Montana constitutional amendment creating County and State Boards of Equalization
A 1922 Montana act proposes submitting to voters a constitutional amendment to create a County Board of Equalization and a State Board of Equalization, defining their powers and duties, roles in tax valuation, and criteria on partisanship, with ballots and procedures for the November election and repeal of conflicting acts. The document includes official certification by Secretary of State T. C. Stewart, dated August 1, 1922.
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Montana
County Board of Equalization
State Board of Equalization
Legislative Assembly
State OF
Board of
Senate
County Boards of Equalization
State OF Montana
I. Cc. T. Stewart
Helena
A. D
Notice of Montana Constitutional Amendment Election
Notice announces the November 1922 general election to submit an amendment adding Article XVI Section 7 to Montana's constitution. It grants the Legislative Assembly power to shape municipal government forms for counties and cities, permits consolidation, and requires voter approval for such forms. Approved February 26, 1921.
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State of
Montana
Legislative Assembly
Montans
Montana Secretary Certifies Proposal for County Government Plan
Secretary of State certifies true copy of act authorizing Montana to submit to voters an amendment adding a section to Article XVI allowing the Legislature to provide a form and plan of government for counties or counties and cities with such form prescribed. The document bears official seal and date of August 1, A. K. 08-01-? with signature of Secretary Dr Stewart.
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State OF Montana
T. Stewart
State of
Montana
Legislative Assembly
Helena
A. K
The Kitchen Cabinet Verse Fragment
A fragment from The Kitchen Cabinet as printed in a Western newspaper remarks on a public figure’s charm and frailties. The brief piece suggests admiration tempered by caution about spoiling the persona with excessive praise.
Luncheon Dishes and a Poignant Cheer for Victory
A clipping offers stuffed peppers with cheese onion rice mix baked in a pan with hot water, plus a lunch cake using butter eggs and brown sugar, and summer squash with white sauce. The piece closes with a hopeful, defiant poem about triumph and resilience.
Peas in Dishes Highlight Nutrition and Flavor
A historical kitchen note describes peas as nourishing stand-ins for meat and offers several recipes. Green Pea Soups and Pea Souffle use peas, stock, onions, herbs, and dairy. Salmon and Pea Salad pairs salmon with peas and lettuce. Combination Salad mixes peas with peanuts and mayo dressing. Peas and Peppers fills pepper shells with minced meat and peas. Green Gage Sherbet sweetens plum juice with sugar gelatin and lemon.
Four Medals on His Breast Carl Lange Nebraska’s Most Decorated World War Veteran
Carl M. Lange of Thar tington Nebraska is Nebraska’s most decorated World War I veteran. He wears four medals on his chest and a French Medaille Militaire on his arm. Lange received the honor from Marshal Petain and later found another Medaille Militaire in a registered package. He also bears the Distinguished Service Cross from General Pershing and the Croix de Guerre with palms.
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Carl. M. Lange
Nebraska
Carl M. Lange
Thartington
Neb
France
Linge
Marshal Petain
C. D
Lange
American Legion
Arlington Cemetery
General Pershing
Merle Hay
Thuy
Boehler to Direct National Legion Band and Drum Contest
Charles E. Boehler will conduct a prize contest at the American Legion national convention in New Orleans next October featuring 100 bands and drum corps. Band prizes are 1000, 500, and 250 with judging on pitching appearance marching and instrument count. Drum corps prizes are 250 and 100 with playing, appearance, marching, and instrument count. Boehler, a former New Orleans AFM president, served as band leader in Spanish American War era, World War I, and the Thirty-first Division.
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Charles E. Boehler
New Orleans
Boehler
American Federation of Musicians
I’d Like to Be a Corporal Not a Private
Gleason Pease expresses the private’s envy of corporal rank and the pull of camaraderie over command. The poem contrasts the respected insignia and pay with the desire to share in friends’ bonds and avoid ordering fellow soldiers.
