Grand Coulee Dam marks automation of a long dream
The Grand Coulee project transformed sagebrush flats beside the Columbia into a vast irrigation and power complex. From 1934 to near completion, construction built towns, rails, roads, and a 110 kilovolt line as the dam neared operation, promising irrigation for 1.2 million acres and homes for more than 300,000 people in central Washington.
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Columbia River
Great Dry Canyon
Grand Coulee
United States Bureau of Reclamation
Northwest
Big Bend
Washington
Roosevelt
Mammoth Grand Coulee
Columbia
Delaware
Odair
Northern Pacific Railway
Coulee City
River Canyon
Washington Water Power Co
Mason City
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co
Western Union Telegraph Co
Bureau of Reclamation
Coulee Dam
Mason-Walsh- Atkinson-Kier Co
Coumbia Basin
Sun Dress Or Party Frock Pattern 342 for Girls
Pattern 342 offers a sun dress and a party frock for girls in sizes 2, 4, 6, and 8. Describes panel details, yoke options, and sleeve styles plus a ribbon sash and lace edging for party touches. Requires specific fabric amounts and 15 cents pattern price. Send size name address and style number to Pattern Department M.N. 70 Fifth Avenue New York.
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Claire Tilden
Pattern Department
M.N
Fifth Avenue
New York
Montana Author Winning Success
Norman A. Fox of Great Falls has two full length novels published one in book form and the other in a western story magazine. The book The Gunsight Kid from Phoenix Press of New York is a western thriller set in mountainous western Montana with Sunny Jim Price as the central figure. The second work appears in a western story magazine.
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Norman A. Fox
Great Falls
Phoenix Press
New York
Publishers of Fiction
Sunny Jim Price
Sunny Jim
Renee Ake Watt
Pantry Shelf Recipes: Lamb Meat Balls and Pressed Chicken
Four housewife tested recipes from The Pantry Shelf include Lamb Meat Balls and Old Fashioned Pressed Chicken. Lamb Balls use lamb shoulder carrots onions rice and stock with a flour thickened gravy served with rice. Pressed Chicken cooks into a jelly loaf mold with oregano parsley paprika and onion and is sliced cold. Marie Branner and Dale Lacry, Great Falls and Jefferson Island.
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Marie Branner
Great Falls
Suitable Sweets For Children By Dr James A Tobey
Children crave sweets but can be sated with nourishing foods such as plain cakes cookies ice cream jams jellies marmalades and molasses Chocolate flavored milk drinks mixed at home with milk and cocoa Molasses with enriched bread and egg yolk is a nutritious spread blending iron calcium vitamin A and B vitamins Bread and molasses offers a tasty energizing snack for between meals or regular use while avoiding mess on clothes
Mann Slams Hitler as Froth of Blood at Stanford
Thomas Mann, the German writer exiled, told a Stanford student assembly that Hitler’s history making is imitation and “nonsense,” a froth of blood. He called Hitler no revolutionary but a swindler of history whose bankruptcy is only a matter of time. He argued the world will undergo a democratic rebirth including all nations by limiting sovereignty.
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Hitler
Thomas Mann
Stanford University
Mann
Local Livestock Group Re-elects Montana Leaders
The Montana livestock commission re elected W. H. Donald of Melville as president during its annual reorganization. Conrad K. Warren of Deer is vice president and Paul erty serves as secretary recorder of brands. Save a Life Be a Careful Driver.
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Montana Livestock Commission
W. H. Donald
Melville
Conrad K. Warren
Deer
Paulerty
Recorder of
Brands
Molded Cheese Salad Cups and Sour Cream Spice Cake
Molded cheese salad features grated American cheese olives green peppers pimiento mayonnaise lemon juice and whipped evaporated milk set in small molds and served on lettuce with French dressing. Sour cream spice cake combines sour cream sugar flour cinnamon nutmeg and eggs baked in a leaf pan with a seven minute icing.
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T. J. Ramey
Billings
Wiggin’s Career Inspired Many
Albert Edward Wiggin 56 of Great Falls manager of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. reduction works at Anaconda Great Falls and East Helena died recently of a heart attack in Butte after illness. Born January 12 1885 in Malden Massachusetts he had led the reduction department since May 1929 and was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His death shocked friends statewide and followed a past major operation in Rochester Minnesota.
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Albert Edward Wiggin
Great Falls
Anaconda
East Helena
Butte
C. B. Rhodes
Rochester
Minn
Wiggin
Malden
Mass
Anaconda Copper Mining Co
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wiggin Career at Anaconda Copper and Silver Mines
The subject earned a bachelor of science in 1907 then moved to Great Falls in August 1907 to work as a sampler for Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Co. He stayed in the family business as it passed to Anaconda in 1910, shifted to Anaconda in 1911 as testing engineer, promoted to Superintendent by 1918 with a June 1918 confirmation.
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Great Falls
Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper & Silver Mining Co
Anaconda Company
Wiggin
Anaconda
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Bess Johnson
Columbia Network
Dale L. Lacry
Jefferson Island
James A. Tobey
J. A. Tobey
Donald
Livestock Group
Anne
Mary Knudson
Saco
Jean
Woman of Courage
Tetsel
Carole Lombard
Robert Montgomery
Furriers
Clark’s Fork Valley
Ids
Depa
Wime
Missoula, Mont
West
Charles M. Russell
United States
Montana Newspaper Association
Canadian Mounted Police
Postgard
Ramwell
Montana A Newspaper Association
Falls, Montana
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