Costs of Living Compare Missoula to Principal Montana Towns
Anaconda Mining Company funded by C. R. Wraith conducts a cost of living survey across Montana towns. Missoula records the lowest overall price level while Great Falls and Anaconda tie for the highest. Bozeman and Billings follow in the ranking with Lewistown Helena and Butte in between.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missoula
Anaconda Mining Company
Great Falls
Anaconda
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
C. R. Wraith
Bozeman
Billings
Lewistown
Helena
Butte
Mr. Wraith
Butte Missoula
Billings Wen
Saskatoon
Spokane
Wash
Butte Cap Aess Celtns
Fool You On Butter and Oleomargarine Alert
A health department report from Butte explains how to tell real butter from oleomargarine by melting tests that cause real butter to foam while substitutes sputter. It notes penalties for mislabeling and requires signs in restaurants that use oleomargarine, though casual detection by testing remains difficult for the average person.
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Health Department of
Butte
Clubwomen Back Up Movies for Children
Helena Montana chairwoman Mrs J W Chivers says the Parent Teachers association backs weekly children only films through the National Juvenile Motion Picture board. The Helena showing of Alice in Wonderland drew 3200 children in Seattle earlier and local clubs served as matrons. Other city chairmen Mrs W Cutt of Butte and Mrs W E Guy of Great Falls promote the program statewide.
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National Juvenile Motion Picture Board
J. W. Chivers
Helena
Montana
Parent- Teachers’ Association
Chivers
Juvenile Motion Picture Board
W. Cutt
Butte
W. E. Guy
Great Falls
Highway Boundary Change Looms Over Anaconda Granite Feud
Citizens of Butte and Anaconda push for a mountain crossing from Anaconda to Bitterroot with private funds and hoped national aid. Granite county resists pledging upkeep, proposing to annex the road corridor to Deer Lodge to shift costs and obligations.
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Butte
Anaconda
Granite County
Granite
Deer Lodge
School funds nearly doubled in four years
Figure shows 1913 to 1917 growth in state school income and student counts. Income from land contracts and rentals totals 381 999.50 with total all sources 1 081 697.77. Distribution February allocations include amounts to the agricultural college and state institutions alongside school funds.
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Sidney Miller
Isi
Agricultural College
Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Capital
School of Mics
State Morms School
State Reform School
State University
Soldiers’ Home
That's a Crack Bet. The Glee Club Heads Thursday Night
The Men's Glee club promises top entertainment next Thursday with Amyore not hearing them. The event is billed as the best they have given.
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Amyore
697 Convicts in Montana Prison Report
Montana Deputy Warden Frank Conley reports 697 inmates at Deer Lodge Prison with 44 states represented and 25 foreign nationalities. He notes reforms focus on home and school, warns against coddling inmates, and describes prison programs including Sunday services, a two hour picture show, road work, a brick plant, and a new shoe factory. Parole success is high, with only eight of 189 parolees returning. He also urges a state ranch dairy and chapel, plus a state coal mine to supply prison needs.
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Montana
Deer Lodge
Frank Conley
Illinois
Missouri
Iowa
Wisconsin
Michigan
New York
Texas
Germany
Canada
Italy
Ireland
Austria
England
Finland
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Scotland
Greece
Mexico
Wales
Australia
Montenegro
Poland
Russia
Serbia
Switzerland
France
Korea
Newfoundland
Turkey
Conley
United States
Montana News in Brief From Across the State
The State recounts rural telephone line plans near Judith Gap and a predator trapping drive by Augusta official John Nelson. Ranch sale near Kalispell to eastern syndicate for 200000. death of Cooke City pioneer Adam Miller in Livingston. Deer abundance on Sheep creek basin and a wolf pack shot near Highwood. Schools reopen after measles vacation. double-digit enrollment gains in Livingston and Park County high school. Silver price rise to 80 cents spurs reopening of old mines. Dr Grant Finch in Helena compiling Montana geography for schools. Fort Peck Sioux Pioneer first edition planned by Gus Hedderich. Helena mining figure Alex Burrell found dead at Hell Gate. Butte Rotary eyes Butte Silver Bow government consolidation. Keast mails Park County pamphlets nationwide. Clinton Wilson named Annapolis cadet. leaving June. Troop A Montana cavalry mustered out at Helena. Belt city hall purchase from Miners Union hall for 1670. Catholic church transfer, fire department basement plan.
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Judith Gap
Augusta
John Nelson
Kalispell
A. D. Stillman
Livingston
Cooke City
Adam (Horn) Miller
Dillon
Sheep Creek
Highwood
Chateau
Park County
Butte
Grant E. Finch
Helena
Montana
Poplar
Gus Hedderich
Fort Peck
Alex Burrell
Teton County
Archie Burrell
Great Falls
Hell Gate Canyon
Silver Bow County
Butte Rotary Club
Clinton Wilson
College of Montana
Annapolis
Montana Cavalry
A. H. Martin
Belt
Miners’ Union
Catholic Church
Lenihan
Record Inquiry at Tacoma Shop Ends in Amusing Confusion
Billy Bates reports two men entered a Tacoma music store and told a young clerk they wanted a record for a graphophone. When asked to describe it, one man said the record sides read My Wife's Gone to the Country and I Wonder Who's Kiss ing Her Now, prompting humorous confusion.
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Billy Bates
Tacoma
Wash
Our Joe Miller Contest
W F Schulze of Klectzen Minn claims the oldest joke is the one about a man who meets a friend and asks if his picture appeared in the paper this week The friend replies I never read the patent advertisements It underscores a humor line from the Joe Miller competition piece reported in this clipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Schulze
Klectzen, Minn
Montana Dry Cleaners and Hatters Noted in Great Falls Ad
Gaiety Shop and Conrad Bank building host Montana's best dry cleaners and hatters. Ladies' and men's garments receive careful attention at Great Falls Dye House.
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Conrad Bank
Great Falls
Montana
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Leiess - Ay
Clubwomen
John
Postum
Joe Miller
Ideal Beauty
O. Huseth
Mont
Photos
Kodaks
Gibson Studio
Enetosranches
Cor
1St Ave. N
4Th St
Montana Newspaper Association
Symons
Simons
DRY Goods Company
Batte
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