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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1912
Page
7
Report from the Interstate Commerce Commission notes that total compensation for railway workers on lines over 500 miles reached 1 005 277 249 dollars in 1911, with wages up by 60 207 678 over 1909 rates. Net railway revenues dropped by 40 988 539, while earnings rose less than compensation.
R G Collins the Barnegat New Jersey postmaster suffered deep coughing fits from la grippe. He reports after using Foley's Honey and Tar Compound all coughing spells ceased and he considers the remedy unbeatable per Potts the local druggist.
President Taft told a Toledo Coliseum audience of 3500 that he opposed the recall of judges and judicial decisions. He criticized Roosevelt's doctrines, urged caution on arbitration treaties with England and France, and noted Senate delays. Rain and snow did not deter large Ohio crowds as Taft traveled by private car toward Chicago.
Earl H. Cressy reports on February famine conditions in China after touring famine districts. He details hunger in 55 homes with scarce grain, bark eating, greens and carrot tops as sustenance, and widespread starvation amid a harsh winter. Red Cross shipments to Shanghai reach 29000 dollars by March 1, with millions more needed before the new grain harvest.
The president avoided naming Roosevelt but spoke on many policies urged by the colonel as critics press for distance. He framed the debates as unnecessary, urging focus on policy over partisan attack.
Postmaster General Hitchcock urges Congress to fund free village delivery nationwide. He asks for 1000000 dollars to extend service with a maximum of 1600 dollars per office. Current carrier delivery reaches 1 514 cities and 45 million urban residents. rural routes cover 42000 routes for 20 million.
Testimonial ad claims Doan's Kidney Pills cure kidney complaints backache and urinary disorders. James Roberts of Butte Montana endorses the remedy, noting quick relief after several doses and urges all kidney sufferers to use it. Sold by dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. remember the name Dean's.
A Baltimore Sun poem speaks on striving not for volume but for quality. It praises enduring effort over easy shortcuts and frames perfect work as a path to rest and privilege.
A Burlington Free Press quip notes a man calls himself a poet and earns a steady income from poetry, prompting skeptical remarks about his artistic claims. The exchange highlights satire on self-styled writers and financial viability in verse.
A Detroit Free Press quip ponders whether a renowned man can manage a fountain pen, framing the humor around attention to details and practical skills. The brief exchange contrasts admiration with a light jab about daily usefulness.
The Washington Herald quotes a reader criticizing a seed catalog for lacking improvements in beets and tomatoes, likening the offerings to 1911 models and expressing disappointment in modern farming supplies.
The census taker asks the family about their nationality and a servant girl answers with a puzzled correction. The man suggests English Irish or Scottish, but she clarifies they are Scandinavians in a humorous Chicago Tribune item.
A reflective note from the Chicago Record Herald remarks that the heart is rarely filled by outward praise, suggesting inner fulfillment outstrips flattery. The quotation frames a caution against valuing empty compliments over genuine regard.
A child drops two pennies in the plate and tells her grandmother she paid for two. The moment captures a small frankness at a church contribution.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer line notes McClusky is proud and puffed up as a factory worker, with emphasis on Thursday paydays and five paydays in February. The fragment hints at a light, humorous local vignette about wages.
A quotation from the Chicago Record-Herald asserts that true merit requires no publicity and stands on its own merits. The line emphasizes modesty in praising good deeds and avoiding promotional hype.
A Baltimore Sun verse exhorts readers to reject doom and sanctimonious preaching. It invokes sunshine and a world of beauty, urging freedom and personal right amid celestial imagery and amethyst dew.
J H Bradley vice president of American Express testified at an interstate commerce commission investigation that express rates are about three times first class freight and that contracts with railroads require rates not less than about two times freight. He warned that a parcels post would push long distance packages to the post office and destroy express business.
Still man Green of Malachite recounts being told he would die from consumption five years ago. He credits Dr King's New Discovery with saving his life and urges others with coughs or lung troubles to try the cure, priced 50 cents and 1.00 with a free trial bottle offered by Potts the druggist.
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