Deadlocked Legislature Scraps Funding For State Projects
The stalled legislative session winds toward adjournment as conference committees reconcile six large appropriation measures. Senate and House agree on most cuts, restoring $1 state fair funding only for caretaker costs while slashing prison, state normal, and other line items. Governor’s economy push shapes amendments and new tax ideas, with tables showing a roughly $100,000 yearly savings for the next biennium.
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Taylor
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Paul
Conser
Haselbaker
Johnson
Fergus
Holt
Besancon
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di Flling
Tmpork
Ipeds
Britain Rejects Geneva Protocol On World Peace
Britain rejects the Geneva Protocol amid a broader debate on collective security. Many powers have signed the pact but England’s stance sparks renewed calls to revise the instrument. Germany’s inclusion remains a key aim as Russia’s stance looms in the background of the League covenant discussions.
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League
England
Geneva
Er Ataten
Russia
Navy 15 Playing Great War Game
Navy operations under wartime conditions require constant control and radio silence to hide plans. The flag ship coordinates a fleet with cruisers and aircraft sentries moving continuously to keep the commander informed of each vessel’s action and position.
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America first in air achievements claim sparks controversy
A March report from Washington notes an Associated Press statement asserting U S aviation progress and leadership in aircraft and engines, while criticizing negative results from wartime experiments and praising American pilots amid global comparisons with France Italy Argentina and Portugal.
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Associated Press
Washington
America
France
Italy
Argentina
Portugal
United States Army
Natio
State budget review stretches longest session in history
Analysts trim total appropriations to 6 628 890 for the biennium while projecting an annual income around 3 200 000. The Nineteenth assembly aims to cut deficiency appropriations from the general fund, freeing 2 814 448 for two years. The report, compiled by Mor Cormick McCabe and Oliver, reflects figures from the senate subcommittees after conference. The session, expected to close today, marks the longest ever held in the state.
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Nineteenth ‘Assembly
Senate
Mor Cormick
McCabe
Oliver
State budget fights yield partial economy gains
Lawmakers wrestle over 18 percent cut to current appropriations as Senate and House seek reductions. Conference committees inch toward compromise, with bills for general fund warrants, motor vehicle registration shift, and lower interest on warrants advancing. Efforts include anti narcotics law and county poor fund warrant validation, amid fiscal stress in Butte and Silver Bow counties.
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Teapot Dome trial opens amid search for Stewart
United States hearings on the Teapot Dome affair begin with government seeking to compel testimony from key figures. Officials report Robert W. Stewart missing and believed abroad, while other witnesses arrive in Paris and Washington to support charges of conspiracy and improper oil land transfers.
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Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
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J. 2. O'Neil
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H. M.’ Osler
Canada
Osler
Sinclair
Fall
Pomerene
J. C. Finney
Ansistant
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Mammoth Company
Harding
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Fendante
Mamoth Company
Iaakines
Tading
Ain
Yale University
Hatewart
I. F. Landis
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Paris
O'Neill
Blackmer
Mengert
Teapot Dam
Duel Ends in Death as Two Pottery Workers Fight
Martines and Dan Meenves, local pottery employees, quarreled yesterday and agreed to duel near Lincoln. They met armed with pistols. Martines fell dead while Meenves was wounded in the lung and taken to county hospital in Lincoln, tonight in critical condition possible fatality.
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Dan Meenves
Lincoln
Melenves
Boulder ranchers seek road-use restraining order hearing
The case of Elk Park ranchers Dan Parrini and Jamon Atkinson, who blocked motorists from using a county road detour, likely to be heard Thursday before Judge Tyman Bennett. The dispute involves toll collection and traffic across private property when Jefferson county roads are impassable, with a prior postponement and related disturbance charges.
