Montana Tax Proposals Raise Rates Across Income and Goods
Montana faces a sweeping proposed revenue bill taxing income, corporations and excess profits, with new exemptions of 1000 for singles and 2000 for married filers plus 200 per dependent. A 20 percent levy on clothing above set prices targets consumer purchases while rates climb from 4 to 75 percent on higher incomes. Corporations pay 18 percent but rebate on dividends. inheritance, tobacco, auto and gasoline levies also surface to fund wartime costs.
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Montana
Treasury
A. B. Cook of Montana Rebuilds Halifax Port
A. B. Cook, Montana contractor and cattle breeder, has secured the Halifax rebuilding contract after the harbor explosion. He plans to employ thousands and complete the project in about two years, adding to his fame from Canadian railroad work and the Montreal Water Works.
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Montana
Horzon
A. B. Cook
Cook
Halifax
Halifax Harbor
Mr. Cook
Townsend
Meagher
Helena
Canada
Northern Pacific
Whitehall
Twin Bridges
Milwaukee
Dominion
Canadian Pacific
North America
James J. Hill
Thomas Shaughnessey
William MacKenzie
Si. Donald Mann
Tom Hinds
Butte
Great Britain
Montreal
Lean Days for Montana Lawyers in Wartime
Wartime service pulls lawyers from Montana into the army, drying up civil litigation. Many attorneys have closed offices or shifted careers as hundreds enlist or train, reducing the state bar to a lean period with fewer lawsuits and more accounts and foreclosures to handle. The piece honors those who served and notes a forthcoming chapter in Montana bar history about those who died for liberty and justice.
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Montana
U. S. Army
France
Slack
Gold Mining Declared Essential War Industry
The priorities board has resolved that gold mining is an essential war industry and entitled to preferential treatment in the supply of tools, machinery and equipment as well as transportation, fuel and supplies. Men, guns and munitions are being rushed to the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia.
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Priorities Board
Siberia
John Baker of Montana on union labor and the war
Helena union leader John Baker, dean of the Montana art preservative, voices 100 percent Americanism from the International Typographical Union. He notes 4,308 of 63,000 members in service, 77 lives lost, and urges unions to stand firm, seek conciliation, and support war efforts while defending workers' wages amid rising living costs.
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John Baker
Montana
America
Mamasahan
Helena
International Typographical Union
Baker
Tom Baker
Virginia City
International
General Sherman
North America
Executive Council
The
Beefless Days Called Off to Favor Heavier Cattle
The Food Administration urged civilians to limit beef consumption to animals under 475 pounds so heavier grades remain for soldiers and exports. Retailers should buy lighter cattle and the public is asked to patriotically accept lighter beef to conserve heavier stock for military needs and drought areas.
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Washington
Food Administration
Drouth
Preservation of Nation and Typographical Union Over the Top
A speech extols negotiated concessions avoiding strikes and notes minimal draw from the international defense fund. It praises the International Typographical Union for patriotic leadership and its role in defending the nation and humanity during a pivotal epoch.
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Cers
Ihe
International Defense Fund
International Typographical Union
Governor Sam V Stewart Proclaims Montana General Election
Governor Stewart proclaims a November 5 1918 general election to fill U.S. senator and congressmen state offices including auditor railroad commissioner judges and legislators with votes on tax exemption for debt bonds for a Great Falls grain elevator and an initiated chiropractic act plus county officers in Wheatland and Carter and clerks of the court in those counties.
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Sam V. Stewart
Great Falls
Chiropractic Examiners
Wheatland and
Carter
Supreme Court
Sanders
Patterson
Missoula County
Montana
Stewart
United States
Congress
The
Broadwater
Cascade
Chateau
Fallon
Fergus
Flathead
Granite
Jefferson
Lincoln
Madison
Mineral
Missoula Ravalli
Richland
Rosebud
Sheridan
Silver Bow
Stillwater
Teton, Toole
Valley
Wheatland
Wibaux
Yellowstone
Second
Tenth
Sixteenth
Eightenth
Girl Lost in Park Found After 36 Hours
The daughter of Charles W. Spear of Billings became separated from her family in Yellornatone National Park. She wandered for 36 hours, spending one night near silver tip bears before searchers located her and returned her to her parents.
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Park
Charles W. Spear
Billings
Yellornatone National Park
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Treasure State
Uncle Sam
Great Falls Brick & Tile Co
Great Falia
Monta
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