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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1920
Page
3
Irrigated farm near Dillon Montana offering 80 160 or 800 acres with two room house ditched fenced and ready to plow. Currently in hay with oats 90 bu potato yield 250 bu per acre. Asking 50 dollars per acre with part cash. Write J McIlwain Box 356 Dillon Montana.
Lost items advertisements invite readers to place want ads in the Tribune for quick recovery. The page also notes new sheet music and book sale offerings from the Tribune Book Store and a church cookbook titled Tested Recipes by the Dillon Baptist Church ladies aid society. The cookbook costs 80 cents and will be mailed by Tribune Pub Co Dillon Montana.
Franklyn Hobbs of Chicago records monthly prices for 400 commodities for over 26 years and kept a precise account of his household expenses since about 5 years ago. He notes rising costs and argues the nation must plan ahead, describing the era from 1919 as a lesson in economic foresight.
Wood Live Stock Company sues Michael F Jarvis and unknown heirs to quiet title on 160 acres in Beaverhead County Montana the west half of the southwest quarter of section 1 and north half of the southeast quarter of section 2 township 7 south range 10 west. Judgment by default if no answer within twenty days. Dillon Montana February 19 1920. Lew L and E K Callaway attorneys for plaintiff. 8-14
Petition seeks creation of East Bench Irrigation District in Beaverhead County Montana. It outlines landowners, acreage, water sources Grasshopper Creek and Beaverhead River, and proposed storage dam and canals to deliver 600 cubic feet per second with an auxiliary intake of 650 cfs. A hearing is set for April 12, 1920 in Dillon to contest or support the plan.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens born November 30 1835 in Florida Missouri started as a Mississippi river pilot and later became a city editor in Virginia City Nevada. He lectured widely in the United States and Europe and earned enduring fame as a humorist. He died in Redding Connecticut on April 21 1910.
The article explains that shoemaker's wax behaves as a liquid under impact. When lead bullets strike a sheet of wax mounted on corks, after a month the corks float on the wax and the bullets settle at the bottom, illustrating liquid-like behavior despite brittle appearance.
The Largest Movie House in New York builds a moving picture theater seating 5300. it may rank as the largest of its kind. Heavy patronage in comparable venues suggests the new house could fill for main performances as public demand for professional entertainment rises.
A reflection on wisdom noting the wisest man avoids crowd reaction and clings to steadfast resolutions. It argues that fools follow others while the truly wise discern what is best, beyond vulgar censure or noise.
A wasp species causes tarantula death by stinging the spider on its back. The wasp then lays an egg in the tarantula’s body and buries it. The egg hatches into a grub that feeds on the tarantula's corpse as it develops.
A terse note from the era mentions orders to a bookstore with repeated weekly activity. The fragment implies ongoing publication activity and steady supply orders, tied to a bookseller named or described as Orders Book Store.
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