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Boulder
Dan Parrini
Jamon Atkinson
Elk Park
Jefferson County
Tyman Bennett
Howard Johnson
Parrint
Atkinson
Fall Refuses To Reveal Plans In Wyoming Oil Case
Indicted in Washington over leasing of naval oil reserve to Mammoth, Fall may refuse to discuss the Wyoming field deal to protect himself. Subpoena served in El Paso, with Fall stating a witness must appear or justify nonappearance. He travels with his son Chase and attorney Mark Thompson, as Henry A. meets them.
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Washington
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Mammoth of Company
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Fall Fanch
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Mr. Pall
Chase
Mark
Jompson
Henry A
Oxford Latin cross word craze spreads among students
Oxford and Cambridge students revive Latin cross word puzzles as a craze spreads from Ene’and to London papers like the Morning Post. Old public school and university alumni reportedly lost touch with classics, but student interest in the Greek and Latin word games grows, even in cricket and golf reports. In Los Angeles, March 8, a wage increase agreement averting a strike on the Santa Fe coast is signed by company officials and railroad workers.
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Morning Post
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Beaverhead basketball team returns after state tourney
Dillon Bureau reports the Beaverhead high school basketball team placed fourth at the state tournament in Bozeman, with only one loss. A crowd of Dillon fans traveled to the meet and returned home today. Several locals and visitors were listed among those in attendance and visiting Dillon.
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William Dunn
Tom Gilers
Richard ‘Cosgrove
Harold Cashmore
W. B. Hartwig
Arthur Brown
Mises Gladys Scully
LaVerne Brown
Phyllis Scully
Helen’ Galloway
Dorothy Hirechman
Carrie Burles
Deer Lodge Bowling League Plans City Tournament
Deer Lodge Bowling league held a Friday meeting at city hall to decide team entries and determine awards for top average bowlers. The annual banquet was set for early April with A J Luedeman, Jack Steinberger, Pat Keeley and Carl Zur Muehren tasked to plan the event.
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March
City Hall
A. J. Luedeman
Jack Steinberger
Pat Keeley
Carl Zur Muehren
Do Your Worst Burlesque at St Peter’s School Hall
Gleefiers of Anaconda present the one act burlesque Do Your Worst at St Peter’s School Hall with residents hearing fascists and a cast led by Jack Jones the hero Irene and Jack's sweetheart. The mortgage holder Taint Fair appears with Lena Taint’s sister Mae Bownes and Irene’s father John. Living room mortgaged home set and vocal number Truest Love performed by Miss Margaret McMahon.
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St. Peter's
Jack Jones
Charles Smet
Irene
Jennings 15 High Man in Rifle Club Matches
Byron Jennings led individual scores at the Alc Conda rifle range in a team match and pot shoot. He posted 200 in the team event and 75 in the pot shoot, with Joe Tescher taking the pot shoot win at 80. Captain George Jackson Jr. captained Team He.$ to 696. Oscar Lander delivered the day’s most consistent pistol scores.
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Anaconda
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Avbor Thing
George Jackson Jr
Oscar Lander
Risker Wee
van Dyney
Ay Tanner Ed
G. Jackson
G. Jackson Sr
Jennings
R Oldhader
Abbott
W. Guetatson
Portrait of a Leading Man at the Margaret Theater
A strong, reserved leading man with glossy black curls and brown weary eyes stars in a Margaret theater night. He is described as handsome and poised, with stage and screen experience from New York to Griffith and Metro stars, now under a three year Goldwyn contract after starting with G. M. Anderson. He portrays the grown Barefoot Boy in a film adaptation of Whittier's poem.
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Griffith
Metro
Goldwyn
G. M. Anderson
Bower
Jane Novak
Film Booking Offices
13 Cats and One Dog Keep Vigil Over Man
Utica March 8. Joe Keesey found dead in his home after relatives heard odd noises and dog licking his cold hands. He died of a heart attack as 18 cats gathered around him, with Social Kid the dog nearby. The piece also notes Prague and Rome now connected by through trains.
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Utica
N.Y
Kid
Joe Kesey
Keesey
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