Fourth of July rodeo drew 3000 to city fair grounds
The three day event attracted an estimated 3,000 attendees under sweltering heat. The Livingston Gateway City band provided a morning concert and a street parade preceded rodeo events with horses and riders. Managers Cremer and McDowell completed bill payments, netting a small margin from roughly $3,000 in receipts.
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Fair Grounds
Gateway City
Livingston
Leo Cremer
Sam McDowell
Cremer
Jesser
Fourth of July At Tammany Hall Spurs Smith for President Boom
New York's Tammany Hall Fourth of July celebration features speakers including Governor Smith presiding and Governor Ritchie of Maryland predicting Smith as next president. Massachusetts Democrats pledge 36 votes for Smith at the 1928 convention amid calls for states rights and opposition to federal school regulations. Attacks on the Ku Klux Klan and religious intolerance are also voiced.
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New York
Tammany Hall
al Smith
Ritchie
Maryland
United States
Smith
Tammany
John L. Douglas
Boston
Massachusetts
White House
Livingston Roundup Honors Sweet Grass Cowboys
Sid Brannin of Big Timber won first in broncho twister and calf roping at the Livingston roundup earning 200 cash and a Stetson sombrero from Frank Clothing. C Christensen and Harold Rose placed in riding, Acie Shellhammer led the relay with Brannin second, and Joe Webber noted plans for a 1926 rodeo as Livingston boosts local talent.
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Livingston
Sid Brannin
Big Timber
John B. Stetson
Frank Clothing Company
C. Christensen
Harold Rose
Acie Shellhammer
Clyde Park
Sid
Tourist Spill at Springdale Bridge Reported
A tourist named OConnell suffered a spill while turning toward the Springdale bridge Monday morning. The party of four, none injured, summoned a wrecking car from Livingston. the touring car with license 63740 issued to Edith OConnell of Manhattan was repaired in one day and the group resumed travel with only a day of lost time.
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Livingston
O'Connell
Springdale Bridge
O’connell
Edith O’connell
Manhattan
Mont
Butte Youths Plead Guilty in Bank Robbery Case
Harold Siefert and Mark Mills, Missouri college students, pleaded guilty to robbery in district court for a March 7 incident in Butte. They robbed George Forsythe of $3,170 as he drove from Columbia Gardens toward a local bank, triggering a gun battle. They received 12 to 30 year prison terms.
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Butte
Harold Siefert
Mark Mills
Missouri College
George Forsythe
Columbia Gardens
J. J. Lynch
Lynch
Downey
Mills
Dennis Murphy Killed East of Grey Cliff
Dennis Murphy was fatally injured when he was run over by a North ern Pacific freight train about a mile east of Grey Cliff during the morning. His left leg was severed, and he died from blood loss before reaching Grey Cliff, where his body was taken to Patterson undertaking parlors for interment in the local cemetery. He appeared to be 30 to 35 years old and had no known home.
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Dennis Murphy
Grey Cliff
Northern Pacific
Murphy
Patterson Undertaking
Big Timber Matron Killed in Nevada Accident
Mrs. Andrew Rickman aged 72, long blind, mother of 13, was killed in Nevada when a shotgun discharged accidentally in the hands of her nine year old grandson during a Fourth of July picnic. The family, including son James Rickman and daughter Mrs. Ray Willman, had been visiting Mrs. Barrows in Wells, Nevada. The tragedy followed an earlier report of serious injury to Mrs. Rickman.
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Andrew Rickman
Big Timber
Nevada
Minnie Barrows
Wells
Nev
James Rickman
Ray Willman
California
Pinchot Attacks Mellon Over Prohibition Enforcement
Governor Pinchot denounces Secretary Mellon for refusing to enforce the prohibition law and failing to act against bootleggers. He urges honest action by appointing General Andrews to lead treasury law enforcement, warns of nationwide crime and corruption, and notes the coming electrical era.
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Portland
United States
Mellon
General Andrews
Treasury Department
Pinchot
America
New York Actor Shot By Chorus Girl Wife
Allen Davis understudy in the play White Cargo was shot in the shoulder and head by his chorus girl wife Edith Parker in his apartment during a dinner with Melville Anderson and Harry Wagstaff Gribble. Davis, in serious condition, was taken to Polyclinic hospital for immediate surgery. Mrs. Davis was arrested for felonious assault.
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New York
Allen Davis
Polyclinic
Davis
Edith Parker
Melville Anderson
Harry Wagstaff Gribble
Anderson
Gribble
Thomas Russell
Earl Sande
Park County Rodeo Runs Six Hundred Dollars In The Red
Joseph Webber criticizes the large scale rodeo held July 3 4 and 5 calling it a losing proposition after two months of work and a personal loss of 615.26 He notes smaller scales might break even while receipts totaled 4373.76 from tickets and donations with a 615.26 deficit.
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Livingston Enterprise
Joseph Webber
Webber
Court Recess Follows Tuesday Cleanups in Sweet Grass
Judge H J Miller presided as court in Sweet Grass county recessed after a busy day. Delinquent Evelyn McKinney 13 was committed to the State Vocational School for Girls Helena until majority with possible parole after one year. Multiple property and foreclosure actions resulted in judgments and decrees for plaintiffs, including amounts from Melville Trading, Federal Land Bank, and other parties.
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H. J. Miller
Sweet Grass
Evelyn McKinney
Whitsel
Larson
Maude Weathers McKinney
State Vocational School For
State of
Montana
Helena
James Nepstad
Guardian
Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Co
Melville Trading Co
Montana Legion Endowment Campaign Over Subscribed
Montana has surpassed its $20 000 quota for the American Legion welfare endowment drive aimed at disabled veterans and families. R J Foster, national headquarters rep, announced Montana posts total $21 867.74 with more to report and a final sum possibly above $30 000.
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Helena
Montana
American Legion
R. J. Foster
Legion
Indianapolis
Mr. Foster
Foster
Old Coal Miner Gavin Pollock 67 Passes in Red Lodge
Gavin Pollock a Park County resident for 18 years died from myocarditis at age 67. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Episcopal church with Rev. F C Fulford officiating and burial in Red Lodge cemetery. Survived by his widow four sons and six daughters. The Pollocks moved from Timberline to Coke Dale then Red Lodge in 1907 and he worked as a miner.
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Red Lodge
Gavin Pollock
Methodist Episcopal Church
F. C. Fulford
Pollock
Santa Barbara Stages Second Quake Scare
Santa Barbara felt a renewed set of earthquakes with four to five tremors between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The strongest jolt around 1:45 prompted brief concern but caused no damage. Open air films return, a ball is canceled, and a dance is planned at Alameda Plaza while officials discuss rebuilding the horse show ring.
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Santa Barbara
Monticello Society
Alameda Plaza
Board of Public Safety and Reconstruction
Defense Test Muster Pleases Nine Corps Area Leaders
Washington July 4. Early reports from nine corps area commanders on the defense muster indicate a patriotic response despite an expected drop in one day volunteer enrollments from over a million in 1924. Local ceremonies and Fourth of July events accompanied exercises as officials work to confirm mobilization plans across units.
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Washington
War Department
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Park County
Deer Lodge
Federal Land Bank of Spokane
Glenn M. Parker
Plaintif
Hattie S. Nolan
Harland H. Duncan
Milton F. Moore
Cleveland Wallace
Sweet Grass National Farm Loan Association
Lena P. Schuman
Leon J. Cremer
Ed Martin
Fund For Legion
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