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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1911
Page
3
A highwayman borrows a revolver from Samuel Boritz, loads it with his own cartridges, and orders Boritz to surrender. He robs Boritz of $20 and escapes, keeping the victim covered with the weapon.
Twenty one miners died in a coal mine explosion at Sykesville with three survivors. Most victims were foreigners, highlighting a deadly disaster in Dubois county. In Montana, August dates were set for the Montana Pioneers society gathering in Butte with a planning committee named.
A partisan warning attacks antiseptic claims by Benetol and other germ killers. It urges a national law to jail makers who advertise products that allegedly destroy germs in living flesh, condemning fake claims and urging readers to buy 25c bottles and keep wrappers for prevention instructions.
The piece contrasts farmer independence with editor woes and community criticism. It derides newspaper pretensions and highlights the rough, practical balance of rural life, criticizing editors for petty culture wars while noting the hard realities of sustaining a local paper.
The article reports Thomas A. Edison predicting that within fifty years electricity will abolish night. He argues electric light will create perpetual day as efficiency improves, claiming current lighting wastes 95 percent and could be made twenty times more effective. He envisions night existing only in spots.
The Kansas anti affinity law, banning a deserted spouse from leaving with another, is used as the case of a penniless wife. A commissioner of the poor urged the wife to write to her husband for funds. He sent money, apologized, and invited them to Oklahoma to renew their life together.
The piece profiles Old Doc Crumbine, Kansas secretary of health, who launched the Swat the Fly campaign to fight the common house fly as a disease carrier. The effort spread to many states as residents joined the drive to curb fly populations and curb disease risk.
A collage of quirky lines notes diverse curiosities from fashion shifts and price hints to sports quips and moral tales. It mentions Panama hats, ivory towers of old books, a Texas ranch vast in size, and a New York janitor baronet, painting a mosaic of scattered headlines and opinions.
A collage of quirky 1911 era woes and witticisms mentions a broke Chicago taxicab firm unable to collect debts, a death in a bathtub, the pawner’s bill turning lenders into partners, babies in Boston with kiss me cards, graduates solving civilizational problems, a professor surviving on a 12 cent meal, and a California miner’s spider bite excuse.
A collage of humorous quotes and quips from various papers of the era. Topics range from reciprocity with Canada to marriage, religion, and everyday life, ending with reflections on happiness and a note on chasing an owl car on a rainy night.
A deep pink rosebud and a white rose with a yellowish shade grew from one stem in A F P Schneider's San Francisco garden. Presented to the California development board, the pair were produced by a ten year old Count de Thausen bush. The white bud is linked to a white La Marque nearby. Both blooms are perfect with pleasant perfumes.
In this playful verse a narrator praises history taught as rhyme to save time and praises George Washington for leading America in war from the cherry tree tale through Yorktown. It urges readers to subscribe for a year of lessons at two dollars.
In New York City two dead fifteen hospitalized and two hundred under observation as health officials enforce cautions to stem a cholera threat. Quarantine measures are in place and officials hope to forestall an epidemic of the disease.
Miss Norma Blankenship and Isaac N. Upton were wed beside a fresh grave in Lawton Oklahoma. Reverend W E Humphreys officiated after the couple learned he was at a funeral and they rushed to the cemetery for the ceremony.
Mary Ellen Powers once Bar num's tallest woman at seven feet will wed Maurice T Stapleton from Lockport New York, a six plus foot man. The couple had planned to marry three years ago but the ceremony was canceled with no reason given.
The article notes Korea's valuable gold mines mainly run by Americans. It reports high quality tron ores and copper mines in several places, while silver production remains small.
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