Hepp oil well discovery boosts Harry H. Austin fortunes
Harry H. Austin, longtime lawyer turned oil investor, gains prominence as the Midwest Refining Company Hepp well in Lake Basin Stillwater county near Columbus yields high grade oil. Production estimates reach 1500 barrels a day with eruptions and rapid casing rise reported, oil noted for greenish color and jelly like congealment at low temperatures.
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Billings Gazette
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Billings
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Mid-Northern Oil Company
Midwest
Cat Creek
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Asan
Dakota
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Gallatin County Is Winner Of One Event
Missoula Montana May 8 Mildred Cameron of Gallatin county high school won first place in the girls interscholastic declamatory contest at the annual track meet events. Kenneth Niles of Park county placed first in the boys division with The Courage of the Commonplace. Second through fifth in the girls went to Claire McGregor Great Falls Elizabeth Brown Ryegate Violet Gaslander Fergus county and May belle Garrison Saco. In the boys contest John Carlson Helena and Harold Shaughnessey Loyola high Missoula took second and third.
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Mont
Mildred Cameron
Gallatin County High School
Madame Butterfly
Kenneth Niles
Park County
Claire McGregor
Great Falls
Elizabeth Brown
Ryegate
Violet Gaslander
Fergus County
Maybelle Garrison
Saco
John Carlson
Helena
Harold Shaughnessey
Loyola High
James A Foley Elected Leader of Tammany Hall
Surrogate James A Foley was chosen as successor to the late Charles F Murphy as head of Tammany Hall in New York. Only two of seventy executive committee members voted against him. Foley, 42, is a City College of New York honors graduate and New York Law School alumnus who started in politics at 25 as an assemblyman and later served in the state senate before his 1919 election to the surrogate's bench by a large party margin.
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Charles F. Murphy
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Kendrick Gets Send Of At Wyoming Meet
Casper Wyoming May 12 The Wyoming democratic convention here instructed the six delegates to the state national convention to vote as a unit for Senator John B Kendrick for the democratic presidential candidate as long as they feel that he may be made the choice of the convention. A memorial to President Wilson a resolution urging tax reduction by congress and approving the efforts of democrats to obtain such tax reduction legislation a resolution commending Senator John B Kendrick s efforts in the senate particularly in regards to the resolution calling for the investigation of Teapot Dome a resolution seeking adjustment compensation for World war veterans of Wyoming and a resolution urging the use of gilroy alties monies now going to both the state and federal governments in the establishment and completion of irrigation projects.
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Senate
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Eastern finance backs Montana outlook says Leo Faust
Leo Faust formerly of Libby now of Butte and Helena and E P J Burgess pass through Billings on progress eastward. Faust says eastern financiers understand Montana's strong resources and people and remain confident in the state and its prospects.
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Libby
Butte
Helena
New York
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Carnegie Steel Company
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Wear Gaudy Clothes And Catch The Boys
Miss Helen Gwynne of Indianapolis, retiring president of the YWCA national industrial assembly, urged working girls to wear gaudy clothes and be aggressive to attract husbands and advance in business. She also endorsed bobbed hair as part of a bold, modern look for humble workers, arguing demureness hinders factory and matrimonial success.
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Indianapolis
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Young Women's Christian Association
Senator Walsh Denies Aiming for Presidency
New York May 11 Senator David I Walsh of Massachusetts said Senator Thomas J Walsh of Montana had no desire to be the Democratic candidate for president. He attacked critics who claimed his Teapot Dome committee work was driven by ambitions for the presidency.
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Massachusetts
Thomas J. Walsh
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Walsh
Portland Man Given Empty Honor In N. Y.
Frank T. Johns a Portland Oregon carpenter aged 35 was nominated for president by the Socialist Labor party at its national convention in New York. Verne L. Reynolds of Baltimore was named for vice president. The party condemned corruption and mourned Lenine, and plans a ratification meeting in Cooper next Saturday. Johns traced his roots to Spokane High School and Roseburg Oregon, noting his labor identity and stance on overthrow of capitalism through democratic and industrial means.
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Portland
Oregon
United States
Socialist- Labor Party
Verne L. Reynolds
Baltimore
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Russia
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Johns
Spokane
Roseburg
Japs Must Keep Out After First Of July
Washington report on immigration bill conferees pressing for the exclusion section to take effect July 1 1924 despite house opposition. The agreement preserves the house version prohibiting aliens ineligible to citizenship with the measure moving to the house for a vote then to the senate.
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Coolidge
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Senate
New Government Plan Defeated By Voters In Butte
Butte and Silver Bow county voters rejected the Walker-Roscow merger by a wide margin. Final returns show 7,521 against and 6,855 for the plan from 14,376 ballots cast of 20,300 eligible. Dublin Guild precincts heavily favored negative ballots with 503 against and 65 for consolidation.
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Butte Schools Take Honors At Missoula
Butte High School won the twenty first annual interscholastic track meet at Missoula with 30 points final. Hamilton finished second with 26 13 14 points and Big Sandy third with 21 3 7 points as final standings. Burns Jordan led individuals with 14 points while Shults of Big Sandy had 12 and Gordon of Hamilton 10. Butte Central’s relay team clinched the cup with a strong finish in the final lap.
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Park County
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Granite
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Helena
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Manhattan
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Buffalo
Lincoln
Fergus
Darby
Sweet Grass
Gallatin
Shults
Gordon
Wheeler Exonerated In Major Senate Inquiry
Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana is found to have received no pay for prosecuting land claims before a government department. The 4 to 1 committee majority says he acted within the law and confined his Montana litigation to state court matters.
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Burton K. Wheeler
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Idaho
Wheeler
Gordon Campbell
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Swanson
Virginia
Caraway
Arkansas
Sterling
South Dakota
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Lockwood
Republican National Committee
Mrs Hubert Work Dies Suddenly in Capital
Mrs Hubert Work wife of the secretary of the interior died suddenly in her automobile in Washington May 9 of angina pectoris. She was 64, with no maid and a chauffeur present. Born in Madison Indiana she married Secretary Work in 1887 at Greeley Colorado and later lived in Pueblo. Survived by husband two sons Dr Phillip Work and Robert Work of Denver and daughter Mrs W A Bissell of Evanston Illinois.
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Secretary of the Interior
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Ind
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Colo
Pueblo
Phillip Work
Robert Work
Denver
W. A. Bissell
Evanston, Ti
Cardinal Mundelein Receives Royal Welcome in Chicago
Cardinal Mundelein archbishop of Chicago and papal head for Santa Maria del Popolo returned to his see city amid impressive church and civic honors. He was escorted through 12 miles of greetings to his cathedral where he was installed as the first cardinal archbishop west of the Alleghenies, with benediction to close the ceremonies.
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Chicago
George
Mundelein
Farm Relief Measure Set for Senate Hearing
Administration leaders promised adequate consideration of farm relief legislation before adjournment. Senator Norris urged firm assurance that adjournment would wait until at least one of the pending farm relief bills is reviewed. Senator Watson noted the party conference decision to take up a farm relief measure after the revenue bill remains unchanged.
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Senate
Congress
Republican Party
Watson
Indiana
Norris
Nebraska
Major Martin and partner survive Alaska crash
Major Frederick L. Martin and Staff Sergeant Alvan L. Harvey survived a crash with a mountain peak in fog while flying a United States army globe encircling air cruiser. They landed at Port Moller after the wreck and endured days of exposure with nerve and concentrated food rations.
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Unalaska Island
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