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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1919
Page
7
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Helena reports Montana's industrial accident board as a model for Alabama's new system and budget plan. Thomas M. Owens of Alabama seeks data from Montana to guide procedures while E. E. Watson notes Montana and northwest efficiency in administering compensation laws.
The Montana trade commission seeks figures on six months of production costs and miner contract expirations from all coal mines to curb rising prices. It rescinded a rule requiring price postings but maintains buying and selling price records. The Great Western Coal Co of Missoula faces accusations of profiteering with 700 of 900 tons priced at 12.80 per ton, spurring federal action requests to the Justice Department.
About 200 merchants gathered in Butte to contest the August act creating the state trade commission and defend actions they say limit meeting rights. They adjourned after naming an executive committee to set headquarters, hire attorneys, and raise funds to test the law in the courts.
Helena reports Montana gasoline buyers now receive top quality fuel due to strict oil regulation enforced by Secretary of State Charles T. Stewart. Thousands of tests this year led to actions against substandard suppliers who agreed not to ship inferior gasoline or kerosene to the state.
Three major unions in Butte the engineers' union the carpenters' union and the workingmen's union have publicly opposed the proposed compensation act. They warn enactment would eliminate most long time workers in the district due to the act's physical examination provision.
Mabel J. Gray of Tonopah Nevada emerges as a rare woman mining company president. She works on a claim while wearing mens clothing and is a familiar figure in Tonopahs streets during prospecting trips.
Popular Mechanics Magazine notes glory belongs to more than soldiers in WWI. A bass drum from a Marine regiment arrived from France, bearing a wound stripe and four service chevrons painted on one drum head. The emblem honors the drum damaged by a bursting shell.
A person came to the house in a car and spoke with the speaker's little sister in the yard. The sister did not recognize them then, but later learned the visitor was an acquaintance named Eva based on voice recognition.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles gains life insurance status in Montana while talks begin on a Helena bank branch with a Minneapolis manager likely to run it. A Billings man jailed on Washington reform school escape plans awaits transfer, and the state livestock rules pamphlet is issued. Other items cover school commencements, Governor Stewart’s return from illness, a Glacier club license denial, rising auto registrations, railroad car shipments to the Blackfeet reservation, Getz Bros. expansion from China, and multiple local civic matters.
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