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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
7
In a letter cited by Canon City Record from Atlanta a columnist argues saloons aid town growth. The piece contrasts real estate circulars touting two smelters and fourteen churches with a curiously advertised array of saloons to attract residents and revenue.
City Comptroller Goldsmith reports taxable values exceeding 10 million dollars more than last year and forecasts further growth next year. The Atlanta Georgian notes the city can avoid public losses or shutdowns by continuing improvements, offsetting the anticipated liquor license revenue drop as prohibition starts January 1.
A city council finance committee report shows Atlanta will collect $133,959.34 more in taxes this year than last, surpassing the previous year's whisky license revenue by $27,021.84. Taxable property rises from $80,067,103 to $90,783,850, while wholesale and whisky licenses yielded $106,937.50 last year. The city expects continued tax gains to offset saloon license losses.
A Dillon Montana reader Mrs Louesa Robbins reports eight years of kidney trouble with backache headaches and dizziness. After using Doan’s Kidney Pills from Riley’s Drug Store she was cured and recommends them. Sold by all dealers 50 cents Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan’s.
The Wrights Wilburn and Orville Wright suffered a fatal aeroplane wreck near Killy Devil North Carolina. After a long flight totaling about eight miles the machine crashed behind a sandhill two miles from its starting point due to navigator error causing the craft to dive downward.
Property owner J. W. LUSHER offers a $50 reward for the arrest and conviction of the person who tore down a sign and broke a window on the night of May 26. The notice requests assistive information leading to charges.
Vacation readers may spend long hours with a good bound book bought at the Tribune Book Store. The store promotes its selections as ideal commencement presents to give friends and savor during the summer.
May 15 telegram from Eugene V. Debs accepting the socialist presidential nomination was read in the convention this afternoon. Other notes report Taft’s return to Washington from Panama and Standard Oil declaring a $9 per share quarterly dividend.
Washington May 18 ex Senator Paris Gibson stopped in Washington today on his way to Montana after three weeks in John Hopkins hospital where he underwent a successful operation Senator Heyburn warned he will speak against the 320 acre dry farm homestead bill calling it a land grab measure Tammany Hall to send 650 delegates to Denver for the Democratic convention including five special trains and hotel accommodations at a cost of about 100000 with each man paying his own expenses Notes from Baltimore and New York datelines included
The May issue of Monmal, the Normal College student publication, features many illustrations and strong original drawings by students. The issue, issued the first of the week, is highlighted as one of the most interesting numbers.
Spokane May 19. The defeat of the King county delegation and the adoption of a platform calling for a constitutional amendment for prohibition marked the Democratic state convention last night. The convention approved the pro- stance and aligned with the prohibition agenda.
The article reports Democrats pushing an opposition plank on prohibition and Republicans presenting a local option plank. John Anderson, chair of the Prohibition central committee, says Prohibitionists will not field candidates in the upcoming state election. The piece also mentions a medical society resolution against whiskey use in medicine, a tennis match for the world amateur court championship, and Montana receiving a small portion of a federal public building bill including funds for a Billings post office site.
A ready to use collapsible tube remedy advertises healing inflammation and easing soreness and itching. Sold by Potts Drug Store in Chicago for 50 cents. Other items note state court ruling on Sunday saloon closures, a high jump world record, navy tobacco bids, and aviation challenges.
An ad for Manzan Pile Remedy offers ready to use treatment at 50 cents with one application claimed to relieve piles. Sold by Potts Drug Store in San Francisco dated May 18. Separately, the Atlantic fleet departed the Golden Gate in rain to visit Puget Sound ports, reassembling at Port Townsend May 28 and visiting Seattle for three days.
Washington May 19 The committee on agriculture reported a bill making it a punishable offense for any government official or employee to divulge prematurely government statistics including figures on cotton and grain crops.
Two pretty girls bobbed and dodged around their Merry Widow hats in a playful collision yesterday in New York. The scene, paired with a tongue in cheek note, hints at the International Society for the Suppression of Oscillation awarding its 1908 anti germ prize to the designer of the latest women headgear.
Omaha May 18 The Union Pacific cut nine miles from its main line at midnight by opening the Lane cutoff between Omaha and Lane Nebraska a distance of 11 12 miles. The short stretch of track was intended to streamline service and shorten routes.
An advertisement offers coffee at 10 cents a pound with 3000 miles of railroad freight from the roaster. It promises a money back guarantee through your grocer if not satisfied and mentions Mike Schilling's Best with a note about paying bins.
A major railroad line costing over 3.5 million dollars will feature a double track to shorten distances and eliminate a troublesome stretch. Advertisements urge readers to use Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for digestive relief and Potts Drug Store promotes Pineules and Foley's remedies. Mary Hoboken reports Hetty Green moving to the Plaza, while the Army notes Captain Woodley’s Civil War commission.
In Paris on Sunday disturbances rose at the Longchamps racecourse when four young women in ultra fashionable sheath gowns appeared in the members enclosure. Police removed the wearers after the crowd grew excited over the revival of the Doredoir style.
Mae Catherine Wood spent the day on the witness stand in New York testifying for an absolute divorce from United States Senator Thomas C. Platt before Justice O Gorman. She seeks to prove a secret marriage at the Fifth Avenue hotel on November 9 1901 with a marriage certificate shown by her counsel.
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