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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1911
Page
4
The Dillon Tribune urges replacing plank sidewalks within the cement district with cement for safety and value. It notes alleys and backyards need cleanup to prevent odors and flies, urging civic pride and ongoing maintenance to keep the town orderly and punctual for events like baseball games.
The article mocks temperance campaigns by the W C T U describing liquor as a pervasive evil. It contrasts idealized youth with a ruined drinker, noting nationwide drives against alcohol and the moral decline attributed to drinking.
An editorial condemns cocaine abuse and urges abolition of its manufacture, arguing the drug is more deadly than alcohol. It criticizes unnecessary canteens and calls on the Women’s Christian Temperance Union to pressure Congress to eradicate cocaine and related abuses.
In a roundup of quirky items a Woonsocket teller mislaid 25 000 and city life faced a ban on hot pins while London Lord Mayor backs women suffrage. A 1920 census tease from Attorney General Galen and eggs stamped with mint dates spark interest. A Sherman anti trust ruling upholds meat packers challenges and a hen powered time clock fantasy is floated. Beef prices rise as headlines drift.
A dispatch claims William C. Quantrell, famed guerrilla, survived his 1865 shooting and is living in Mexico. The piece jokes about reviving Jesse James to please fiction lovers, while adding a playful aside about sensational journalism. The piece then notes London’s Crystal Palace opening a Festival of Empire with royal celebrity and Americanized royalty.
An army officer in San Antonio, Texas, fell from an aeroplane recently and died from injuries. The article notes the toll of science as the airship era advances and claims its share of casualties.
Between Wellington and Napoleon in the same Kansas county a new town named Waterloo rises between them. The piece ponders if it will mirror a French defeat or serve as a real Waterloo for both towns.
Under the pure food law green tea must be labeled artificially colored and the emerald hue tea is placed under the National Tea Board. Tea will be cured without coloring and become dry and yellow, provoking objection from the old maid contingent to the broad advertisement of age.
A collection of brief quotes from multiple newspapers notes Senator Clark predicting favorable or unfavorable Supreme Court decisions, a Missouri judge ruling cars are liabilities, sugar's absent status in the farm free list, and calls for a special session on primary legislation. Also cited are remarks on reciprocity, education value, and various local opinions on politics and figures.
Public records show numerous patent deeds transferring hundreds of acres in the Big Hole basin near Bristow and Fox to multiple individuals. Also recorded are warranty deeds in Dillon additions and several water rights granting cubic feet per second across Fish creek Mussigbrod creek and other streams.
The record notes a water right of 2 cubic feet per second on Bull Creek, tied to Luther M. Anderson, in the Hermon area near Mussgi fork of the Big Hole River.
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh. It claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can restore hearing and offers a hundred dollar reward for any case it cannot cure, urging readers to obtain circulars from F J Cagney & Co Toledo Ohio and buy the remedy and Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The new hotel at Boulder Springs is the state’s popular resort drawing patrons from Dillon and nearby. Visitors praise the accommodations, spring weather, mountain air, and mineral baths believed to aid rheumatism nerves and stomach issues. Week long stays with all expenses total 17.50. 18-41 Wall paper remnants offered by Hughes and McCaleb.
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