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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1919
Page
11
Miss Hazel Mackaye of the National YWCA urges turning corner saloons into community playhouses. She argues drama and pageantry can Americanize diverse neighborhoods, teach American ideals, and unite communities amid postwar drives and unity efforts.
Soldiers receive playing card symbols as identification marks on their sleeves. Regiments are divided into packs with each company assigned a suit and color, while other badges are removed before charging.
Johan W. Prinz recalls in Asia magazine how the Y M C A organized a high school and trades program in camps for Russian prisoners. A library, workshops, a bank, and a welfare American kitchen provided education, craft work, small loans, and meals to inmates.
A profile of Seth Boyden born in Foxboro Massachusetts. Young tinkerer who built a nails and files machine and a leather splitting device. In 1816 he devised a brad cutter and in 1817 perfected patent leather. He later worked on locomotives and joined the 1849 California gold rush before returning to New Jersey to farm strawberries. He died in 1870 and is honored with a Newark statue.
The article notes birds aid crop welfare by controlling insects. It cites US Department of Agriculture Farmers Bulletin 680, which covers more than fifty common farm birds. Species listed include Bluebird Robin Wren Brown Thrasher Catbird Swallow Towhee Sparrow House Finch Grackle Blackbird Orioles Meadowlark Redwing Crow Bluejay Jay Phoebe Kingbird Nighthawk Woodpecker Cuckoo Bobwhite.
A Pennsylvania man devises a secure grazing system for a cow by using a 20 to 30 ft pivoting pole fitted with an iron ring that slides along its length. The pole's small end rests on a light metal wheel from a farm implement and the cow is fastened with a short halter chain to prevent entanglement.
A letter from Roy Schultz in France recounts a joke by the Danville colored troops after relieving a white unit. German shells flew, a German prisoner observed that Americans grow more defiant as gas volleys rise, remarking the blacks turn darker and fight harder.
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