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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1926
Page
2
41 years ago the Tribune reports excavation starts for a brick building on Montana street adjacent to the Dartyard Ware Company. References to Mother Hubbard frocks appear in the readable text.
Reports from the city bureau note no vacant houses in Ar genta as strawberry and ice cream festivals arrive. The county pen lists thirteen prisoners daily swallowing six dollars per diem rations supplied by Sheriff Tom Jones.
About 100 members of the bicycle club gathered Friday night with lanterns horns bells and whistles to show support for the new city ordinance. The council met in adjourned session to consider granting Matt Orr a franchise to build and run an electric light and power system. Cowboys ride on Dillon streets with exhibitions while one man fined $10 for discharging a gun against city rules.
Last Tuesday two men working on a project were injured according to a June 14 1912 Tribune dispatch. The brief item notes their identities and the nature of injuries but lacks full details in the surviving excerpt.
A deep sea specimen was secured by Jery Wikidal and preserved. Officials cannot account for how it ended up in local waters.
John Hinrich plans to mortgage 320 acres in Centennial valley to the State Bank of Dillon. J W Maddox and Nelse Rundberg locate the Little Four Quartz mining claim in the Bryant mining district.
A. L. Stone president of the State Bank of Dillon is noted for riding a bicycle despite age and long service. He recently traveled the Beaverhead River route near the Point of Rocks, observed farmlands and irrigation ditches, and returned to Rhinehart ranch where Patsy Sullivan was surprised to see him arrive by bike. The anecdote traces Stone’s lifelong attachment to cycling from his first purchase 41 years ago to his continued use today.
A laborer jokes about Ras to Sam noting the boss has gone home and Ras has already stopped work. The exchange portrays fatigue and a lighthearted moment on the job.
Dr R D Curry advertises new offices located in the Telephone block with contact phone number 355 for inquiries and appointments.
Statistics show March snowfall 25 percent below normal and rainfall insufficient to wet land without irrigation. May rainfalls amount to small bursts. Salmon River Power cuts hinge on limited water at Lemhi mouth. Harmony mine power shut last week, with mill and compressor idled until repairs. A plan to add 800 hp wheel and 200 kW generator aims for July 1, but water scarcity persists. Call for cooperative water use across ranchers, power officials, and industries to conserve and rotate supply while avoiding unnecessary hardship.
A Green Bay, Wisconsin reader named J. G. Wolf notes that factory workers railroad men farmers miners and mill employees frequently exposed to harsh weather are prone to kidney ailments and related ills. He cites Foley Pitts as a diuretic stimulant.
An advertisement touts Foley Pills as a reliable medicine that relieved a chronic backache after a few bottles. It claims low cost and guaranteed satisfaction and directs readers to Dr. Potts the druggist and to contact J. B. Mayfield for subscriptions and insurance at 211 W. Sebree Street.
A reflective verse fragment on happiness as a decisive moment. The speaker argues that one joyful instant can outweigh sorrow, enough to shape belief and even separate life from death. The tone is philosophical and intimate.
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