Montana constitutional amendment creating county and state boards
A proposed act would submit to Montana voters at the next general election a revision to Section 15 of Article Twelve creating County Board of Equalization and a three member State Board of Equalization with defined powers and terms. The act specifies ballot wording and election procedures, and provides for enactment timing and repeals conflicting acts. Secretary of State T. Stewart certifies the document as a true copy dated August 1, 1921.
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State OF Montana
T. Stewart
State of
Montana
Helena
Notice of Montana Constitutional Amendment Election
Notice announces a 1921 Montana general election to decide a constitutional amendment. It outlines Section 7 allowing Legislative Assembly to create or merge municipal government structures and specifies separate official ballots and vote counting procedures. The act takes effect upon passage.
Montana Secretary of State Adopts County and City Form Plan Amendment
State of Montana official announces submission to electors of an amendment adding a new section to Article XVI Section 7. The act permits the Legislature by general or special law to provide a form and plan of government for counties or for counties and cities and counties under such form. Authenticated in Helena on the first day of August.
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State of
Montana
Legislative Assembly
Acta
Co. T. Stewart
Helena
Mysteries of Life: Where Do Pins and Leaves Go
A reader muses on unsolved questions from pins vanishing after manufacture to leaves disappearing by January. The piece notes taxis strike bring back horse buses and recalls a poem about a busman's farewell to a knife board as vehicles reappear in shortages.
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London Answers
Dame Nature
Britain
Sunlight Destroys Clothes Weave Our Light Exposure
The article explains sunlight degrades fabrics, especially cotton and wool. A week of sun makes fabrics harsh and brittle, reducing lifespan. Dark colors resist weakening longer, wool fades slower than cotton, and sun fades dyes differently by material. Wool protects dye while cotton ruins it first.
Origin of publican in English inns and taverns
The term publican originated in England for the keeper of a public house who collected taxes on travelers and sometimes extorted. it came to include inn keepers hotel keepers wine vault keepers and similar roles. Today hotel keepers are called publicans or bonafices or mine hosts.
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England
Boniface
Gunn Before the Break Magistrate's Warning
London Tit-Bits reports a brief courtroom exchange where Magistrate warns John Gunn about intoxication. A policeman questions the charge as Gunn faces summary discipline for drunkenness. The magistrate releases him with a caution to avoid drinking.
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Gunn
John Gunn
London
The Difference Between Gourmand Gourmet and Epicure
A quoted dialogue contrasts being a gourmand, a gourmet, and an epicure with a witty remark about shifting identities. The exchange highlights distinctions in culinary inclination and refinement as a humorous distinction.
Running for Office Quotes Attributed to Senator Sorghum
A Washington Evening Star item quotes Senator Sorghum on political life. He says he has spent much of his life running for office and reflects that some run for something while others run to cover or from trouble.
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Senator Sorghum
Washington
Evening Star
Montana Newsnotes Reflect Diverse State Activities
Readable items show Red Lodge storage battery industry growth, Lewistown wheat output forecast, Treasure county threshing, Bozeman grocers convention, Emin mine re-opening by Anaconda Copper, Missoula Pioneers visit planned, and Montana voter registration trends. Notes on gas franchise election in GlenDive, Montana golf tourney plans, Glasgow land totals, largest gravity-fed pool by American Legion, and rail rate cuts for state fair. Also mentions dairy farm plans near White Sulphur Springs, thefts in Bozeman, hail warrant purchase, harvest labor needs Lewistown, Suffolk elevator fire, hotel construction near Great Falls, road work funding, cedar stands near Plathead Missoula, Bozeman roundup crowd, and various local incidents and recoveries.
Youngest Member of North Dakota Legion Auxiliary Adopted
Bonnie Jean Kelly of Tim Running post at Devil's Lake became the youngest present member of the state department auxiliary. She was adopted by the entire department as one of the directors of the auxiliary's affairs tomorrow. Her father M. P. Kelly served as first lieutenant of the 93rd Pursuit Squadron of the First Army.
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Bonnie Jean Kelly
North Dakota State Department
American Legion Auxiliary
Ritle Inssde
Tim
Devil's Lake
State Department
Auxiliary
Bonnie Jean
M. P. Kelly
Ninety-third
First Army
Want Hero Medal for Him Charles Crozier
Charles J Crozier of 618 Tully Street Syracuse New York saved a seven year old boy from drowning after spotting the boy in the river from a Syracuse bridge He plunged in and brought the child to safety before being rushed to the hospital His American Legion friends are helping push for a Carnegie life saving medal on his behalf.
