Scenic Highway Opens Picturesque Vacation Land
Historic Cooke City in Montana rises again as a scenic route announces new life near Yetone Park. The town, once a booming 1870s mining camp tied to Jay Cooke, endured decline after early gold extraction faded. Local lore recalls Ansel Hubble, E. S. Topping, and General Miles, plus tales of Indian raids and champagne camps.
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Cooke City
Yetone Park
Jay Cooke
Philadelphia
Cooke District
Ansel Hubble
Topping
Billy
Hamilton
Joseph
Canada
Rean
Miles
Nev
Campo California
Ghost Town Rises Again Near Cooke City After New Highway
Cooke City Ohio? No, Montana town revived by a three million dollar Yellowstone park highway opening. Deserted streets fill as mining reopens and flour gold draws prospectors. Forefront figures Mr and Mrs Jack Allan run a historic hotel while a rustic elk horn barber serves locals and tourists. Nearby Grasshopper glacier and prehistoric animal remains attract scientific expeditions from Princeton University.
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Cooke City
Yellowstone Park
Beartooth Mountains
Cooke
Montana
Princeton University
What Makes Geysers Spout Now Solved by Investigation
A seven year Carnegie Institution study of Yellowstone geysers resolves why eruptions occur. Researchers led by Dr. Arthur L. Day find superheated water, steam pressures, and cavity chains beneath geysers drive jets, with irregular intervals and overestimated heights. Old Faithful and Excelsior show varied discharge and timing, while Imperial ceased after steam vents opened.
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Carnegie Institution of Washington
Arthur L. Day
Geophysical Laboratory
Carnegie Institution
E. T. Allen
Yellowstone Park
Day
Yellowstone Springs
Lion Geyser
Norris Basin
States Test Cotton in Highway Construction Projects
Montana and 23 other states join 32 state program under Agricultural Adjustment act funds to test cotton fabric as reinforcement membranes in bituminous highways and to use nearly 90,000 mats for curing concrete roads. The program aims to cover over 575 miles of roads with fabric and mats, financed by 30 percent of customs receipts redirected to new uses.
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Montana
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Secretary of Agriculture
Sleepy pedestrian killed by train near Butte
A man identified as May Ray Russell was found fatally struck on the railroad near Butte after reportedly sleeping on the tracks. Authorities say the victim wandered onto the rails and was hit by a train, ending the life instantly.
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Butte
May Ray Russell
Open Season For Upland Birds To Be Set By Board
The state fish and game commission will meet in Helena on July 13 to fix the open season for sagehens pintail and ruffed and blue grouse. Later a pheasant period will be set. The commission seeks precise information from sportsmen on season conditions to avoid hearsay.
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State Fish and Game Commission
Helena
Game Commission
Cooke City Returns to Life as Gold Mining Buzz Sparks Dreams
The Montana mining camp revives as researchers, miners, and tourists boost activity. Cooke City, once nearly forgotten, sees renewed energy with dynamite blasts echoing through valleys and renewed faith in big developments ahead.
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Montana
Cooke City
Helena Teacher's License Plates Taken From Car
Sheriff reports Montana license plates 5336 stolen from Tate Peek's car in Helena. A punchboard owner sold a prize board to a pool hall operator and two others promptly punched out winning numbers, then fled in a 1936 coupe with plates 5336. No confirmed link to Peek. theft used to avoid identification.
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Helena
Tate W. Peek
T. W. Peek
Peek
Montana
Grape-Nuts offer for new membership pin and prizes
Send top from a full size Grape-Nuts package with your name and address to Grape-Nuts Battle Creek Mich for a new membership pin and certificate and a catalog of 49 free prizes. Offer expires Dec 31 1936 good only in USA. The same fine cores in a new package.
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Battle Creek
Mich
U.S.A
General Foods
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