Great Northern Completes Portland Portage Cut Off Bridge
The Great Northern finishes a 1066 foot steel bridge across the Missouri at Rainbow Falls near Great Falls Montana on the Portage cut off route a scenic river crossing. Builders include Grant Smith Co Chicago Toledo Bridge Kelly-Atkinson Construction and inspectors from the Montana Central and Great Northern. The structure stands 89 feet above mean water with stone piers from local quarries and is to see active use before year end.
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Missouri River
Rainbow Falls
Great Falls
Portage
Montana Central Railroad
Black Eagle Park
Black Eagle Falls
Missouri
Boston & Montana Company
Coulter Falls
D. McKenzie
Kettle River
Minnesota
Grant, Smith & Co
Chicago
Great Northern
Toledo Bridge Company
Great American Bridge Company
Kelly-Atkinson Construction Company
Pio
Priday
Navy
J. Co. Patterson
Montana Central
James J. Vincent
Bridge Department of the
St. Paul
Butte Welcomes Montana's First Triplet Family
A Butte household proudly hosts three newborns, two girls and a boy, weighing five to six pounds. Neighbors visit, wardrobes expand, and the mother beams at the curious, quiet infants. The boy is named William Timothy William. Cecelia Loretta and Anne Marguerite are the girls. Dr. Gunn attends and a Standard photographer captures 11 day old triplets with a crowd of eager onlookers.
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Neghborhood
Pather Harrington
Murphy
Butte
Montana
Famous Skunk Hunter from Adirondacks
Ab Wilson, famed Adirondacks skunk hunter, began in October with 40 traps and hunted by day after snow, sometimes taking 17 skunks from a single hole. He uses live chickens as bait and tells of a tame skunk outsmarted by a game cock in a dramatic barnyard incident.
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Ab Wilson
Adirondacks
Wilson
Bill Wenzel
Bill
Hill
Triplets Born in Butte Draw City Wide Attention
In Butte three babies born to Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Murphy at 74 North Wyoming street receive exceptional local notice as possibly the first triplets in the state. Open house has been ongoing since their November arrival, with neighbors sharing in the Murphys’ pride as life at the home proceeds smoothly.
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Butte
Timothy Murphy
Wyoming Street
Murphy
A Society Lady Praises Peruna For Colds
Miss Blanche Myers of Kansas City credits Peruna with curing four season cold chills after parties. The ad extols Peruna for catarrh and winter illnesses and offers free treatment directions from Dr Hartman Columbus. It includes testimonials from Mrs May Thompson and Mrs Alla Schwandt and Mrs Jennie Cable.
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Blanche Myers
Penn Street
Kansas City
Peruna
Martman
Hartman
Columbus
Peruna Medicine Co
Ohio
May Thompson
Kirkland
Wis
Kirkland Women
Rebecca
Alla Schwandt
Jennie Cable
Spokane
Manalin
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
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A A. D. Page
Neer
William Timothy
Cecelia Loretta
Anne Marguerite
Centerville
United States
Great Britain
Victoria
British Empire
Edward
Woman's Club
Commonwealth
Ireland
Anaconda Mining Company
Maggie McKeigue
Galway
Mr. Murphy
The
New York Times
Mrs
Triplets
Sanborn, Minn
Dr. McLaughlin
E. Morrow
Lima
M. H. McLaughlin
Columbia St
Seattle
Wash
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