Pinchot Named Pennsylvania Forestry Commissioner
Viford Pinchot former U S forest service official is named state commissioner of forestry in Pennsylvania by Governor Sproul to replace Robert Conklin who resigned. Pinchot aims to stop forest fires and restore 5 to 6 million acres of unproductive land to productive use across the state citing past wasteful management.
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Viford Pinchot
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Sproul
Pennsylvania
Robert §. Conklin
Department of Forestry
Conklin
Pinchot
Forestry Commission
Commonwealth
America
Gorgas to Clean Up Peru for Five Years
Major General William C. Gorgas, former U S Army surgeon general, signs a five year Peru cleanup contract at 15000 dollars yearly. He will begin work in January addressing sanitation, following his famed Havana and Panama Canal zone campaigns that reduced yellow fever and other diseases.
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William C. Gorgas
United States Army
Peru
Gorgas
Havana
Cuba
Panama Canal Zone
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Central America
Palmer Faces Palmer as Red Threat Grows
Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer, head of the Department of Justice, will lead prosecutions from the railroad strike amid evidence of plots to disrupt the four great rail brotherhoods and unionize workers with the I W W linked to the One Big Union. Palmer, a Stroudsburg Pennsylvanian, has long served in Congress and led the Democratic National Committee.
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A. Mitchell Palmer
United States
Department of Justice
Thilway Workers’ Union
Palmer
Stroudsburg
Baltimore
Democratic National Committee
Tie
Snow Baby Marie Peary Narrows to Public Figure
The article profiles Marie Ahnighito Peary Stafford Mrs Edward Stafford once known as the Snow Baby born in Greenland during Admiral Peary’s Arctic expeditions. It notes her birth during the 1893 94 Greenland journey and later life including authoring Arctic works such as The Snow Baby in 1901.
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Washington
Greenland
Supreme Court Upholds Bond Issue for Terminal Elevator
The Montana Supreme Court affirms the Fifteenth Legislature act authorizing 250000 in bonds to build a terminal elevator at Great Falls. Bids were not received after January advertising. The court, in an opinion by Associate Justice Matthews, sustains the act after removing uncertain provisions, allowing interest and principal payments as due.
Church drive over top in this state
In Montana interchurch world movement drive reports show subscriptions exceeding 806000 with denominational quotas of 164169 met. Rev George Mecklenburg states most pledges include pre drive totals and centenary funds. Montana denominations are over the top with funds exceeding 342000 in total.
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Butte
Interchurch World Movement
George Mecklenburg
Hie
Montana
Selb
Mr. Mecklenburg
Montana Man Wins Rare Distinction in War Cross
Livingston veteran Col. B O Johnson receives the war cross of the new central European republic as the first non Czech army officer honored. He commands the last group of American army men in Siberia and aided in evacuating Czech-Slovak forces from Russia. Johnson formerly headed the mountain division of the Northern Pacific between Butte and Billings with Livingston HQ.
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Livingston
B.O. Johnson
Johnson Tere
Johnson
Siberia
American Railway Corps
Officers Seize Canada Liquor Shipment in Great Falls
Customs custodian A J King holds 52 cases or 624 bottles of Canadian rye and Dawson Scotch valued at 10 000 to 15 000 seized at Gateway. The cargo crossed from Fernie B C and was hidden in a coal car billed as coal on the American side. Authorities noted an unseen lookout and questioned how the shippers aimed to move the liquor.
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Moat Falls
A. J. King of
Great Falls
Gateway
Inca Earlord
Fernie
Yellowstone Park to extend visits with new facilities
Park administration announces next season changes to lure longer stays at Yellowstone. A park mail service will be created, additional trails built, and dining restrictions will ban park trout at camps and hotels. A boys' summer camp and school will be added and the park opens June 19, later than the previous June 13.
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Livingston
Yellowstone National Park
Park Administration
Dispute Over Cattle Ends In Man's Death
Billings reports say a quarrel over cattle on L. E. Reed's ranch near Lavina ended with Reed shooting and killing Pete Stimlikoff after a claim of trespassing cattle Stimlikoff said belonged to him. Reed notified the sheriff and met a deputy en route to arrest.
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Billings
L. E. Reed
Lavina
Reed
Pete Stimlikoff
Stimlikoff
Science Paves Way for Care of Criminality
New York expert Dr. Max G Schlapp links crime to mental irregularities and blood imbalances. He says proper medical attention in childhood could cut US crime by about ninety percent, advocating humane treatment and hospital care over punishment.
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New York
United States
Max G. Schlapp
Schlapp
Ile
Doctor Schlapp
Pasadena man ordered to pay for chimpanzee attack
BE. W. Knowlton of Pasadena must pay $1,600 total after the state district court of appeals upheld a $1,500 judgment against him for a chimpanzee attacking and injuring Milton Lindley, a child. He also owes $100 for a frivolous appeal as the court ruled the chimp was negligently at large and entered the boy’s home.
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Los Angeles
Milton Lindley
BE. W. Knowlton
Pasadena
State District Court of Appeals
Merrily We Roll Along Celebrate Bird McCormick's 72nd
Russellville Kentucky residents gathered to honor Bird McCormick who, after forty years of wheel chair use, marked his seventy second birthday with a large turnout of friends and neighbors.
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Merrily
Russellville
Bird McCormick
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Mark
Mark Twaip
Hartford
Conn
New England
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State Park Commission
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