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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1920
Page
2
A 1920 census advisory warns households to have full data ready for every person living at the usual abode on January 1 1920. It details required questions on relationships, ownership, race, age, immigration, literacy, nativity, mother tongue, and employment, and explains who should be enumerated at home.
Calvin E. Hubbard of Great Falls recalls how fur prices changed with the automobile era. He notes $500 for a prime raccoon coat, $10 per skin in early years, and argues profiteering claims require careful investigation as he recounts his cautious purchase and observations from Boston to Montana.
An advertisement touts Adler-i-ka as a complete cure for constipation by flushing upper and lower bowels and relieving stomach gas. It cites anecdotal praise, lists ingredients, and notes free literature from W. Paul Minnesota. It also include chores about the 1930 census enumerator duties and pay.
J B Roche of Butte Montana Power resigns to become assistant to the president of the Edison Electric Appliance company in Chicago. He will depart January 15 for new duties. George A Hughes of Glendive leads the Chicago firm, maker of the electric cooking stove. Roche, 8 years Montana Power Billings manager, chairs state vocational schools for girls trustees. Hobins of Great Falls may replace him in Butte.
L. K. Devlin of Havre is named federal prohibition director for Montana and will begin active work by January 16 unless the Supreme Court acts. He will monitor bootlegging, report violations to Denver, conduct raids with a special agent, and arrest violators. He will urge public interest through churches, chambers of commerce, YMCAs, and schools, while serving in an administrative capacity rather than as a police officer.
A Malta rancher prepared for a predicted world end on December 17 by digging a subterranean chamber with a stove bed bedding and a month’s food. He stayed 48 hours in the retreat before neighbors convinced him all was well and he returned to the family home.
Montana lawmakers seek to restore irrigation funding after the house Indian affairs committee cut the Indian appropriation from 17 million to 13 million. Montana projects like Flathead Fort Peck Blackfeet and Fort Belknap faced deep cuts, leaving 577000 for the state this year and 15 000 for the Blackfeet school as a new item. Chairman Snyder defended the sizable reductions amid the overall bill.
Snyder states that every fellow wants lower taxes while keeping his own project, and asserts that taxes were cut across the board. The remark frames a political stance on spending and public works.
An old time remedy touts that aging begins in the kidneys and digestion and claims cleansing them delays old age. Haarlem Off capsules are promoted as a 200 year standard remedy aiding kidney action to rid poisons, with refunds if not helpful and a note to ask for the original imported Gold Medal brand.
Delco Light has moved beyond experiments into 3 1/2 years of production and use by 75 000 customers. Home plants are common in communities and neighbors can attest to its simplicity and durability. It saves time and labor and pays for itself through the work and time it saves.
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