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Newspaper
Grass Range Review
Location
Grass Range, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1919
Page
5
New York mayor Hylan reports firemen found enormous food hoards in warehouses and storage sites including half a billion eggs, 8 million pounds of sugar, 7 million pounds of flour, 45 million pounds of coffee, 100 million pounds of beans and rice, and large amounts of meat poultry and fish. Federal authorities will decide on possible hoarding and profiteering.
Butte barbers say they will not raise shave prices to 35 cents and haircuts to 75 cents, contradicting a published report. Secretary R Cos tello of the local union stated no price increases are contemplated.
President Wilson urged Congress to extend the passport law one year beyond peace to prevent an influx of aliens after the war. The message, dated August 25, emphasizes continuing wartime controls following a peace proclamation.
Miss Ellen Terry, over 70, astonishes London by returning to the stage as the nurse in Romeo and Juliet, a defining event of the London dramatic season alongside Irving.
A terse exchange centers on a claim that someone “came through” by entering or escaping via a window. The dialogue parries a question about asking for his daughter with the punchline that he entered through a window.
The Belmont Jazz Orchestra plans a Monday night dance at Moose Hall. A big time for everyone in the community as they perform for the event.
Six hundred bushels of Turkey Red seed wheat are offered for sale at my ranch located five miles west of Grass Range. Independent seller states the grain is ready for pickup and has not provided pricing in the notice. Interested buyers may inquire at the ranch for details.
The article notes Charles Dickens foresaw German aims and calls to detest and crush enemies of the human race. It recalls his 1851 reply to a peace society and quotes from Little Dorrit related to Chalons inn landlady. It argues the prophetic ring of his warnings against warlike tyranny.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court considers ownership of a nearly century-old fund disputed between the state and Chile. Originating from 1821 Chilean seizure of an American ship’s cargo, Chile paid indemnity to the United States, with distribution entrusted to William H. Gardiner of Brookline. Despite searching records and consular files, heirs Paqua Maqua and Thomas Furber remain unidentified, and the fund rests with Gardiner descendants.
A popular science report describes a street charity trick where a suction hose, held over pedestrians, pulled in cash donations. A loud seaman shouted through a megaphone to solicit funds as passers-by dropped crisp dollars and worn bills into the tube. The ruse drew large crowds and many contributions.
A note on the vast number of possible letter permutations in the alphabet. The piece imagines that even if every person wrote 40 pages daily for a million years, with each page containing 1000 transpositions, the total still could not exhaust all the possible rearrangements of 26 letters.
In Collier’s Weekly James Hopper recounts a German prisoner named Bowie, small and wounded, advancing with dignity through the chaos of battle. The scene shifts from ridicule to compassion as Bowie dies on a stretcher, a skull-ring on his finger marking a grim contrast to his gentle nature.
The Victory Exposition will host Montana’s first state wide reunion of soldiers sailors and marines with Veterans Days on September 9 and 10 offering free admission to service members. War trophies and ordnance from the era including 37 millimeter guns trench mortars Browning machine guns and Springfield rifles will be displayed alongside equipment from air service medical and engineer units.
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