Seine Flood Fails to Rise Fast as Weather Turns Cold
Paris dispatch reports the River Seine still rising but at a slower pace after recent rain, with Austerlitz Bridge at 6.10 meters. Authorities plan evacuations if needed while Meuse in Maastricht falls toward normal, Rhine and Waal retreating, yet hundreds remain stranded by half collapsed dykes and flooded basements.
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Paris
Seine
Austerlitz
Olse
Maastricht
Belgium
Meuse
Rhine
Waal
Hous
Herrin is Bozeman chosen as Montana potato president
Tom Herrin of Helena named president of the Montana Potato Improvement Association for a third year at the state college meeting in Bozeman. G Dewitt of Malta elected first vice president and A H Small of Creston second vice president. Next annual meeting set for Bozeman. resolutions praise state development efforts, potato shows, and certification plans. discussion urged broad cooperation and marked bags for seed.
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Bozeman
Montana Potato Improvement Association
State College
Tom Herrin
Helena
G. Dewitt
Malta
A. H. Small
Creston
Montana Devel Ment “Association
Montana
Montana Dairymen's Association
A. E. Westlake
H. B
Much
J. H
Hofster
Colu
Wife Granted Onorge Husband Admitted Store Spree
Camden report states Mrs Frank T Hullings sought divorce claiming her husband’s mania for spending drove him to daily five and ten cent store sprees after paydays. She says he emptied his wages before leaving the shop, averaging seven dollars weekly alimony with the decree.
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Associated Press
Camden
Frank T. Hullings
Former Butte Football Star Joins Medical Breakthrough
An Associated Press dispatch noted a significant medical advance attributed to Dr J Farrell of Northwestern University. The report linked him, known locally as Lefty Farrell, to dental and medical figures including Dr Harry Gand Te M Farrell and Dr J.T. Farrell, in collaboration with Dr C D Leake of Wisconsin, indicating a notable cross campus effort.
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J. J. Farrell
Butte High
Mee
J. J. "Farrell
North
Wyoming
J. Farrell
Northwestern Uniiversity
Farrell
Butte
J.J. Farrell
Wyoming Street
Harry Gand Te M. Farrell
Rialto
Ase
Married women barred as teachers in Billings schools
Billings trustees voted five to one to adopt a resolution barring married women from teaching in the district. The measure also says that the 13 married women currently employed will not be re hired after the coming school year and any teacher who marries while employed will be dropped at the end of the semester of marriage.
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Preas
Billings
State Examinations Ordered for Montana School Children
Montana seventh and eighth graders will soon take a state exam conducted under the state board of education. The test covers 10 topics and will occur this month, affecting several hundred pupils across public and parochial schools. Enrollment figures show a fluctuating year with late results suggesting a similar total to last year. The rising operation costs are noted, with district No. 1 reporting 670,426 in 1923-24 and 704,58 in 1924-25, and a continued page reference.
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Montana
State Board of Educaiion
Ety Superintendent of Schools
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Butte
Hungary Uncovers Plot of Royalists in Capital
Budapest reports an unnamed royalist plot to restore the monarchy was uncovered by investigators. Details point to a 100,000 force involving 37,000 national army members under the regent Admiral Horthy, plus 26,000 police and gendarmes. The fascist cadre led by Julius Gombos faced extraordinary precautions as authorities prepared to defend the city from internal and external threats.
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Associated Press
Budapest
Archduke Albrecht
Admiral Horthy
Fascisti
Julius Gombos
Det
Income tax exemptions likely to rise in tax bill
Washington Jan 7 Senate finance committee members tentatively approved increasing personal income tax exemptions in the house tax reduction bill. The plan would lift single exemptions from 1000 to 1500 and married exemptions from 2500 to 3500, potentially relieving about 2.5 million federal taxpayers from income tax.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Inance Committee
Tenta
Scussions
Ford airport to build giant metal clad airship
Prominent figure, likely Mr. Fritsche, outlines plans for a huge metal clad airship at Ford Airport. It would be twice the size of the Shenandoah, with vast gas capacity and multiple layers of protection. He notes uncertainty about such ships for transatlantic travel due to fuel space concerns.
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Ford Airport
Shenandoah
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt Weds Earl E. Smith in New York
Medieval pageantry marked the wedding of heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt to Earl E. Smith at her mother’s Fifth Avenue home. Two hundred guests from finance and society attended as Paulist choristers sang, with a faux chapel setting and crowds outside waiting for a glimpse of the guests. Police guarded the scene as the ceremony proceeded in the drawing room.
