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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1920
Page
5
A near death elderly man praises Mayr's Wonderful Remedy after ten days without food. He, 75, claims the medicine revived his appetite and strength. The ad touts the product as a simple remedy to clear catarrhal mucus and inflammation in stomach liver and intestines, with a one dose guarantee.
A supplicant pleads for food at a back door. The woman in a gingham apron retorts she fed him yesterday claiming with the war over they can eat daily now. The exchange highlights postwar hunger and relief limits in Yonkers.
An old advertising plea urges readers to mail a 5 cent note to Foley & Co. at 2835 Sheffield Ave Chicago to receive a trial package of Honey and Tar Compound Kidney Pills and Cathartic Tablets. The ad is signed Potts the Druggist.
Mrs. Annie Davison of 2080 Myrtle Street Long Beach California suffered a persistent all night cough after influenza. She reports Foley's Honey and Tar produced a restful night's sleep and relief from coughing.
In a Louisville Courthouse exchange a judge chides a defendant for vagueness about home. The respondent quips that being a vagrant explains the uncertainty, reflecting a sharp courtroom moment captured by the Courier-Journal.
Mrs L Gibson of 12th and Edison La Junta Colo credits Foley Kidney Pills with quick relief from backache rheumatic twinges and tired feeling. Druggist Potts endorses the product in the advertisement.
Stage manager quips about shortened post prohibition act transitions as the theatre chief questions the need to speed up between acts. Detroit Free Press notes the comment on historic changes affecting show pacing.
A block ad promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a purifying spring medicine for mothers to cleanse blood stomach and bowels drive out winter germs and improve the whole family's health and happiness.
Dillon residents tout Doan’s Kidney Pills for back relief and kidney help. Justice W A Kenison endorses the remedy, urging others to try it. price 60 cents at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y.
A brief London Tit-Bits exchange notes Billingham buying a hunting dog last week and Mumby asking if it was a pointer. Billingham replies it was not a pointer but a disappointer.
An advertisement by Potts the Druggist quotes Nick J. Whres of Zahl North Dakota praising Foley's Honey and Tar for ending a winter cold and coughs. The notice describes relief from sleeplessness and fatigue with the product as a blessing.
An exchange from the Buffalo Express features Rover lamenting a boneless stretch and Nero quipping about vegetarianism, highlighting a playful feud between two characters.
The ad warns that expensive fresh vegetables may trigger illness and digestive distress this season. It promotes Foley Cathartic Tablet as a nightly remedy to ease dullness indigestion and constipation, claiming relief by tomorrow and noting it banishes biliousness and headache.
A humorous Louisville Courier note from the early Victorian era notes that men of the time “carried his liquor well” and jokes that they had no suitcases. The remark reflects social mores and playful slang of the period.
Foley & Co. advertises Foley's Honey and Tar as the original genuine cough remedy. It notes higher production costs but sells at no higher price than cheaper mixtures and contains no opiates. Children like it for coughs colds and croup, per Potts the Druggist.
The Baltimore American quotes a reader dismissing prohibition lectures as dry reading, highlighting public apathy toward temperance arguments presented in the papers.
An advertisement for the New West Magazine promoting development in Western industries agriculture mining oil and scenic attractions. It outlines pricing subscription details including year price sample and test numbers and lists mailbox addresses in Salt Lake City Seattle and Detroit for subscriptions and inquiries.
Week ending February 28 1920 records show final certificates and deeds covering 158.85 acres south of Grasshopper Creek near Barratts 320 acres on Horse Prairie 160 acres in Big Hole Basin 159.86 acres in Big Hole Basin 278.84 acres in Big Hole Basin 322.46 acres Grasshopper Valley 160 acres near Dell 640 acres east of Dillon 159.19 near Farlin 159.19 near Farlin % lot in Lima 8 lots Bannack Idaho for 10.00 480 acres near Dewey 2 lots in Lima sheriff’s certificate 320 acres on Dillon Beach 480 acres near Dell mining and title actions among several firms including Southern Montana Abstract Utopia Mining Dillon Realty Investment and related patent and water rights notices including 7 percent cubic feet per second of Williams Creek and amended homestead near Bedrock.
Olmsted-Stevenson Company sues J M Lane in Beaverhead County Montana for 1211.59 on an open account for goods sold and delivered. The defendant is summoned to answer within twenty days or risk default judgment. Filed February 20 1920 by Clerk Fred Rife. Pease Stevenson Dillon attorneys for plaintiff.
Central and South American lotteries are a common means of public funding, though occasional investigations reveal subscribers like Grande contributing to the scheme.
Essay warns motion pictures mold children more than art. Details and scenes teach, while constant crime and vulgarity may normalize harm. Advocates selective censorship, family matinees, and “Spirit of Youth in City Streets” by Jane Addams as guidance.
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