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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1917
Page
2
An editorial on The Basket Ball Team traces its work and conditions, noting inspiring surroundings at the confluence of the Boulder and Yellowstone rivers. The piece highlights misreading of a phrase impregnably lung versus impregnate, illustrating a language error by the editor.
An Anaconda Standard tale describes a Montana murder where a wife shoots her husband after discovering he squandered her savings and pursued another woman. The piece critiques male indifference and implies swift justice should follow the slayings.
The fifteenth Montana legislative session closes as Senator Oliver of Fallon county defies moral club pressure to support Sunday closing of saloons. Prohibition remains a defining, contested outcome amid debates over taxation on corporations and wave of reform.
Representative C N McArthur of Oregon contends that the present administration delegates congressional powers to cabinet officers and bureau chiefs. He warns that the machinery of the federal government is becoming top heavy with bureaucracy and criticizes the delegation of legislative powers to executive departments.
Representative Martin Madden of Illinois assailed the Democratic administration detailing alleged extravagant federal outlays. He cited figures including 162 million for the Mexican border fiasco and 85 million in Alaska, arguing funds wasted on private land reclamation, river projects, and expanded payrolls.
The executive board of the Woman's Club held a meeting Tuesday to approve an Easter ball on April 18 the Friday after Easter Sunday. It will be the third annual Hard Times Party with plans to work out and advertise details later due to the high cost of living.
A Tuesday afternoon tea party in Livingston honored Mrs J. 8. Selters with her aunt Mrs Tipton Brown hosting for her pleasure. Property owners and local residents attended while news noted a surprising corn crop growth in the area and busy activity among ranchers and merchants.
Mrs RA Hetherington of Whitehall has been a guest in the city for several days and attended Tuesday night’s meeting of the O. S. S. chapter.
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