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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1921
Page
9
Notices of church festivals fairs dancing parties concerts sociables suppers and similar events with admission or profits from sales will be charged five cents per line Card of Thanks and obituary poetry also five cents per line per line rate stated for all such notices
Judge Robinson warns of a Jonah aboard the state ship with the Bank of North Dakota seen as the danger. In Montana anger focuses on Governor Dixon and Democratic senators, with claims targeting the Montana Development Association and various interest groups as the real culprit. The restless factions promise to smoke out the guilty party.
The cabinet is described as wisely selected and well suited to their roles. The president is commended for his wisdom and the nation is urged to congratulate the choice as the administration aims to navigate troubled waters successfully.
The governor's veto of the teachers loyalty act and the nosers bill is celebrated by supporters while critics view the actions as a repudiation of the legislative majority. The outcome leaves a divided public and questions about reform paths.
Governor Dixon’s vetoes to date have been well received. He tends to decide decisively and then persuade the legislature of the correctness of his stance.
Senator Frelinghuysen and Senator Smoot allege the Treasury plans to refund four billion dollars to defunct distillers brewers and liquor dealers for taxes paid before prohibition. They urge the Senate Finance Committee to probe Internal Revenue rulings claiming values far exceed actual property, arguing the Treasury would be looted.
An editorial voice urges readers not to curse their doctor, noting Dr Dixon's tough, thankless job. The patient is financially run down, and the medicine prescribed may be disagreeable but is necessary to address past neglect. The aim is cure, not harm.
The senate is praised for killing an 8000 dollar appropriation for ex delegates to national conventions. The writer questions how a large body of sensible representatives could be persuaded to pass such a measure.
Alpha Kappa chapter of the West minister Guild will meet at the home of Miss Jean Bishop on Monday March 14. The gathering will discuss upcoming activities and plan community service work.
Dr. Grant B. Finch came back Wednesday from a visit to New York and other eastern locations.
A young Indianapolis physician is invited to a dinner party by a schoolteacher. He declines and suggests another man pass as him. The teacher proposes using the school janitor, noting he is new to the city and could wear the doctor’s clothes to pass. She worries about tobacco chewing and how long he can go without it.
American gobs in an American school begin gondoliering as a regular course. Knights of Columbus run a Well-equipped free night school on the Grand canal to serve the American Mediterranean naval unit. Courses include languages navigation and other technical subjects. Edward L. Hearn reports sailors are becoming expert at handling gondolas and guiding Venetian friends through the Adriatic gem.
A tired principal, troubled by a crossing danger, is pressed by a janitor who warns that without a traffic officer some children may be killed. She coldly replies by selecting preferred pupils for the task, and the janitor rushes away.
A mountain goat hunter named A. Finn, pursuing a goat above the timber line, shot the animal on a glacier. The dead goat dislodged a rock, exposing a long sought vein that reveals a potentially valuable BC gold mine after years of prospecting.
An anecdote from Asia describes a potter’s kiln used by King Techel China where a man sits at a foot square hole to test heat. He spits into the hole. steam means insufficient heat, while a spitback explosion signals proper high temperature.
Indiana figures Beveridge and Edison frame labor rights and duties with emphasis on the right to work and protection by government. Beveridge asserts universal ability to work and enjoy fruits of toil. Edison calls for a strong labor leader to unite unions for better jobs and responsibility. Levey Printing Company claims organized labor as a major money making system with leaders earning large salaries.
Two thousand idle workers in Great Falls Montana face a union dispute over wages. City crews began ground-work at the waterworks to employ men at five dollars daily while a union official threatens a five dollar fifty cent daily rate and warns non-union labor would meet a strike. The clash highlights rising unemployment and tense labor actions in the city.
The State Bank of Dillon sues Parley A Dansie and Tasma Pond Dansie with a sheriff sale set for the 81st day of March 1921 at 2 PM at the Dillon court house front door. Property described includes multiple parcels in Township 9 South Range 10 West and nearby sections with various lots and tracts. Sheriff Meare Dooney signs the notice.
A writer attacks university economists for flirting with socialist experiments and even endorsing the Russian revolution before retreating. The piece argues prosperity rests on well paid workers and on large and small employers alike, while condemning state socialism promoted by academia.
The piece contrasts historic fashion with modern hygiene, noting past elegance in fabrics and clasps, and comparing cleanliness. It cites Sixteenth century French gentlemen changing their clothes every two weeks as extravagant by English standards of that era.
Scientists call the discovery one of the most perfect fossil beds in the United States for preservation. In the Kemmerer mountains findings include fish bodies representing more than a dozen distinct types, several previously unknown to science. Entire bodies are intact in places with bones and tissues clearly definable.
Fragmentary quote discusses a womanly idea of travel light and its learned idea. The text preserves a historical voice about mobility and womanhood without completing the sentence.
A 1825 inaugural medallion sold for five dollars to defray John Quincy Adams ceremonies. Only one survives, owned by J A Larrick of Washington police. Edward Murphy, who helped secure it, passed it to Larrick 15 years ago. The inscription reads Science Brings Peace and America Plenty.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell admits he used foot reading to choose his wife saying the best wife I ever had. Foot signs include short steps fussy quick steps intelligent pose flatfooted stolid a distrustful walker who stomps appears bad tempered. This Continental London Mail excerpt notes how scouts interpret gait as character cues.
A garbled newspaper snippet notes a man with a loaded revolver at a beach scene. Readers glimpse a doorway observation, then an unclear line about a fly and an odd punctuation flow. The fragment preserves the curious, noir tone without clear factual detail.
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