Fragmentary OCR Notes Point to Unclear Financial Entry
The readable bits show a financial line with amounts such as 291.00 and 205 but lack context. No clear dates, names, or actions are discernible to confirm the event or responsible parties.
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Newspaper
Baker Sentinel
Location
Baker, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1924
Page
4
The readable bits show a financial line with amounts such as 291.00 and 205 but lack context. No clear dates, names, or actions are discernible to confirm the event or responsible parties.
Spring brings visitors traveling the Yellowstone trail and other highways to Montana towns including Baker with its lake and hotels. Cities plan to welcome a record tourist trade this year by improving local looks with painting and clearing winter debris to create a brighter Northwest stopover.
A community editorial extols the market wagon as essential to commerce. It urges keeping it in good repair with grease paint and sheltered running gears. The piece lauds home newspapers as guardians defenders of interests and advocates of law and order.
The January 1924 rate of return on railroad property averaged 45 percent. Mr McAdoo calls for reducing rates to a reasonable basis and asks what rate would be fair. The Republican Congress adopted the idea of a reasonable return on property value, while McAdoo questions the concept.
Walter Wit sun of Plevna announces candidacy for treasurer of Fallon county. He pledges to fund his campaign with advertising and boasts his banking experience at First National Bank of Plevna. The message argues advertising yields results and newspaper funding is essential.
The piece argues Winnebago City Enterprise partners are not broke and cites rising farm sales at Montgomery Ward. It warns local merchants are losing customers to mail order catalogs and catalogs show deep discounts. It urges town merchants to match competition with effective advertising and price comparisons.
A fragment argues that Senate prosecutors should decide guilt by party, claiming accused lawmakers deserve a fixed outcome based on majority or minority status. The text critiques legal clarity in federal statutes and implies political influence corrupts judicial processes.
Statistics on foreclosures of mortgages on farms in the wheat region support the claim that farmer distress stemmed from over-borrowing during inflation. Farmland fetched prices above productive power, wages for city and rail workers pushed farm labor costs up, eroding profits. The best survivors avoided debt and heavy hiring.
Southern Senators and Congressmen once pressing large cotton subsidies now protest statistics though their accuracy is not in question. The piece argues government data, like all human work, can err and that people assume official statistics are flawless.
Classified notice advertises old papers at the Sentinel office for 10 cents a bunch and space in the column. It also invites busy job seekers and mentions Keble Moti company offering manure, with instruction to visit the office.
Burns Brothers announce they have secured exclusive agency for a new airtight puncture proof tube and will demonstrate it. They cite a Bureau of Standards pamphlet from Washington showing nine tenths of slow tire leaks come from rain and five percent from porous rubber, challenging older theories.
W F Nichols announces candidacy for county commissioner in Follon county subject to voters at the August 26 primary. Nichols, resident of the Big Hall community for fourteen years, asks for support. Authorized and paid for by W F Nichols.
Public notice in district court of Montana Fallon County. Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society sues Louis Katz and Annie Katz for 300 dollars plus interest, costs, and attorney fees on a 1918 note, to foreclose a mortgage on 320 acres in Ismay area. Judgment by default if no answer within 20 days of service. Court date April 8 1924 Baker Montana. Ralph Keenee Clerk. Gec Murphy attorney.
Public notice for publication in district court of Montana Fallon County. Defendants Wolf Gordon and Nettie Gordon must answer within twenty days. failure leads to default judgment for $1200 plus interest, costs, and attorney fees on a promissory note dated March 31 1917. Mortgage on described lands in Fallon County sec Twelve township five north range fifty five east Montana. Plaintiff represented by J Murphy Ismay. Court seal April 1 1924.
Public filing summons in district court Baker Montana. V3 Nathan Matlin sues to foreclose a mortgage on the South Half of Section 2 Township 5 North Range 55 East Montana Meridian. Defendant must answer by April 1 1924, else judgment by default. Attorney Geo J Murphy Ismay Montana for plaintiff. Dates 4/4 to 4/25.
The Baker Montana sheriff will sell on April 26 1924 at 2 00 PM at the courthouse front door in Baker Fallon County the real estate described as Lots 3 4 SE of SW SE 1 2 NE 1 2 S 1 2 SEC 30 and NE 1 4 of Sec 31 Township 5 North Range 59 East Meridian containing 480 acres with all appurtenances. The sale is ordered by Montana District Court and conducted by Sheriff F F Kelling with attorney AL Hansen.
Court orders any interested parties to appear on April 19, 1924 in Baker Fallon County Montana to show cause against granting an order for sale of estate realty of James L. Van Hook. Notice published in the Baker Sentinel for four weeks. Mortgage details dated Sept 1, 1917, recorded Sept 20, 1917, describe NE quarter of Section 30 Township 10 North Range 60 East.
District court summons and notices summon Price Orton Ethel Orton J L Barstow and Mildred Barstow to answer complaints seeking a $2800 note with 10 percent interest, plus added interest and attorney fees, and a Kohen Lillian action seeking $500 and mortgage foreclosure on a Fallon County property SE MNW 5 6 8 60 E M M Witness date March 13 1924 Ralph Keener Clerk.
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