Two Local Heroes Risked Lives To Warn Wise River Flood
Wise River residents hailed Chris Norton a 28 year old former marine and Benny Osborne as brave flood heroes. Norton drove a battered truck through roaring water to wake sleepers and guide others to safety while Osborne raced along the river to alert two ranchers and help them escape. Norton later collided with a boulder while stopping near Wise River as debris-filled flood surged behind him.
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Wise River
Chris Norton
Benny Osborne
Norton
Osborne
Big Hole
Marne
Fa'small Bridge
Fitch
Dinner at Commodore ends Lindbergh hide and seek
The Lindbergh party in New York shifted from interviews to functions as reporters tracked the aviator. He eluded pursuit by returning to sleep and then took an automobile ride, moving between locations including a Park Avenue apartment and Mitchel Field as the day unfolded.
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Associated Press
New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Park Avenue
Lindbergh
Foelock
Selock
Mitchelfield
Big Hole Dam Stands the Strain in Mountain Valley
A torrent released upstream struck the Divide dam at eight yesterday morning as floodwaters from a storage and irrigation breach roared toward Montana Power’s system. The oldest dam held firm like Gibraltar while wreckage from the Montana Southern bridge pummeled the structure and toppled a steel concrete bridge below. Two spans disappeared and a concrete pier toppled as the wreckage cascaded over the dam.
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Montana Power Company
Divide
Rock of Gibraltar
Montana Southern Railroad
District No. 1 Ends Year With Record Treasury Balance
School district No 1 finishes the 1926 27 term with a treasury balance of 17059 34 as of July 1 the largest surplus reported in years The McKinley 5 mill levy funded building construction leaving 813 98 surplus but not covering furnishing The levy total 168718 64 and the building cost after claims paid will be 167904 66 Reported at last night’s school board meeting on Page 7 Column 7
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Treasury
McKinley
Ten Million Bushel Winter Wheat Outlook in Montana
Montana crop prospects show winter wheat near 10,000,000 bushels based on June indications. J G Diamond reports statewide conditions averaging 86 percent, with Central Montana at 83 and south central at 90 percent. Rye also up to 1,692,000 bushels. overall crops and grass look favorable, though intertilled crops suffered from cool weather. The Agriculture Department estimates acreage near last year's level.
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Associated Press
Helena
Montana
J. G. Diamond
Mr. Diamond
State Department of Agriculture
Goolidge Urges Strict World Duty in Indiana Memorial Address
President Coolidge dedicates the Wicker Memorial Park to World War veterans in Indiana and urges firm attention to education wages of unskilled labor religious devotion voting and crime elimination. He stresses delinquencies but also notes American strength and divine heritage while visiting East Chicago on a summer train journey.
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Hammond
Indy
Coolidge
Wicker Menrial Park
Memorial Playground
America
Treasury to Report Billion-Dollar Turnover Opening Day
The Treasury faces a roughly 1,318,100,000 turnover tomorrow covering outlays and receipts. About 374,000,000 will go to matured certificates, 70,000,000 in interest, while roughly 400,000,000 in tax payments, 20,000,000 in new bond subscriptions, and 89,000,000 from foreign governments are expected. The balance is projected near 240,000,000.
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Aamprunted
New York
United States Treasury
Treasury
Byrd Readies Flight to Paris Amid Weather Uncertainty
June 14 in New York reports Commander Richard E. Byrd may depart for Paris this weekend, with Friday favored by sources close to his camp. Lindbergh could join at Roosevelt Field to wish him luck, while the weather bureau notes no chart requests and Atlantic conditions are unsettled.
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New York
Richard E. Byrd
Lindbergh
Chamberlin
Levine
Byrd
Roosevelt Field
Associated Press
Paris
Weather Bureau
Atlantic
Briley Daughter Drowns in Sweetgrass River
Livingston June report details Helen Briley a 20 year old daughter of rancher George W Briley of Melville area drowned when a wagon overturned in the swollen Sweetgrass River. Briley and companions were swept downstream. she was carried under logs and later recovered downstream. She had traveled east and attended the Army Navy dance in Chicago last fall.
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Livingston
Helen Briley
George W. Briley
Melville
Bridges vanish as flood sweeps Wise River area
Disaster hits Wise River region as a storage dam on the North Fork fails sending a flood down the Big Hole. Four people die including Mr and Mrs Charles Ferguson and Trueman family members. multiple bridges destroyed and property damaged. Montana Power dam at Divide holds, preventing broader inundation.
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Wise River
Tra
Charles Ferguson
Trueman
Montana Power Company
Divide
Big Hole
Stage Station
Dewey
Montana & Southern
Wise River Junction
Oregon Short Line Railway
L’avon
Butte Water Company
Divide Dam Down the Big Hole Flood Races Debris
Debris from the Wise river dam and Allen narrow gauge railroad bridge roared down the Big Hole after a flood at Divide Montana Power camp. TheWise river dam’s logo struck the Divide dam and the joint highway bridge below, with debris dropping about 50 feet into the river and destroying the main span of the steel bridge.
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Montana
Divide
Wise River
Allen
Elkhorn
Bi Hole
Beaverhead
Silver Bow County
Wise River Hero Warns Town From Flood Rush
Wise River residents woke to a wall of water 25 feet high sweeping the canyon. Chris Norton, a young rancher, drove a battered truck through the valley, firing a gun and shouting to awaken 19 hotel occupants and about a dozen log cabin residents. They fled to high ground as the flood surged past, carrying trees and debris from the dam.”
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Wise River
Chris Norton
Norton
State engineers finish reservoir cut off survey plan
State highway commission engineers completed three highway surveys and will depart for Helena to finalize cost estimates. The reservoir road cutoff spans six miles from the Five-Mile end, curving through Thompson park toward Hardingway with emphasis on preserving scenic park areas. Woodville Park street highway staking is done, with cost estimates due to award contract this month. Overpass plans near Great Northern tracks above Talbot avenue may yield entrance via Park street depending on cost.
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State Highway Commission
Helena
R. 8
Zabnizer
Nine-Mile House
Thompson Park
Hardingway
Woodville Park Street
Butte
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Central Park
Commodore
Hho
Goolidge
Memorial Park
Indiana
Lindbergis
Bly K Hills
South Dakota
East Chicago
Nuaa
Sweetgrass
O.S.L
Maidenrock
L’avon Bridge
Power Company
Valley
Divide Dam
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