Evidence mounting against the Big Five packers
Albany September 17 Will Palmer declares evidence will be presented to a grand jury to indict the Big Five packers. He cites ample data on their activities and promises a verdict will shock America. Palmer blames two causes for high prices world conditions and businessmen who raise prices believing others will follow. He calls them despicable scamps.
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Albany
A. Mitchell Palmer
Smith
Palmer
America
Department of Justice
Mr. Palmer
Judge Poindexter Returns From Honolulu on Business
Federal judge J B Poindexter returns from Honolulu and will work on his legal matters in the city. He is joined by his daughter Miss Helen who will attend high school in San Diego and live with the Poindexter family while the judge partners with T E Gilbert the newly named county prosecutor.
Clean-up Day Activities Highlighted by Student Writing
A fifth grade class shares scenes from Clean-up Day including a bonfire of weeds and tumbleweeds, sparks and smoke, manual training projects like a sand table and cabinet, and rivalries to create cozy room setups. Art students craft book covers for loose-leaf notebooks.
Cigar Ignites Bed Fire Kills Butte Man
In Butte Sept 17 Michael O'Neill 73 died in a bedroom blaze started when a cigar ignited bed clothing. Firemen found his body severely burned. he had lived in Butte for more than 30 years.
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Butte
Michael O’neill
O’neill
PTA notices clothing drive at Haugen's store
Emergency PTA committee seeks to place old clothing in good condition and restock a variety of garments. Readily available items include four ladies coats one large fur coat for a grown boy coats for boys and girls mens and boys coats and vests mens trousers shoes underwear and coats for little tots.
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Parent-Teacher Association
Haugen’s
Emma Goldman To Be Deported From St Louis
Emma Goldman faces deportation after a warrant was served last Friday in Jefferson City after a two year sentence for obstructing the army draft. Her release is set for September 27, with a $15 000 bond required to avoid jail pending a deportation hearing. Goldman, born in Russia, has been in the United States 31 years and claims American citizenship.
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St. Louis
Emma Goldman
Jefferson City
Miss Goldman
Russia
United States
Charles A. Lich
King Albert Sets US Visit with American Troop Escort
Brussels reports King Albert Queen Elizabeth and Crown Prince Leopold sail from Ostend aboard the George Washington for the United States with an American regiment aboard to avoid delaying American troops. The trip aims to repay President Wilsons Belgium visit and thank the United States while the king plans light banquets and hopes for a brief ceremonial schedule.
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Brussels
Albert
Queen Elizabeth
Leopold
George Washington
Ostend
United States
Brest
Wilson
Belgium
Brick Work Nears Finish on Stockmens State Bank
Brick work on the Stockmens State Bank building at the corner south of the Chateau House is finished and plastering will start. Completion is expected within two weeks, after which the bank will be ready for business.
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Stockmens State Bank
Chateau House
Gibraltar
Women Propose Two-Cent Roosevelt Coin Revival
The Women's Roosevelt Memorial association launched a campaign in New York to re issue the two cent coin withdrawn in 1874. The proposed coin would feature a bas relief portrait of Theodore Roosevelt on the obverse and would aid payments for war taxes on small articles newspapers and streetcar fares.
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New York
Roosevelt
Women’s
Roosevelt Memorial Association
United Mine Workers denounce militarism and call for Americanization
The United Mine Workers of America convention in Cleveland denounced militarism and compulsory military service. It endorsed rapid Americanization of all foreign-born residents and rejected a radical resolution to withdraw from the AFL. It urged an active campaign by miners to defeat military service bills in Congress.
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Cleveland
Ohio
United Mine Workers of America
American Federation of Labor
Organization of Miners
Congress
Johnson Pleads For Americanism In Omaha Lunch Debate
Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California urged defeat of the league covenant in its current form at an Omaha luncheon. He warned that supporters want to rush approval before the public understands the pact’s burdens and noted secret prewar treaties justify safeguards at the cost of U S blood and treasure. Present were Victor Rosewater E A Benson and R B Howell Nebr republican leaders. Johnson planned to speak again in Lincoln that night after traveling from Sioux Falls S D.
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Neb
Hiram W. Johnson
California
League of Nations
Europe
Asia
Victor Rosewater
E. A. Benson
R. B. Howell
Republican National Committee
Nebraska
Johnson
Sioux Falls
S.10
Lincoln
Electricians Sign Two Year Contract for Seven Dollar Wage
Montana Power company and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers sign a two year contract creating a uniform seven dollar wage for journeymen electricians across the state. The pact does not raise wages in Butte and Anaconda but raises pay in towns where prior scales were lower than 1919 levels. Two locals approved the contract while two others could not ratify due to missing blanks.
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Butte
Montana Power Company
Ineernational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Varsis
Montana
Anaconda
Jews Dream Great Vision of Revived Home
The Zionist Organization of America closes its 22nd annual convention with a plan for a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine under British rule with Jerusalem as a renaissance center. Delegates pledge 4 million American Jews to support a democratic homeland with owned public utilities and resources for all.
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Chicago
Zionist Organization of America
Palestine
Jerusalem
America
Lone Robber Lines Up Buffalo Bank Start
A lone bandit, unmasked but armed, robbed the Buffalo State bank in Lewistown this morning and escaped with cash over $600. Sheriff J H Stephenson and posses hunt the 34 year old Italian suspect, who wore a light suit and used a new leather bag. He ordered the cashier and Miss Hutcheson to face the wall for 10 minutes then vanished. The robber had previously spoke with Cashier Spencer about forest fires.
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Lewistown
Buffalo State Bank
J. H. Stephenson
W. P. Spencer
High School Notes and International Robbery News
High school notes report student enrollments, class activities, staff changes, and upcoming events including a class fundraiser and a teachers picnic. Separate dispatches recount police raids in Tuxpan and Chihuahua, Mexico, involving Mexican army officers and a $40,000 robbery of an American oil firm with multiple arrests and a priestly ransom case.
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Washington
Agipo‘ Perez
Tuxpan
Mexico
Col Rodriguez
Morcia
Penn-Mex
Rodriguez
Perez
Murguia
Tampico
Peru President Killed Rumor Circulates Across Chile
Dispatches from Iquique claim August B. Leguia, president of Peru, was assassinated Tuesday. Foreign ministry reports censorship prevents confirmation and all Peru communications are restricted to verify the rumor.
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Santiago
Chile
B. Leguia
Peru
Foreign Ministry
Iquique
Kimball and Mills Wed in Pondera County Ceremony
Wilber L. Kimball aged 30 and Dela Mills of Manson in Pondera county were united in marriage by Justice J. E. DeHaas at Choteau yesterday.
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Wilber L. Kimball
Dela Mills
Manson
Pondera County
J. E. DeHaas
Choteau
Read Stewart couple wed in Chateau ceremony
Bret H Read and Mrs Jennie Stewart of Bynum were married last Saturday at the groom’s brother’s home, with justice of the peace John E DeHaas officiating at Chateau.
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Bret H. Read
Jennie Stewart
Bynum
Chateau
Martin Read
John £. DeHaas
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