Northwestern. News Probe Of All Utilities Of State
Fifteen thousand petition signatures demand an impartial investigation of the Bank of North Dakota the Workmen's Compensation bureau the Home Builders' association and the Drake flour mill. They seek a three examiner panel with one named by bank examiner O E Lofthus and one by State Auditor Carl Kositzky. The effort, filed to promote good government, aims for an independent inquiry, not political.
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Bismarck
N. D
Frazier
Bank of North Dakota
Workmen's Compensation Bureau
Home Builders’ Association
Drake Flour Mill
O. E. Lofthus
Carl Kositzky
State Industrial Commission
North Dakota Bankers’ Association
North
Dakota
Independent Voters’ Association
State House
Bankers’ Association
Lower Wheat Market Spurs Flour Price Drop in Minneapolis
Minneapolis reports a lower wheat market this week causing flour prices to fall by about 20 to 30 cents a barrel. Mills quoted family size flour at 14 dollars per barrel with some sales at 14.55 dollars, reflecting the widespread price reduction.
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Minneapolis
Saskatchewan Crops Look Fine After Ideal June Weather
A Saskatchewan crop report shows seeding finished by June 15 for all grains, crops advancing well. Grasshoppers are widespread in the south but controlled by government measures with poisoned bran. Cutworms appear in some districts. Weather is ideal with ample moisture and no frost or hail reported.
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Winnipeg
Man
Saskatchewan
Toronto street car service suspended as strike begins
Toronto on June 23 saw street car service halted citywide except in outlying districts as trolleymen strike for 66 cents an hour. Jitneys took over downtown routes while the Toronto Railway Company said it would not resume service immediately. No wheels moved on civic owned lines within the city.
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Toronto
Toronto Railway Company
Grant county tour ends with socialist critique by Birchenough and Cahill
Rev Allen Birchenough and Frank B Street er wrap up their Grant county tour. Cahill, nonpartisan candidate for secretary, criticizes the state under socialism while defending a reform path. Birchenough concedes the farmers movement once had no sinister aims but warns of a socialist state agenda backed by the Nation Socialist party.
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Laith
N. C
Allen
Birchenough
Frank B. Streeter
Grant County
Leith
Cahill
Cenill
Nonpartisan League
Nation Socialist’ Party
Auldence
North Dakota
Union
Pure Bred Shorthorn Sale Announced by Jena Letnes
Thief River Falls June 22 A sale of purebred shorthorns Friday June 25 by Jena Letnes a noted Toremont breeder in the vicinity six cows and seven heifers all registered will be sold to the highest bidders The herd includes Village G 1 a large bull bred by North Dakota Agricultural College son of Village Sultan No 410465 Registry certificates are on file with County Agent J J McCann who will answer pedigreed queries.
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Thief River
Jena Letnes
Toremont
Letnes
North Dakota Agricultural College
Sultan No
J. J. McCann
Thief River Fallh
Butte Girl Arrested In Chinatown Victim Of Drug Habit
Butte Mont June 2 tale tells of McMullen a young Butte woman arrested in Chinatown. She was away from home a week and became a hopeless drug victim through bad company. She spent about six dollars daily to feed the habit and lived as a wife to a Chinaman to obtain drugs. The Chinese supplier was fined $200 for vagrancy. Her mother, a hard working woman, did not know of her daughter's associates. Cure efforts will be made to break the habit.
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Butte
Mont
Chinatown
Montana Priest Pinioned Under Car Seven Hours
Sandusky Montana June 23 Father DeMers a local priest was pinned beneath his automobile for seven hours after the brakes failed on a hill causing the car to overturn and roll back. He was found drenched with gasoline and bruised but recovering.
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Sandusky
Mont
Father DeMers
Manitoba Bosses Grasshopper Plague with Bran Poison
Manitoba department of agriculture reports success in controlling a grasshopper plague. Bran and chemical poison mixtures have kept hoppers in check and crops in excellent condition. Vigilance will be needed all summer to prevent a return next season.
