Vardis Fisher Cited As Idaho Dresser By Time Magazine
John K. Standish notes Time magazine’s Jan issue praises Idaho author Vardis Fisher of Missoula Montana for his book In Tragic Life and his status as an IdahoDresser figure. Fisher, a Utah graduate and Chicago PhD holder, teaches in the Missoula State University English department and hails from Idaho. Time also announced a new volume Passion Spin the Plot in the tetralogy.
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Vardis Fisher
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Mont
Idaho
Salt Lake City
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University of Chicago
Time Magazine
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Fisher’s Four-Volume Novel Promises Honest, Unflinching Life
The critic compares Idaho writer Vardis Fisher to Theodore Dreiser, predicting the last two volumes of his tetralogy will match the first two in candor and literary craft. Fisher aims for an artful, sincere work drawn from his own hard, unhappy life, not cheerful reading.
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U. S
Idaho
Vardis Fisher
Indiana
Theodore Dreiser
Dreiser
Fisher
Cuticura Talcum Ad Promotes Trio of Cosmetic Products
An advertisement urges purchasing Cuticura Talcum as part of the Cuticura Trio with Soap and Ointment. The powder and perfume are presented as essential bathroom requisites, priced at 25 cents each and available everywhere.
Indians Send Note of Regrets to St Xavier Store Owners
The Lobdell Keough general store at St Xavier 23 miles south of Hardin burned with a total loss of building and contents estimated at $28 000 no insurance. Crow Indians who had dealt with the firm for years sent a letter expressing sympathy and urging future business in the community with a pledge to help during the rescue and recovery efforts.
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St. Xavier
Lobdell-Keough
Hardin
Mont
John Keough
Harry Lobdell
Big Horn
Vindar Fisher and the Idaho Dream in Tragic Life
Vindar Fisher, a restless Idaho youth, battles poverty and disillusion at Wasatch College Salt Lake City and with his boarding house rival Forenoon. The tale follows his wary romance with Neloa Doole and a crash through a bleak world to a hopeless marriage. The article traces Fisher’s later career as a novelist and educator in Idaho and Montana.
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Ing
Vindar Hunter
Idaho Hills
Wasatch College
Salt Lake City
Vindar
McClintock
Vridar
Nelon
Fisher
Chicago
Robert Herrick
Utah
New York
Idaho
Caxton Printers, Ltd
Doubleday, Doran
Grimly Earnest Vardis Fisher
University of Montana
Ririe
New Plates List County Numbers for Bear County
State board of examiners from the registrar of motor vehicles at Deer Lodge issued a list assigning county numbers to 1933 license plates. Each plate shows its county number, with Silver Bow at 1 and Lincoln at 56, among others.
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State Board of Examiners
Registrar of Motor Vehicles
Deer Lodge
Silver Bow
Cascade
Yellowstone
Missoula
Lewis and Clark
Gallatin
Flathead
Fergus
Powder River
Carbon
Phillips
Hill
Ravalli
Custer
Lake
Dawson
Roosevelt
Beaverhead
Chouteau
Valley
Toole
Big Horn
Mussel- Shell
Blaine
Madison
Pondera
Richland
Powell
Rosebud
Teton
Stillwater
Treasure
Sheridan
Sanders
Judith Basin
Daniels
Glacier
Fallon
Sweet Grass
McCone
Carter
Broadwater
Wheatland
Prairie
Granite
Meagher
Liberty
Park
Golden Valley
Mineral
Garfield
Jefferson
Wibaux, Petroleum
Lincoln
Montana Cartoonist John C. Terry Dies in Florida
Montana mourns cartoonist and early animation pioneer John C. Terry who died in Florida after a long career beginning in San Francisco and including work for the Call's art department Anaconda Standard and the New York World He was born in May 1880 and became known for his influence on early animated films Shippers in Denmark sent 500 tons of barley free to Scottish distillers amid complaints the grain in the shipment was aged by four to five years.
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Montana
John C. Terry
Florida
San Francisco
Mr. Terry
The
Call’s Art Department
Anaconda
the Standard
New York World
Denmark
Scotland
Sweet Grass in Good Old Days Recalled by locals
C J Sheehan and P J Nichols of Sweetgrass recall early border town days with Connie the fighter serving as bartender at Uncle Sam’s hotel later International. They recount barn storming baseball and boxing history including 1912 matches in Sweet Grass and a 1916 card headlined by Young Al Ross with a special train from Lethbridge.
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P. J. Nichols
Sweetgrass
Connie
Mr. Nichols
Sweet Grass
The
International
Pete
Minneapolis
West
Nichols
Montana
Jack Doherty
Tommy Riley
Jud Foley
al Ross
Yardy
Ross
Alberta
Lethbridge
Employers May Obtain Workers Through U S Offices
Private employers can obtain skilled or unskilled labor from county offices of the national re employment service. Announced at Helena headquarters, the service has not closed to private firms though it often supplied workers for government projects. Apply by writing or calling the local office with work type and number of men needed. no expense.
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U. S
National Re-Employment Service
Helena
State Engineer James Inspects Regional Irrigation Projects
State Engineer J. S. James visited Roundup to review the Dead Man's Basin irrigation works and other regional projects. He then traveled to Ryegate to inspect Bert Lillis's progress before going to Lewistown to finalize plans for the Miller project in Musselshell County.
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James
J. S. James
Dead Man’s Basin
Roundup
Ryegate
Bert Lillis
Lewistown
Miller
Musselshell County
Half-rate Saturday calls linked London to Australia
The plan offers a half-rate social telephone call between London and Australia every Saturday to promote social telephoning.
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London
Australia
Gain in Carload Shipments in Montana in January
A Montana State Railroad Commission report shows a 28 percent rise in carload shipments in January, totaling 10 364 cars and up 2257 from January 1933 and 2484 from January 1932. Ore car loadings jumped from 387 to 1712, with copper concentrates slag lime and crushed rock and other goods also rising.
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Montana
State Railroad Commission
Bankruptcies Decline Among Montana Farmers in 1933
A U S Bureau of Agricultural Economics report from Helena shows 40 Montana farmer bankruptcies in 1933, down from 59 in 1932. Farmers were 19.3 percent of 207 total bankruptcies in 1933, versus 21.1 percent of 279 in 1932, with Montana better off than many regions.
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Helena
United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Rights of way recommended for state land board
Leon Choquette chief field agent recommends rights of way to the state land board. One of 7.10 acres in Valley county is for a natural gas line to the Fort Peck dam site. Other parcels cover Toole Flathead Hill Wibaux Silver Bow Jefferson Mc Cone and Custer counties for highway construction.
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Leon Choquette
Valley County
Fort Peck Dam
Toole
Flathead
Hill
Wibaux
Silver Bow
Jefferson
McCone
Custer
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Charlie Horse
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