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Such an award speaks for itself. Last week the patriotic British "Soupstakes" promoters further indulged their sense of humor by twitting U. S. housewives who entered the competition but failed to place. Tongue in cheek, the Soupstakers held up to British ridicule Mrs. M. H. Houghlan of Broadus, Mont., disqualified because the chief ingredients of her vegetable soup are beef knuckles and heel of beef. Also calculated to put Britons into stitches was the revelation that an egg dumpling soup was entered in the vegetable classic by Mrs. S. H. Long, No. 403 Sunnyside Ave., Waterloo, Iowa...
Eighteen years ago Ethnologist Robert Heinrich Lowie began studying the Crow Indians on their reservation southeast of Billings, Mont. Although even then Crow culture clearly revealed white influence, Ethnologist Lowie found it still spiritually alive, with old customs enjoying respect if not observance. He was, moreover, able to compare his researches with those of previous investigators, could thus measure with some accuracy the extent and significance of changes resulting from contact with white civilization...
...Helena, Mont., having exhausted nearly every other way of getting out of the county jail, Trusty Louis Francis picked up a prison telephone, got a wire to the sheriff, said in a pompous voice, "This is Governor Frank Cooney. You let Louis Francis out now. I just pardoned him." It did not work...
Next morning in Butte, Mont, a policeman strolling his beat spied a man named William Mahan whom he had once arrested for bank robbery. As he approached, the man began to run. The policeman lost his quarry over a back fence and roof top. But in the Ford sedan which the man had deserted were found $15,155 worth of Weyerhaeuser ransom bills. All roads leading from Butte were promptly bottled...
...Missoula, Mont, last week William Gene La Porte, week-old son of a dentist and a registered nurse, developed two perfect lower teeth...