Montana Farmers Helped by State Council of Defense
The Montana State Council of Defense pledged to assist farmers distressed by drought and to arrange financing for next year’s crop. Hon. B. Co. White led talks on supporting farmers, bankers, and institutions to carry over losses until harvest. Professor Cooley Atkinson Wilkenson and 25 county agents joined the meeting, praising Bozeman Agricultural College experts. Carl Rrooman urged a state surplus survey and war‑basis home conservation.
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Montana
State Council of Defense
Bozeman Agricultural College
Hon. B. Co. White
Helena
State Council
White
Cooley, Atkinson
Wilkenson
Carl 8. Vrooman
Council of Defense
Vrooman
Seven-Year-Old Gardener Gladys Sickle Plans Medal
Gladys Mary Sickle of Helena, aged seven, gardens beans to help Uncle Samuel. She sought entry into the Montana National Guard and the Boy Scouts but was refused. Her bean project drew a reply from Herbert Hoover, then Federal Food Administrator, who encouraged her to continue and promised a medal for her efforts.
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Gladys Mary Sickle
Helena
Samuel
Montana National Guard
MacGuinness
Boy Scout Organization
Herbert A. Hoover
Gladys
Nose Fly Plague Of Montana Horses Explained
A Montana entomologist explains the nose fly resembles the bot fly but targets horse nostrils. Eggs are barbed and driven into the nostrils lip area. maggots reach the stomach and intestines, causing irritation. Farmers use wire baskets to protect horses, allowing safe grazing once horses adjust to protection.
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Montana
R. R. Parker
Powderville
Parker
Build a Dark Slat Box To Stop Broody Hens
An old poultry tip advises building a two by three foot slat box with three inch gaps and a hanging perch to break broody hens. Place two to three feet off the ground, provide feed and water, and confine a hen for a day to resume laying quickly.
Several World War Era Notices Across Cities
A collage of short notes from North America and Europe covers wage protests in Sere St Paul-Fur, wheat price controls in Ottawa, fly plagues in Berlin, and large US truck orders. Paris welcomes Theodore Roosevelt Jr. to Europe, while Fargo reports population growth and Dakota land prices rise. Washington notes conscription exemptions for dependent wives and national birdseed use, with further items on strikes in Seattle and supply gaps in Wheat.
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St. Paul
Ottawa
Canada
Berlin
New York
United States
Moore Haven
Florida
Marion N. Horwitz
Paris
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Portland
Klamath Falls
L W. W
Fargo
Minneapolis
Rome
Washington
Crowder
National Council of Defense
Pittsburgh
Louis W. Hill
Great Northern
J. W. Thompson
Uniontown
Mitchell
Greater New York
London
Admiral von Tirpitz
Chicago
William
Percy Rockefeller
A. J. Earling
Copenhagen
David R. Francis
Russia
Seattle
I. W. W. Washington
State Department
Petrograd
N. D
Dakota
Montana
Middle West
Quartermaster General
C. J. McConville
Finch, van Slyck & McConville
Maurice Auerbach
Amsterdam
Grand Headquarters
Vienna
Elk herd in Lewistown hires herder to guard grain fields
A once skittish elk herd now kept tame by a hired herder in Lewistown. The Elks lodge voted to finance part of the herder’s wages to keep the herd in the mountains and prevent winter raids on grain fields.
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Lewistown
Lodge of Elks
Elks
Woman Marries for Money Seeks Insurance of Devotion
A woman who agreed to marry a man for her wealth worries he will not remain devoted. She seeks assurance that her finances will be protected and that he will remain committed despite her wealth.
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Sela
Gant “Express
Montanan
Yo K. Hencken
Hencken
Lands End
France
Louisville
America
War Department
Colot
Norway
Germany
Elkin
Fergus
Northern Pacific
Milwaukee
Blackfoot Land Development CO
Missoula
Mont
Wyoming
Public
Fergus County Sales Corporation
Peter Ohite
Eins & SS . Co
L. Hull
L. D. Blodgett
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