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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1911
Page
2
A lively, humorous recollection describes a reunion of local Browns from forty towns, the speaker’s kin joining a gathering yesterday and planning to send their notes to The News-Review weekly.
Troy NY Justice O Howard of the New York Supreme Court urged women to oppose high heel shoes calling them barbarous and torturing to health. He compared the fashion to Chinese wooden shoes and equated it with rings in the nose tattooing and an ugly deformed race. He challenged the audience to have courage to speak out against the fashion.
An automobile carrying inmates from the Masonic widows and orphans home collided with another car on a boulevard in a Louisville suburb. One child was killed two were fatally injured and nine more were injured in the crash.
Helena and Butte fishermen protest Short Line trains not stopping at Willis. In April the company made Glenn the regular stopping point claiming Willis dangerous. The railroad commission will hear the matter this Wednesday.
Miss Faith Taylor a Boston gymnast argues physical exercise is the greatest crime prevention and cure for social ills. She cites irritability from crowded living and urges walking ball play deep breathing and regular activity to calm nerves and improve morals.
Miss Minnie Anderson Hale, 22, top graduate of Atlanta Law School class of 1911, was denied a legal license by Judge Pengleton who cited a male only rule. He granted licenses to male peers, prompting friends to consider legislative action to challenge the policy.
H. G. Monce of Nampe plants 2800 cherry trees west of town. He expects each tree to yield thirty gallons of fruit by 1913, totaling about 48,000 gallons, with higher yields as the orchard matures.
Federal investigators warn that over irrigation in Utah has poisoned soils with alkali from adjacent hills. Desert Irrigation Co in Millard allocated 6500 acres. expert R A Hart will bury alkali with earthmoving equipment at company expense. Restoration costs about 12 dollars per acre. similar work has begun near Salmon City Idaho.
Thomas Morris of Westerville Custer county is reported as Nebraska’s oldest living person at 117. Born in Wales on January 15, 1704, he arrived in America at 78 and settled in Nebraska in 1886. A lifelong cobbler, Morris has never married or attended school and still enjoys fishing and moderate tobacco and liquor use.
Peter C Sharp an octogenarian of Pittsburg Kansas with two wives will build two separate cottages on his farm to house each wife and keep a fourth rose cottage for himself. Anna Catherine Sharp ages seventy and Celia Sharp age fifty will reside in their own homes with the husband visiting on alternate days.
A fragmentary verse recounts a race from Paris to Turin with planes dropping one by one. The runaway narrative ends with a single aviator taking an express train to win as the others fail along the route.
A new agricultural experiment station report shows Porto Rico’s total trade rising from 17.5 million in 1901 to 68.6 million in 1910. Sugar dominates exports, with 24 million, and coffee exports fall sharply due to demand. Tobacco and fruit shipments grow while live stock exports vanish. living standards rise as hookworm is eradicated and soil cultivation improves.
Mrs Harriet H Kidder celebrated her ninety fifth birthday at her Asbury Park New Jersey home with over a hundred guests. She read a self written poem of 190 stanzas created on a typewriter since age ninety. The verses recount events in her life, including Paris and other scenes.
Miss Crocker of San Francisco and her staff cornered the egg market to feed her Boston terriers and French bulldogs in kennels worth 100000 dollars. Each dog receives two eggs daily. This demand drained the egg supply and astonished veterinarians who monitor the experiment with interest.
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