Firebug in Trouble Again in Montana Fires
Gertrude Linderman a 44 year old woman was arrested at Neihart by State Fire Marshal W G Brooks as a suspect in several Montana blazes. Paroled from Kalispell prison in 1928 after a 10 to 20 year sentence following a confession about a White blaze. She admitted setting a Whitefish fire but denied the major Brooks-Scanlon Lumber blaze in Kalispell.
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Gertrude Linderman
Neihart
W. G. Brooks
Brooks
Montana
Kalispell
White
Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company
Stevenson
Whitefish
Mae Sherrill
California Fig Syrup Aids Child Appetite Energy
Mrs. X Erickson of Los Angeles raves about California Fig Syrup as a remedy for a sluggish stomach and low energy in her daughter. The article touts its digestive aid benefits and urges buyers to look for the genuine product bearing the California name.
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Mary
California
Doctor Explains Buffalo Bluffers and Realistic Cowboy Terms
Dr. John A. Donovan of Butte, a cattleman and Boy Scout official, discusses the term trying to buffalo as rooted in reality. He describes the Dixon region buffalo herd near Polson Missoula and notes the wild buffalo’s bluffing behavior, advising standing ground or a stout fence when encountered. He traveled with John Moree to Dixon to photograph buffalo and elk, with film pending development for a private revue.
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John A. Donovan
Butte
Donovan
Buffalo
Polson
Missoula
Dixon
United States
Tiome
Will
John Moree
Fish and Game Commission
Powder River Rancher Gene Garr Dies in California
Gene Garr Broadus rancher died after illness at his son Earl’s home in Los Angeles. Garr lived on the Powder River 40 years twelve miles from Broadus. Survived by widow who left for Los Angeles, sons Earl of Los Angeles and Horace on a Broadus area ranch, daughter Mrs Frank McLean teaching in Broadus. Funeral services were held in California.
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Gene Garr
Broadus
Garr
Earl
Los Angeles
Big Powder River
Horace
Frank McLean
California
Call them reimbursements not dividends for failed banks
Reader questions why funds from failed banks are called dividends and argues they are simply returning depositors' money, proposing the term reimbursements as more accurate.
Extortion Plot Spreads Fear in Superior Community
Authorities investigate letters threatening Mrs. Nellie Diteman and her son Floyd Tamietti over a supposed insurance payout. A $500 ransom was demanded to be placed under a school garage board. Officials are unsure if the letters come from Spokane gang members or local culprits.
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Superior
Nellie Diteman
Floyd Tamietti
Spokane
Diteman
Rev Blackwood-Prices crogs yield two healthy lambs in Saintfield
The lineage of Rev E H Blackwood-Price reported two healthy lambs born recently in Saintfield Ireland. The event highlights local agricultural activity and animal husbandry in the parish.
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E. H. Blackwood-Price
Saintfield
Ireland
Parkin Active Civic Affairs Leader From Gallatin County
E. J. Parkin a Republican senator from Gallatin county who has served in the Montana House and Senate, is a Bozeman civic leader and former mayor and commissioner. Born in Pine Island Minnesota he moved to Bozeman in 1903, educated at Carlton College and the University of Minnesota. He is a Baptist and Mason, married with two children, and has worked in real estate loans and insurance while supporting a commission manager form of county and city government as optional by county choice.
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Montana
Pp. S
Missoula
Frenchtown
Joseph
Deer Lodge
McAndrews
Deer Lodge County
Drouillard
Higgins
E. J. Parkin
Senate
Gallatin County
House
Pine Island
Minn
Bozeman
Carlton College
University of Minnesota
Senator Parkin
Blue Lodge of Masons, Royal
Arch Masons
Knights Templar
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Missoulian
Firebug
State Penitentiary
Grace Stone Coates
David Hilger
State Historical Library
Helena
Nez Perce
Potts
Chauncey Barbour
Missourian
Lolo Pass
Barbour
M. T
Coeur d’Alene
Bitter Root
Fort Owen
Charles
George Washington
Custer
Nez Perces
General Gibbons
Stevensville
Chicago
West
Camas Prairie
Gen. Gibbons
Howard
P.s
Rosse’s Hole
Gibbons
Red Rock
Henry’s Lake
J. H. Mills
Mills
New Northwest
Sheriff of the Co
McMasters
Bear
Dispatch
Congress
Bayer
Ways of Buffalo
CERES
Mindum
DURUM
Fargo
Hope Wheat
Marquis
Speltz
Hope
Marquillo
ODAK
Powder River Rancher
Parkin
J. Parkin
Gallatin
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