s necessities due to defendant’s dissipation. Witness date July 3, 1941.
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Fifth Judicial District
State OF
Montana
County OF
Beaverhead
Annabel Burwell, Plaintife
Hugh Burwell
District Court
Fifth Judicial Ddistrict
Naomi Haden
Robert Haden
State of Montana
Thoman O/Malley
John. Callins
Poindexter Block
Dillon
Beaverhead County
Eulala. Watters
Eulala O'Malley
Thomas O'Malley
Archie Barr
Archie’ Barr
Theodore F. McFadden
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dillon Tribune
THE
Tribune Publishing Company
Albert Erickson
National Advertising Representative
American Press Association
Emerick
Boss
Chicago
Kansas
Missouri
County Free High School
Charles M. Trostle
Jennie Duke
Twin Bridges
M. E. Parsonage
R. P. Smith
Mr. Trostle
Fred Carlson
Kline
Barretts
Canyon Ditch
Beaverhead River
Beaverhead Rock
Carlson
William Ellis
Bear Gulch
Plimpton
Allen Plim
Austin Con
University of California
Adolf ‘Hitler
Munich
Harvard
Harvard University
Lowell House
Treasury
Moscow
United States General Staff
Balaklava
Valley of Death
United States
George C. Marshall
First National Bank Dition
Northwest Bancorporation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
J. Eb, Kelly
Atorney Tie
Dillon, Montana
Norman Giles
A. D
Léonard
Aa, Schulz
Plaintiff
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