From the Pony Express to the Fast Mail Train
A reflective piece on Montana’s mail history from pony express to modern aerial service sparking with vivid scenes of Chicago airport night flights and a 30 hour air mail route linking the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate. It recalls California statehood news delays and pilots braving night skies to deliver letters.
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Montana
Deer Lodge
Pony Express
Missouri
Fort Benton
Pacific
Statue of Liberty
Golden Gate
Jules Verne
California
San Francisco
New York
Ten Die In Moroccan Raid Shock Tetuan Attack
A dispatch from Tangier reports 200 Moroccan tribesmen with concealed arms entered Tetuan and opened fire at 9 pm Wednesday. Ten people were killed and 34 wounded including two women in a clubhouse and two officers in a hotel. Madrid received word from Tetuan of a shooting affray, Mehallah forces dispatched, casualties unknown.
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Associated Press
London
Tangier
Morocco
Tetuan
Madrid
Montana Press Association Opens Thirty-Eighth Meet in Butte
Editors from across Montana gather in Butte for the Montana Press association meeting. Activities include a Silver Bow club session, Mines league game, tours, lunch at the Montana hotel, visits to Anaconda reduction works, Gregson Springs entertainment, and a Montana Press dinner with C F Kelley as chief speaker.
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Montana Press Association
Montana
Silver Bow Club
G. M. Moss
Whitefish
Butte Hill
Chamber of Commerce
West Broadway
Anaconda
Gregson Springs
Montana Press
Martin J. Hutchins
Missoulian
C. F. Kelley
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Association
U S Air Mail Test Complete Success
Omaha August 23 During three 24 hour periods of night flying experiments about 176000 letters have been transported coast to coast by the air mail service There has been a progressive improvement in efficiency San Francisco and New York have been placed within 28 hours of each other due solely to night flights and the night flying service on schedule has been successfully accomplished for the first time in aviation history The equipment functioned faultlessly and performance has been notably easy
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Omaha
Henderson
San Francisco
New York
California Officials Reveal I W W Plot to Attack Sacramento
State investigators disclose details of an I W W plan to terrorize Sacramento in the fall as retaliation for prosecutions under the criminal syndicalism act. A meeting in a nearby city last week produced the plan to "teach Sacramento a lesson" and a potential arrest looms as leaders describe a move similar to Centralia.
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Sacramento
Centralia
J. J. Henderson
Centralla
Butte Mines Rescue Squad to Compete Across Continent
Butte’s six man team in first aid and mine rescue heads to Salt Lake City Saturday at 5 20 p m to join the international convention. More than 100 teams will compete under the U S Bureau of Mines auspices with entrants from Great Falls Coeur d'Alenes and western Canada. The Boneville pavilion will host the three day event starting Saturday.
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Butte Mines
Butte
First Aid and
Salt Lake
John L. Boardman
A. C. M. Company
United States Bureau of Mines
Great Falls
Boardman
United States
J. E. Watson
J. N. Hoskings
E. J. Renouard Jr
Johnson defends political opposition over California letter
Senator Hiram Johnson issued a formal statement condemning the public release of his Europe written May letter to Charles K. McClatchy. He says the excerpts were misused and the opposition in California shows no bounds of honor or decency. He notes progressive Republicans must deliver a true progressive delegation to the 1924 Republican national convention.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hiram Johnson
California
Europe
Charles K. McClatchy
Sacramento
Johnson
Harding
Hoover
McClatchy
Albert E. Boynton
San Francisco
The
Republic
Officer Indicted in 2 Million Fraud Case
Five men including Col Launcelot M Purcell former chief of the surplus property division of the United States army were indicted on charges of defrauding the government of about 2 000 000 by selling surplus war supplies to private concerns The indictment lists 600000 yards of denim 239104 yards of duck 708022 yards of Osnabury gray and 1645065 yards of sheeting involved in the scheme
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Associated Press
New York
Launcelot M. Purcell
United States Army
Kentuckian Hayes arrested for Grace shooting of Collins
George Hayes, 45, a Kentuckian trapper, was arrested after questions about penalties for shooting led to the arrest and the resolution of the Grace, Grace station agent E. R. Collins shooting. Hayes confessed to shooting Collins during an attempted robbery and is jailed in Silver Bow. He was captured near Whitehall by a Holter ranch foreman and then brought to Butte by Sheriff Mangold.
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George Hayes
E. R. Collins
Milwaukee Railroad
Grace
Hayes
Collins
Silver Bow
Mune
I.ee
Veideg
Anak Ang
Butte
C. C. Mangold
Virginia City
Holter Ranch
Whitehall
Madison County
Jack Duggan
Jack Kelly
Riot of beauty burgoulous color flower show opens
The Rocky Mountain Garden club fourth annual flower show opened at the Chamber of Commerce with feminine touches transforming the space into a labyrinth of flowers and ferns. Hundreds visited through the afternoon and into the evening admiring the exhibits.
