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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1928
Page
2
H M Tooley recounts a bankrupt man returning home to reveal a wife who kept a promise of one dollar per kiss. The wife saved enough money in a bank to restore them, proving spending and kissing at home keeps money in the local economy and helps the town.
A man declares he will pawn the stove after arriving home late and telling his wife to cook all the food in the house. His wife questions his hunger as he asserts he is not hungry.
A playful exchange aboard a ship where a tramp asks for ten cents to sleep and the captain humorously agrees suggesting the tramp bring it around any time. The moment captures a tone of informal seafaring wit.
A brief social exchange reveals Mrs Farleigh has reduced visits due to her husband’s objection to low cut dinner gowns. The remark notes his disapproval of her attire at social events.
The Madison National Forest Sheep Growers Association offers a $250 reward for the conviction of any sheep thief and a $100 reward for the conviction of any camp robber.
Indiana farmers backed Watson over Hoover by a substantial margin in the Republican primary while Dawes and Lowden potential shifts loom. Maryland Republicans pledged 19 Hoover delegates, and Democrats in Indiana backed Evans Woollen for Senate. Nationally, disputes over rail valuation and court intervention surfaced as Japan-China tensions escalated in Shantung and Romanian protests quelled.
The Senate inquiry into Senator Steiner’s campaign sparks little beyond a tempers flare from Herbert Hoover when asked about chinaware price rises. The flood control bill advances with Coolidge revisions, authorizing up to 325 million dollars with a likely minimum of 500 million, placing final authority with the President and construction under the Mississippi River Commission.
President Coolidge told callers at the White House that approving all current congressional projects would require taxes rises. House Rules Chairman Snell cited a total exceeding a billion dollars including flood control 825 million and farm relief 400 million with additional items such as Boulder Dam and Muscle Shoals.
Captain Koehl Major Fitzmaurice and Biko von Hueneveld led the Bremen transatlantic flyers from Philadelphia to Chicago spending two days there. A grand parade to Soldier Field occurred with over a hundred German and Irish societies in the line. Guests included Prof. Togo Junkers and T. A. Smiddy.
War department reports Britain will devote about 5 million dollars to army modernization including new machine weapons and motorized gear. The United States plans to spend over all peace time tests and new development up to 500 thousand dollars, with 140 thousand allocated for trucks tractors ammunition power carts and motorizing an infantry regiment. The remainder funds go to tank experiments and artillery refinement.
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