Amending the Primary Suggested by Billings Gazette
The Gazette outlines amendments to Montana's primary law crafted in Helena by citizens including W M Johnston to strengthen majority choice and party leadership. It argues petition nominations stay possible, but party machinery cannot be seized, urging limits on campaign spending to protect electoral integrity and avoid patronage.
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Billings
Montana
Helena
W. M. Johnston
Johnston
Gazette
Built on Misrepresentation The Montana Primary Law Fight
A Havre editorial denounces a proposed initiative as a misnamed primary law that would replace the primary system with a convention process. It argues promoters seek to restore old political bosses and big interests, warning the measure would let moneyed groups dictate nominations and erode voters control. It urges keeping the primary system and moving forward.
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Havre
Montana
Great Falls Tribune
Pinchot Tops Campaign Spending Against Organization in Pa Race
Gifford Pinchot won the Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nomination as an independent candidate spending about 93,562 on car fare printing hall rent postage stamps and ads. Attorney General George E. Alter as the organization candidate spent 1,131. The piece notes Pinchot’s higher outlay reflected his lack of party machinery and career people.
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Chicago Tribune
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
George E. Alter
Alter
Pinchot
Chicago
Death of Lillian Russell Moore Queen of American Opera
Mrs. Lillian Russell Moore wife of Pittsburg Leader publisher Alexander P. Moore died at 2 20 this morning after several days illness at her home in Pittsburg. She was famed as the queen of American opera and remained active in Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives during WWI. Born 1861 in Clinton Town she studied voice and violin, first appearing in the chorus of H M S Pinafore in 1879.
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Pittsburg
Lillian Russell Moore
Alexander P. Moore
Dorothy Calbit
Charles E
Cynthia Leonard
Chicago
Russian Princess Granted Stay to Establish Citizenship
Princess Ivan Tschernitschev of Russia, initially denied entry at New Orleans, was allowed to remain in the United States while she must establish American citizenship. Secretary Davis ordered the case to be closed after officials review her Louisville birth records and naturalization prospects. She described fleeing Bolshevik violence, her marriage into nobility, and plans to obtain her father’s naturalization papers.
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Washington
Ivan Tschernitschev
Russia
United States
Secretary of Labor
Davis
New Orleans
Labor Department
Bureau of Naturalization
Big Timber News From Thirteen Years Ago
Rev Erickson teaches parochial school in Big Timber. Harry Hart leaves for Pittsburg to marry. A severe hail storm damages crops. An elevator and feed mill is planned with J F Asbury H O Kellogg W P Franklin as backers. contract awarded to a Minneapolis firm. A W Strickland of Brooklyn visits his uncle Wh Strickland and may settle locally. John Campbell, ex rancher now Missoula resident, plans move with family.
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Erickson
Harry Hart
Pittsburg
Benedict
Enterprise
J. F. Asbury
H. O. Kellogg
W. P. Franklin
Con
Minneapolis
A. W. Strickland
Brooklyn
N. Y
Strickland
John Campbell
Big Elk
Missoula
Spriggs heirs challenge will in Helena probate action
In Helena on June 7, Sabes and Isabelle Spriggs, parents of the late A E Spriggs, contest the will claiming the widow Josephine Speine received the estate improperly. Proceedings began in the probate court with an agreed statement of facts filed by attorney RoWine for the contestants and Stewart and Brows for Mrs Sevisas as the court seeks interpretation of the real estate disposition.
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Helena
A. E
Spriggs
Josephine Speine
Sabes
Isabelle Spriggs
Lela
RoWine
God Stewart
Ian
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