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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1924
Page
5
The American Red Cross announces expenditures totaling 21,366,255.35 for the year ended June 30. Major outlays include 11.77 million for relief abroad and 16.5 million from the national organization, with extensive domestic relief and veteran support across 3090 chapters.
The American Red Cross reports 40,636 enrolled nurses in its Nursing Service, with 1,000 in public health outreach and 1,100 teaching home hygiene. Exactly 100 nurses remain on overseas duty, while 3,117 serve in Government health roles. Nine hundred nurses joined last year, and Red Cross efforts reach fire famine flood disaster zones and isolated regions to aid children and mothers.
The article notes the American Red Cross raised 10 million dollars in 21 business days for relief after the Japanese earthquake. It details steps from September 3 to September 27 including President Coolidge assigning the fund and the rapid deployment of relief supplies from Pacific ports.
The American Red Cross reported 192 disasters causing 735 deaths and 1,932 injuries, leaving nearly 44,000 homeless and over 44.75 million dollars in property losses. The organization spent 737,603.37 dollars to aid stricken communities and activated a mobile disaster unit to respond across multiple states.
The American Junior Red Cross reports 5,596,663 members in U S schools and possessions with 20,942 schools and 147,486 rooms enrolled. The movement grows by 769,402 members for the year, about 80,000 per month. It emphasizes health services disaster relief salvage and youth service under the I Serve banner.
The Dail set out 4,000,000 trees on over 1,000 acres of land last year. This year 1,000 more acres will be reforested as part of the government effort.
A report notes that 4,300,000 illiterates in the country are entitled to vote next November. The figure highlights concerns about voter eligibility and literacy requirements ahead of the election.
The American Red Cross budgets 1924 25 at 4 647 790 85 dollars, 868 286 96 dollars below the year ended last June 30.
In good deeds for all peoples in distress the American Red Cross never rests. Help this work with your membership never join on Armistice Day.
The government extends Junior Red Cross in American Indian schools and plans to grow the program to 600 rural schools in isolated areas. The organization continues school exchanges with the United States insular possessions and foreign lands, supporting port operations in twelve European countries and inspiring Junior Red Cross societies in over thirty nations.
The article notes various Indian holy men performing extreme mortifications to preach righteousness. Methods include rolling for hundreds of miles, burial up to the nostrils in a shallow pit, and keeping an arm raised for years until it withers, all depicted as part of their spiritual discipline.
Pure white flawless diamonds cut on Ameriéim standards are available in Russia for 100 dollars per carat, but export is blocked by the Soviet ban, complicating removal from the country.
The piece urges voluntary support for disaster prep and relief through Red Cross membership. It notes skilled volunteers in over 3,500 chapters strengthen disaster operations and rehabilitation work, with enrollment starting Armistice Day November 11.
A Red Cross membership pitch touts a guaranteed dividend in good works urging donations to support relief efforts and community aid programs through member contributions.
The Lusitania cannot be salvaged as water weight has crushed the vessel flat and though the ship’s thirty ton safe may resist pressure, raising it is not worth the risk.
Spanish sailors under Columbus reportedly found cocoa four hundred years ago and observed it was enjoyed in Mexico as chocolatl, a ancient name for the cacao beverage.
On July 21 1924 Mr and Mrs Marcellus Pyle celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary at the Pyle ranch Polaris Mont with a large dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs George A Pyle. The Pyles trace roots to DuQuoin Illinois and have a long Civil War era family history including Marcellus service in the Missouri regiments and later residence in Lamar and White Sulphur Springs.
On eclipse day the Hindu follows a strict schedule to purify belongings and self. He takes no nourishment, discards cooked food and drinking water, scours brass vessels, and destroys earthen pots. A bath in a holy river is preferred for personal purification.
In Germany, oil is harvested from locust bodies for use in airplane motors due to its low temperature performance. The hopper refuse is repurposed as fertilizer, highlighting repetitive efficiency from a single source.
Two elder ducks mounted by a Greenland Eskimo were named the best mounted birds in the academy collection by Dr. Witmer Stone, curator of the Academy of Natural Science of Washington.
A four foot long giant marine lizard exists only on the Galapagos Archipelago off Ecuador. It hides in burrows or lava crevices by night and surfaces by day.
U S Forest Service officials plan to plug holes in the bottom of Duck Lake in Southern Utah's Dixie National Forest with concrete. The lake collects spring water but leaks through cracks, reducing usable summer supplies.
Papeete imposes its first traffic cap amid booming wealth from high vanilla prices. The surge in motor cars has congested the town highways as inhabitants grow wealthier and car ownership climbs.
The Turkish government plans to sell the famed Sultan’s Palace in Constantinople by auction with a reserve price near one million dollars.
A 45 pound mushroom measuring 32 by 41 inches is exhibited at Agricultural Hall in Boston. The specimen, named Polyporus Berkeleyi, draws curiosity from visitors and underscores local horticultural interest.
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