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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1918
Page
22
The piece notes widespread home distilling in Sweden where alcohol controls are tight. It explains social customs around fermentation, the lack of police targeting distillers, and how grain and sugar shortages push people toward home production. It cites the scarcity of grain and the two quart quarterly limit, plus the high value of a mot bok passbook and resold rights for liquor.
A petition for letters of administration was filed in Deer Lodge district court for the estate of Remegius De Ryckere, a pioneer priest who built up the town and established its first library. He died May 5, 1916 in Emerghem Belgium after war upheavals, leaving minor property including city lots and mining interests in Garnet and Upper Rock Creek.
The new income tax law taxes 4000 dollars or less at five percent with 2000 exemption for married men 200 per dependent and 1000 for single men. Normal rate on income over 4000 is ten percent with surtax steps of three percent on 5000 to 7500 10 percent on 10000 to 15000 165 percent on 15000 to 20000 and 20 percent on 20000 to 30000.
Governor Lister requests all waiters and male hotel and restaurant workers in Washington to prioritize men and relocate women to other roles so women can pursue what is deemed more essential work.
Lieutenant Bill Breitenstein, a Montana alumnus and gun officer at Camp Hancock Georgia, continues a family line tied to the Civil War era Merrimac Virginia and Monitor. His father J B Breitenstein, a surviving crewman of the Merrimac and noted trap shooter, recounts the famed engagement with the Monitor and the Cumberland and the Cumberland’s sinking under Confederate ironclad fire.
Neihart a small Montana town of several hundred, 65 miles from Great Falls, boasts no misdemeanor arrests in five years, strong Liberty Loan over-subscription, and an active Red Cross chapter. The camp’s mines include rich silver and lead with copper potential, a growing mining scene, and renewed concentrator activity at former Moulton/Ganite sites.
Warden Jake L. DeHart outlines state versus federal rules on waterfowl. Hunters may start Sept 15 and must close by Nov 30. daily limit is 20 ducks though federal allows 25. Power boats airplanes and sailboats are banned. 10 gauge or smaller guns only. shots from shoulder required.
Historians have written much about Montana but none has fully captured its story from pioneer days to modern times. The state’s history spans national impact from Lewis and Clark to Alder Gulch and beyond, demanding a monumental, well sequenced work by a genius.
England grows 906 million bushels of potatoes this year, while the United States would need to triple its supply to match. The note suggests U S farmers have room to expand potato production and improve yields despite current surpluses.
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