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Memories for the Week of September 13, 2017

100 years ago

September 13, 1917

Montana bootleggers in eastern Montana are using clever means of getting their goods across the line into North Dakota. One officer got wise and noticed that a man crossing the border in a high-powered car had five extra tires in his car. When he unscrewed the top from one of them he discovered it was filled with whiskey.

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Sheriff Crab and Deputy Vaupel made a raid on an alleged gambling den that had been in operation for some time in a tarpaper shack west of the Thompson Lumber yard. Five men were taken in the raid and as a consequence, Phillips Co...

 

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