Water users balk at Milk River project costs and delay
Directors of the Lower Milk River Water Users Association meet to rail at escalating expenses on the irrigation project. They note the plan is only three fifths done, with cost estimates rising to 82 dollars per acre, far above the original 25 dollars. Affidavits will urge members to preserve the original contract and seek independent action.
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Malta
Blaine County
St. Mary’s Lakes
Congress
Lower Milk For Association
Dley
Mir M
Water Users Demand Completion of Irrigation Project
A letter from T. Weikle urges water users to unite against delays and waste in the reclamation service. Affidavits of extravagance or delays will be collected in Malta Dodson Glasgow Hinsdale Saco and circulated to pressure federal officials to finish the project.
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T. Weikle
Malta
Commercial Club
Enterprise
Dodson
Dudley Jones
Hinsdale
Saco
Glasgow
J. L. Truscott
R. M. Lewis
Great Northern shops in Havre reopen with 200 workers
Havre March 5 Great Northern shops, closed since February 1, will reopen Monday morning with the same workforce. About 200 men, including 10 on the rip track, have reported for work and will return to their jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. N. Redfens
Havre
Great Northern
Good Advice to Settlers in Montana
The Montana state department of agriculture warns against rushed settlement offering guidance to newcomers. It recommends first trying farm work a season, or leasing land with options to buy, and emphasizes low-cost irrigation farming with careful regional research and substantial working capital.
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Helena
State Department of Agriculture
Montana
Glasgow Checker Player Enters Northwestern Championship
Glasgow player H. H. Lepper travels to Williston on March 15 for the northwestern championship. The winner advances to represent the region at the national checker tournament in Boston this October.
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Glasgow
H. H Lepper
Williston
Northwest
Boston
Every Day is Pay Day For Local Farmer Motto
A fragment proclaims that daily income comes from farming activities including milking cows selling cream and butter providing eggs meat and corn to sustain the farm and household. It emphasizes self sufficiency and steady earnings from diversified agricultural work.
Potato Growers Form Committee to Foster Industry in Blaine
Blaine County potato growers form a permanent committee led by F. D. Oveson Bel Batts and County Agent George Gustafson to promote the industry and to negotiate with the Northwest Potato Growers' Exchange. A seed potato survey identifies Bliss Triumph as the most productive variety and Blaine County aims for about 1000 acres this year.
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F. D. Oveson
Bel Batts
George Gustafson
Blaine County
Northwest Potato Growers’ Exchange
Prohibition Navy to Use Nine Sub Chasers
Washington reports nine unused coast guard submarine chasers will be transferred to the prohibition bureau for Atlantic coast patrols this month. A screening fleet may operate from Maine to Florida and into the Gulf of Mexico to intercept liquor smugglers. Coast guard retains title. prohibition bears operating costs. crews may include enforcement agents aboard.
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Washington
Navy
Atlantic
Coast Guard
Maine
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Prohibition Bureau
Daddy Boat
Haynes
Americans Detained For Joining Spanish Foreign Legion
Nineteen Americans who joined the Spanish foreign legion to fight rebels were detained by immigration officials at New York and sent to Ellis Island aboard the steamer America. Authorities say joining the Spanish forces forfeits U.S. citizenship rights.
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New York
Spanish Foreign Legion
Ellis Island
America
United States
Boy shoots playmate in wild west game tragedy
In Hackensack New Jersey on a Saturday an accident during a wild west play scene left 13 year old Philip Wagger dead. Harold Vermeulen 12 fired a small caliber rifle given by his father hitting Wagger through the heart during a pretend showdown.
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Wagger
Helena Eyes Large Crowd for Mary Garden Opera
Helena March 6. Report from guarantors' representative touring the state with Thais tickets shows strong interest and many outside patrons plan to attend the Chicago Opera Association performance Monday March 20. Delegates from Missoula Deer Lodge Butte and Bozeman will be present.
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Helena
Mary Garden
Chicago Opera Association
Thais
Missoula
Deer Lodge
Butte
Bozemant
Bootleggers Defy Sherman Law Boost Booze Prices
Spokane authorities report an organized bootlegging group, the associated retail bootleggers of Spokane, planned price increases for liquor. A meeting at a prominent citizen’s home set Scotch and gin at eight to ten dollars per quart, three quarts for twenty five, with American whisky and fancy liquors rising. Police learned of the plan after many high powered cars drew attention, but confiscation or action was hindered by lack of wares.