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Winnipeg
Mar
Manitoba Department of Agriculture
Tha
Noted Rancher And Placer Miner Dies At Helena
Helena Montans Betens Mont. au 23 Cotes D Van Ward one of St Monee Pioneers of the state of aes ben wall eer Over the onan eaarties ea i'n very Advanced age. Van Ward was of the Hollander stock, his ancestors we eld iice tractats sere ee ui an min ed and ranched in advancing retirement.
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Helena
Montans
Betens
Mont
van Ward
M Lean Farmer Travels 2000 Miles for Townley Fight
Biemarck dispatch notes Ote Gradin a former McLean county shortiff who has journeyed about 2000 miles to take up the contest against the Townley movement in North Dakota. The report highlights his long trek as part of a local political clash.
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Biemarck
N. D
Ote Gradin
Shortif
McLean County
Montana Cattle Expert Dies After 43 Years In Asylum
Warm Springs Mont June Kz aura Keating a renowned Montana cattle man who rode the plains reportedly dies after 43 years of confinement in the asylum following a long illness. Details of the case and dates are unclear in the fragment.
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Montana
Warm Springs
Mont
Aura Keating
Plains of
Topo Penitens al Es Bis
Federal Expert Sent To Bottineau To Fight Militant Grasshoppers
An expert from the United States Department of Agriculture has been sent from Ureon to Bottineau County North Dakota to aid in the grasshopper fight. E E Ball acting secretary reported the Bottineau county board of commissioners wired for 1000000 to support the effort and notified Governor Frasier of the action.
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Bismarck
N. D
United States Department of Agriculture
Bottineau
North Dakota
EE. B. Ball
Board of County Commissioners
Bottineau County
Secreeary of Agriculture
Frasier
First Aerial Express Delivered In Montana
Montana reports the first aerial express delivery when Pilot J W Hemer of Inland Empire Aerial Transportation flew from Butte to Deer Lodge carrying packages from Symonds store to Mrs D W Aldrich. The one passenger plus express cargo trip took 29 hours as the craft passed the Orphan Girl mine where a parachute dropped a copy of the Sunday Standard to his father at the mine.
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Mont
Montana
J. W. Hemer
Inland Empire Aerial ‘Transportation Company
the Symonds
Butts
Mra
D. W. Aldrich
Butte
Deer Lodge
Orphan Girl
John Berkin
Sunday Standard
Strike situation slightly improved in rail yards
Philadelphia June 23 improvement in the yardmen strike was reported by both the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads. A number of men returned to work on the midnight shift and conditions were approaching normal, though freight movement remained seriously affected. Strike leaders denied any break in their ranks.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Reading Railroad
Attorneys Question in Detroit Mine Official Killing Case
Detroit authorities interrogated a team of lawyers over the death of August Dwyer, a Middlesboro, Kentucky auditor for the United Mine Workers, in a downtown law office. Frank H. Dohany, a noted attorney and bank director, was left under guard in a hospital ward after a confrontation with detectives. Paris reports Viscount Lule Dojoan named to oversee American affairs in the French foreign office, succeeding F. M. Ix Lanell, the former French minister to Brazil.
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Detroit
Mich
August Dwyer
Middlesboro
Kcateline
United Mine Orkers’ of America
Frank H. Dohany
Paris
Evangelical Church Synod Attends Hebron Assembly in North Dakota
More than 100 delegates from North Dakota and Minnesota join the Evangelical church synod at Hebron. About fifty ministers and over fifty delegates gather as Mayor Jungers and Nelson Mason escort the visitors. Hebron claims some of the largest churches in the state while local lore notes a memorial year and historic events surrounding the gathering.
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Hebron
N. D
North Dakot
Minnesota
Synod of the
Evangelical Church
Sagt
Yeekeen
P. A Jungers
Neleon A. Mason
Anes
Hebron Jhas
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