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Gleason Pease
American Legion Weekly
Hard Luck in a Colored Soldier’s Family
In a brief anecdote from American Legion Weekly a colonel asks a cheerful colored orderly Sam about family tragedies. Sam insists those misfortunes are his relatives hard luck, not his, calmly downplaying personal hardship.
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Sam
Nassuh
American Legion Weekly
Scrugham Emerges as Nevada Gubernatorial Candidate
James G. Scrugham of Nevada, a member of the American Legion national executive committee, resigns from the Legion post to pursue the governorship. A former state engineer, he led Nevada’s Boulder Canyon project representation and has a long career in engineering education and military service.
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James G. Scrugham
Nevada
National Executive Committee
The
American Legion
Sanford ~ MacNider
Scrugham
Boulder Canyon
Legion
Ational
Service Men
Lexington
State University of Kentucky
Engineering College
University of Nevada
Ordnance Department
Washington
Turinistice
Graves Decorated for 1812 Soldiers in London Memorial Day
The London Post of the American Legion laid a large wreath on the unmarked graves of 218 Americans who died as prisoners in Dartmoor during the War of 1812. The site in Princeton England had never been honored similarly until Memorial Day when decoration began.
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Princeton
England
Dartmoor
Hittle
Sons of America
London
American Legion
Heroes of 1812 Decorated at Brookwood Cemetery
The Legion's London post held dedication ceremonies at Brookwood cemetery 30 miles from London to honor 450 American World War I dead buried there.
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Legion
London Post
Brookwood Cemetery
London
Mangum Legion club shifts to town playground project
After two years collecting funds for a clubhouse the Mangum Oklahoma American Legion post voted to lease land and convert it into a playground for local children with equipment and improvements planned. Meanwhile the American Legion Auxiliary in Indianapolis seeks the war mother with the most sons in service, noting Indiana families with seven or more sons and asking where the woman with over seven sons resides.
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American Legion Post
Mangum
Okla
American Legion Auxiliary
Natonal
Indianapolis
America
Indiana
The
Auxiliary
Plan for Adequate Air Defense for Nation
Army and Navy experts draft a comprehensive air defense program for Congress. It calls for 500 planes per coast and 1 000 interior, 2 500 officers and 40 000 men, 250–300 new planes for two carrier conversions, all ships equipped with catapult and landing gear, rapid all-metal torpedo plane production, and developed seaport landing fields and national aerial routes.
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Ashington
Army
Navy
Congress
Army ‘Air Service
Air Service
Wong
Senators Vie Over Campaign Money in Senate Fight
Senators debate campaign finance reform as states begin fall campaigns. Borah and Pomerene push measures with Spencer absent from subcommittee action. Heavy spending reported. one candidate vows up to 200000 dollars for advertising and outreach nationwide.
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Irelinood
Senate
Congress
Washington
Spencer
Borah
Pomerene
Notables Leaving the House as Voters Wake to Change
As Senate primaries stun the nation, the House of Representatives sees a wave of retirements. Uncle Joe Zannon of Illinois retires after forty six years, James Warren Fordney of Saginaw steps down as Ways and Means chair, Tr C Copley of Tin is leaves after defeat, and Clifford Ireland of Peoria follows. Phil Campbell of Kansas and colleagues Rodenberg and Fess also exit, reshaping leadership and committees.
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Ajlule
Joe” Zannon
Ilinois
House
James Warren Fordney
Saginaw
Fordney
Tra C. Copley
Tinois
Copley
Clifford Ireland
Peoria
Phil Campbell
Kansas
Ile
Committee On
House Rules Committee
Campbell
William A. Rodenberg
Fess
Ohio
Rodenberg
Smoot Responds To Har rison Sugar Charge
The senate debates a Mississippi charge against Senator Harrison and Utah Senator Smoot. Smoot denounces political demagoguery and urges focusing on constructive work rather than schemes about sugar tariffs. He criticizes the Mississippi senator for sensational accusations and calls for turning powers to building and helping rather than criticizing.
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Harrison
Senate
Mississippi
Smoot
Utah
New York
Therm
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United States OF America
Dr. Stewart
Liven
Cowper
American Lesion News Service
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