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Spokane
Stade Rague Eh
Confessions Pile Up Over Taylor Murder Mystery
Police say over 300 people in the United States England and France claim they killed Taylor but only a Connecticut writer signed a confession. Officers note most letters come from educated individuals and offer unlikely theories about the case.
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Los Angles
Hollywood
Taylor
Adams
United States
England
France
Culebra Stone Sails for Roosevelt Grave Monument
A ton and a half stone from Culebra Island arrived aboard the steamship Santa Teresa and will be erected as a monument over Theodore Roosevelt's grave at Oyster Bay. The presentation was reported from New York on March 7.
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New York
Culebra
Panama Canal
Santa Teresa
Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Hides accumulate as rail orders boost shipments
Market and industry notes show Burlington placing a 3 million dollar coach order with Pullman. Lackawanna orders 500 box cars and 500 steel cars. Wool sale in London strengthens with higher prices. Maya Core Motor Co of Kalamazoo volumes gain. Corn and hog prices signal positive farm outlook. Morgan and Co call money loosening while Hoover cites improving business conditions and currency controller reports bank improvements since fall.
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Mae Core Motor Co
Kalamazoo
Mich
Burlingtn
Big Wheat Pool Planned by Farmers
A national federation of wheat marketing associations on a 100 percent pool basis is planned as the American Wheat Growers Association. It will control export sales, coordinate domestic marketing, provide grower finances, establish a statistical department, and aid state organizations. Members cover about 60 million bushels yearly, with additional potential participation from Texas New Mexico North and South Dakota Minnesota and the United States Grain Growers representing roughly 125 million bushels.
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Denver
Federation of Wheat Marketing Associations
United States
American Wheat Growers, Association
Middle Western Cooperation Societies
Middle West
Northwest Wheat Growers, Associated
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
North Dakota
Kansas
Texas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Colorado
National Federation
New Mexico
North and
South Dakota
Minnesota
United States Grain Growers, Incorporated
Kiddies Set Pace in Bootlegging and Holding Up Train
Chicago reports two midwestern towns touting child bootleggers and bandits. Davenport Iowa claims Marion Abney, five, as world’s youngest bootlegger aided by a six year old, Gladys Berrs, who says she drank liquor at a jewelry store while her father was arrested. Pana Illinois cites a girl who held up an Illinois Central train for three minutes, kissing her aunt before escaping.
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Chicago
Davenport
Iowa
Marion Abney
Gladys Berrs
Marion
D. T. Jones
Marion Tabney
Gladys
Pana
Illinois
Isnois Central
Illinois Central
Personal crisis reports surge worldwide after war
New York reports 840 cases last year up 103 from 1920. The Save-a-Life league lists 12 144 cases, 2 000 in the United States, with victims across editors teachers clergy physicians mayors bankers and merchants. Germany leads in child deaths by suicide.
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New York
Save-a-Life League
League
Harry M. Warren
The
New York City
Treland
Former Saco Woman Alfred Rud Dies in Sheyenne North Dakota
Message announces the death of Lucietta Rud at her home in Sheyenne North Dakota early Tuesday morning after stomach illness. Born Lucietta Bergan in Saco she moved to North Dakota after marriage, taught in local schools, and was well liked. Funeral planned in Sheyenne today.
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Alfred Rud
Sheyey
North Dakota
Saco
Rud
Ludetta ¥van
Li Bergan
North Kota
Saeco
Fergus Falls
New Enterprise Targets Malta and Wy for Large Farming Push
professional buyer N. H. Joughlin locates in Malta and Wy to set regular prices and build a matrix for corn fed hogs. pigs cows and corn expected to boost local farming to a million dollar level.
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N. H. Joughlin
Malta
Union Pacific Cuts Freight Tariffs Northwest
Omaha March 9 Union Pacific system lines announce additions and reductions in freight rates on certain commodities from New York Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago Mississippi and Missouri river points to California Oregon and Washington. Reductions range from 14 to 30 percent and take effect once plan details are set. Affected items include soda fountain supplies 25 percent and ground spices 30 percent.
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U. F
Northwest
Omaha
Neb
New York
Pitsburgh
Cincinnati
Chicago
Mississippi River
Missouri River
California
Oregon
Washington
W. Robinson
Union Pacific System
Professor Strikes When Vanity Squad Disrupts Class
In Berkeley California on March 7 professor Alvin Thaler of the University of California walked out of a Freshman class after female students kept powdering their noses. He demanded the vanity cases be set aside and the students allegedly giggled and powdered more. Negotiations were opened to address the incident with the students agreeing to remove vanity boxes from the room.
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Vanity Squad
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Pullman Co
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Sheyenne
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