Johnson Moves to Fight Delegations in Republican Primaries
Edward W. Pickard reports Hiram Johnson of California vows a wide primary fight against hand picked party delegations, urging voters to express preference in state contests. He targets Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska and New Jersey as main battlegrounds while facing Coolidge and Lowden factions.
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Lenaator
Hiram Johnson
California
Coolidge
Republican Party
Johnson
Tlinois
Indiana
Michigan
Nebraska
New Jersey
Lowden
James KE
Watson
Tirom Johnon
McAdoo Leads in South Dakota Democratic Test of Strength
William G. McAdoo faced his first major Democratic test last week in South Dakota county proposal conventions. Ford supporters opposed him, and early results suggest McAdoo won statewide by about two to one while Republicans split between Coolidge and Hiram Johnson. Farmer-Labor delegates were largely un instructed for the state convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illiam G. McAdoo
South Dakota
Ford
McAdoo
Coolidge
Hiram Johnson
Reischstag Fallout Ends Stresemann's Cabinet
After Reichstag reconvened, R. Stresemann and his cabinet collapsed as anticipated. The chancellor delivered a lengthy somber address, concluding with a pessimistic closing remark.
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R. Stresemann
Reichstag
Poincare Backs British View on German Return and Allied Control
The Anglo French entente was saved as Poincare yielded to British views on the Kaiser question and allied military control. Notes to Bern warned Germany against throne restoration for Frederick William and requiring no obstruction to resumed air and military supervision. Baldwin’s political vulnerability and Coolidge’s support for Mellon’s tax cuts frame a tense post election backdrop.
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NCE
Poincare
Germany
Council of Ambassadors
Bern
Frederick William
Berlin
Commission of Military Control
Committee of Aeronautic Guarantee
Stresemann
Baldwin
Walton Impeached and Removed as Oklahoma Governor
C Walton was found guilty on eleven of sixteen impeachment charges and removed from office for corruption, moral turpitude, neglect of duty and incompetence. The Senate voted 41 to 0 though one consistent supporter was absent. six charges were dismissed. Walton withdrew defense citing unfair trial. attorneys plan to appeal to the U S Supreme Court. A grand jury in Oklahoma City had indicted him for criminal offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Walton
Oklahoma
Senate
Walton
Supreme Court of the United States
Oklamaha City
Cook Sentenced to Prison for Oil Stock Deceit
Arctic explorer R Frederick A Cook was found guilty in Fort Worth Texas of mail fraud tied to the Petroleum Producers association where he acted as sole trustee. He received fourteen years and nine months in prison and a $12000 fine. nineteen co defendants were convicted. Judge Killits denounced him as robbing widows and orphans and said he should be paraded as a warning.
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R. Frederick A. Cook
North Pole
Kit- Hits
Forth Worth
Tex
Petroleum Producers’ Association
Killits
Cook
Germany Relief Debate Signals Limited Action From U S Officials
Secretary Hoover says the government is not considering relief plans for hungry Germans though some talk with the President exists. He notes demand and unemployment cause suffering in poor districts while Germany remains strong in trade. Germany bought over $143 million from the U S in six months of 1923. Major General Allen’s relief drive aims to raise at least $10 million from Americans for hungry German children, to be managed by the American Friends Service Committee with German cooperation on logistics.
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Germany
Reichstag
Herr Lefeht
Bavarian People's Party
Dr. Albert
Washington
America
Stresemann
Ruhr
Rhineland
Upper Silesia
Junkers
Ecretary OF
Hoover
Allen
Committee For Relief
American Friends Service Committee
Corean Protest Against Tokyo Earthquake Atrocity Filed
Friends of Corea in America filed with Secretary of State Hughes a protest over the alleged murder of about 500 Coreans in the Tokyo and Yokohama disaster. Dr. Floyd W. Thompkins, president, said an eyewitness saw 250 Coreans bound and burned alive on a junk. Action for Secretary Hughes is not stated.