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Charles Crozier
New York
Q Charles J. Crozier
Tully Street
Syracuse
N. Y
Crozier
William John Wanley, Jr
American Legion
Carnegie
Buck of Omaha Receives Gold Star Medal for Casket Inscriptions
J M Buck of Omaha Nebraska originated the gold star placed on the caskets of all war dead returned from Europe. The idea gained favor with the Omaha American Legion and nationwide, with Buck supervising star placements as caskets arrived. He received the medal from governors generals and Legion leaders honoring his work.
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General Pershing
J. M. Buck
Omaha
Neb
United States Graves Registration Service
Buck
Omaha American Legion
Legion
United States
American Legion
Legionnaires
News in Briefs From the American Legion Weekly
A man under a broken down car drew no crowd for help. A miner entombed three days was rescued with no change to his hair. A sentry on guard duty misrecites general orders until an officer corrects him, exposing the officer’s own familiarity.
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Sentinel
American Legion Weekly
Made World War I Pictures Capt. Br. N. Jackson’s Public Gallery Work
Captain Br. N. Jackson of the Signal corps photographed World War I scenes from France to Hoboken and, after the armistice, continued documenting President Wilson and other events. Now a staff photographer for the New York Daily News, he also volunteers with American Legion Post No. 843 in New York.
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America
France
Hoboken
Br. N. Jackson
Signal Corps
A. KE. F
Wilson
Jackson
The
American Legion
Signal Post No
New York City
Greeting to Tommies from American Legion leader Jackson
H Nelson Jackson of Burlington Vermont, a national American Legion vice commander, spoke to the British Legion representing World War I servicemen. He described his cross continental auto feat and service in the Medical Corps earning the Croix de Guerre and Legion of Honor. He urged enduring Anglo American ties for peace.
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Atlantic Ocean
H. Nelson Jackson
Burlington, VI
American Legion
Legion
British Legion
British Isles
France
Leutenant
Jackson
Hanford MacNider
Spent Months in an Asylum Case Draws NZ Inquiry
New Zealand government investigates Robert M. Thompson of Christchurch a World War veteran who returned home after months in the Elgin asylum in Illinois. Thompson says he came to the United States after war injuries and was admitted to the asylum following a call to the Chicago Veterans Bureau. He alleges poor food indifferent care and says he secretly sent letters to a former college friend who raised the matter with asylum authorities leading to his release on condition of leaving the United States.
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New Zealand
Robert M. Thompson
Christchurch
Elgin
TM. Thompson
United States
America
Veterans’ Bureau
Chicago
Thompson
Bureau
Carrying On With the American Legion in small Iowa towns
In Jesup and Correctionville communities the American Legion forms a help network with leading citizens and business leaders to assist. A Clay county Red Cross and Legion canvass found 276 of 550 veterans with some disability. A Cedar Rapids auxiliary convention delegate praised her German birth and American spirit, noting two sons in military service.
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Correctionville
American Legion
Clay County
Iowa
American Red Cross
American Legion Auxiliary
Cedar Rapids
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County Board of Equalization and
State Board of Equalization
Legislative Assembly OF
Board of
County Board of Equalization
Senate
State Board of Inqualization
Hach
State Board of
Vwquaization
County Boards of Equalization
State Board of Fuqualization
United States OF America
Sesal
Red Lodge
Lst of
Lewistown
Treasure County
Montana Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Bozeman
Emin
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Missoula
Pioneers and Sons and Daughters
Robert S. Hale
Virginia City
Ome
Situs C. Hopkins and Associates
Glendive
Montana State Golf Association
Glasgow
US & Land Office
American Legion of
Oo Fun County
Br. J. Doreen
State Highway Commission
Guilford
Rudyard
Montana Farm Mortgage Bankers’ Association
Montana State Bankers’ Association
Plathead
Oo O
R. T. Ringling
White Sulphur Springs
State Fund
Farmer Hall
Montana Elevator Company
Suffolk
Great Northern
Great Falls
St. _Ignatius
Pablo
Ravalli
Butte
Pollce Department
First State Bank
Clyde Park
Charles KE. White
Wibaux
Missoula River
James Johnson
Boy Scouts
Portland
Ore
oOo
George 1D
Greene
North Fork River
Yellowstone National Park
Gardiner
Park
Union
Ropers, Sterling and Brower
Rowan
Jefferson Forest
W. B. Willey
Sun River
W. FE. Bennett
Register of the
Trans-Continental Railroad
Dugan
Guerra
Northwest Public Utilities Company
Cabin Creek
Miles City
Terry
Forest Service
Avente KE
Missoula Mercantile Company
Deer Lodge
Warm Springs
Galen
Boulder
C. C. Davis
Custer County Rod and Gun Club
Broadus
American Legion News Service
GOLD
Omaha, Neb
E. N. Jackson
Tommies
MacNider
Elgin, Il
Jesup
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