Camp Fire Girls Hold Ceremonial Meeting and Birthday
Hakanaki Camp Fire Girls met March 17 at Adelaide Gelhaus home. Girls recited signals, sang, and shared Camp Fire history. Alma Trolinger lit the Work candle, Ruth Norris Health, Adelaide Love. Alma became Woodgatherer as cakes and ice cream followed. Sacajawea group met March 19 to study the Camp Fire manual and share reports.
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Hakanaki
Adelaide Gelhaus
Miss Gay
Alma Trolinger
Ruth Norris
Sacajawea
Sacajawea Camp
Lone fisherman plumbs luck on church roof mishap tale
A Dillon Tribune 1881 item recounts a prominent fisherman pacing and climbing to a church roof in a comic effort to catch a blue bottle fly for bait. He slips, tears cloth, and laments losing fifty cents, blaming bad luck as spectators watch. Separate notes report mining deaths in 1923 and a Saguenay hydroelectric proposal delivering 2 million horsepower to New York City.
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Beaverhead
Advertising and broadcasting clash in early radio era
An editorial contrasts the fight against AT&T over airwave advertising with the value of newspapers and radio. It argues ad rates exceed newspaper worth, warns radio may fail public usefulness, and notes March weather brings coughs with Foley’s Honey and Tar as a remedy. It cites Senator Magnus Johnson and a Prescott testimonial.
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company of
New York
Grover Whalen
WEAF
American Telegraph and Telephone Company
Sky
Foley
John R. Lyons
Prescott
Arizona
Potts
Intermountain Union College offers Eagle Scout scholarships
The Intermountain Union College faculty announced two scholarships for Eagle rank Boy Scouts in Montana Idaho Washington and Oregon. Applicants must obtain recommendations from their Scoutmaster and Scout executive and file credentials with the college by May 1 preceding the school year sought. Selection of the recipients will follow.
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Intermountain Union College
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Intermountain
Gould seat on NYSE sold after 39 years
The Gould seat on the New York Stock Exchange, bought thirty-nine years ago for $25,000, was sold recently for $85,000. Cattle will be killed by electricity by the Cudahy Packing Company in Omaha, Nebraska, replacing the head-clubbing method.
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Gould
New York Stock Exchange
Cudahy Packing Company
Omaha
Nebraska
Inke Eliminated in San Juan Election Process
To prevent repeat voting in San Juan Puerto Rico voters are now marked by shaving the back of the right ear and dipping a finger in indelible ink. A prior ink eradicator incident prompted the change from ink alone.
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San Juan
P. R
Mississippi bill would bar teaching Darwin in schools
A bill introduced in Mississippi's lower house seeks to prohibit the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in all state schools and colleges.
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Mississippi
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Camp Fire Department
Dillon Tribune
United States
Isle Maligne
Saguenay River
Canada
New York City
Jase Anree
uNigi
Broadcasting
Magnus Johnson
Didates
James J. Davis
Secretary of
Labor
Spitzbergen
Arctic
Scott
Grippe
Scott's
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