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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1928
Page
3
Dillon welcomed a host of visitors and locals including Miss Cora Berry from Polaris and Judge Lyman H. Bennett from Virginia City. Residents and guests from Jackson Alder Butte and Weston Idaho were noted at the Metlen hotel and local events.
Miss Dorothy Blinn arrives home after attending the state university in Missoula. Her guest is Miss Myrtle Ned derman from Great Falls.
Mrs Earl Fairbanks left last Friday for Town to join Mr Fairbanks and the children who traveled by car to the east for the summer.
Senator F. A. Hazelbaker was a visitor to Billings last week attending to campaign matters connected with his candidacy for the lieutenant governor nomination.
Miss Marjorie Stevenson leaves Sunday afternoon for Billings to resume teaching at the normal school there. She is accompanied by Miss Pauline Rich who has been her guest during her visit in the city between quarters.
The Kiwanis Sunrise camp at Billings opens as the first of five Sunshine Camps for undernourished children this summer. Built with a $1000 club grant, the 62 by 32 foot main building will host 30 youngsters, with Miss Ora Scoville and Miss Rachael Stein directing health supervision and recreation under Montana Tuberculosis Association oversight.
A newlywed couple move to a farm and raise chickens with ten tens on fifteen eggs each. After three weeks the hens die with no chicks hatched, leaving the couple wiser and saddened by the farm venture.
The French lilac varieties stay compact and bloom prolifically compared with common lilacs which may take years to establish. Choose French on own roots to avoid grafted stock issues and enjoy long lived shrubs with large blooms for hedges or screens.
On May 1, 1840 the British post office released the first postage stamps marking a new era in postal services. The issue introduced standardized rates and a prepaid system that changed communication across the United Kingdom and beyond.
An 89 year old Major Ackerman of Barberton Ohio remains active daily praising Foley Pills diuretic to regulate kidney elimination and keep him in fine condition. The ad claims 25 years of constant use and guarantees satisfaction with sale by George M. Gosman.
Ranchers are urged to consider a lighting system described as safest and best by test. Advertisement from A C Gruwell promotes the product with a brief call to action and contact implication.
Lake County Democrats file a protest with W W McDowell against Burton K Wheeler appearing as a Democratic candidate for U S Senator. They label Wheeler a demagogue and pirate for his past run as governor on the non partisan ticket and later on the La Follette progressive ticket and ask action to remove his name from the Democratic column.
A new reptile house at London's zoological gardens features a true snake hospital with comfortable beds a resident physician a diet kitchen artificial sunlight lamps and other medical equipment. Snakes from around the world receive careful treatment while an adjoining insectarium raises rare bugs to feed the reptiles as a hotel chef would guests.
A profiteer commissions a fashionable artist to paint his portrait. The sitter balks at the fee, but the artist retorts that payment is optional only if the sitter refuses the portrait. The artist implies he can sell the image anyway with a sharp remark about a checkbook.
A celebrated divine preached against forks when they were first used, denouncing the utensil as an insult to the Almighty who gave humanity fingers for eating. The sermon framed forks as a challenge to natural providence and social manners.
An American guest in England learns of a village pin plant used as an oracle of love. A chambermaid explains how a budded plant on the wall predicts romance by its bloom pattern, with heads pointing up signaling happiness and imminent marriage.
A British review quoted by Jack Malone in the Chicago Daily News describes how the Bard of Avon was initially ignored by Bacon Marlowe and Green and how the Immortal Willing was suppressed. The article notes Elizabethan critics held back and praised only a trio of authors, delaying Shakespeare’s fame for about a century.
The Pacific Ocean was named South Sea by Balboa in 1513 as el Mar del Sur. English usage soon popularized the plural South Seas for southern hemisphere waters. A 1520 letter to Henry VIII mentions the South Seas of the Indies Occidentall, with South Seas referring to the Pacific south of the equator.
The text traces origins of flower names noting the Japanese flower wlistarla linked to Casper Wistar, a Penn anatomy professor, while gentian is named for Illyrian king Gentius. It also mentions Quasslan derived from a slave Quassl in Dutch Guiana used bark for fever.
M. Malaval and Professor Locard report a definitive method to appraise diamond quality and spot imitations. They photograph stones under ultraviolet light filtered through a screen, as sunlight is too diffuse. Fine diamonds show brilliant images while lower quality stones appear as shadows.
A farmer berates his new assistant for failing to obtain an answer to a letter. The assistant defends that no answer was given, claiming he did his best. The farmer retorts that the effort was idiotic and implies he could have done better himself.
A Plain Talk Magazine remark mocks vanity in contrasting feelings about belonging to the same family as the flea and the mouse and the idea of a kin ship with the gods and the angels. The passage notes hurt and insult in equal measure.
A Vanity Fair style observation notes readers are drawn by simple delight in motion, likening opera fans to children amused by wheels turning. The author riffs on everyday images such as subway digs and lunchroom griddle cakes to illustrate enduring fascination with performance.
A quotation extols libraries as paradises open to all who hold the golden key and rightly use them, offering knowledge and solace. It frames the library as a garden of Eden where learning is the fruit for all, including the fruitful Tree of Knowledge.
Mrs. Black of Peters burg Virginia reports relief from pain and strain after using Foley Pills diuretic. The ad claims the product restores health and strength, notes easy taking and low cost, and offers a 25 year track record with satisfaction guaranteed. Sold by George M. Gosman.
The Madison National Forest Sheep Growers' association offers a reward of 250 dollars for the conviction of any sheep thief and 100 dollars for the conviction of any camp robber.
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