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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1973
Page
4
A Memorial Day Yellowstone visit notes close encounters with bison andprancing crowds. The author urges clearer warnings for cattle crossings on Montana Wyoming highways and recommends a signal man and large red flag to reduce crashes and animal deaths.
A column sketches rapid, bite sized essays on traffic demagoguery, Watergate era politics, palindromic leaders, punny humor, ambience chasing journalists, Fifth Avenue Hermes venture, and Rosalyn Drexler on women playwrights. It riffs on media talk and cultural moments with satirical bite.
In Toomsuba Mississippi, a road‑heavy lifestyle centers around motels, gas stations, and fast food as the looming energy crisis is treated as abstract until prices rise and rationing looms. Industry discussions in San Francisco hint at a tighter fuel distribution regime while travelers ignore the warning until shortages hit.
In London a weary American tourist details a bizarre bank scene as dollar values wobble on Watergate fears. A bag of stories includes an Arab sheik with ten bales of dollars, a Rolls outside, and talk of devaluations and fall guys, illustrating market jitters worldwide.
The Montana Standard declares itself the official newspaper of Silver Bow County and the city of Butte, listing D R Campbell Jr as publisher and Jeffrey B Gibson as editorial page editor. It notes seven mornings a week publication.
The article notes The Butte Miner began June 1, 1876, as a tri weekly in Butte, with policy statements on mining focus and national news, and lists early items from its first edition including Fryer Process mining, Comstock news, and train speed debates. It also covers Custer massacre reports with datelined details from Deer Lodge.
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