Montana Declares American Independence Week
Governor Erickson proclaims June 28 to July 5 as American Independence week, urging citizens to honor the Declaration of Independence and Jefferson centennials with a statewide program. The plan marks sesquicentennial events from Patriots Pledge Day to Monticello Day and the Declaration’s home in every American home.
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Helena
Erickson
Republic
Thomas Jefferson
America
Thomas Jefferson Centennial Commission
Ormler
Continental Congress
Greater America
Monticello
Jefferson
United States
I. J. E. Erickson
Montana
Popular Excursion to Yellowstone From Gardiner
The Northern Pacific offers a popular excursion to Gardiner Gateway and Yellowstone Park next Sunday. Round trip is $2.50. Bring the family and see full details from the NP agent.
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Northern Pacific
Gardiner Gateway
Yellowstone Park
Residents and visitors fill Columbus area as rains improve crops
A parade of local residents and guests visit Columbus and nearby towns, returning from trips to Helena Billings and Anaconda. People attend graduations and plan summers on ranches while a new hotel attracts transients and a beauty parlor forms in the old hotel office. The season brightens crop prospects after Friday through Tuesday rains.
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A. W. Neumann
Columbus
Ford
Frank Murray
Rom Deckert
Mildred
Frazee
Idaho
Mary Pachico
Butte
Dehlia Mullen
Joe Miller
Otis Hutchison
Melvin
Ricci
Sid Taylor
Alma Cloyd
Signy Wallum
Signy
Big Timber
Alma
Laurel
George Johnson
Marie Emerson
Ashland
Ohio
Chas. Bauer
Ennis
Mont
Ed Fellows
Charles
Absarokee Territory
J. S. Campbell
Dillon
State Normal
Treasury to handle over 500 million in payments tomorrow
Washington reports that the treasury will process more than 500 million dollars in receipts and redemptions in a quarterly financing day. Income tax second installments are the bulk, with about 410 million expected, plus war debt payments from Britain, Italy, and Belgium.
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Washington
Treasury
Great Britain
Italy
Belgium
France
Jugo-Slavia
Million Dollar Crime Leader Sentenced to Die in Gallows
In Baltimore on June 11 Richard Reese Whittemore, head of a "million dollar crime trust" and killer of a Maryland penitentiary guard, was sentenced to death. He killed the guard in a dramatic case linking crime and conspiracy.
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Baltimore
Richard Reese Whittemore
Maryland
Prison Escapeer Holtman Faces Governor Set Execution Date
Robert H. Holtman escaped from the penitentiary in February 1925. The date of execution will be set by Governor Ritchie but will be deferred by an appeal announced by Whitte more and his counsel Edgar Allan Poe.
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Robert H. Holtman
Ritchie
Whittemore
Edgar Allan Poe
Democrats to Unite Across Regions in Washington Speech
A. Scott Bullitt, permanent chairman, asserted a Democratic landslide in Washington and nationwide against the Republican administration. He urged reconciliation among Democrats from the east, south, north, and west and warned against forming regional coalitions.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Washington
A. Scott Bullitt
Seattle
Pacific Northwest
East
Resolution on Democratic platform urges end to two thirds rule
A resolution forwarded to the platform committee urges abrogating the two thirds majority rule at the national convention. The platform has seven planks covering the republican state commission education and nonpartisan county government. It calls for a square deal for farmers nationwide.
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Platform Committee
Republican State Commission
Prominent Billings Man Ends Life by Own Action
Parley Gage Carlin, 53, a well known Billings resident, shot himself Monday afternoon on Montana Avenue near Twenty seventh Street after a period of severe ill health and fear of mental decline. Neighbors and authorities moved the body to the Smith mortuary as his brother and wife recount his repeated suicidality and four years of paralytic illness worsened by dropsy and diabetes. He had planned travel to Rochester for Mayo Clinic care before his act.
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Billings
Montana Avenue
Bert Talgo
Russell Sage
Smith Mortuary
William Hobart Carlin
Spencer Cafe
Union Station
North Thirty-first Street
P. G
Carlin
Edith Carlin
Victory Apartments
Rochester
Minn
Mayo Clinic
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Yellowstone
Schumann-Heink
Wm. Jardine
U. S. Secretary of Agriculture
Bill” Hart
Mune
Phillip Savaresy
Jardine
Oregon City
Hudson Bay
Hills Bros
West
Tain
Dept
San Francisco
Calif
U.S. Pat. OF
Reed Point
Noose
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