Coal registration drive to prevent winter shortages in Montana
Montana accelerates coal registration as a state fuel administration task. Wholesalers and retailers must report consumption and those who fail face coal supply shutoff. Aims to track every coal user, ensure prompt emergency delivery, and prepare for winter shortages while supporting French musician orphans with concert proceeds. Miss Elliott performing in Billings with proceeds to orphans and Red Cross, all services donated. Tickets at $1, children 50 cents, no reservations.
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Jnzistrauion
Montana
Ation
Billings
Miss Elliott
Wyoming
France
Red Cross
Guy Logan
Beet Crop Falls Below Average
A Montana professor notes sugar beet yields in the eastern region are below normal, though spring planting plans may still boost production. Farmers express willingness to risk planting more beet acres if assured the crop benefits the public rather than project backers.
Elliott to Give War Benefi Concert
Elliott will present a war benefit concert in Big Timber and vicinity on Friday October 18 in the Auditorum. She is a dramatic soprano with wide range trained by masters and recently returned from three years abroad due to war. She is the daughter of Mr Pit B Elliott of Billings and is praised for her life’s devoted study of singing.
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Frizening
Miee Saart Elliott
Comte Auditorum
Elliott
Pit B Elliott
Billings
Robert Brownlee
Big
State Land Auctions Show Strong Demand in Montana
Helena, Sept. 28. Despite drought dimming land speculation, three statewide sales in Meagher, Wheatland, and Musselshell counties moved 11,667 acres for $161,817, averaging $13.88 per acre. The results reflect continued faith in agricultural prospects of the commonwealth.
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Helena
Montana
Commonwealth
Meagher
Wheatland
Musselshell
Two Smyth Sons Enlistment Stirs Craig Mother
Mrs. Alice Smyth of Craig visits the recruiting office with her sons Charlie N Smyth and plans to bring another 18 year old son to Helena to enlist in the U S Marine Corps. She recalls son Robert L Smith who died serving with an American engineer regiment in France. Sergeant Bert Martin examines Charlie for Devil Dogs.
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Alice Smyth
Craig
Robert L.smith
France
Martin
Helena
Marine Corps
Montane Record Herald
Food parcels for American POWs coordinated in Berne by Red Cross
The American Red Cross is centralizing food aid for American prisoners of war in Berne and has leased a warehouse there to stock large quantities of feed and clothing. Packages include beef, salmon, beans, corn, bread, sugar, and cocoa to supply about 4,000 prisoners for six months.
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Berne
Switsehead
American Red Cross
British Red Cross
Merne
Dunorine
Occupation of Damascus Reported by Allied Forces
London reports General Allenby’s forces occupied Damascus with over 7,000 Turks captured. Palestine troops of an Australian mounted division entered Damascus by Monday night. British forces and Arab troops secured the city by Oct 1. Local administration to be handled by authorities.
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London
Allenby
Damascus
War Office
Palestine
Demascces
Hussein
Notice to Subscribers on Subscription Payments
Owing to print paper shortages the war industries board orders all newspapers to discontinue mail subscriptions not prepaid after October 1. Complimentary copies end except for legal advertising. All on the complimentary list become regular subscribers since July 15, 191%, unless the paper is discontinued. Subscriptions must be in advance by October first.
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War Industries Board
Washington, D. C
War service entitles veterans to land entry rights
Clay Tallman of the general land office directs land offices to apply Section 8 of the Selective Service Act of August 31, 1918. Veterans under 21 who served or will serve in the U.S. Army during the current emergency gain rights to homestead and miners entries as if over 21, with residence proof suspended for six months after discharge. Applications may be verified by officers in the United States or abroad under state law.
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Clay Tallman
General Land Office
Selective Service Act
Army of
United States
Hief
Washington estate dismisses women suffrage as war measure
A October report notes a bitter four day debate with conference and lobbying as the estate rejects the resident's bid to pass a women suffrage measure as a wartime policy. The final roll call yields two votes in favor and opposition.
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Washington
B. Astheny
Fragmented wartime note on aerial losses and tribal names
A garbled wartime snippet claims Americans shot down 18 balloons and over 69 enemy planes with limited pine losses. It mentions Indians of the Gieux tribe and a postwar era remark about Karl Marx, all in a disjointed Sept 8 date.
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Carl Marx
Helena Lieutenant Killed in France
Helena Montana record Herald reports Lieutenant Herald H Joyce son of Mr and Mrs George J Joyce was killed in action in France on August 30 telegram delivered to the family home by Western Union manager Swesteter. The loss deeply affected his parents as the community honors his service in the great war.
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Montana
Roundup: Sugar Conser vation Violations Lead to Fines
Raemue Petereen, a drayman of Carpenter creek, paid 25 for contributing to the Red Cross after violating sugar conservation rules. Petersen, a single man with four in his family, secured sugar from a store by signing a sales slip and refused to show the receipt when asked. he faced a defense subpoena and accepted the penalty.
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Raemue Petereen
Carpenter Creek
Josepheon
Red Crees
Petersen
Beerdhang Bense
World War I News: Allied Pressure Advances in Balkans
Washington reports that Allied forces under Marshal Foch have pressed Bulgarie to seek a separate peace. The American army provides concentrated offensive power as western fronts continue to show gains. The brief notes ongoing war reporting with intermittent garbled lines.
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Washington
Mershe’ Foch
Bulgarie
Campaign Urges Cocoa Nut Substitutes Collection Drive
A wartime appeal urges families to collect fruit pits and nut shells as substitutes for cocoanut shells in carbon production. Red Cross and local stores set up collection centers in Sweet Grass County with boxes at Cash Grocery Yellowstone Stores and Sawyers to ship to Great Falls and beyond.
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Red Crosse
Sweet Grasse County
Cash
Yellowstone
Sawyer’s Grocery
Big Timber
Great Falls
Uncle Sam
Chrome mines development eyed at Contact district
Heard at Livingston on Sept 30 reports rapid chrome mining plans at Contact. Charles Blakely, owner of nearby properties, allegedly bonded all holdings to United States Steel. Mines are described as second only to the T. C. claim, with joint ownership by T. C., Benbow, and Mr. Barker. Large scale work expected once workers found.
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Livingston
Contact
T. W. Marlow
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