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Consuelo Vanderbilt
Earl E. T. Smith
Fifth Avenue
Ing
Heiresen
Sydney J. Smith
Mire C Whitney
Merry Serenade for Bootleggers in Durange Jail
A county jail crowd cheered as three auto loads of carol singers with large accordions serenaded about 50 bootleggers on the jail’s top floor. The sound carried through windows and drew crowds to the courthouse district while prisoners on the lower floor joined in the festive singing.
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Butte
Oklahoma grand jury probes Osage Indian deaths
Guthrie Oklahoma January 7 a United States grand jury opened an inquiry into the deaths of 17 Osage country residents led by the discovery of Anna Brown whose 1923 death opened the case The witnesses included the Osage finders the autopsy physicians and the undertaker amid indications of a conspiracy to target the Osage fortune estimated at two million dollars Roy Lewis US district attorney said unexpected developments may aid federal authorities in concluding the lengthy investigation
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Guthrie
Okla
United States
Anna Brown
Varia
Roy Lewis
Bank Wrecker to Plead to New Count in Denver
Maurice Mi fell, a former employee linked to the Mibernia Bank and Trust Company theft, will be brought from state prison to Denver to plead to new charges of embezzlement misapplication and misappropriation. District Attorney Foster Chance says the action aims to block a statute of limitations and parole eligibility is July 7. If he opts, he may face trial before that date.
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Vrons
Denver
Maurice Mi
Mibernia Bank On Trust Company
Morley
Foster
Central West Under Heavy Snow Blanket
The Central West was swept by a heavy snowstorm reaching the fountain region and extending eastward into Nebraska and Kansas. Temperatures dropped as a vast snow layer blanketed the sparsely settled area. John Keith of Alliance Nebh lost his life amid the storm.
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Kansas City
Fountain
Cove
Kornaas
Nebraska
Plan to create mediation board ends railroad labor dispute
President Coolidge approved a plan to abolish the railroad labor board and form a mediation and arbitration board. Labor and management leaders announced agreement on this plan after White House discussions with Senator Watson and executives, signaling submission to Congress for settlement of rail road labor disputes.
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Board of Mediation
Associated Press
Washington
Legion
Congress
Coolze
Watson
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
White House
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania
Diario
Ini
D. D. Robe W.N. Doak
B. M. Jewell
Donald R. Richberg
Alfred P. Thom
Association of
Railway Executives
Yer Ay
Mr. Tichberg
Railroad Employers
Emple
Lexition
Cardinal Mercier in Very Serious Condition
From Brussels on January 7 the Associated Press reports Cardinal Mercier remains critically ill with heart trouble. The auxiliary bishops of Maines and Brussels urged the faithful to pray as the archbishop’s strength declines and extreme unction was requested. An official bulletin notes his condition is stationary and he remains very weak.
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Associated Press
Brussels
Cardinal Mercier
Maines
Hight
Western lawmakers blast reclamation agency delay
Washington Jan 7 Republicans attack Secretary Work and the reclamation service on Sun River and Riverton projects. Representative Leavitt accuses officials of unwarranted delays while Representative Winter says no progress occurred for 13 months despite available funds.
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Washington
Adinistration of Reclamation
Work
Fead
Leavitt
Montana
Sun River Project
Winter
Wyoming
Riverton Project
Doomed Man in Montana Murder Case Refutes Killing Claim
A prisoner in Montana serving a life term for a murder denies involvement in a killing near Livingston. Warden Sims reports the inmate showed no intent to escalate, saying neither he nor his brother Babe killed the man charged. Telegrams to his mother and brother were sent but their contents were not disclosed.
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Mus
It. B. Sims
Lawrence
Babe
Livingston, Mont
School to Get More Money in 1926 Than Ever Before
Montana education leaders report 1926 school revenues will exceed recent years. The state board of equalization foresees over a million dollars for distribution to districts. With census figures down, at least 6.25 per child from the common school fund is expected. Additional income from metal mine license tax and inheritance taxes could add about 300,000 to 400,000 dollars.
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Montana
State Department of Education
J. W. Walker
State Board of Equali Nation
W. A. Clark
Walker Esite
Presiddent Davis
State ‘Normal College
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Friteche
Trans-Comenencal Metalecad
Vanderbilt Chateaus
Irving Berlin
Frederick Church Jr
Remony
Durange Vile
Bill Duggan
Bastile
Oklahoma
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MGS Gallows
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