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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1923
Page
3
Independent reports declare gasoline will stay temporarily cheap as crude oil prices drop. W. C. Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey notes the market disruption stems from a glut of Distress gasoline and high stocks. He cites ongoing cuts in the Midwest and East, California output limits, and intercoastal tanker constraints as factors shaping the brief price decline.
An Omaha garage owner began a test to see if a small retailer can buck oil companies by selling gasoline at 15 cents a gallon. He contracted 20 000 gallons from an oil concern and aims to keep prices down amid industry price moves across several states. Meanwhile Standard Oil Indiana directors met in Chicago and adjourned without action to match South Dakota price hikes, though the firm offered aid to Governor McMaster’s price investigation. Local observers expect no immediate price changes in the ten states covered by Standard Indiana’s territory.
Kemmerer Wyoming August 16 With the last body removed from Frontier Mine Number One of the Kemmerer Coal Company the coroner announces a inquest into the disaster that cost 98 lives will be held tomorrow morning Fire Boss Thomas Roberts was the final victim recovered his brother James found him after refusing to quit the mine The coroner investigates a rumor that a safety lamp carried by Roberts was found open beside him if true it could influence the inquiry into the blast cause
Helena Mont Aug 16 Judge W H Poorman said Judge A C Spencer of Billings will hear injunction suits by Montana Power Co and subsidiaries against the state board of equalization replacing Judge H J Miller of Livingston who could not spare time. Spencer also to hear mandamus suit by Joseph Oker to compel the old board to act. Salts set for Aug 21. Poland War Warsaw emigration report notes Poles returning from America to Poland two years ago struggle under Polish life conditions.
A federal probe targets a Savannah based bootleg ring moving liquor along the Atlantic seaboard from New Jersey to St Louis Chicago and Cleveland. The so called big four C Graham Baughn Richard Bailey Sam Goldberg and Haar face revenue act indictments for illicit importation and failure to file returns. An intensive crackdown followed intelligence gathering and a broader probe reaching into Britain France and Canada with 40 agents dispatched for final roundups.
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