Drought Relief Hopes Rise as Showers Spur Corn
Weather shifts bring heat wave break across Kansas City area with a 20 degree drop after a dust storm. Predictions from grain belt say scattered rains may revive corn and other crops, easing farmer losses despite earlier drought, with rail experts optimistic on fair yields overall.
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Buying Wave Hits Board of Trade
The drought drives futures trading in corn and wheat with over a million and a half dollars moved since June. Brokers report bold profits from 10 000 to 50 000 with a drought fueled surge, while public participation runs high and volume soars in July as the market climbs then dips. Jesse Livermore named but denies major role.
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Heat Prostration Kills Montanan in Dillon Yard
Earl R. Smith 45, a Dillon rancher, died of heat prostration after unloading a tractor in 92 degree heat. Doctors cited ice water intake as a contributing factor. He died near Black Tail Creek bridge, leaving a widow, two sons, a daughter, three stepchildren, two brothers, and two uncles.
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Divide
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Lewistown
Snyder Ridge
Glacier Park
Bert Smith
Emma Smith
Landon Seeks Acceptance Speech Amid Topeka Preparations
In Topeka Kansas on July 19 landon rests and works on his acceptance speech as the Republican nominee. With only three working days left before Thursday when Bertrand Snell confirms his selection Landon aims to frame a campaign to defeat the New Deal. The city decorates for visitors as more than 100000 guests are expected to swarm the 79000 population capital.
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Topeka
Kas
Alf M. Landon
Bertrand Snell
New York
Landon
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Siamese Twin Bride Marries Dancer in Dallas Cotton Bowl
Violet Hilton Moore, a 28 year Siamese twin, wed James Moore, a professional dancer, before about 5000 spectators at the Texas centennial Cotton Bowl ceremony. The Rev Henry May officiated with Mrs May as matron of honor and Daisy Hilton as brides maid. The couple face a honeymoon dilemma as Daisy accompanies them.
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U.P
Violet Hilton-Moore
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Henry May
May
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Lemke Aligns With Townsend for Fight Areas
William Lemke the Union party presidential candidate aligned with Dr Francis E Townsend at the Townsend clubs convention in Cleveland stadium. He backed an old age revolving pension and pledged to sign any Congress act granting fair elderly compensation while opposing the social security act as social insecurity. He denounced the current administration as national lunacy and warned of a corrupt patronage system and a brain trust dominated Congress.
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North Dakota
Record Primary Across Montana Sets Voter Record
Helena reports a record 251 807 voters registered in 1 237 precincts for Montana s primary on Tuesday. The ballot features 124 national state and judicial candidates plus many county hopefuls. For the first time judicial races appear on a separate non partisan ballot.
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Montana Forecast Sees Fair Skies and Cooler East
Montana weather outlook calls for generally fair conditions on Monday and Tuesday with cooler temperatures east of the Divide on Monday. The report emphasizes pleasant conditions with a localized cool snap in eastern areas.
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Divide
Butte Campaigners End Tour as Heat Hits 94
Montana candidates including Gov Elmer Holt wrapped a whirlwind final rounds in Butte ahead of election day. Hobnobbing at Italian and Irish picnics, Holt urged unity amid eastern drought woes while promising Montana will have a governor until next January.
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Farmer vows grandstand by Nudist Camp in Mountains
LONG VALLEY New Jersey July 19 Will Searles launches 1936 campaign against Schooley's mountain nudists. He takes photos roams the camp and vows to rent a field, build a grandstand, and stage weekly clambakes until the nudists leave. Constable Will and six observers confront the camp but do not trespass.
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66 Meet Doom in Car Crashes
Two Michigan grade crossing tragedies added to a national toll of 66 dead in 18 states over the weekend. In Dundee a car struck by a passenger train plunged from a trestle into a river, killing nine. In Capac five died when a locomotive hit a farm truck, and four died near Washington Pennsylvania after an auto left the road and sank in a creek. Auto deaths in Greater New York City for the first half of 1936 were down 22 percent from 1935.
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Anaconda Copper workers enroll in low cost life insurance
Enrollment cards for a low cost group life plan continue arriving from Anaconda Copper Mining Co. workers. About half of Western district employees had signed by Saturday night. 49.7 percent of 1,605 in this region plus Idaho and Wyoming were enrolled. A total of 5,764 cards were handed in as of press time. The company offers permanent life insurance at 60 cents per month per 1000 with cost shared by the firm, after a lump sum payment to Prudential covering all 30,000 workers until July 31. Booklets and enrollment forms have been distributed to all employees.
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Anaconda
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Wyoming
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There Is No Law Bureau of Safety Box 1959
A brief notice from a Montana publication references the Bureau of Safety with a mailing address in Box 1959, Butte. The text presents a minimal, non-contextual citation likely as a notice or header within a public records section.
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Butte, Mont
Spain's Civil War Widens as Rebels Move Across Morocco
Rebels from Spanish Morocco land at southern ports and push toward interior cities while loyalist fleets bomb Barcelona and Moroccan targets. Fas cists claim control of several northwest cities and Seville amid heavy fighting in Malaga and Melilla. Casualty counts vary with reports of nearly 100 killed in Morocco and 25 at Seville.
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Cueta
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la Linea
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Francisco Franco
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Africa
Moorish Coalition Invasion Sparks Gibraltar Frontline Clash
Reports from Gibraltar describe Moorish troops from Morocco aiding Fascist rebels in a coastal push into southern Spain. Fire from machine guns and rifles burned La Linea and Algeciras, while refugees reached Gibraltar seeking safety as British troops held the frontier. A Spanish warship reportedly aided the Moorish advance across the bay.
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Rain and Fog Force Roosevelt Sail Trip Change
President Roosevelt alters cruise plan as rain and fog drive the Sevanna south from Shelburne Nova Scotia onto a 50 mile run to Yarmouth. He began on Tuesday and aims for Campobello Island New Brunswick by July 28 after a 45 mile canvas cruise from Cape Sable. The president and his three sailing sons spent the weekend in the Atlantic coast harbor.
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