Is the world growing better or not
The writer questions whether crime is decreasing and cites Montana and other states. It notes murder trials with convictions and life sentences in Montana plus guilty pleas in Glasgow and executions in Sing Sing. The piece asks how the world could be improving amid pervasive crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Timber
Miles City
Baker
Malta
Conrad
Kalispell
Butte
Glasgow
Virginia City
James
Lynch
Montana
Colorado
Maj. Shepard
North Dakota
Sing Sing
Lawes
The Years Discredit a Prophet
The piece revisits Sir William Crookes’s 19th century warning on wheat shortages by 1931. It notes advances in mechanization and new lands expanding production, raising world wheat area beyond 100,000,000 acres and increasing yields. It highlights shifting consumption, rising global output, and the need for farmers to adapt cost structures and diversify.
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Minneapolis Tribune
William Crookes
United States
Liverpool
Sir William
Canada
Russia
Argentina
Australia
China
Postmaster General Walter Brown Under Fire For Administration Role
The Milwaukee Journal cites the New York Post questioning Walter Brown’s effectiveness as postmaster general and political adviser to the Hoover era. The piece notes Brown’s Ohio GOP leadership and prior commerce role, discussing duties of the postmaster general and public scrutiny of his influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee Journal
New York Post
Fess
Walter Brown
Toledo
Ohio
Hoover
Post
Brown
Postoffice politics tied to presidential renomination
The article argues Post office staffing is driven by political loyalty and renomination aims. It cites figures like Henry C. Payne, Frank Hitchcock, Will Hayes, Hubert Work, and Walter Brown, noting sales of postmasterships and debates over rates. It questions whether post office profits justify political rewards rather than service efficiency.
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Chine
Post Office Department
Walter Brown
Cat
Henry C. Payne
Frank Hitchcock
Will Hayes
Hubert Work
Hoover
James W. Good
South
Reed Point Community Notes Reflect Holiday Activities
Mrs G C F E Hartman rode to Billings Sunday. Families from Reed Point visited Columbus and Big Timber for shopping and games with Absarokee. A Yellowstone Trail survey crew arrived to complete work west of town. The local school plans a Christmas program and a two week vacation. Birth announced for Merrelyn Elizabeth Rabb in Billings Deaconess Hospital. mother Carol Evenson formerly of Reed Point.
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GC. FE. Hartman
Billings
Columbus
Chester Fraser
Mack Morris
Gardiner
Bant Elk
Henry Evenson
Ada Evenson
Gearhardt
Here
Quebec
Absarokee
Reed Pointers
William Robinson
Everett Farr
Guy van Camp
Law DeFrance
Frank
A. L. Dean
Eva Litzenberger
Alta Peters
Gariie Nerison
Kathleen Miller
Martha Allen
Floyd Farr
Big Timber
Willima Ferguson
Laurel
Corbett
William
Merrelyn Elizabeth
John Rabb
Deaconess Hospital of
Carol Evenson
Gaunt And Policemen Fined In Federal Trial
Great Falls police chief Ray M. Gaunt and four officers were convicted of conspiring to violate the national prohibition law. They were fined various sums, with no prison terms, and may have the case sent to the city police commission. Several bootleggers were also fined.
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Great Falls
City Police Commission
J. J. Fousek
Ray M. Gaunt
Chief Gaunt
David T. McElliott
Ernest Goings
Ray A. Wick
Emil Nelson
A. L. Anderson
John Slattery
George M. Bourquin
Entire Haven Family Slain Near Schafer N D
A 28 year old farmer Charles Bannon and his father are suspected after the Haven family was found slain on their Schafer North Dakota farm. Authorities say Mrs Haven possibly killed her family with a hammer and Bannon aided in burying victims. The Haven parents two boys a three month old girl and other remains were found in a grave and refuse pile. First degree murder charges expected for the Bannons.
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Williston
N. Od
Schafer
N. D
Albert E. Haven
Mrs. Haven
Haven
Bannon
Ramon
Oswego
Oregon
Air Mail Line From St Paul to Seattle Fund Approved
A $750000 fund to establish an air mail line from St Paul Minnesota to Seattle Washington via Fargo North Dakota was added to the treasury post office bill by the Senate. The route would be the first in the Northwest and would complete the northern air mail corridor with Spokane as part of the path.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
St. Paul
Minn
Seattle
Wash
Fargo
N. D
Treasury
Senate
Northwest
Spokane
New Gold Fields In Nevada Spark Prospecting Stampede
In Lovelock Nevada about half the town fled to foothills after a Rabbit Hole mining strike. Brothers Charles and James Seossa arrived with 12 sacks of high grade ore. Sample ore known as picture rock yielded $46 276 per ton. Many residents moved toward a claim rich site 45 miles away and staked new claims in the area.
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Reno
Nev
Lovelock
Pershing County
Here
Rabbit Hole
Charles
James Seossa
Los Angeles investigates rise in alcoholic poisoning deaths
Los Angeles district attorney assigned Investigator Ed King to study the rise in alcoholic poisoning deaths. Nineteen deaths were reported in November in Los Angeles county, with December figures not yet available but two deaths known from this cause.
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Los Angeles
Ed King
Los Angeles County
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Big Timber Pioneer
Serome Williams
Sweet Grass County
Amer’ FS Association
Scandinavian
American Bank
Big Timber, Montana
George O. Rostad
Geo. A. Leasby
J. N. Blankenbaker
Frank N. Sauer
J. Egerman
Gaunt
St. Paul West
Nevada
Allen
J. S. Solberg
BIG Timber Milling CO
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