Basin Schools note highlights art exhibit and concert planned
Basin residents will see the Porter Motter Art Exhibit March 26 to 28 at the library with daily 3 to 5:30 pm and 7:30 to 10 pm showings. Tickets cost ten cents for children and twenty cents for adults to fund new pictures. Superintendent F L McNown leads the program amidst musical acts and school activities.
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C. L. VanDevender
Porter-Motter
Basin
Basin School
F L. McNown
Worland
Thermopolis
Feu Foller Rogers
Thelma Gould
Christine McKone
Cavatine Raff Clifford Whitmore
Clara Boeke
Concert Tomorrow at Rex by Barnaby Entertainers
Basin residents are invited to a Midland Lyceum Bureau concert at the Rex tomorrow evening featuring Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Barnaby. The event, seen as one of the bureau's best offerings, follows a prior scheduling lapse that led to a local guarantor group forming to ensure the remaining four numbers could be presented.
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Rex
Basin
Midland Lyceum Bureau
Paul J. Barnaby
The
Midland
Barnaby
Severe Storm Sweeps West Across Big Horn Basin
A Sheridan Post summary notes extreme western storms blocking Colorado & Southern trains, snow drifts to feet deep, and a fatal drift incident near Alliance. Crews worked three plows and a rotary to clear tracks between Edgemont and Alliance as service aimed to resume.
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Big Horn
Nebraska
Colorado
Billings
Denver
Colorado & Southern
Cas‘sne
Thermopolis
Casper
Sheridan Post
Havng
Crawford
Alliance
Edgemont
Missing Persons Drive At Basin Salvation Army Meeting
At Basin this week a Salvation Army meeting under Harry D Frisbee formed a local advisory board for Big Horn county. The writer was appointed to oversee the missing persons bureau and seeks information on disappearances, youths leaving home for work, deserted spouses, and World War I soldiers not returning home.
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Basin
Harry D. Frisbee
Home Service Section
Salvation Army
Big Horn County
Missing Soldiers and Other Persons Sought for Tracing
In Basin Wyoming on April 22 a notice asks for complete details on soldiers not returned and missing persons. It requests names former addresses descriptions last heard from unit and place, plus whether they are needed at home or could find work. Include relatives addresses and reasons for leaving to aid tracing efforts.
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Mary Talbott
Vera Hoel
Vicar of Wakefield
Olivia
Gertrude Harvey
Primrose
Stella Landfair
Squire Thornhill
Frank Emery
Verena Jones
Geraldine Fleming
Seagaire
Catherine Arnett Tees
F L. McNown
Morris
Catherine Arnett
Gertrude Harvey Cornet
Irwin Beard
Mack McKone
Gerald Extra
Irma Wright
Fair Ground
Boeke
Glee Club
Basin, Wyo
Horses on Farms Decline as Motor Trucks Rise
A government survey shows at least 50,000 farmers own motor trucks for farm use, with passenger cars and trailers excluded. Horses on farms peaked in 1913 and fell to 21,109,000 on January 1 this year, down 373,000 from a year ago, though demand for heavy draft horses is expected to strengthen and lift prices as shortages grow.
Why Clothing Is High Across the Nation
The New York World reports high men's suit prices rise from higher wages along the chain from raw materials to tailoring. Cloth shortages after wartime shifts and civic pity-led clothing donations boosted scarcity. Speculators bought remaining cloth, pushing prices up. weavers need months to catch up. Tailors earn nearly triple prewar wages, keeping costs high though easing soon. Wholesale retailers aren’t profiteering. A nationwide move to overalls gains traction, with 2600 Birmingham residents joining the Overall Club last week.
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New York World
Europe
New York City
Birmingham
Ala
Rotarians
Senator Underwood
Curtailed Consumption Cools Supply Demand in Butte
The Butte Miner notes a proposal to curtail consumption to raise supply above demand, invoking the fixed law of economics to justify actions aimed at stabilizing markets. The comment frames a debate on how reduced use can impact availability and pricing.
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Butte
The Days of Adam and Eve Foresee Labor Woes
The article argues labor shortages across New England farms, cotton regions, and western mines threaten production. It notes farmers shift to grain due to hand labor limits, sawmills face 20 percent help shortages, and overall per worker output falls while prosperity grows yet production per man shrinks. The piece likens modern issues to biblical Adam and Eve.
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New England
Farm Implements Dealers
Adam and Eve
Chinaizing America and the Tong Question Debate
A Basin Republican opinion piece argues China would become rule by tongs or labor groups, says public sentiment in both nations opposes such labor demands, warns higher wages and shorter hours would curb production, and predicts factory closures and farm abandonments.
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China
Need Better Live Stock
Discussion of the 1919 tally of 360000 pure bred hogs and about 900000 registered swine in the United States. It argues that most farms have few pedigreed animals and highlights Iowa Nebraska South Dakota and Minnesota as leading livestock states. It warns that farmers must embrace pure bred stock to improve efficiency and compete with progressive neighbors.
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American Breed Associations
United States
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Minnesota
The Midgets Grand Parade Heads for April 30
The Midgets' Grand Parade will be held April 30 at 7 30 p m with 50 first grade pupils in the cast Proceeds fund a Victrola for the first and second grades Admission 50 cents for adults 15 cents for children Herman A Sprague returned yesterday from a Montana visit.
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Herman A. Sprague
Montana
Fragmented Debate Over League of Nations Article X Reservation
Last November the Republican reservation to Article X of the League of Nations covenant passed 46 to 33. Democrats urged reviving the moribund treaty hoping to gain Republican support but failed. Republicans stood firm for Americanization while Democrats weakened, with eight Democrats crossing party lines to back the reservation that "cuts the heart out of the treaty."
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Hitchcock
Increased petroleum production and rising prices
Crude oil and related products show upward price trends with record highs daily. Demand for fuel oil surges beyond production, signaling a critical supply squeeze as producers offer record prices to boost output.
Scrap paper tools of Richard Harding Davis
The article sketches the writer Richard Harding Davis as prolific and methodical. He drafted all stories in pencil on yellow scrap paper carried in his pocket and kept erasures rather than crossings out, preferring a soft pencil for jotting notes.
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Richard Harding Davis
America
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