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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1921
Page
2
Ed Lang of Butte advances to traffic manager on the Anaconda Copper Mining Company ship after a 35 year career in Montana. He started from the bottom and earned a fine record during last year’s coal strike in Butte.
Ed H. Lang, now the western traffic manager, has been resident of the New York office.
Lang, a longtime Butte miner's son and A. C. M. employee, leaves Montana after nine years to take a top traffic post in New York City. Known for aiding coal relief during the year long famine he commandeered a taxi to deliver coal and saved a family. He rose from messenger at age 12 and built ties with railroad executives across the country during 35 years in Montana.
An advertisement urges buyers to remember Cuticura for toilet needs. It promotes Cuticura Soap Ointment and Balm as a scented face skin baby and dusting powder enhancer and claims it renders other perfumes unnecessary. The trio is priced at 25 cents each.
The article notes President-elect Harding has sent or plans to send several gifts including a varied assortment of appointive posts likely to be distributed later in the season.
M W Friedell, head of Black Panther Oil and Refining of Philadelphia, arrives in Montana to seek leases and build up production. He envisions 1,000 to 6,000 barrels per day from Cat Creek and Black Butte fields, operates eight or ten tool strings in Ohio and Indiana, and will use in house pipelines and refineries. He urges state lease law reforms to clear titles and attract investment.
Former Montana tax official David Hilger argued that Fergus Cascade and Yellowstone counties spend nearly as much on local government as Montana spends state wide. He urged scrutiny of expenditures and noted school levies vary from 5 to 50 mills plus district taxes. He advocated a permanent tax commission to study issues and propose remedies without increasing tax burden.
56 Petroleum distributed a 35 percent dividend to unitholders in a Christmas payout, reflecting Montana’s oil potential. Joe B. Baker secured the lease leading Miles City investors to profits, with two rigs and casing for three wells and funds to distribute more dividends. Production began after a June 10 lease, a September 27 well completion, and a December 27 payout, signaling rising revenue and future expansion for the Montana company.
A meeting of secretaries of state in Portland outlines a plan for uniform traffic laws across Idaho Oregon Washington and Montana with reciprocal driver privileges. The draft includes 16 year old operator limits uniform licenses two headlights and two braking systems for safety plus new rules on road signs and speed. A folding cupboard bound travel table aids motor tourists and campers.
Eastern University experts along with law students and professors from Harvard and Columbia follow the Montana and Indiana appeals on state price control laws. Montana railroad commissioners, ex officio members of the Montana trade commission, defend the rule as the Supreme Court weighs arguments on docket No. 309 likely in late March 1921.
An extremely light automobile designed in France is propelled by an air propeller directly connected to a motorcycle engine.
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