Borah Drives New Push On Prohibition Enforcement
President Hoover plans a broad shake up in prohibition enforcement personnel and new measures to tighten border controls with Mexico and Canada as Idaho Senator Borah leads renewed agitation. Treasury officials outline border patrol unifications and designated entry roads while Congress studies enforcement reorganization. Georgia Senator Harris backs improved enforcement and higher staffing to fund stricter prohibition policies.
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Washington
Hoover
Congressional
Borah
Idaho
Law Enforcement Commission
Treasury
Congress
White House
White
Mills
Joint Congressional Committee
Senate
House
United States
Canada
Joint Committee
Harris
Georgia
Florida Frosts Hit Fruit Crop Severely
Severe frost and cold wind damaged beans strawberries peppers tomatoes and eggplant across Florida truckers report. Plant City says about 15 percent of strawberries covered while 15 to 75 percent of fruit and bloom lost elsewhere. Starke area reports about 80 percent strawberry loss. Fort Myers area notes bean losses nearly total. peppers tomatoes and other vegetables minimally harmed.
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Aacksonville
Fla
State Marketing Bureau
Plant City
Starke
Fort Myers
Five Die When Plane Crashes Near Amarillo Texas
Lieut Nobert Gray piloting the aircraft at Hillcrest Country club failed to gain altitude and nosed into the ground. Five people died including Gray his wife and three others. Dillon died later in an ambulance. Spectators witnessed a rupture of the rudder wires and a sudden nose dive before the crash. Gray a former wartime flyer and Texas Transport manager had recently moved to the Amarillo airport from Dallas with his wife and infant son.
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Amarillo
Texas
Nobert
Gray
Hillcrest Country Club
Re. Ob. Allison
Robert Moore
M. Dillon
Texas Transport Company
Ain
Dillon
Australia
United States
Dallas
Historic Quarters in Washington Used for Presidential Office
President Hoover orders rapid restoration of his office space after a fire, using the state, war and navy building as temporary quarters. Officials debate alternative housing while specialists inspect the damaged area and determine the blaze cause.
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Washington
United States
Adams
Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Secretary of the Navy
War and Navy
Hoover
Britten
Ilinois
Elliott
House Public Buildings Committee
White House
Wear Executive Avenue
District of Columbia Fire Department
Walter Newton
State
John J. Pershing
Josephus Daniels
Navy
Death of Ruth Sheridan, longtime Sweet Grass official
Wire reports the death of Ruth Sheridan at 34 in Berkeley California after years of illness. The Big Timber native served as deputy postmaster under her mother Mrs A C Sheridan and twice won county clerk and recorder races. She left Montana for California in 1923 due to health, later held bank and store cashier roles before failing health. Her remains were returned to Big Timber for mass at St Josephs and interment beside her father in Mountain View.
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Berkeley
Cal
Ruth Sheridan
A. C. Sheridan
Beltlasendy County
Montana
J. EK. Sheridan
Big Timber Pioneer
Sheridan
Coelock
Mountain View
A. J. Phillips
W. A. Conwell
Alva ©. Lamb
D. W. Highie
Gixde E. Davis
G. den Lamb
Masquerade Draws Crowd at Masonic Hall Parade
The Modern Woodmen of America annual masquerade at Masonic Hall drew a large crowd from nearby areas. Prizes were awarded across multiple categories for both ladies and gentlemen, with diverse costumes and humorous tributes noted throughout.
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Modern Woodmen of America
Masonic Hall
Rubby Davis
Lone Williams
Duby G. Traver
C. T. Williams
W. Campbell
A. E. Ellison
Bertha Deencan
Bertha Raisland
Sam Green
Dorothy McAdams
A. A. Lamp
W. DD. McKenzie
Bautierfiy
Margaret McKenzie
Tom Herland
Henrielta Egeland
Mary Nevin
Montana development congress set for February in Helena
Helena December 28 A H Stafford commissioner of agriculture labor and industry announces Montana will hold a development congress in Helena on February 2 and 3 25 to explore reclamation agricultural land use mining and industrial growth The plan aims to unite state and local commercial civic agricultural and industrial groups and set definite action through speaker led discussions and organized plans
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Helena
Montana
A. H. Stafford
Agriculture, Labor and Industry
Stafford
Montana Standings Among States in Resources and Production
Montana ranked first in public health national parks area national forests virgin farm lands and production of arsenic manganese and precious stones. It placed second in wool silver and spring wheat, third in size wheat sheep copper coal resources home ownership and literacy, and fell to tenth in petroleum production with many spots of other rankings including thirteenth heartley and thirty-ninth population.
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Aesena
Montana
United States
State Department of Agriculture
Hartley
Death Panic Kills 72 in Scottish Mill Town Cinema
In Paisley Scotland a New Year tragedy unfolds as a fire scare during a matinee in a 750 seat theater triggers a stampede. Seventy two children are killed and about eighty injured as exits jam and fumes overwhelm the crowd in a panic echoing earlier fires in Chicago and Calumet.
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Paisley
Scotland
Tweed
Chicago
Calumet, Mich
Calumet
Aulience
Montana Benefits From Federal Highway Aid
Helena Independent notes Montana's 1927 federal aid highway plan totals 4.673 miles with 2.281 constructed and 2.492 remaining. From 1927 to 1929, 150 contracts were let for road and bridge work, with 47 in 1927, 46 in 1928, and 57 in 1929. costs and specifics are outlined.
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Helena Independent
Montana
State Highway Commission
Heidge
Big Reward Offered In St Louis For Wretch
Citizens in St Louis react with anger after a small dog was sewn shut with eight stitches and left to starve for a week. Rewards totaling 21 678 65 are being offered by the Humane Society of Missouri as investigators pursue the culprit. Robert F Sellar of the society reports the dog was found and euthanized after a woman asked for mercy.
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ST. Louis
the Humane Society of Missouri
Robert F. Sellar
Society
Sellar
Miner Boss Dies by Self After Fatal Wreck Near Klein
Billings Gazette reports a wreck near Klein killed A Delsonto and injured Joe Delsanto. Klein mine boss George Berdar, 47, killed himself after the crash and a sleepless night recalling the tragedy. Coroner rules the wreck an accident. Berdar’s body found in Sawmill coulee with revolver nearby.
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Billings
George Berdar
Klein
Berdar
A. Delsonto
Joe Delsonto
Musselshell
Desonto
Republic
Barney Benson
Billings Houndup Road
Joe Delsanto
Pueblo
Colo
The
Republic Mines
Gibbtown
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W.G. Aer
Irina Stokke
Pow van Cleve
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Dee
Sam
Arther Gelev
Iadian
George Smith
C. A. Berges
Henry Esplathan
Clarence Shipton
Butcher
Jacob Johnson
Datehman
Paul Lamp
Oscar Rostad
Ray Hoeper
Charles Sloan
Farmer
Arther T. Ellison
E. J. Husebye
Hobo
Martin Stokke
Mill Town
Klein Miner
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