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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1920
Page
3
The piece argues that illegal liquor trade fuels killings along the Canada border and inland, criticizing weak enforcement and urging strong public demand for prohibition. It links liquor laws to public welfare, then shifts to wartime price shifts, labor pain, housing shortages, and a hoped shift to building as a path to economic stability.
A nationwide wave of business depression spreads beyond arid farming areas where crop yields faltered. Experts warn durable demand sag and bank tightening threaten continued slow growth across industries and regions.
Washington plans for informal conferences with President elect Harding after Panama. Democratic senators Reed of Missouri Pomerene of Ohio and Shields of Tennessee are invited along with Borah Johnson Lodge Knox Poindexter Hoover as possible advisers. Conferences at Marion likely begin December 10 with single or grouped trips. Harding to resign Senate after January 1 with Davis taking office and Willis expected to be named Harding’s successor.
Chicago on November 24 reports pre war prices for live hogs as receipts from farms surge. National sale across 10 principal markets estimated at 182000 head, up from 124000 a week earlier. Chicago close tied to the day’s bottom, avg drop about one dollar per hundredweight from Monday.
In Astoria Oregon on November 27 an SOS from the steamer Santa Rita near Umatilla reef warned 33 passengers on the adrift barge W. J. Pirrie of danger as the vessel drifted close to rocky shore. The Pirrie carried 88 aboard including a woman and child. Rescue was deemed nearly impossible amid treacherous shoreline.
Colorado Springs reports Principal Lloyd Shaw demonstrated to a high school biology class that angle worms are edible. The class fried them in butter in the domestic science lab and presented them to the instructor who tasted and called them not half bad.
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