Amazing array of entertainment at Midland Empire Fair
The Midland Empire Fair Board booked a vast program for the exposition opening in Billings on Monday August 12. Highlights include daily thoroughbred racing with over 8000 in purses and seven races per day plus rodeo events and a World Champion Cowboy points system, circus acts, a huge musical production The Fascinations of 1935, and a 40 carload United Shows midway with notable guests including relatives of infamous criminals.
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Northwest
Midland Empire Fair Board
Billings
Midland Empire
Midland Empire Fair
Rodeo Association of America
Ama
Leo J. Cremer
Madison Square Gardens
Chicago
United Shows of America
Clyde Barrows
Bonnie Parker
John Dillinger
Crop adjustment cuts vast basic lands in farming
Washington reports the AAA cut 27.6 million acres from basic crop production this year. Of that total 27.5 million acres shifted to other crops, with legumes expanding the most, including alfalfa hay and soybeans. Government rental by crop totals: corn 11.97M, wheat 4.91M, cotton 10.29M, tobacco 0.43M. Cox notes many rented lands now grow soil-building legumes.
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Washington
AAA
United States
Joseph F. Cox
Cox
Many Improvements Greet Midland Empire Fair Crowds
The Midland Empire Fair August 12 to 16 will welcome tens of thousands with extensive grounds upgrades. Improvements include widening and paving the Midway and roads, repainting and remodeling buildings, leveled grounds, concrete curbing, a new free act stand over 100 feet wide, a 90 foot deep stage, and a racing pad dock with 12 horse stalls for pre race inspection. Pari mutuel booths move beside the paddock, with a new refreshment parlor nearby.
Origins of Calendars and Time Division
The text notes ancient calendars predating Christ with Assyrian and Phoenician origins likely earlier than Jewish. It explains day by sunrise and sunset and months by moon phases. It says 12 lunar months produce recurring seasons and form the concept of a year.
Senate adopts conference report on deficiency bill funds
The Senate accepted the conference report on the second deficiency bill totaling about 272 million dollars for various departments and agencies. The compromise trims ten million from public building construction and reduces several programs including TVA dam work and a museum memorial to Lieut. Col. George A. Custer.
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Washington
Senate
House
District of Columbia
Trade Commission Textile and Milk Investigation Fund
Helena
Mont
George A. Custer
Little Big Horn River
Montana
Petroleum
Free School Tickets For Midland Empire Fair Opening
All grade school children in the Midland Empire can attend the fair free on Monday August 12. About fifty thousand school tickets are distributed by Sawyer Stores and handed out by school officials. Tickets must be shown at the gate before noon, with children allowed into the grandstand free for a special 10 a.m. program. accompanying adults pay standard admission, except for the morning grandstand and bleacher access.
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Midland Empire
Sawyer
Two Youths Sought for Cadetship Examinations
Senator Burton Wheeler announces a civil service exam on October 26 at 9 am to select a principal and two alternates for a U S Military Academy cadetship at West Point and a principal and three alternates for a U S Naval Academy cadetship at Annapolis. Open to Montana residents ages 17-22 for West Point and 16-20 for Annapolis. tests held in Billings Bozeman Butte Glasgow Glendive Great Falls Havre Helena Kalispell Lewistown Missoula Miles City Plentywood.
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Burton K. Wheeler
United States Civil Service Commission
United States Military Academy
West Point
New York
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Maryland
Academy
Montana
Billings
Bozeman
Butte
Glasgow
Glendive
Great Falls
Havre
Helena
Kalispell
Lewistown
Missoula
Miles City
Plentywood
Senate
Washington, D. C
Wheeler
Board of Civil Service Examiners
Judge Goddard Cards 82 at Montana Golf Meet
The 82 year old Montana district judge from Billings, born 1853, says golf is an old man’s game as he plays 36 holes in the nineteenth annual state convention heat. He qualified 109 and 123 for 232, while praising the sport and his long Montana ties. He was president of the Montana golf association in 1934 and remains active in the game.
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Great Falls
Billings
O. F. Goddard
Montana
Goddard
Judge Goddard
Montana Golf Association
Iowa
Association
Browning Woman Dies After Tire Blowout Crash
Mrs Alma Fordyce 29 of Browning died in Great Falls after a head on collision caused by a tire blowout. Her car carried Mrs F A Sharpe of Lodge Grass and Miss Esther Heberlein of Browning. Sharpe unhurt, his wife with minor injuries, Heberlein with knee and chest cuts but no serious injuries.
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Great Falls
Mont
Alma Fordyce
Browning
Fordyce
F. A. Sharpe
Lodge Grass
Montana
Sharpe
Esther Heberlein
Senate approves compromise bank bill without changes
The Senate passed the compromise bank bill in a voice vote, sending it to conference with the House. Liberal backers failed to win amendments to expand Federal Reserve powers, while other radical proposals for a government central bank were defeated.
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Washington
Senate
United
House
Federal Reserve Board
Roosevelt
Reublicans
Hipstead
la Follette
Nye
Charles E. Coughlin
Detroit
Fletcher
Bankin Committee
Reserve Board
LaFollette
A Thomas
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Douthett Lumber CO
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Boulder Road
Sweet Grass County
Boer St
Galsa Aovert
Chevrolet
Fisher
Chevrolet Motor
Chevrolet Slow
Michigan
de Lwee
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OIE Motor CO
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