Price Committees for Each County in Food Control Plan
A Palmer telegram urges reactivating Montana’s wartime food administration to form county fair price committees. These panels would include retailers, producers, labor representatives, housewives, and the public, to determine fair profit margins and publish price lists. The effort seeks co operation from Alfred Atkinson and local food administrators with no compensation.
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Montana
Federal Food Administration Organization
A. Mitchell Palmer
The
United States
Alfred
Atkinson
Department of Justice
Bureau of Investigation
Helena city mine scheme taps golden pay streak
The municipality of Helena profits from a city-owned placer mine. Each month Wilkin son, leased by the city, washes gold in the heart of the capital, with a city official present as royalty is weighed and sent to the treasury. The arrangement aims to fund city needs and has drawn interest from veteran miners.
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Helena
Providence
Raleigh Wilkinson
Yesteryears
Wilkinson
Last Chance Gulch
Any
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Meet
Last Chance
Antana
Danas
Dry
Phillips County Attorney Scores 33 Convictions in 36 Attempts
Gabriel C. Gabriel of Malta Phillips County attorney has the best record in the state over the last 24 months. He appeared before juries only three times, securing 33 convictions with 32 pleas of guilty. His method emphasizes gathering evidence and pleading down where appropriate to save county costs and deter crime. He travels the county with a camping kit to investigate cases firsthand and favors evidence over hasty arrests. He is known for four minute talks calling slackers, and traces his lineage to Grover Cleveland.
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Gabriel
United States
Montana cattle brands weave romance and history
A feature on Montana brands recounts how 70,000 brands exist in Helena and how brands shaped ranch life from open ranges to fences. It notes famous marks of Theodore Roosevelt and early cowmen, brand evolution, and the ingenuity of designing unique irons, with examples like the Tumbling K and other imaginative insignias.
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Montana
State Registrar of Brands
Helena
Theodore Roosevelt
Hernando Cortez
Mexico
Tehuatepec
Cortez
Attle
Execu
Thomas Marlow Named Montana Memorial Chairman
William Boyce Thompson, president of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, appoints Thomas A. Marlow of Helena as Montana state chairman to lead the memorial project in Washington. Thompson is a New York City businessman and head of the Roosevelt memorial association.
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William Boyce Thompson
Roosevelt Memorial Association
Washington
New York City
Thomas A. Marlow
Helena
Montana
Thomas A. Mariow
National Roosevelt memorial fund campaign planned
A national committee and regional groups from Montana Idaho Washington and Oregon will cooperate in a nationwide campaign October 20 to 27 to raise ten million dollars for a Roosevelt memorial. Funds will finance monuments in Washington D C and the purchase and upkeep of a park at Oyster Bay and the future Roosevelt home at Sagamore Hill. A regional conference August 18 will include a national committee member.
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Mittee
National Committee
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Washington
D.C
Oyster Bay
Sagamore Ill
Montana
Idaho
Oregon
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Food Administration
Palmer
State College
Phillips County
Horn
Fred C. Gabriel
Malta
New York State
Luther Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
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Thomas Marlow
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