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Riends
Corea
America
Hughes
Tokyo
Yokohama
Floyd W. Thompkins
Society
Tughes
European leaders visit Italy amid talks of new alliance
ING Alfonso Queen Victoria and Primo Rivera traveled to Italy where King Victor Emmanuel and Premier Mussolini hosted a ceremony. Reported plan for a military alliance to balance France and Yugoslavia.
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Ing Alfonso
Victoria
Primo Rivera
Spain
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Mussolini
France
Jugo Slavia
Montana Notes and Tornado of Towns and Trials
Fergus County petitions to form Petroleum County passable. a special election likely in March. Horses killed and cripples in a Harlem runaway at a railroad crossing. Telegraph line Dixon to Poison completed. starts Nov 8. Bohart wins 17 premiums at Portland Livestock Exposition with Brown Swiss tea set prize. Webster seeks funds to import Guernsey cattle for Trindle dairy men. Whiskey seizures and arrests near Plentywood aftermath. Firedept saves Deer Lodge buildings and gasoline tank. Conrad man John Grady dies after an explosion and leg amputation. Miss Bertha Rich appointed Methodist pastor at Sumatra and Ingomar. Mrs. Kama Fronins dies after ingesting poison. husband present near Cut Bank.
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Dixon
Potson Fas
Northern Pacific
WL C. Bohart
Portland
Ore
Guernsey
Trinsdale
George E H. Webster
Livisin
State Department of Agriculture
Tecu
Wis
Offiehitls
Wales
Jesse Fister
George Brown
Chistew
Plentywood
Jhomtines
Cao
Washington
John Grady
Conrad
Bertha Rieh
Sumatra
Ingomar
Edegington
Miss Rieh
Chicago Training School For Home and Foreign Missions
Kama Fnonis
Cut Bank
Montana Oil Notes From Kevin Sunburst Field Developments
Dakota-Montana Co reports no commercial producer yet in Kevin Sunburst. Elis sand depth 1.67 feet. Shelby Gas brings largest gas well to Kevin Sunburst with 15 million cubic feet daily. Ohio No 2 Sherard large gasser at 1 750 feet, 35 miles southeast of Big Sandy. Three in One Oil finds sulphur water at 1 800 feet to be abandoned. California company casing Deer Creek near Armes, 2650 feet deep with gas flow. Cat Creek crude price $1.10, Kevin Sunburst oil 70 cents per barrel.
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Firs
Elis
Shelby OF & Gas
Sherard
Big Sandy
OH Company
Kevin Sunburst
California Company
Deer Creek
Armes
Cat Creek
Kevin- Sunburst
Embezzler Simpson Sentenced in Federal Case
John Fo. Sykes Jr. known as Dave Simpson in Sun River canyon and living under an alias admits identity after embezzling 94 dollars from Citizens Bank of Elizabeth City North Carolina. He receives a federal prison term of one to three years in Atlanta after return to North Carolina. He blames a woman for his actions.
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John Fo. Sykes, Jr
Citizens Bank
Elizabeth City
N.C
Montana
Sun River Canyon
Dave Simpson
Atlanta
North Carolina
Sykes
State Warden Plans Crackdown Over Elk Slaughter
Montana state game warden Jaeckway says elk on the Bison Range near Fort Belknap may be slaughtered for sale, with proceeds to the federal general fund. He asserts the elk were moved from Charoline years ago and now number 60 to 80, and vows to arrest violators during the closed season. He will notify Attorney General Rankin and seek legal authority to confiscate meat and pursue action.
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United States Biological Survey
Hithead Reservation
Gane Warlon Alc
Jaeck
A General Fund
Vic
Montana
David
Pratt
Jakways
Bison Park
Twenty year effort yields patent for Jardine homestead
Matt Mallison, age 96 or older, finally secures patent on his homestead near Jardine after 20 years of proving up. He lived on the land more than 20 years and came to Montana in 1883, but final proof was delayed until a survey completed the process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matt Mallison
Jardine
Mallison
Montana
Central Park Slayer Danner Receives Death Sentence
Seth Orrin Danner, convicted October 26 of first degree murder in Cereat Park, Tale of Mrs. John Sprouse, wife of a South Dakota tourist, faced a brief hearing. Judge Ben B Law sentenced him to death, with execution date to be announced after the death warrant is issued. Danner showed no emotion as the sentence was pronounced.
