Bootlegger figures show Montana enforcement tough in 1920s
United States Marshal Joseph Ashbridge reported Montana bootleggers contributed 14 fast motor cars worth 46000 to federal possessions in the year, with 13 more in government custody. Contraband liquor valued over 50000 destroyed and fifty cages disposed of, with only one conviction.
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International News Service
Billings
Mont
Montana
Uncle Sam
United States
Joseph Ashbridge
Montana Pioneers’ Association
Vales
Opposition to Mexican Monte Carlo plan protests in Baja California
A Lower California delegation protests a $2,000,000 Monte Carlo gambling resort planned across the border at Monte Costa. Promoter T Johnson of Los Angeles seeks permits yet faces Hacienda scrutiny and U.S. approval for a customs and immigration site. Local officials warn the project would ruin Tijuana and urge permit first.
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International News Service
Mexico City
California
Monte Costa
T Johnson
Los Angeles
Engino
Tijuana
Merxco
Johnson
Monte Carlo
Department of Hacienda
United States
Excelsior
Lower California
Ipigmenio Ibarra
Oon
Obregon
Gamling
Ibarra
Voliva claims missing link in Chicago not Asia
Zion City leader Wilbur Glenn Voliva challenges astronomers saying a missing link can be found in Chicago before sundown. He attacks Darwinism, argues the sun moves around a stationary earth, the earth is flat, and Newton’s gravity is bunk, claiming Bible-based astronomy outweighs textbooks.
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Asia
Chicago
Voliva
International News Service
Zion City
Ill
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Zion
Wilbur
Lnk
United States Launches Second Giant Battleship Colorado
Camden New Jersey March 26 the United States launched the Colorado the second of the world s greatest battleships to join the fleet Col Theodore Roosevelt assisted at the ceremony Mrs Max Melville of Denver broke the champagne over the bow The Colorado with 32600 ton displacement 624 foot length 21 knot speed eight 16 inch guns fourteen 5 inch guns and four 3 inch aircraft guns seats 1448 enlisted men ranks with the Maryland as its only equal among current battleships The Nagato class and Queen Elizabeth class are its nearest rivals and Britain s Hood is planned as a larger battleship
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Camden
N. J
United States
Colorado
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Max Melville
Denver
Colo
Maryland
Newport News
Washington
West Virginia
Great Britain
Hood
Bankers blamed for closed shop war says labor leader
Will Robson of Detroit, vice president of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes, told Columbus crafts men that banking interests control railroads and fuel the war on the closed shop. He said layoffs aim to break union labor and cited reduced government bond values as part of the plan, urging workers to resist the alleged betrayal by financiers.
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Columbus
Will Robson
Detroit
United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Columbus Associated Railroad
Robson
Uncle Sam
United States
Basil man leads railroad system under Linscott guidance
S G Linscott of Basil acts as general chairman steering the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad system within the organization marking a key leadership role.
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S G Linscott
Basil
Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad System
Lost Notice For 100 Methodists Causes Furore
Evanston Illinois March 26 a local advertisement titled Lost Somewhere between Church street and Hinman avenue Evanston and the old church back home 100 church letters appeared from Rev Ernest Fremont Little pastor of Furst Methodist church The notice seeks the letters in attics desks or from former pastors with a suitable reward promised and calls on readers to help recover them The item drew attention for its unusual plea and its place in a growing church program to reclaim lost writings
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International News Service
Evanston
Ill
Ernest Fremont Little
Furst Methodist Church
Church Street
Hinman Avenue
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