A. K. Yerkes Montana Pioneer Printer Arrives West
Foreword recounts A K Yerkes as a pioneer Montana printer editor from Miles City Coulson Billings Bozeman who journeys west on an Indian pony to aid a cow driven program for Sioux relief. He narrates hardships of cattle drives from Alexandria Minnesota to Standing Rock and the lessons of frontier life.
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Montana
Treasure State
A. K. Yerkes
Minnesota
Miles City
Coulson
Billings
Bozeman
Seattle
Yerkes
Plains
Ottertail
Douglass
Kansas
Oklahoma
Carlsle
Alexandria
Minn
Fort Standing Rock
Standing Rock
Suttor
Hostetter
North Dakota
Sandime Rock
Missouri River
Paris
Sned
New Jersey
Brown's Valley
Minnesota River
ButteChosen Airway Center Hub of National Parks Airways
Montana to become center of operations for National Parks Airways Inc with headquarters move from Salt Lake City to Butte. Hangar and shops to be built at Butte airport to service trimotored planes and passenger traffic. Company aims to expand, keep mail service Salt Lake City Great Falls, and eventually run regular passenger service. August–December figures show 19,517 pounds mail and 432 passengers, 164,829 miles at 104 mph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Parks Airways, Inc
Montana
Salt Lake City
Butte
Herbert Marsh
Great Falls
Salt Lake
Butte Municipal Airport
Felix Stenle
Marsh
Priday
Colonel Thompson Receives Top U S Horticultural Honor in Boston
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society awards Col William Boyce Thompson of Yonkers the gold medal for advancing horticulture. Thompson built the Yonkers plant research institute with a vast endowment and laboratories. Previous recipients include Sir Harry Weltch and Liberty Hyde Bailey.
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Bype
George Robert White
America
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Boston
William Boyce Thompson
Yonkers
Boyce Thompson Institute For Plant Research
United States
John Flanagan
Thompson
Montana
Boulder
Butte
New York
Lst
Charles 8. Sargent
Arnold Arboretum
Jamaica Plain
Mass
Harry James Weltch
London
Walter van Fleet
Washington, D. C
M. Pernet- Ducher
France
A. P. Hedrick
Gensye
Gensye Experiment Station
Pierre 8. DuPont
Wilmington
Del
Liberty /Hyde Bailey
Ithaca, N. Y
Woman Oil Expert Visits Butte in Mineral Research
Mrs. C. B. Kelley, a prominent woman geologist with discoveries in oil, gas, phosphate, and metals across North America, arrived in Butte on professional business. A Barnard and Northwestern University graduate, she noted few women in the field and cited major finds in Alberta and British Columbia plus oil wells for Standard Oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
C. B. Kelley
Baron von Hagen
Dusseldorf
Germany
Barnard College
Woman's Department
Columbia University
Mexico
Canada
United States
Standard O11 Company
Northwestern Exploration Company
Kelley
Alberta
Black Diamond
British Columbia
Standard Oil Company
San Jacinto Battlefield
Texas
Northwest
Burkeburnett Field
San Jacinto
Across the Plains Insomnia Memoir Snippet
A travel fragment recalls sleepless nights on a trip across the plains. The narrator contrasts insomnia with the usual farmyard anonymity of cows from Northern Minnesota, hinting at unusual restlessness on the journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Plains
Investment Securities From H. B. Lake & Co
A circular listing diverse bonds and stocks including Canadian National Railway 434s 1968 Hooker Electrochemical 6s 1953 and Dominion Square 6s 1948, with Associated Gas & Electric 5s 1938 and North American Aviation Common among others. Also notes Peoples Light & Power Common and Pettibone Mulliken 7% Preferred, plus Maneie Gear units. Market details unavailable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian National Railway
Hooker Electrochemical
Province of Nova Scotia
Associated Gas & Electric
Keystone Water & Electric
Meline Mortgage Co
Dominion Square
Fuller Building
Peoples Light & Power
O Star Corpn
Maneie Gear Corpn
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A. K
Custer
Uncle Sam
Sitting Bull
Yellowstone River
St. Paul
Cowboy
Dakota
Black Hill
Bismarck
Missouri
Herman
Boas
Butte Chosen
Icig
Horac Eo
Castoria
U.S
Col
Can
H. B. Lake & CO
Ford Bldg
Great Falls, Ment
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