War Price Policy Aims to Curb Profits and Hold Prices
The War Industries Board announced there will be no exorbitant profits and that allied governments will pay the same prices as the United States for war materials. It pledged to protect the public while ensuring fair prices for industry and warned of possible drastic actions if talks with manufacturers fail. Robert S. Lovett stated readiness to act, preferring non legislative means. The food control bill also passed, giving full power over sale and distribution of foods feeds and fuel.
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United States
New War Industries Board
Council of National Defense
Robert S. Lovett
The
War Board
Chautauqua Boosters Tour To Advertise County Event
Chouteau residents traveled through the south end of Teton county to promote Chautauqua in Choteau from Friday August 10 to Wednesday August 16. The Choteau band performed in each town Fulfilling stops in Bole Fairfield Power Dutton Collins Brady Agawam Pendray and Bynum. Attendees included T O Larson R M Farrington John A Gleason Power Morgan Co R Ellis Geo Burrell and others. Weather limited the trip but towns gave a royal welcome and invited all to attend.
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Chotteau
Teton County
Choteau
Boosters
Hon. T. O. Larson
Bole
Fairfield
Power
Dutton
Collins
Brady
Agawam
Pendray
Bynum
T. O. Larson
R. M. Farrington
John A. Gleason
Power-Morgan Co
Co. R. Ellis
Geo. Burrell
E. J. Crary
Lewis Thompson
Chris Hanson
Dave Burt
Wm. Hodgskiss
Max Bishop
Chas. Dunn
Tod
Congress Urged to Fulfill Duty in War Authority
A message stresses Congress must pass laws while the president executes them. It urges Congress to perform its duty with as much vigor as the president, expressing hope for satisfaction if standards are met.
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Congress
Draft Board at Work in Teton County Examinations Begin
The selective draft examination for U S army service starts in the county courthouse with Drs Rhoads McGregor Maguire Dixon Powell to assist. Sheriff Wim Miller Clerk Garrett and County Physician Rhoads head the exemption board as 129 men appear today and 130 on Saturday. Officials estimate many 388 called will not meet the 194 quota, possibly requiring a second call and perhaps 1000 men to appear before the full quota is reached.
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Teton County
United States Army
Rhoads
H. J. McGregor
Hoteau
Maguire
Brady
Dixon
Bynum
Powell
Walier
Wim. Miller
FE. C. Garrett
Teton County High Adds Normal Training Course
At a recent board meeting the Teton county high school approved adding the normal training course, enabled by state aid. The state designated the local school to provide the program, with future certificates requiring two years of normal training after 1920.
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Teton County High School Board
State Board of Education
Teton County
Why We Are In This War Section Quotes
A collage of historical and wartime quotes from leaders and thinkers. It presents arguments for liberty rights and moral justifications, with lines attributed to Jefferson Lincoln Franklin and others, interwoven with proclamations by Kaiser Wilhelm II and Nietzsche. The fragment ends with a note, continued on page 4.
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Continental Congress
Red Cross auxiliary forms and work plan outlined
The Collins auxiliary organized with officers Id Walker chairing and C P Crane secretary. Pendroy auxiliary formed with G B Larson chair and two vice chairs due to drafting. The chapter plans to cut garments for auxiliaries to standardize finish and improve efficiency.
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Red Cross
Collins
Chas. McDonald
E. N. Haupgen
Chateau
Collins Auvxilary
Id., Walker
Tulso
C. P. Crane
Ben Feist
M. C. Dietrich
KE WN. Haugen
A. DeYong
G. B. Larson
Peterson
Malcolm
H. C. Hunt
Hunt
Beatty and Foltz Marry at Great Falls Parsonage
Miss Madge Beatty of Great Falls wed Fred Foltz of Choteau Monday at the Presbyterian parsonage in Great Falls. Beatty has ties to Chateau through relatives, while Foltz, long a Choteau resident, resigned from Choteau Mercantile Co. and will honeymoon on his Jordan homestead in Dawson county. The couple was joined by friends including Mr and Mrs T H Givens.
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Great Falls
Madge Beatty
Fred Foltz
Chautauqua Opens With Ready Stage And Hopeful Ticket Demand
Ready for Chateau Chautauqua opens Friday afternoon with a tent set at the north end of the courthouse. Season ticket sales lag behind guarantors’ expectations, but organizers hope to sell the full guarantee by opening time.
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Court House
High School Seeks Bids for 40 Tons of Coal
The board invites bids to furnish 40 tons of Sand Coulee mine run coal to be stored in the high school bin by September 1. Bids should be addressed to Wm. Wallace and J. W. Kerr, coal committee, and received by the clerk by 2 p.m. on Wednesday August 15. Grace M. Thompson, Clerk.
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Wm. Wallace
J. W. Kerr
Grace M. Thompson
Opening of Teton County High School Delayed Not
The Teton County High School opens Tuesday September 4 with new law requiring school to furnish textbooks. Some previous books retained and sellers can bring usable books to Mr Dietrich for appraisal. Former students urged to act quickly to participate. In knitting sweaters for soldiers girls should make arms belt length.
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Teton County High School
Dietrich
Marriage licenses issued this past week in Shelby County
Clerk Paul Jacobson reports licenses granted to Jessie Guideon Henderson and Helen Mogg of Shelby Walter Fincher and May Cashman of Bynum Wm Dunwoody and Nellie M. Russell of Blackleaf in the past week Germany aims for a winner take all war effort is noted as a contextual aside.
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Paul Jacobson
Jessie Guideon Henderson
Helen Mogg
Shelby
Walter Fincher
May Cashman
Germany
Bynum
Wm. D. Dunwoody
Nellie M. Basis
Russell
Blackleaf
Senate Passes Administration Food Bill With Major Provisions
Washington August 8 The senate adopted the administration food bill by a 66 to 7 vote after the house concurrence. The measure empowers the president to control food fuel fertilizer and farm equipment and imposes drastic prohibition features. Prompt Hoover appointment as food administrator is expected. The action ends congressional work on the program begun last May and awaits Wilson's signature to become law.
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Washington
Senate
House
Wilson
Hardwick
Hollis
Herbert Hoover
Gre,ihairman
Senate Agricultural Committee
Sherman
Ote Roth
Congress
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Chautauqua Boosters Trip
Draft Board
Wes
Wier
Ding
New York Tribune
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Gettysburg
Kultur
Empire
William
Potsdam
Ralph Waldo Semerson
God
Thomas Jefferson
William Ellery Chenning
Ulysses&. Grant
America
Daniel Webster
Bunker Hill Monument
Patrick Henry
Wendell Phillips
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
General von Bernhardt
Frederick Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
H. von Treitschke
Friedrich Nietzeche
Providence
Chamberlain
K. Wagner
Beatty-Foltz
Citizens State Bank
Montana
Reed
France
Gronna, la Follette and
Penrose
Federal Reserve Banking
Federal Reserve System
First National Bank
Choteau, Mont
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