Missoula Pioneer McCormick Shaped Early Garden City
The article chronicles W. J. J. McCormick a Missoula leader and attorney whose career spanned Utah Montana and Missoula. He helped found the citys legal system helped establish Catholic institutions donated land built homes and led local press. He also advocated early woman suffrage and served in territorial government and as Missoula editor.
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Utah
Eccles
United States
A. S. Johnston
Brigham Young
Young McCormick
Virginia City
Montana
Madison County
Bannack
Montana Territory
H. H. Hosmer
First Judicial District
McCormick
Deer Lodge
Chouteau
Missoula
Helena
Flathead Indian Agency
Flatheads
Bitter Root
Flathead
Major McCormick
Sacred ‘Heart Academy
St. Joseph’s School
St. Patrick’s Hospital
Father Ravalli
Father Palladino
W. J. McCormick
Helena artist Branson Stevenson exhibits in Rockefeller Galleries
Branson G. Stevenson of Great Falls announced thatOpaque watercolor paintings of two Helena territory scenes have been placed in the Rockefeller Galleries New York City following a sale to Richard Rice of 277 Park Avenue New York. Stevenson, state manager of White Eagle Gas, was in Helena and also etched Last Chance Gulch for Mrs John E Erickson for placement in the Montana Historical Library. He has painted Glacier National Park and Dead Man's Gulch scenes and has traveled widely to sketch.
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Helena
Rockefeller Galleries
New York City
Branson G. Stevenson
Great Falls
Richard Rice
Park Avenue
New York
White Eagle Gas Corporation
Last Chance Gulch
John E. Erickson
Montana Historical Library
Rip” Hoffman
Dead Man’s Gulch
Prickly Pear Canyon
Glacier National Park
Stevenson
Rockefeller
Montana
Atlas
Belgium
Instituto Nacional
Panama
Julians Academy
Paris
Roberto Louis
Central
South America
Haiti
of the Arts
New York Public Library
Raids on Indian Graves Recounted by Grace Stone Coates
An untold era tale describes tribal grave ceremonies and white grave robbing on the Musselshell river. Pat Tucker relays how Indians build tree burial nests and mourners chant as medicine men oversee the rite. Ike Smith and Slack Bowles are named as grave robbers who struck along the Missouri Musselshell route.
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Grace Stone Coates
Musselshell
Pat ‘T. Tucker
Livingston
Bill Rogers
Ike Smith
Slack Bowles
Missouri
Yellowstone
Missouri River
Fort Peck
Fort Keogh
Pine Buttes
Uncle Sam
Plenty Coups
Bozeman’s Bid for Montana Capital in 1892
A Montana newspaper reprints historic circulars from Bozeman supporters urging votes for Bozeman as permanent state capital in 1892. The documents note assertions by Helena backers, outline Bozeman’s history, and reveal plans to distribute lots with “Vote for Bozeman for the Capital” souvenirs. Bozeman’s strong 1892 campaign followed by Helena’s 1894 victory are summarized.
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Bozeman
Montana
H.C. Bacorn
Jardine
Bacorn
Bozeman Public
F. L. Benepe
California
A. EK. Yerkes
Seattle
S. P. Patton
James E. Martin
W. J. Beall
O. P. Chisholm
John S. Mendenhall
C. P. Blakeley
Nelson Story
C. W. Hoffman
Gallatin County
Helena
Boseman
Bozeman Land and Loan Co
Gallatin Valley National Bank
Peter Koch
Bozeman National Bank
George L. Ramsey
Commercial Exchange Bank
Bannack
Virginia City
Benjamin Harrison
Ance
Anaconda
Boulder
Butte
Deer Lodge
Great Falls
Northern Pacific Creates Industrial District in Bozeman
Lon Challoner announces the Northern Pacific Railway is forming an industrial district in Bozeman Montana with a three block ground purchase. A commercial track is being laid and Bozeman Feed and Grain begins construction as the first beneficiary enterprise signaling faith in the Gallatin valley and Montana.
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Northern Pacific Railway Company
Bozeman
Lon Challoner
Helena
Bozeman Feed and Grain Company
Northern Pacific
Gallatin Valley
Montana
Challoner
Injured Jockey Montanna Lad Educated in Helena
Gil Elston, a jockey hurt in a fall weeks ago, is a Montana lad from Helena and Butte. Born in Butte, his mother moved the family to Helena where he attended public schools. He later worked as a telegraph messenger and went east in 1930 after a visiting horseman sponsored training.
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Gil Elston
Helena
Butte
Elston
Anna Elston
Gil
Horesman
Beets in Hardin District Bring About $30 Per Acre Net
Sugar beet growers in the Hardin district averaged about $30 net per acre this season after deducting seed fertilizer land use and taxes. Costs for plowing and cultivation not included. The yield reached about 14 tons per acre.
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Hardin
Census Count in Phillips County Shows 2633 Children
The Phillips county school census reports 2,633 children this year, down from 2,661 in 1931, per county superintendent Mrs. Ella Turpie. The piece also recounts an account of late 19th century Plains Indian grave robbers and Crow scouts, including Plenty Coups, and a tale of scalping and bone gathering.
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Phillips County
Ella Turpie
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AE Ned Act Agt AG
W. J. J. McCormick
Garden City
Asbury College
DePauw University
Indiana
Washington Jay
Cyrus McCormick
Worden & Higgins
Miss
Honora Robes
West Spruce and
Cormick Streets
Major
General Sherman
Senator Garfield
Johnny Walker
Chapel House
Missoula County
Capital City
Eastern Art Gallery
Francis L. Worden
Alfred Cave
Will Cave
Miller
Chicago
Cleveland
Philipsburg
Mr. McCormick
Old Fort
Owen
John Owen
Washington McCormick
Washington
Philip D-B. Parham, M. A
Stanford
Montana Lad
New Zealand
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