40 Year Mystery May Be Cleared in Radio Report
News flash claims Sam McKee, a Montana man last seen in 1898, is heading toward his homeland after four decades in the Klondike. His sons Buck and Bill recall their father’s disappearance and await verification of the Alaskan radio tale about the mushing explorer returning to Helena area.
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Sam McKee
Montana
Arctic Circle
Winston
McKee
Canyon Ferry
Buck
Bill
St. Joseph's Orphanage
Helena Valley
Denver
Colorado
Helena
Great Falls
Alaska
Robert Service
Sam McGee
Klondike
Mont
Honolulu
Mcifee
Winston District
Santa appeal at convocation targets state university needs
Pres. George Finlay Simmons addressed students in a Christmas convocation urging the legislature to restore faculty cuts and maintenance funding, increase faculty, and repair aging campus buildings. He casts the legislature as Santa delivering the requested measures.
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George Finlay Simmons
State University
Santa Claus
Santa
County Officers Terms in Doubt
Secretary of State Sam Mitchell says Montana Supreme Court will decide whether the county officers constitutional amendment takes effect immediately or in 1940. The measure passed 6 723 to 2 610, but a friendly test case will settle if elected officials on November 8 serve four-year terms or hold over.
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Montana Supreme Court
Sam W. Mitchell
Montana
Roy E. Ayers
Mitchell
Supreme Court
Secretary of State
State Supreme Court
Helena
District Court
Adopting a Researcher as Blackfeet Tribe Son
Donald Collier son of John Collier commissioner of Indian affairs finished two months on the Blackfeet reservation for an anthropology thesis then moved to Rocky Boy for further study. He joined the Blackfeet and was adopted by Mountain Chief as his son in Browning Montana after earning the trust of the old full-blood Indians.
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Donald Collier
Rocky Boy Reservation
Browning
Montana
John Collier
Indian Affairs
Blackfeet Reservation
Donald
Mountain Chief
Seventh Cavalry
Custer
Young Rand
The
Little Big Horn
Pioneer of 1868 Is in South Year
John Bird, who observed his 90th birthday at Browning, Montana, recounts seven decades in the state from Kansas frontier roots to mining booms and cattle ranching. Born December 11, 1848 in Ohio, his moves included Bozeman, Crow Agency, Fort Benton, Sun River, and Browning, where his Bird ranch became a landmark near the old agency grounds.
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John Bird
Sam Bird
Browning
Bird
Montana
Lincoln County
Ohio
Kansas
Missouri
Last Chance
Bozeman
Custer
Crow Agency
Fort Benton
Sunriver
Hay Stackbutte
Blackfeet
CCCID
Captain Cook
Cut Bank Creek
Lower Cut Bank Creek
Bird Ranch
Memory of Blackfeet chiefs and a vanished fort site
The article recounts Mountain Chief’s son receiving the name Big Brave with a beaded war shirt. It notes a circle of chiefs and interpreters, a sacred pipe ceremony, and Collier’s study of plains Indian leadership and social life. James Willard Schultz and Maggie Kipp Croft visit Bear river Marias and the vanished Fort Conrad site.
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Mountain Chief
Big Brave
Donald
No Coat
Lazy Boy
Green Grass Bull
Wolf Plume
Bear Chief
Dick Sanderville
Collier
Bear River
The
Marias
James Willard Schultz
Schultz
Maggie Kipp Croft
Joseph Kipp
Marias River
Conrad
Great Northern Railway
Maggie
Raven Quiver
Indian Women Adopt Industry on Blackfeet Reservation
Indian women on the Blackfeet Reservation revived beadwork artistry under Mrs. James Willard Schultz. The cooperative now runs 10 craft clubs with 350 members, exports include elk and deer skins, beads from Europe, and two shops plus mail orders. Nora Spanish and a sales demonstration will travel to the San Francisco exposition to promote the line.
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James Willard Schultz
Browning
United States Indian Service
Schultz
WPA
Craft Council
Czechoslovakia
Italy
Nora Spanish
Co-Operative
Martin Peppion
Shirley Temple
Aerial Hunter Slays Coyotes Over Fort Benton Run
Williston flier Ed Canfield spots coyotes during a slow morning flight to Great Falls. He dives from altitude to shoot two coyotes while his aid feeds the trigger. Nine coyotes total are collected and delivered to Beckman Bros tannery. An aerial fur buying route with Canfield is planned along the Williston area.
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Ed Canfield
Williston
N. C
Coyote
Canfield
Great Falls
Fort Benton
Beckman Bros
al Beckman
Canfield Ina
Custer Campaign Theme in New Book
A new book titled A Boy Rides With Custer by Zoa Grace Hawley of Superior Wisconsin highlights southeastern Montana battle areas from the Indian warfare era of the 1870s. The volume, issued last October, features photographs from the David Barry collection and art by Peter Hurd. The narrative begins with young John.
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Fort Abraham Lincoln
Little Big Hoorn
O'Fallon Creek
Powder River Valley
Rosebud
Custer
Hawley
Douglas County
Wis
Montana
Zoa Grace Hawley
Superior
David Barry
Peter Hurd
John
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the Wilken Family Inc
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Mayuri Vidya
Siam
San Francisco
California
Joan Bird OF
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John Rand
Ma Chee
Williston Flier
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