Local Dillon social notes and appointments blur together
A scan of Dillon weekly life shows visits from Alvin Dewitt of Bedrock and J. T. Fisher returning to Clinton Mo. as well as illness keeping Miss Charlotte Herr from duties. Social clubs meet at Ward's bowling alley and Dart hall while the Mending and Needle clubs gather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.T. Fisher
Clinton
Dillon
Charlotte Herr
Ward
Frederick Schuler
Medicine Lodge
Robert Bidstrop
Will Metzel
Centennial Valley
Ruby Valley
George Boatman
Lillie Bidtrap
Dart’s Hall
Mending Club
Hawley Selway
Will Deputy
Modern fat feeding for consumption via Scott's Emulsion
A vintage medical advertisement extols salt pork as a remedy for consumption and promotes Scott's Emulsion as a refined fat for easy digestion. It claims fat feeding is half the battle and credits cod liver oil and phosphites with rejuvenating weak parts and aiding diseased lungs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
County Seeks Bids for Forty Cards of Green Fir Log Wood
The county invites sealed bids for forty cards of green fir log wood. Bids due by 10 oclock Tuesday December 2. Delivery to the courthouse on or before February 1, 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Poindexter Ranch Ban Enforced Near Dillon
Notice posted on the Poindexter ranch south of Dillon forbids hunting fishing or trespassing. The sign warns that all offenders will face penalties under local regulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poindexter
Dillon i
Potamerie & Onn Liva Sroor Oo
The Origin of the Score and a Persian Toothache Tale
A folk etymology explains score as twenty from counting digits and marks on sticks. Tally sticks linked to accounts and payments, with chalk and sticks used into the eighteenth century. A Persian shah in France avoided a dentist and had his ministers stay for a tooth extraction joke ending with a grand vizier's loyalty rewarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Persia
France
Women’s Odd House Experiences Reported In Exchange
Three women described unusual incidents during an experience meeting. One spoke of her maid locking her in the bathroom and fleeing. Another recounted a green cook boiling a watermelon. The third described teaching a new helper to wash windows from a fifth story sill, only to find her cleaning from inside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Hughes and McCa Leb's Cigar Stand on Montana Street
A fragment notes a cigar stand run by Hughes and McCa Leb on Montana Street. The text is incomplete but identifies the location and business type.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughes. & McCaleb
Montana Street
England imports vast butter and wool facts
Items of interest note England imports nearly 170000 tons of butter yearly and one pound of wool yields one yard of cloth. Immigrants to Argentina last year numbered 90127 with Italians 58343. The Lords has 590 peers with twenty two dukes. Five yellow fever outbreaks in English ports occurred in a century. Zanzibar’s new sultan Ali bin Hamoud is 17 and educated in England at Harrow.
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England
Argentina
House of Lords
English
Zanzibar
Ali bin Hamoud
Harrow
Electric Bitters Cures Rheumatism in Ten Years
A. T. Headley of Tilden Indiana suffered ten years of rheumatism until Electric Bitters cured him after two bottles. The tonic claims to regulate kidneys purify blood and relieve rheumatism neuralgia nervousness and aid digestion and health. Available at City Drug Store for 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. T. Headley
Tilden
Ind
City Drug Store
Helping Papa Along and the Plighted Word
An OCR fragment presents dialog about engagements with a comic tone. It quotes a woman praising a father's plan to hold engagements to his word, while a separate ad-like paragraph touts Wine of Cardui as a health beauty remedy for women, claiming improves complexion and temper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Papa
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cardui
White Ply mouth Rocks and Brown Leghorns for Sale
For sale list offers White Plymouth Rocks, Brown Leghorns, Barred Plymouth Rock chickens and Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. Express delivery from the east available. Address: T. B., Onaven, Redrock, Montana.
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Express
T. B
Onaven
Redrock
Montana
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W. Dowling
Dell
Alvin Dewitt
Bedrock
Q. T. Bastman
J. W. Moran
Wisdom
Hotel Medlen
H. F. Cope
L. A. Metzel
Mounhs
H. Thompson
Lima
J. T. Young
Rexburg
Idaho
Wilford Wirmillion
Anna Hart
Silas Dishno
Fox
Mra
T. W. Poindexter, Jr
Needle Club
Clara Chapman
Dinnon Furnivers Co
R.R. Rathbone
First National Bank
Pauwelyn
Bozeman
van den Broeck
Pudley & Mudd’s
N.S. Wood
Andrew Lindfors
Sheridan
Dart Hall
Dillon Orchestra
Maurice A. Walker
Stamm
The
Baptist Church
Christ Jesus
0. M. Eddy
L. J. Price
Reinhardt
Telephone Exchange
Hyde Thomas
Bolesville
F. A. Thomas
M. E
Thomas Posssses
Cope
F. L. Lewis
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Medical University
Abel
Ma . W. Woodcock
Portland
Walking Press
M. A. Birdsall
N.Y
Cies
Cnet
de. Miles Medical. Co
Elkhart
Kaiser &McCann
Dillon, Montana
Missoula
Oregon
Dillon-Lumber Company
J. B. McKinney
B. F. White
R. A. Sullivan
Inst National Bank
L. Graves
WM. Roe
Vice Press
A. E. Stone
State Bank
A. L. Graves
Shineberger
A. F. Graeter
A. L. Stone
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