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Rocky Mountain Garden Club
Chamber of Commerce
Wobblies Outlawed by California Court Injunction
In Sacramento California the superior court granted an injunction restraining the Industrial Workers of the World its officers and members from acting as an organization in California. Prosecutors say the ruling will curb long trials under the state syndicalism law and make membership in the I W W a contempt of court violation.
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Associated Press
Sacramento
Cal
Industrial Workers of the World
Superior Court of
Sacramento County
California
Girl Bride Near Death in Colorado Springs Attack
Mrs Elsie Jorgenson Suttle a 16 year old bride of R H Suttle Jr was attacked in her bed this morning her skull crushed and collar bone broken she died at 3 o'clock this afternoon at a hospital police work on the theory that a former suitor a Spanish boy of Denver may be involved the girl was married July 17 and formerly lived in Denver
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The
Associated Press
Colorado Springs
Colo
Elsie Jorgenson Suttle
R. H. Suttle, Jr
Suttor
Denver
Helena Man 13 President Special Dispatch to the Standard
The Montana Society of Pioneers held its fortieth annual convention in Deer Lodge with officer elections selecting Richard Lockey of Helena as president. Butte was chosen as next meeting place, the banquet honored 200 pioneers, and the day featured a concert by the Butte Mines band.
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Deer Lodge
Butte
Montana
Montana Society of Pioneers
W. A. Clark
Richard Lockey
Helena
William Coleman
John D. Brown
Mary E. Valston
Frank D. Brown
Brown
Missoula
William Cave
Joseph A. Conrad
Conrad
John H. Shober
John Horsky
Butte Mines
Sam Treloar
Ronald Higgins
C. E. Larabie
Three Klansmen Sentenced in Tulsa Floggings Case
Ben F. Sikes, Grover S. Sikes, and Earl Sack of Broken Arrow pleaded guilty to rioting before District Judge W. B. Williams. They admitted Klan membership and were sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary, the first such sentences in the nation for Klansmen involved in a mob attack.
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Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
Baird H. Markham
Tulsa County
Ben F. Sikes
Grover
Sikes
Earl Sack
Broken Arrow
Ku Klux Klan
W. B. Williams
Premier Kato of Japan Dies After Illness
Baron Toma Saburo Kato, premier of Japan, died at noon after months of illness. A veteran naval officer, he rose to premier in 1922 and advocated closer US relations and arms reductions in line with league covenant goals. His cabinet followed Takahashi’s resignation on June 6.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Tomasaburo Kato
Japan
Kato
Baron Kato
United States
Viscount Takahashi
League of Nations
Washington
Independents to Cut Sioux Falls Gasoline Prices
Independent oil dealers in Sioux Falls plan to cut gasoline prices tomorrow to 15 percent of Standard Oil South Dakota levels. The announcement warns many dealers will be forced out of business as capital cannot sustain such a price, and criticizes Gov. McMaster for triggering the price war by keeping gasoline at 16 cents per gallon via state depots.
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Associated Press
Sioux Falls
Standard Oil Company
South Dakota
W. H. McMaster
State Highway Commission
Divided on Prohibition in Hamburg
In Hamburg Germany enemies of liquor traffic split into two groups temperenziers who favor restriction and ab atmenziers who seek total abolition.
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Hamburg
Germany
Holding Mirror Folly Ends in Slashing Self
John Shugrue 66 a section hand slashed his throat with a razor while talking to Tom Dean in the B A P bunk house on North Wyoming street about 10 o clock yesterday. He lay unconscious, then survived a heavy loss of blood and was rushed to the county hospital with vital throat wounds. Deputy Sheriff Mike Cronnily and others were alerted as Dean notified authorities. A fly landing on Shugrue’s eye caused a blink that revealed he was alive. The incident occurred in the bunk house during a despondent moment due to drink and illness.
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John Shugrue
Shugrue
Shugrus
Wyoming Street
Tom Dean
Mike Cronnily
Dean
J. L. McCarthy
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Maughan
Chicago
Cheyenne
Gregson
R. R. Kilroy
Standard
Kilroy
U. S. Air Mail
Wash
Canada
Boneville Pavilion
South State
Ninth South Streets
Chamber Commerce
Trail Blazers
Pioneers of
Treasure
Mining City
Order
Wm. Coleman
Sons and Daughters
Reaper
KATE
Island Empire
Togo
Kamilura
Railroad Bunkhouse
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