Montana Briefs From Helena to Belgrade In August
A roundup of local notes across Montana cites Attorney General Freebourn’s tax evasion trial date in Helena court on August 23 at 10 a m. In Kalispell jobseekers drop nearly 50 percent. Missoula invites 1941 state BPW convention. a pamphlet on citizenship is prepared by Justice Morris. Catholic Women hold August convention in Missoula. Chinook woman fatally injured in tractor overturn. 1940 farm counts rise in Lake Lincoln and Missoula counties. Livingston student pilot bruised after cross country crash near Belgrade Airport.
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Helena
Harrison J. Freebourn
United States
Kalispell
Flathead County
Charles H. Draper
Montana State Employment Service
Missoula
Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Anaconda
Claude F. Morris
The
State Supreme Court
Ate
Lake
Lincoln
Missoula Counties
Lake County
Belgrade
Harold Thompson
Livingston
Livingston City
Thompson
Coin Collector Pursues Defective 1937 Buffalo Nickels
L. S. Olson of Plentywood pursues 980 buffalo nickels minted in Denver in 1937 that reportedly show the buffalo with only three legs. After eight months he found the first, now owning ten. He believes these defective coins were circulated before the mint corrected the error.
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L. S. Olson
Plentywood
Denver
Chouteau Family and Missouri’s Rise with Early Montana Ties
A review of Bliss Isley’s Blazing the Way West traces the Chouteau family’s role in Missouri and Montana history. It chronicles Bourgmont’s 18th century missions, Laclede’s founding of St. Louis, and the Chouteau brothers’ fur trade empire, keelboats, and the Yellowstone steamboat that spurred western settlement.
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Bliss Isley
Chouteau
St. Louis
Montana
Wichita
Kan
Scribner
Issley
Missouri
Etienne V. de Bourgmont
Detroit
Mississippi
Cadillac
France
Bourgmont
Bienville
Louisiana
Missouri River
Fort Orleans
Grand River
Plains
Dubois
Paris
Laclede
Pierre Laclede
New Orleans
Braddock
Fort Duquesne
Isley
Fort Chartres
Illinois
Spain
England
Louis XV
Louis IX
Auguste Chouteau
Pierre Chouteau
Pierre
Osage
Auguste
Manuel Lisa
Missouri Fur Co
Chouteau Brothers
Lisa
A. P
Pikes Peak
Santa Fe
Oklahoma
Verdigris
Arkansas
Fur Company
Pierre “Cadet
American Fur Co
Missouri Company
American
Cadet) Chouteau
S. D
Kaw
Francis
Cyprian
Frederick
Pittsburgh
Atchison, Kan
Fort Lisa
Platte
Yellowstone
eight thousand five hundred coyotes killed in Montana in 1940s second quarter
The Montana live stock commission reports 8500 coyotes killed in April through June with 17020 dollars in bounty payments. 1044 grown coyotes and 7456 pups drew two dollar bounties while Paul Raferty announced the totals. A stray line notes Brazil produced 151 million dollars in farm goods in 1935.
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Montana
Paul Raferty
State Livestock Commission
Duck Hunting Season Extended Across Zones this Year
The interior department announces a 60 day duck season for northern zone hunters due to more birds. Shooting hours extend to 4 p.m. for waterfowl and coot, with jacksnipe allowed sunrise to sunset. Ducks bag limit stays at 10 daily. geese limit drops to three. Zones span Oct 1 to Nov 29 in the north, Oct 16 to Dec 14 in the middle, and Nov 2 to Dec 31 in the south.
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Ickes
Department of the Interior
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wyoming
Montana
New Mexico
Colorado
Montana Fish and Game Commissioners
Lewistown
Blaine
Phillips
Valley
Roosevelt
Sheridan
Daniels
Garfield
McCone
Richland
Dawson
Prairie
Custer
Fallon
Powder River
Carter
Rosebud
Lincoln County
Pleasant Valley
Flathead County
Judith Mountains
Fergus County
Rod and Gun Club
State Fish Hatchery Park
Big Spring Creek
Butte Man Commands One of U S Navys Newest Destroyers
Lieut. Com. Peter G. Hale, a Butte native, assumes permanent command of the $5 million destroyer Plunkett. He leads 5 officers and 170 crew aboard the 1,500‑ton ship, commissioned last month in Brooklyn after keel laid March 1, 1939. Hale, son of Mrs. Peter Hale, is a former Naval Academy student who received his first skippers assignment.
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Butteman
Continental Divide
United States Navy
Peter G. Hale
Plunkett
New York Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Hale
Peter Hale
Butte
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Montana Births Surpass Deaths In June Report
Montana state health board records show 968 births and 448 deaths in June. Of the deaths, 25 were from communicable diseases and 13 from car accidents, reflecting a higher birth rate for the month.
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Montana
State Board of Health
Youngest to oldest presidents Roosevelt and Henry
Theodore Roosevelt became the nation’s youngest president at forty three when he entered the White House, while William Henry Harrison, inaugurated at sixty eight, was the oldest to assume the office.
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Theodore Roosevelt
White House
William Henry Area
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Philipsboro
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Great Falls
Evergreen
Eden Valley Minn
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Ft. Collins, Colo
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Frary & Burlingame
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S. 4Th St
Raton
Swan River
Monte Carlo
Rte
Kalispell, Mont
Bal C
O. D. Gust Johnson
Minneapolis
Minn
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Fourth St
East
Kalispell, Montana
Martin Cormier
Libby
Alaska Junk Company
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Spokane
Wash
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Bremerton, Wash
Osakis Concrete Products CO
Osnakis, Minn
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Michel
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Idaho
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Write Business Machines Co
Williston, ND
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Highway 91
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Eley
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Chicago
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Great River
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Cadet
Sao Paulio
Brazil
Renee
National Distillers Prod. Corp
N.Y
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U.S. Navy
Hotel Rainbow
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Eddy Gallivan
Malin
St. Helena
Butte, Mont
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Central Ave
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Opera International
Warmior
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