Financial Statistics Of Montana For Year Of 1926
The Department of Commerce released a Montana financial summary for the year ending June 30 1926. Expenditures totaled 5272745 dollars with 771 per capita, including 1244190 for education, and debt interest at 520499 dollars. Revenue reached 8419007 dollars, 12.81 per capita, driven by property taxes and licenses. Net indebtedness stood at 4785178 dollars, 7.00 per capita, while assessed property value was 429945385 and state taxes levied 1919501 dollars.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce
Montana
General Department
Mammoth Circus Parade Planned for Great Falls
Great Falls will host the world’s largest circus with a June 9 street parade and two performances. The show expands to include 300 cast members, three elephant herds, a mammoth hippopotamus, 200 wild animals and 600 staff. Hundreds from Teton County and Chateau are expected to attend as part of the western tour expansion.
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Great Falls
U. S. Circus Corporation
Teton County
Chateau
Africa
Ponca Bill
Cimmeriotta
Japan
Teheran
Arabia
Prizes Offered For Best Voices In Radio Quest
The Atwater Kent Foundation announces a nation wide competition to discover young singing talent this fall. All youths with vocal gifts from any background will have an equal chance to enter and gain the opportunity to reach a national audience. The foundation, created by A Atwater Kent of Philadelphia, funds scientific and educational programs and sponsors the Suntay r grand opera hour.
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United States
Central Broadcasting
New York
America
Atwater Kent Foundation
A. Atwater Kent
Philadelphia
Suntay
National Audition sponsored by Atwater Kent Foundation
The Atwater Kent Foundation funds travel and living expenses for National Radio Audition contestants. A. Atwater Kent describe the project as a nationwide search for rare voices offering development, recognition and reward. Qualifications include age under 25 and no prior major professional stage work. Various musical groups and students are encouraged to enter. Also notes Ford's new model rollout and a Balzac writing anecdote.
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Atwater Kent Foundation
A. Atwater Kent
Foundation
Atwater Kent Foundaon
Ford to Introduce New Low-Priced Model With Sliding Gear
A new Ford model aimed at the low priced light car field will soon reach the market. The plant in Detroit announced last week that the planetary transmission used in the current model will be replaced by sliding gear, and radical changes in body lines are expected. Associated Press dispatches carried the report.
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Ford
Detroit
Associated Press
Rockefeller Fund Grants Montana Disease Control Aid
The Rockefeller foundation will contribute 3600 dollars to Montana for the year starting July 1 1927 to aid contagious disease control with emphasis on trachoma. Dr W F Cogswell, returning from Washington, says Surgeon General H S Cumming will visit Montana to dedicate the new entomology laboratory at Hamilton.
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Helena
International Health Board
Rockefeller Foundation
Montana
W. F. Cogswell
Washington, D. C
Public Health Service
H. S. Cumming
Hamilton
Cogswell
Bowman Tears Down State Fair Betting Booths
Helena May 27 Booths at the state fair grounds where bettors bought shares in horses have been torn down and the space cleared. Commissioner A K Bowman of the state department of agriculture says the law prohibits betting and he will not have the fair act to violate it. He helped tear the booths down to settle the matter and left the area prepared for another use.
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Helena
State Fair Grounds
A. K. Bowman
State Department of Agriculture
English Breaks With Soviet Envoys After Espionage Raid
London reports the British government severed relations with the Soviet Union delivering a note at Chesham House ordering Soviet representatives to depart within ten days. The British Mission in Moscow will be recalled and a wind up of Arcos Ltd proceeds, amid investigations into Soviet officials and a raid on the legation revealing an espionage system.
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London
Chesham House
Arcos, Ltd
Moscow
England
Legation
United States
Ranchers Dynamite Los Angeles Water Supply
A group of armed men overpowered a guard along the Los Angeles aqueduct near Little Lake California and dynamited a nine foot siphon section tearing out about 300 feet of pipe. The attack interrupts water supply for the Los Angeles metropolitan district amid years of dispute over Owens River diversions.
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Little Lake
Cal
Los Angeles Aqueduct
Los Angeles Metropolitan District
Los Angeles Power and Water Bureau
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Water Department
Owens, Valley
Owens River
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State of Montana
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Tourin
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Chevrolet
Fisher
Power-Morgan CO
National
Sunburst Refining Company
Reipricnetion Tech
Asd
U. S
Canada
Lew
T. A. Meagher
Gar Choteau Garage
Age Hiway Garage Chateau Hardware Co
Adams Oil Co
Oe Cele
Iie
Ford Organization
L. E. Taylor
Balzac
Henry
Rockefeller Fund
Bowman
State Fair
Ranchers
Owens Valley
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