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Seth Orrin Danner
Cereat Park
John Sprouse
South Dakota
Ben B Law
Laiw
Danner
Simms Woman Champ Turkey Raiser
Mrs George Lattney pioneer ranch woman of Simms leads in turkey raising. She set three turkey lines last spring and raised 600 birds able to stand and fly high. Lattney has already sold $190 worth of turkeys and still has many for Christmas sale.
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Simms
George Lattney
Pondera County Sends Record Turkeys to Chicago
Pondera County raised over 16 thousand turkeys this year surpassing 1922 counts. Conrad shipped forty two thousand pounds of birds to Chicago with a shipment valued at 12 thousand dollars per cartload. Sixty five percent graded No 1 and the price paid averaged 83 cents per pound, three cents above Montana turkey prices.
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Pondera County
Conrad
Chicago
Montana
Beet Payment Distributed to Billings Growers by Great Western Sugar
Checks totaling 785 257 18 mailed to growers in the Billings district for October sugar beets delivered by Great Western Sugar. September shipments amounted to 11850 tons with 70 675 39 paid, bringing total payments to date for 140 728 tonnage.
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Billings
Great Western Sugar Company
Corn Growing Changes Farm Methods in Eastern Montana
A.C Bowen, superintendent of the Mussel shell division of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railway, says increased corn production in eastern Montana has led to higher hog shipments, signaling a change in farming methods and tangible gains in corn culture in the region.
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Montana
A.C Bowen
Mussel Shell Division
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
Montana Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1923 by Governor Dixon
Governor Dixon proclaims November 29 as Thanksgiving Day in Montana. Residents are urged to gather in homes churches schools and other places to offer thanks to Almighty God for material and spiritual well being. The notice notes the 1923 date and cites the state seal and official signatures.
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America
Montana
Republic
T. Joseph M. Dixon
United States
Telena
United States of America
Sjosepal M. Dixon
Montana crop report shows record corn yield and flax drop
The November crop report from the Montana cooperative crop reporting service cites a state corn yield averaging 26 bushels per acre and a preliminary production estimate around 700000 bushels, with frost affecting northern counties. Flax is pegged at about 1,246,000 bushels with an 82 bushel per acre yield, lower quality than last year.
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Montana
TOCOM
Montana Homes for Children and Adults Reported in 1928
A February 1 1928 Commerce Department report shows 150 children in free family homes and three adult homes with 142 residents. Two mixed homes house 92 people, while two women care homes hold 76 adults and 26 children. The Jones child placing agency reports four children in care. Attorney General Wellington D Rankin endorses amortization loans to replace delinquent irrigation district mortgages when statewide officials deem it safe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Department of Commerce
Jone
H. V. Miley
Register of State Lands
Wellington D. Rankin
Plaan
State Board of Land Comemissioners
Montana Tuberculosis seal sale opens with labor support
The Montana Tuberculosis association has several seal buyers ready for the annual drive. The first purchase for 1923 came from the Montana State Federation of Labor which spent $5 and, through its president Stephen Ely, urged unions across the state to back anti tuberculosis efforts.
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Montana Tuberculosis Association
Montana State Federation of Labor
Stephen Ely
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Gailiard
Department of Agriculture
Emil Coue
Edward W. Pickard
Magnus
Minnesota
National
Hiram
J. A. H. Hopkins
New York
Omaha
Detroit
Congress
Harding
Senator Lodge
Senator Smoot
Secretary Mellon
Reveere
Pergus County
Petroleum County
Fergus
Leis Grain
Harlem
Deer Lodge
State Prison
Continental OS Co
Simpson
Central Park
Rankin
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