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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1929
Page
2
At the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric Company salvage of scrap material reduces waste during wartime production. The 900 acre site with 5 buildings processes about 75 million pounds of scrap yearly, valued around 6 million dollars, with roughly 5 percent saved within the plant.
A. King argues success hinges on the man not the system or leaders. He cites examples and personal anecdotes about bad habits, character, and the pursuit of money, noting honesty and industry as the sure routes to wealth while challenging aristocratic birth as a false advantage.
In Cassel's Magazine Harold Butcher recounts a Kobe to Kyoto train scene in third class where a Japanese passenger discards and changes his soaked clothes with quiet dignity. He removes his shirt and undershirt, dries, and dons fresh garments, appearing rejuvenated and unfazed by the heat.
Health writer Donald A. Laird argues many people have 10 to 20 percent more muscular strength than they use. He explains that lifting 26 pounds with the arm bent can rise to over 40 pounds when the forearm and upper arm form effective levers, showing how knowledge of anatomy can double effort.
Early Massachusetts required parental teaching or hiring tutors in 1642. The list shows state by state enactment years from 1852 to 1908, with many states adopting compulsory schooling between 1867 and 1890 and by 1908 nearly all states on record.
A London Tit-Bits contributor credits Coventry chimney-sweep Elijah Cadman with creating the Salvation Army’s military ranks and titles. Cadman, once called the King of the Roughs, became a devoted Salvationist and called himself a captain in God’s army. He placed William Booth as his superior and dubbed him general amid William Tooth’s dramatic appeals.
The article discusses the origin of the term Pied Poudreux or dusty feet courts arising from licensed medieval fairs in England and Normandy. These courts provided prompt final decisions to resolve seller and buyer disputes, a linguistic evolution that English speech rendered as pie-powder.
The text argues calories are a heat measure not a food, while vitamins are real balancing substances that help the body ward off disease. Bread offers no superior combination of calories and vitamins.
A fragment from a Passing Show scene features a character warning a borrowing of possessions and then a request to use a garden for a party on Saturday, illustrating a tense exchange over resources.
The National Geographic Society notes American producers thrive by selling to faraway markets. Apples ship to France during Normandy blossom time, while perfumes and raisins go to France, hops and sausages to Germany, fertilizer to Chile. Quinine is imported from Peru, highlighting U S exports worth about 400000 dollars annually despite cinchona trees not growing there.
The article notes that science cannot predict when or where a tornado will strike or its path. It mentions favorable conditions such as sultry May and June afternoons and a northwest low pressure area, but warns that forecasts are unreliable. Even with apparent conditions, a tornado may not occur and warning systems often fail as storms disrupt wire services and radios.
Two six plumed birds of paradise arrive at the London Zoo from New Guinea. Their heads carry six long racket tipped spines and they show a metallic green bronze and blue shield on the breast. They are velvety black with turquoise blue eyes. If behaving like a related species they will display body plumes, expand the shield, erect head plumes and strut about.
The Montreal Family Herald recalls the era of Queen Elizabeth I and the Invincible Armada. It notes a wreck near Fair Isle saving about 200 Spaniards, who influenced local weaving, including a blue gold anchor pattern that became Columbus’s coat of arms granted by the Spanish crown for his New World discovery.
A mother reprimands her son for leaving clothes scattered after undressing. The boy replies with a witty twist naming Adam as the one who never folded his clothes, turning the warning into a humorous lesson.
Four year old Marvin faces a rare family routine as his parents plan a vacation with grandma set to care for him. The father entrusts Marvin to be very good, promising a great adventure for the parents, while Marvin recalls a time when they had never traveled without him before.
A Sunday school lesson stalls as pupils struggle to name the leader who parted the Red Sea. A newcomer in the neighborhood, barely a week in town, is humorously blamed for the class’s confusion.
In Capper's Weekly a tongue in cheek line contrasts wealth and offspring noting the poor will inherit the earth while the rich have no children. The quip comments on social fortune and future inheritance with a wry tone.
The Mobile A Register notes two Elba operators Miss Vivian Harper and Mrs P M Licht braved rising floodwaters to warn others from a second story switchboard. They remained at their posts until unable to render further service and were lifted to safety.
Harry Hershfield, famed cartoonist, was adopted into the Hopi Tribe at Palisades Park New York. He was christened La Ti Yo or Silver Fox and declares himself the first Hebrew Indian in a public claim.
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