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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1909
Page
7
A civic figure celebrated for praising the town, supporting local business, backing home improvements, patronizing local merchants, and having his printing done locally. The piece highlights the value of community boosters and homegrown initiative.
The Montana Board of Equalization reports total state wealth at 248 774 792 down from 251 882 437 in 1907. Custer County leads with 1 451 825 acres while Silver Bow holds wealth, not land size, and railroads total 45 942 989 with 3 369.52 miles main line.
Cleveland March 22 Little Willie Whitla the kidnapped boy from Sharon Pennsylvania was returned to his father at the Hollender Hotel at 8 30 p m The return followed an agreement with the kidnappers agent paid the 10000 ransom Willie is said to be in good health and held indoors since capture
A brief health note explains that the human skin surface is large and constantly sheds its outer layer to let new tissue form. It mentions many glands and emphasizes ongoing maintenance of the skin’s renewal process.
Missoula Montana March 28 reports from the district forester note virgin summer range on the Clearwater National Forest in Northern Idaho can support about 10 000 head of cattle. Similar unused ranges exist in the Lolo and Bitterroot forests near the Montana border with permits to graze at full capacity.
An admirer presents President Roosevelt with a two volume album of over two thousand clippings about the U. S. Battleship Fleet World Cruise from Dec 16 1907 to Feb 22 1909. The albums include Chronicle editorials, Chicago and New York tribune cablegrams, fleet life notes by the fleet correspondent, and ship illustrations.
A man in a refined pose asks a woman in front to remove her fashion hair and wear a hat instead. She calmly responds that if he were her brother she would slap his face, proving no one faints or screams in this sharp exchange at the theater.
A woman hosts a pretend railroad game, calling for tickets as she plays conductor. A man, recognizing the joke, pays attention to a discarded ticket and realizes it is expired, forcing him to pay cash or get off.
A humorous tale from Cheyenne or Deadwood about Professor Thorn botany Yale and Professor Witbeck criminologist Harvard sharing a hotel. They clash, compliment each other, and parody academic egos before a third professor named Twister arrives and a crowd forces a rustic exit using a headboard epitaph for the failed scheme.
Deeds show 40 acre Lima parcel transferred for 1 dollar along with several two lot transfers in Lima totaling 400 dollars. Jackson area estates and farm tracts change hands for thousands, plus multiple patent grants to Bristow and Montana mining locations labeled Rattlesnake placer claims Nos 1 through 6.
An old time remedy critique extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a safe alcohol free tonic to tone the stomach, purify blood, and aid digestion. It claims benefits for indigestion, skin eruptions, and general debility, and cites authorities favoring Golden Seal and related ingredients.
The London Graphic recounts William Kemp the actor dancing from London to Norwich in what is claimed as the longest recorded dance. He was joined by a laborer, a servant, and an overseer, receiving groats and crooked sixpences for luck. He later reached Norwich and danced through the city twice to avoid errors, despite a hip sprain.
A British officer on a fleet mule chased a wild boar in India. The boar bit the mule, but the mule recovered, overpowered the boar by biting the backbone, and killed it. The officer was dumped to the ground and later rescued by his mount. A separate note explains pongee silk is colored yellow brown because silkworms feed on oak leaves.
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