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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1923
Page
2
Jurors were questioned amid varied views on capital punishment and prohibition. A diverse panel included a deaf individual and a non-native speaker, with questions about understanding the law and desire for verdicts based on law and facts. The state used five challenges, defense ten, and 19 jurors remained seated as the trial progressed.
Associated Press reports Montana Attorney General Wellington D. Arbein will seek a court order in Lewis and Clark county to appoint a receiver for the Banking Corporation of Montana, insolvent and unable to pay depositors. The state seeks to protect $44,000 in county deposits and demand repayment of county bonds.
Weather and temperatures across Helena Havre and surrounding towns are noted with frost in Montana. A report mentions injuries from a bridge construction incident where a rod pierced a worker, leaving him in critical condition. The article also references labor leader Samuel Gompers and local union officers.
Report from Page 1 recounts Lieuts. MacReady and Kelly aboard the T-2 during a transcontinental test flight. They describe engine troubles near New Jersey, sustaining 90 percent Liberty power, and navigating by beacon light over Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. Their flight covered roughly 2,700 to 2,800 miles at about 100 mph, with plans to push for a 48 hour duration record and a world circumnavigation attempt later.
More than a score of Northwestern students and an official were questioned at the Office of Attorney Robert Crow in Chicago about the campus death mystery dating to September 1921. The inquiry follows university trustees demands for a grand jury investigation and involvement of parents seeking answers.
The text refects late 1910s aviation milestones by Alcock Brown NC-2 and K-34 non stop Atlantic crossings, noting a 1960 mile flight and a 3200 mile flight plus a $2500 prize to Lieutenants Kelly and MacReady after a telegram from Maj. Gen. Patrick. The wager originated with Col. Kenney and was settled with compliments at the Plaza.
June completion of the highway promises tourist travel next year after repeated failed attempts. Kiwanians Rotarians chamber of commerce and Elks united to back the effort as residents quote that what Butte pursues it achieves. The piece also notes Anthology tracing to Greek origins meaning flower-fathering and describes a collection of Greek poems.
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