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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1924
Page
2
Mrs. B F Brannon of Fort Worth Texas says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound rebuilt her after nervous exhaustion and bodily pains. She reports improved mood sleep appetite and energy enabling her to sew and work without pain or crying spells.
The quip presents Judge Lindsey advocating vocational work for convicts, suggesting a prisoner should continue his interests. A friend worries about a dancing teacher behind bars, to which the judge remarks the inmate could learn a new lock step for the youths.
Advertising copy promotes Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant kidney liver and bladder remedy. It claims vegetable ingredients and a sworn purity statement with each bottle and offers a sample for ten cents.
A quirky dialogue piece features Dr Sulgrave-Well and a child named Little One as they discuss breathing and a sensation of an elevator starting to go down highlighting a surreal medical mood.
A Hoquin Wash lumber operation employs a nine foot diameter buzz saw to cut enormous logs into timbers and lumber.
Olive Marsh and Ruth Weston lead Carr Creek’s effort to connect isolated mountain families through a community center. They have funded a seven room schoolhouse used for classes and clubs, a free lending library with about 2500 volumes, and a three room cottage for orphans. The center plans a dormitory and office buildings as fundraising nears completion, owning twenty acres and creating a mountain trail and footbridges to reach school.
Laura M. Bragg, daughter of a Methodist minister, guides Charleston’s 150 year old museum into a modern era. She funds, curates, and expands exhibits blending antique South furniture with early American artifacts and museum education for all ages.
A secret method pressurizes natural gas to extreme levels turning it to a liquid at 317 degrees below zero. Helivim is then drawn off from the liquid.
County Agent Santa reports strong farmer interest in corn improvement in Phillips County. Ten strain tests are under way and results indicate Variation in Northwestern Dent by year and strain. Crib seed corn proves unreliable with germination variability and replant risks. emphasis on selecting mature hard corn for seed. Flint corns often outyield dents. Brown County Dent and Pioneer White Dent yield similarly. Minnesota 13 yields high but not equal to Brown County Dent. Minnesota 23 offers early maturity with lower overall yield.
Montana extension work will emphasize homemade tillage tools next year with two new machines already used in Washington and Oregon. Construction specs have been distributed from Bozeman. One machine adapts to heavy soils as an improved gooseneck harrow, the other is a lighter iron frame double rod weeder for light soils. Farmers can convert old grain drills into duck foot cultivators at a cost of 25 to 30 dollars.
W. L. Shovell chief of horticulture reports Bitter Root valley may yield a normal apple crop. Dry soil could harm set but timely irrigation will aid harvest. increased spraying occurred this year to combat oyster shell scale with summer sulfur solution. Hatching date for the scale has arrived early due to an unusual season.
A bill before Congress would provide daily weather forecasts for farmers during harvest season. Forecasts sent by telegraph would predict conditions two to four days ahead. Early trials show the forecasts aid planning for haying and grain harvesting periods.
Montana State College Extension agronomist A. J. Ogaard lists four aims for summer fallow. They are moisture storage for crops, accumulation of plant food from moisture air and heat, weed control through timely cultivation, and better labor distribution across the year.
Miss H Cushman poultry specialist at Bozeman leads Montana egg grading push after an egg show in Butte. Governor Chester Davis in Helena endorses a Montana extra select grade with state seals and approved inspectors for quality control and possible reinspection. The standard requires 24 ounces per dozen, firm white, and air space under a quarter inch.
The Chinook Commercial club executive committee developed a plan to interest Belknap Reservation Indians in sugar beet farming. They noted many irrigated allotments and prior sugar company interest in sourcing beets from the valley. A business committee will meet Superintendent Marshall in Harlem with Harlem Commercial Club representatives to present the proposal.
USDA findings show two-year-old steers sired by pure bred bulls average about 200 pounds heavier than scrub-sired counterparts and command two to four cents more per pound as stockers and feeders. Yearling scrub calves run about 300 pounds lighter and sell for roughly four cents less per pound, while grades at the same age weigh about 425 pounds and fetch about two cents more. This indicates a two to one advantage for steer progeny from pure-bred sires.
Five companies with pea seed operations in the Gallatin valley oversee seed pea farms and sorting plants. In 1923 farmers produced 9,300 acres of peas, with total payments to farmers amounting to $200,551.22. Wages for labor in Bozeman and the valley, including rougeing, hand-picking, and warehouse help, totaled $71,797.17.
M L Wilson agricultural economist with Montana State College Extension notes USDA data showing the peak hog run to market occurred in February. Last winter's record run had never been equalled, and for the first time since April 1922 a month’s hog receipts fell below the same month in the previous year.
Dr William E Lorenz a Wisconsin Legionnaire and physician shaped postwar veteran aid. He led field hospital operations in France during World War I and earned the Distinguished Service Medal for wounded handling. Lorenz founded the Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute and helped create the state memorial hospital. he pushed rehabilitation and compensation programs for disabled veterans.
A description of the oriental amethyst as the costliest gemstone, likened to a sapphire in amethyst color. It notes amethysts are quartz, distinguishes them from true corundum gems, and mentions only a few exist guarded by Indian rajahs.
An advertisement asserts Red Cross Ball Blue should be used in every home to whiten clothes without harming fabric and promotes it as available from all good grocers.
The article highlights vast forest resources in the United States and Canada and outlines protection measures. It notes air plane scouting, wireless telegraphy, portable phones, power pumps, replanting, pest prevention, forest product laboratories, strict legislation, and Dominion and provincial reserves to preserve timber supply.
A druggist sells a small bottle of Freezone for a few cents that promises instant relief from hard or soft corns and between the toes. The product claims to remove corns and foot calluses without soreness or irritation, allowing easy removal with fingers.
Albert Cornish a Bath Maine lineman chased a runaway horse to a trestle where the horse legged through. He freed the sleigh and placed it across the track bridging the two rails to form an electrical signal that would have stopped a train entering the block.
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