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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1919
Page
3
The article examines bootleggers navigating both state and federal prohibition enforcement as national laws take effect. It notes rivalries between agencies, widespread liquor seizures, and proceeds from sold establishments directed to school funds. Special Agent E W Burn expected to oversee federal violations from Butte.
The governor swaps a worn Panama for a new sailor shaped straw hat after a secretary's joke about his old lid. The National Association of Men’s Straw Hat Manufacturers offers to send a fine American hat to every governor, and he accepts the sizeally fitting replacement.
The article recalls I. G. Baker & Co of Fort Benton founded 1865 as a vast Montana business. It details their merchandising, freighting with bull and mule trains, steamboats, and branch operations across Canada and the Missouri-Yellowstone system. It notes government contracting, gold dust transport, and Colonel James T. Stanford later serving as bookkeeper and banker in related ventures.
Miss Ruby Pascoe dies after an automobile ride with Louis Keller a Butte public school faculty member. He says she jumped from a speeding car at 40 mph and later died of skull fracture shock and hemorrhage. Coroner's inquest returns open verdict, County Attorney contemplates prosecution.
Helena veteran "Brownie" Burke, famed as the smallest man in the U S forces, comes home after 13 months of service with 12 months as a corporal in the Ninetieth division headquarters. He previously toured vaudeville with Maud Adams, aims to return to the stage, and recalls his wartime path from Camp Travis to Le Havre and the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
Nathaniel Webb, longtime resident of Sullivan valley in the Cascade country, reports a human skeleton unearthed near the Bird Tail divide. A past rock formation was disturbed last week revealing the well preserved skull with a possible instrument mark. The origin remains a mystery and Webb suspects an early outlaw killed by vigilantes.
Mrs. W J Beall Bozeman's first pioneer woman and president of the Pioneer's Society of Gallatin county celebrated another birthday at her Bozeman avenue home. Since arriving August 1864 she helped Bozeman grow and took active part in social religious and educational life. She hopes to attend the state pioneers meeting in Butte in August.
The report notes that if Germany has further comments on the peace treaty they will present them privately in an executive session, signaling caution and controlled discourse.
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