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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1921
Page
4
The article laments crime eclipsing front-page news and debates the US trade balance, arguing persistent creditor status in merchandise and debtor status in services, with references to Arbuckle cases and Tyng's economic assertions. It questions widespread crime waves and critiques a periodical for publishing unsound views.
A Livingston Enterprise report notes the death by accidental electrocution of a local youth as the consequence of trespassing. The piece condemns damaging property and shoots at insulators as a dangerous, common but thoughtless act that harms owners and families, urging personal caution despite safety devices.
Senator James W. Wadsworth of New York authors a small amendment to a revenue bill that would relieve cavalry organizations in National Guard state units from a $100 tax on riding academies. The bill currently taxes proprietors of riding academies and facilities charging for horsemanship instruction, affecting cavalry regiments that rent horses to civilians to fund horse breeding. The amendment exempts these cavalry associations from the statute.
The pending revenue bill adds a clause banning unnecessary examinations and restricting book inspections to one per year unless the taxpayer opts in or the commissioner orders more after written notice. The change aims to reduce annoyance to taxpayers. Also notes trips, social events, a funeral, and Big Timber Fire Department membership additions.
The Tyng trade theory is criticized by the republican publicity association led by Hon. Jonathan Bourne Jr. They rule out a need to nurse exports and imports, claiming Tyng proposes a new economic philosophy where increasing imports boosts exports. The piece questions the idea of balancing trade and suggests personal finance analogies to illustrate the theory.
School notes describe gym evasion training, boys interest in coping saw work, a sewing machine for girls, and one night weekly for city women teachers to use the gym. Columbus Day observances included songs, recitation and acrostics by students with a focus on patriotic themes.
A poem follows Hans Schneider in Milwaukee who marries his long-distance sweetheart Wilhelmina by proxy after reading about Nina and August. Ten years pass before Wilhelmina arrives at the station, only to find eight other children already waiting with Hans and Wilhelmina's father guiding the scene.
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