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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1930
Page
4
Helena Independent urges a spirit of neighborliness and confidence during Christmas. It warns that shrinking spending harms merchants and the community, and urges continuing “business as usual” to revive trade and share joy without dampening the season.
The Baltimore Sun reports a rancorous house debate on drought relief, with Tilson pressed to close by Democrats and Garner calling him out for false statements. Partisan suspicion fuels a savage exchange as both sides accuse the other of political manipulation affecting the needy.
Colonel earn Ayres of the Cleveland Trust company reports the patient’s pulse and blood pressure indicate non fatal illness with recovery expected next year. He notes past stock market boom and heavy losses have passed with liquidation reducing brokers’ loans from eight to two billion dollars.
The text discusses renewed business confidence as unproductive speculation unwinds and prices stabilize. Alfred P. Sloan notes improved efficiency while consumers see lower prices during Christmas. It argues U.S. recovery supports Europe’s revival and foresees rising demand and production as months pass. Dr Ayres backs a favorable recovery forecast.
Two trucks filled with gifts for Montana orphans will depart Butte for Twin Bridges and Galen to aid state sanatorium patients. Gifts from Anaconda company officers Ryan Kelly Hobbins Evans include clothing toys and books for 203 children, with further aid from the Auxiliary for the Rehabilitation of Applied Children.
Madrid reported the strong hand of the Spanish government restoring order after civil strife from an abortive Monday revolt. In Madrid the city returned to normal life and provincial centers saw strikes fade. Casualty figures stood at 36 dead and 42 wounded after three days of disturbances.
Gunmen in three motor cars open fire in a late night shootout injuring and killing as they clash with a ditch machine crew from the St Louis water department. The attackers flee after a sedan and touring car exchange fire and retreat into nearby fields.
The state highway commission reports that 1931 to 1934 would yield net road building funds of 916,233,008, with 56 percent federal aid or 613,018,000 matching, providing 823,230,000 for road work. Warrants would be paid from gas tax revenue, with principal repayable starting in 1934 to maximize funds for building. A ten year debenture plan would extend five cent gas tax to keep contracts irrevocable. There is 96,000,000 federal aid awaiting Montana for roads and bridges. annual federal aid is 832,000. The measure aims to ensure four years of funds to cover accumulated aid. Continued on page six.
Harold Adams learns from his brother Billy that poison killed a portion of the Incal Adams Dairy herd at Keyser creek. About 22 head died, including the prize bull and several yearlings, with ten sacks of arsenic-laced mash linked to stored bran. Some cattle remain missing and likely dead, upsetting winter prospects for the herd.
A massive torch burning 60 million cubic feet of gas daily lit the eastern Seminole county sky from the No 2 A. B. Douglas well near Wewoka. Officials planned a nitroglycerin blast to extinguish it, with a full prep time expected through Sunday or Monday. M. M. Kinley and associates led the suppression attempt in Tulsa.
Notice for the delinquent taxes on property in Sweet Grass County Montana to be sold at public auction January 18 1981 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. in front of the county treasurer's office. A complete delinquent list of persons and property is available for public inspection at the treasurer and county offices.
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