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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1919
Page
5
Montana lawmakers debate farm relief and irrigation measures during a lengthy session. They discuss tax relief for landowners, expansion of state loan programs, and the formation of a state reclamation commission. Senate ratifies federal woman suffrage amid debate over states rights and timing.
Senators debate creating eight new counties as a solution to revenue shortages while a McCone tax law faces repeal. Donlan and Rasmussen irrigation bills advance, highway amendments seek freeing spending limits, and a moratorium on foreclosures eyed for drought relief.
Helena July 30 A plan by Rep Buell seeks relief for farmers unable to pay taxes due to this year’s crop failure. The measure calls for waiving penalties for those unable to meet assessments and to allow under oath reporting to county commissioners. The bill would still require those able to pay to cover penalties for delay.
The report describes a four week old pig from Whitefield New Hampshire sent by parcel post to a recipient two miles from Montpelier. Separately, Professor Vaughn MacCaughey warns the Hawaiian race faces extinction due to diseases and alcohol brought by white contact, noting long-settled health impacts.
William Boasil, a miner living on Park Street, crawled into an alley behind the Arizona hotel after a violent coughing fit induced a hemorrhage. He was found weakened, transported to emergency hospital, and treated. Authorities expect an inquest today. Boasil had no known friends or funds for care.
The civil service commission announces numerous examinations for postings in Butte and nationwide. Positions include timber inspector, X-ray median month, assistant instructor at motor transport school, assistant observer at the weather bureau, tobacco investigations, adding machine mechanic, telephone plant, addressograph expert, mine safety engineer, research chemist, agriculture teacher, irrigation plant assistant, mining tinale assistant, tabulating machine mechanic, and railway mail clerk with varied pay scales and examination dates through August to September. Applications directed to the secretary, civil service examiners, post office, Butte, or Eleventh district in Seattle.
Forester officials announce wireless telegraphy experiments by the Forestry Service in Idaho Nevada and Western Montana. The system aims to report fires from remote stations despite windstorms and winter conditions while avoiding rubber insulated telephone wires prone to fire, doubling efficiency once fully implemented.
City police announce strict enforcement of the muffler closure rule for motor vehicles. Violations will result in penalties as orders to enforce the ordinance were issued yesterday amid complaints about open exhausts near hospitals and throughout the city.
Two historical discoveries improved human welfare. In 1835 Newton devised the milk vacuum process with cane sugar to a semi liquid, and in 1888 Horlick in Racine Wisconsin developed drying milk with malted grain extract to a malted milk powder. Its nutritive value digestibility ease of preparation and climate stability made it an ideal food drink from infancy to old age. Ask for WORLICKS Avoid imitations.
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