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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1921
Page
7
A penny in savings grows into ten dollars in earnings. The piece urges trimming living costs, investing small amounts like garden seeds, and keeping Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy at home to avoid costly doctor visits.
Dublin cases seek attachment writs for General Sir Nevil MacReady and Major General Sir Edward Strickland. The master of the rolls orders immediate writs, amid contempt claims as habeas corpus proceedings fail to free John Egan and another prisoner. An appeal to the House of Lords is noted.
A 20 minute riot at the McAlester Oklahoma state penitentiary shirt factory left one prisoner dead three seriously injured and about 50 with minor injuries. Prison authorities say the riot was pre arranged with Mack Whitehead signaling the start by shouting Lets go boys.
Premier Briand delivered France’s cabinet approved reply to Lord Harding the British ambassador. The British note protested France seeking to send troops to Upper Silesia without joint action with allies and reminded France of past promises to consult with the allies.
Washington officials say proposals for preliminary meetings of representatives of all powers or any subset are not encouraged. The stance hints that such sessions are impracticable and could jeopardize the disarmament conference’s aims.
Indianapolis leaders vow a hard fight if Eugene V. Debs and other war prisoners are pardoned. John G. Emery, national commander of the American Legion, wires President Harding that granting clemency would be seen as a license to disregard law and order. He asserts no action by the administration would unite ex servicemen more than a Debs pardon.
Senator LaFollette charges British shipping interests with insidious propaganda aimed at shaping American merchant marine policy. He alleges the International Mercantile Marine company, though American, is effectively British controlled.
Governor Small has granted a reprieve to Carl Wanderer until September 30. Wanderer, sentenced to hang for the murder of his wife during a fictitious holdup, was to be executed Friday for killing the unidentified ragged stranger. A commission may reexamine his sanity at the request of William T. McCauley, state commander of the American Legion.
At the thirty ninth annual supreme convention in San Francisco, Supreme Master John H. Reddin pledged the 800000 member order will flood towns with pamphlets to counter foreign propaganda in America be it European or Asiatic. Edward F. McSweeney blamed Japan and Europe for propaganda in the United States and urged exposure of so called Americanization societies. Archbishop Hanna condemned lax divorce laws and urged action against the divorce evil. A cable to the pope announced readiness to aid welfare work in Italy.
Naples holds a day of mourning for Enrico Caruso with his body in the room of death awaiting Thursday burial. King Victor Emmanuel grants special rite for services at San Francisco di Paola Basilica before interment in the family vault, as officials and the American consul prepare to speak. The city and nation express widespread sorrow for the famed tenor.
Two large former German liners departed from the same pier for distant ports. The 25,570 ton George Washington sailed to Cherbourg and Bremen with 1,800 passengers including 250 American Legion members bound for France to visit battlefields. The 10,600 ton Huron headed for Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires with over 100 passengers for South American ports.
The Ku Klux Klan, a corporation in Los Angeles, sues the Los Angeles Express publishing company for libel seeking 105000 dollars in general and exemplary damages for a three edition article with banner lines reading Great Ku Klux Outbreak Ku Klux Reign of Terror.
The transport Canigny carrying one thousand four hundred American soldiers who died on French battlefields arrived at Hoboken on Wednesday. Memorial services for the dead were announced to be held at the pier.
Big Tim Murphy, already under indictment for the Pullman and Dearborn station mail robberies, was linked Wednesday with John W. Worthington president of Central Securities Company. A letter found in Worthingtons office suggested the two had dealings in stolen securities, according to Assistant U S district attorney Colonel J V Clinnin.
Rates on grain and by products from Chicago and the Central Freight association territory to north Atlantic seaboard export ports will drop 74 cents per hundred pounds. Territory spans points on and north of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi, with adjustments for traffic east of the Indiana Illinois line. Application to the Interstate Commerce Commission seeks authority for immediate reduced rates, subject to approval, with a 10 day notice and a fallback 30 day window if rejected. Expires December 31 1921.
Washington officials defend 1919 19820 policies as preventing collapse. Governor Harding told a joint congressional commission the board did not aim to push or pull markets but to align with a world price break and to sustain and widen credit lines.
Summons in the Nineteenth Judicial District of Montana Teton County orders Defendants Charles Burnett Beda Burnett Arthur D Johnson R H Houck E A Cleland Power Morgan Co Anna Courtenay Strain Brothers to answer the complaint within twenty days or face default judgment. Action seeks judgment on two promissory notes of 206.21 dollars each dated July 5 1917 and foreclosure of the related mortgage.
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