Detouring Montana to Avoid Blackfeet Indians Led Hunt Party
A 1811 Overland Pacific Fur Co. expedition led by Wilson Price Hunt veered into Idaho while avoiding Blackfeet territory. The party, enlarged to 60, faced hostile terrain and losses, with several members breaking away to avoid deeper danger. Early members included Crooks and McLellan, plus Miller and Dorion as guide and interpreter, and scientists Bradbury and Nuttall.
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Montana
Hunt
Pacific Fur Co
Pff
Wilson Price
Blackfeet
Idaho
Snake River
Lewis and Clark Hunt
St. Louis
Lewis and Clark
Missouri River
Andrew Henry
Missouri Fur Co
Three Forks
Donald McKenzie
Crooks
Robert McLellan
McLellan
Joseph Miller
Pierre Dorion
John Bradbury
Thomas Nuttal
West
Missouri
Dorion
Arty
Columbia River
Falls of the Columbia
Astoria
Reed, McKenzie and McLellan
Toole Is Named Liquor Counsel Toole Is Named Liquor Counsel
Warren Toole of Great Falls was chosen as assistant administrator and general counsel for the Montana liquor control board filling the vacancy created by James J. Bretts resignation to enter private business. Toole, son of Montanas first governor, has served as chief legal counsel for the Montana highway commission since last April and earlier was associate justice of the Montana supreme court and city attorney of Great Falls.
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Warren Toole
Great Falls
Montana Liquor Control Board
Ke Toole
Montana
James J. Brett
Brett
Montana Highway Commission
Highway Board
Montana Supreme Court
John E. Erickson
Toole
Placard Hints of Suffrage War and Hunt’s western route
A pre 1914 Montana placard opposing woman suffrage surfaces in Butte during office cleanup, echoing anti suffrage arguments and the submerged tenth claim. The article recalls Ella Knowles Haskell in 1897 and notes suffrage sentiment west of the state. It then recounts Hunt’s overland departure from Arikara villages with 82 horses, later adding 36 from Cheyenne, and his group establishing a trading post at Henry’s fort after Henry pursued a different route.
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John Reed
McLellan
Crooks
Fort Henry
McKenzie
Columbia River
Hunt
Dorion
Squaw
Reed
Dorian
Andrew Henry
Lewis and Clark
Arikara
Dakota
Davis E. Wilder
Consolidated Ticket
Butte
Montana Association
Adon
Montana
Ella Knowles Haskell
West
Manuel Lisa
Missouri Fur Co
Henry
Three Forks
Lisa
Lewis Fork
Snake River
St. Louis
Big Horn
Yellowstone
Missouri
Miller
State liquor board pays for temper education program
The state liquor control board, under a law from the last legislature, pays 5000 for the temper education commission also created by that session. The law limited spending on temperance education to 8500 or 85,008? The OCR text shows 85,008, indicating a fixed cap.
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Temperance Education
State Liquor Control Board
Montana aerial program payments to 2085 applicants
Thus far payments totaling 369,004.01 have been made to 2,085 applicants in 19 Montana counties for completion of compliance under the 1937 aerial conservation program, says Borton, executive secretary of the parent agricultural conservation committee.
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Montana
Borton
Paren Agricultural Conservation Com
Three Quarter Wife and Lydia Pinkham Ad
An advertising feature depicts a woman’s monthly cycle and mentions Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy. It claims the product helps nature tone the system and eases functional disorders. The ad urges readers to buy from their druggist, noting over a million women reportedly benefited.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
LYDIA _E. PINKHAM
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Hunt’s
Flathead Country
LeClerq
LeClerc
John Day
Day
Ther
Robinson
Butte Railway
Conoco Bronze
Conoco
Continental Oil Company
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