Large Road Program Completed in 1939
Montana's highway program for the last fiscal year completed 122.8 miles of roads and streets, eliminated five grade crossings, rebuilt two obsolete grade crossing structures, at a cost of 3,165,590 dollars with 2,127,653 dollars from federal funds. Federal aid for the current year totals 2,598,494 dollars, including 2,032,384 for highways, 304,858 for feeder roads, and 261,252 for grade crossings. Forty-two covered bridges remain in use in North Carolina.
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Montana
Washington, D. C
Public Roads Administration
Ate
Highway Department
Winds Drive Ranch Power to Create Jacobs Wind Plant
In 1921 22 a Montana youth built a small radio transmitter powered by a ranch generator. Windmills and then a three blade propeller powered the station and ranch needs. The Jacobs brothers formed Jacobs Wind Electric Co to mass produce wind electric plants later supplying Admiral Byrd.
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Montana
KGCX
Voice of
Cow Creek
Montana Oil Company
Joseph H. Jacobs
Joseph
M. N. Jacobs
Jacobs
Jacobs Brothers
M. L. Jacobs
Jacobs Wind Electric Co
Minneapolis
Minn
Jacobs Wind Electric
Richard E. Byrd
South Pole
Little America
Admiral Byrd
Prison inmates attend classes at Montana state penitentiary
The Montana State Penitentiary runs an education program under Warden Theodore R. Bergstrom with about 208 inmates in nearly 70 class meetings weekly. Sponsored by the State Board of Education and aided by WPA, the program offers grade, commercial, literacy, language, drafting, and other courses, plus correspondence studies from colleges.
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Montana State Penitentiary
State Board of Education
Theodore R. Bergstrom
WPA
Clarence F. Fogg
Wallace P. Akers
Bergstrom
CBS News Expert Elmer Davis Leader in Calm Reporting
CBS News analyst Elmer Davis, described as a master of understatement, earned national trust through measured delivery. He began as a schoolteacher in Indiana, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, reported for the New York Times, wrote widely for magazines, and then moved into radio.
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Elmer Davis
CBS News
Davis
Indiana
Queens College, Oxford
New York Times
Cultivated Appreciation Lets Children Learn Giving
A visiting cousin observes a grandmotherly lesson on generosity as two twins donate small gifts to their grandparents. The scene contrasts strict budgeting with giving from the heart, prompting reflection on teaching children to share blessings.
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Hilda Richmond
Dottie
Don
Grandfather
Mary
Prison education program aims for inmate work training
Instructor Fogg describes hygiene endeavors as the program objective. After training, inmates are assigned to trades and occupations in the prison by Warden Bergstrom.
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Giene
Fogg
Bergstrom
State bids sought on six road and bridge projects
The Montana State Highway Commission will open bids December 21 in Helena for six road and bridge projects across five counties. Projects include grading and timber trestle bridges on routes such as Helena Canyon Creek, Deer Lodge-Butte, Roundup-Forsyth, Fort Benton-Chester, and Glasgow-Opheim, with multiple timber structures and drainage works. Estimated costs were not disclosed.
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The
State Highway Commission
Helena
Helena Canyon Creek
Lewis and Clark County
Deer Lodge- Butte
Deer Lodge
Fort Benton-Chester
Liberty County
Glasgow-Opheim
Valley County
Roman imperial taxation system reaches high efficiency
The Roman empire extended its official taxation framework to an unprecedented level of efficiency. Officials leveraged streamlined administration to maximize revenue collection and control across vast provinces.
Evil thoughts and minds dwell on them in secret
A concise reflection asserts that unwanted thoughts may arise to anyone but only a wicked mind chooses to dwell on them and act upon them.
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Lentfer Bros. Taxidermists
Livingston
Lewis & Walker
Wyoming
Butte
Catalos
McCarroll’s
School OF Beauty
Union
Jessie M. Grefig
Granite St
Mills Novelty Company
Dept. G. Box
Great Falls
Slayton Laboratory
Loma
Mont
Richardson
Cawker City
Kansas
Everett
Seattle
Whillans
Rockefeller
Wash
Pasco
Pasco Winery
Ralph Trout
Lander
Columbia Basin
Washington
Edwin Leland
Moses Lake
Fairfield
R. E. Hassard
C. E. Spurgin
Billings
Frary & Burlingame
Great
Palls
PARMS
Fort Peck Dam
Missouri
Glasgow-Fort Peck
Box 218
Glasgow
Price
Fred Chandler
Chariton, Towa
Bevis Orchards
Tonasket, Wash
Miles City
Hopstetter
Paul Kaye
East ND Street
New York
Harrisburg
London Fur CO
E. Colfax
Denver
Colo
Jenny Matteson
Sheridan, Wio
Ball
Pleasant
Chicago
Carl Weber
London
Windsor Castle
North Carolina
Wea
iMobilgas
Socony-Vacuum
Edwards
George Edwards
Wingston, Mont
South Bend
A. I. Nelson, Rudyard
Alaska Junk Company
Adams St
Spokane
ODNET
ANS Finance CO
Palestine
Texas
Universal Service
New York City
Wee Photo
FOX Studios
Aillines
SUN Produce Coo
Helena Stamp Works
Helena, Mont
Pacific Stamp Works
Sprague Av
General Electric
Auto Parts Co
ELGIN
O. ML
Sampbele
Clarissa Ave
Los Angeles
Calif
L. OC
Simith
P. O. Box
Montens
Cleveland
Ohio
M,n. A. Deo
Ker
Enley
Theodore KE
Bergstrom School
National Kindergarten Association
West 40Th Street
Bad
Liberty
Valley Counties
Goon Hee
Calvert
Sale Ata
Calvert Distillers Corp
Alou AS
Fred
Julius Easster
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