Federal funds for highways boosted for Montana projects
The U S Bureau at Missoula says Montana federal highway aid rises from 56.25 to 56.72 percent for work approved after Feb 1 1939. This increases federal aid by 7005 and supports $3,465,804 available for immediate contract lettings tied to state debentures.
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U. S
Missoula
Montana
Helena
State Highway Commission
Bureau of Public Roads
Bureau
Bureau of Public Roads 19
Rogers Pass
Blackfoot Valley
Lioyd Hague
Austria Restores Right Side Driving Standard
Austria announces a return to driving on the right side of the road, ending a period of left side driving. The policy shift aims to harmonize traffic rules with neighboring countries and improve road safety for motorists and pedestrians.
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Austria
Woman Pioneer crosses divide in Montana settlement saga
Anna K Swanson, first white woman to settle Chinook and long time resident of Phillips county, died aged in Malta. Born 1864 in Jordan Minnesota she settled with Andrew Swanson in 1888 at Chinook after emigrant trip by boxcar.
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Anna K. Swanson
Chinook
Phillips County
Columbia Falls
Little White
Malta
Earle Terry
Malta Cemetery
Swanson
Jordan, Minn
Andrew Swanson
Great Northern
Montana
Swansons
O'Hanlon
Milk River
Rocky Point
Dodson
George Dyas
Will Tressler
Wagner
Soldiers’ Home
Dyas
Wagoner
Sophie Travis
Wallace Clay Travis
John Erickson
Flare
Charles Erickson
Caliornia
Erickson
Rere
Spring Birdhouse Styles Displayed in Great Falls
The Great Falls Home Workshop club showcased nearly twenty birdhouses in the First National Bank lobby. Exhibits included cottages and barracks designs aimed at wrens bluebirds martins and sparrows with notes on entrance size bark covering weathering and paint fumes affecting birds.
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First National Bank
Great Falls
Four Oakdale Houses Offered At Low Cost In 1939 Design
Western Homes foundation introduces four Oakdale house designs using mass production to cut costs. Each home includes a basement and a little over 14 000 cubic feet of space with a basic floor plan. Average Oakdale cost is about 4200 dollars with FHA 20 year loans estimating 23.76 dollars monthly for 3600 dollars and about 19.80 dollars for 3000 dollars plus taxes and insurance around 30 dollars. Plans and specs can be obtained at printing cost through lumber dealers or Western Homes foundation district office box 214 Helena Montana.
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Western Homes Foundation
National Plan Service
Oakdale
Helena
Mont
Butte Geologist Outlines History of Montana Ores
Murl H. Gidel, assistant chief geologist of the A C M Co, spoke to the Butte Rotary about The History of Geology and Ore Deposits in Montana. He traced ore production to 145 million tons of copper and millions of tons of silver zinc and manganese ore, explaining earth history through radioactive dating and continental shifts.
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Butte
Murl H. Gidel
North America
Former Butte Boy Rises to Lieutenant Commander in Navy
Thomas O. McCarthy, son of late Butte markets operator Patrick McCarthy and Seattle resident Mary McCarthy, rose from seaman to lieutenant commander. He enlisted in World War I, rejoined in 1921, served on the Tennessee Mississippi Houston and Farragut, and now tours the Brooklyn navy yard. Two Butte sisters, Mrs. H. M. Fay and Mrs. W. B. Fleming, survive.
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Horatio Alger
Butte
Thomas O. McCarthy
McCarthy
Patrick McCarthy
Seattle
United States
Butte Central High School
Navy
Johns-Manville Corp
Tennessee
Mississippi
Houston
Farragut
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
H. M. Fay
W. B. Fleming
President Invited to Butte Jubilee Event
Senator Wheeler of Montana and Butte Mayor Charles Hauswirth invited President Roosevelt to visit Butte in July for a gold jubilee event. They suggested a White House reception, urged manganese stockpile construction, and asked Woodring to study long term Montana resource use.
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Wheeler
Montana
Charles A. Hauswirth
Butte
Roosevelt
Mig
San Francisco
White House
Hauswirth
Woodring
Frank Bird Linderman Club Marks Its First Anniversary
H W Whicker Montana State University English instructor sponsors the Frank Bird Linderman club which recently celebrated its first anniversary. Whicker authored From Prize Ring to Professor, a Scribners article detailing his life as a boxer and university professor. The Linderman club gathers student authors to share and discuss original writings and studies the works of Montana writer Frank Bird Linderman.
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H. W. Whicker
Montana State University
Frank Bird
Mineral wealth and geology of Butte district detailed
Geologist Mr. Gidel outlines ore types in Montana including copper zinc lead and manganese zones in Butte veins. He notes deposits of chromite nickel tungsten molybdenum and tin in several counties, discusses the Boulder batholith, historic mine yields across districts, and the significance of placers yielding about half of Montana's gold.
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Butte
Montana
Virginia City
Sheridan
Twin Bridges
Whitehall
Three Forks
Rochester
Highland Mountains
Table Mountain
Red Mountain
Highlands
Gidel
Treasure State
Park
Sweet Grass
Stillwater
Mr. Gidel
Anaconda Hill
Emma
Rainbow
Moulton
Alice
Elm Orlu
Black Rock
Nettie
Blue Bird
Champion
Walkerville
Boulder
Boulder Catholic
Little Rockies
Phillips County
North Moccasin
Judith Mountain
Marysville
Tom Cruse Franklin
Neihart
Norris
Philipsburg
Philipsburg Batholith
Jardine, Park, Sweetgrass
Carbon Counties
Silver Star
Elk Horn
Montana City
Helena
Elliston
Vipond
Spring Hill and
Whitchlatch Union
No Gilded Cage for This Canary in Helena Home
Pete the canary belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Leidle of Helena refuses confinement. The bird roosts on a high clothesline and kitchen cabinet, enjoys seed spills, and even rouses his owner to wake for work with a cheerful yip.
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Pete
Reuben Leidhle
Helena
Mr. Leidle
Leidle
Sun’s annual journey between Tropics described
The sun moves yearly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. The term tropic comes from a Greek word meaning turning toward. The sun appears to turn and then returns toward the equator.
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Equator
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