Yellowstone Kid Still Live Wire Among Old Acquaintances
William Frank lin Edger known as the Yellowstone Kid visits Billings from Sidney renewing old ties. The pioneer recalls early Montana history near Virginia City Bannack and the Yellowstone region, noting his life as trapper miner sheep raiser farmer and government messenger.
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Billings
William Franklin Edger
Montana
Yellowsstone
Sidney
General Custer
Northwest
Virginia City
Bannack
South Dakota
St. Mary’s
Sugar Creek
North Dakota
Minnesota
Kansas City
Missouri River
Lower Dakota
Black Hills
Yellowstone
Miles City
Coulson
Fort Benton
Boot Hill
Yellowstone Park
Jane
Mexico And Canada Lead In Immigration
New York April 12 The national industrial board reports that in the first six months after the new immigration law took effect Mexico and Canada supplied the largest share of net U S immigration and became the chief sources of foreign labor. The period July 1 1924 to January 1 1925 shows 104 875 net gain, with a large return of aliens to Europe and a heavy outflow from the United States to Europe.
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New York
Mexico
Canada
United States
National Industrial Board
Europe
New World
Residence of Nellie T. Ross Under Guard
Cheyenne reports the Wyoming governor’s mansion guarded for several nights by state prohibition agents. Guards seek identity and question nearby residents while inspecting ash cans and culverts. Governor and Mrs. Ross decline to comment. the household includes Mrs. Ross, her 13 year old son Bradford, and a servant.
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Ross
Bradford
Supreme Court limits federal power on lockouts and labor bans
In a San Francisco case the California Industrial Council and allied employers were found guilty of Sherman Act violations over an open shop push. The court ruled no substantial restraint of interstate commerce occurred, hence no federal intervention in the lockout dispute.
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Washington
Supreme Court
San Francisco
Industrial Association of
California Industrial Council
California
Sutherland
Winter Wheat Hit A Hard Blow In U. S.
Washington reports winter wheat reduced by severe cold and drought across major growing regions. Forecast of 474.3 million bushels, down 116 million from last year, with 68.7 percent of normal condition. Abandonment rising. areas reseeded to other crops.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Indiana
Montana
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Pacific Northwest
Oregon
Plains
Kentucky
Tennessee
Atlantic Seaboard
Minnesota
Arkansas
Illinois
Roosevelt Sons Set Sail On Leviathan For Panamanian Expedition
Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt departed on the Leviathan bound for the Panamanian frontier. The party aims to study wildlife including the ibex and ovis poli a 259 pound sheep while documenting life with cameras for the Field Museum of Chicago.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt
Poli
Tiah Shan
Kipling
Southampton Wards
Kermit
Marco Pola
Field Museum of Chicago
Polo
Roosevelts
Theodore’s
Kermit’s
Archie Roosevelt
Himalaya
Burton of Ohio to Chair U S Delegation to Arms Conference
The State Department announced Representative Theodore Burton of Ohio will head the American delegation to the Geneva International Conference on the Control of the Traffic in Arms. Other members include Hugh Gibson, Rear Admiral Andrew T. Long, Allen W. Dulles, and Brig. Gen. C. L. Ruggles. The talks, under the League of Nations, focus on licensing arms and declaring prohibited zones to protect peace.
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Washington
Theodore Burton
Ohio
State Department
Hugh Gibson
Switzerland
Andrew T. Long
Navy General Board
Allen W. Dulles
C. L. Ruggles
Army Ordnance
Local News Roundup From Big Timber and Grey Cliff
Grey Cliff and Big Timber residents report illnesses influenza and hospital visits. Travelers and workers including Gaston Baker and Oscar Braaten discuss work, transport, and a new chicken breeding plan. A freight train carried eight carloads of Chevrolets westward, signaling regional economic rebound. Sympathy extends to Jesse Kellogg over his mother’s death in Flint Michigan.
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Floyd Nepstad
Big Timber
Bill Hansen
Clarence Flattum
Gaston Baker
Hysham
Mike Samac
Ford
F. A. Turvey
Tom Burg
E. H. Payne
Bartell
N. P
Grey Cliff
Jesse Kellogg
Flint
Michigan
Billings
Mr. Kellogg
Oscar Braaten
Powers Elevator
Shenandoah
Iowa
Oscar
Annual Junior Play Set For May 8
The junior play You and I will be staged Friday evening May 8. Seniors Harry Thompson and Lloyd Rein join the cast due to junior boy shortages. Thompson plays a self made businessman and Rein portrays Roderick White who gives up studying architecture to marry Veronica Duane.
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You and
Harry Thompson
Lloyd Rein
Thompson
Mr. Rein
Roderick White
Veronica Duane
Woman Charged in Family Deaths In Indiana
Mrs. Anna Cunningham of Gary Indiana faces a sanity hearing after a string of family deaths including six children and a husband. Her son David Jr lies in a Chicago hospital in critical condition from arsenic poisoning. Bodies of Cunninghams were exhumed for chemical analysis in Chicago and Bloomington Indiana. The suspect was guarded after a suicide attempt in a Chicago hospital and is 49 years old.
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Crow Point
Ind
Anna Cunningham
Gary
David, Jr
Chicago
Lake County
Indianapolis
Coolidge Wearies Of Faked Paper Tales
President Coolidge says cabinet resignation rumors and other fake Washington stories circulate during recess. He notes some reports misstate his actions including alleged Easter clothing purchases and Secretay Weeks’ resignation. He urges avoidance of forced news when conditions are dull.
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Washington
White House
Coolidge
GORN RAISING INFOS ON MONTANA CORN GAINS REPORTED
Montana promotional remarks urge attracting settlers with concrete gains. Evidence from Custer and Yellowstone counties shows Montana can grow larger quantities of high quality corn, convincing Iowa and Nebraska farmers to consider relocating.
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Montana
Iowa
Nebraska
Montana corn and hogs deemed highly profitable
The Montana Development Association argues that Montana can raise large quantities of good corn and feed it on the farm while shipping only the finished product. Low priced land, high quality corn, and limited hog cholera favor farmers in the Middle West and Montana alike, with corn and hogs seen as a foundation for future prosperity.
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Montana Development Association
Montana
Middle West
Corte
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H. P. Mooney
Marcelling
Edna Davies
Spokane
Perrine
J. J. Gallagher
C. Graff
Patterson Undertaking Co
Mont
Nellie T. Ross
Uncle Sam
U. S
Panama
Burton
Gorn
Custer
Custer County
Yellowstone County
Basket
Versatile Orchestra
Ueneral
Times
Sweet Grass County Creamery
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