Courageous Pioneer Women of Montana Endured Frontier Trials
In 1877 Mrs. Alice Reed Shock and her husband joined a wagon company from the Black Hills to Montana. They faced hunger thirst and danger from hostile Indians as they traversed remote plains and rimrocks. A mule herd driven by natives threatened their fortune and survival, prompting a plea for aid denied by Fort Custer.
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Glendolin
Damon Wagner
Uch
Montana
Alice Reed Shock
James Reed
Black Hills
William Allen
Billings
Coulee
Butte
Shock
Fort Custer
Wolf Creek
Burnham
Reed
Brewer
Concrete poured for 32 hours at Polson city reservoir
Seventy-seven? 67 men worked in four shifts to pour concrete for walls and footings of Polson’s new city reservoir under WPA supervision. The 12 inch thick walls use 109 cubic yards of concrete with heavy steel reinforcement and a coffer dam to prevent leaks. The project aims for a 60 foot diameter, 15 foot deep twin reservoir with a 275 000 capacity and will connect to the existing system once finished.
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New City
Polson
B. Joe Wilson
WPA
Merle Sandon
Wilson
Rom Troy
Wilson's
Nez Perce Raid Impacts Early Montana Settlement
Mrs. Reed and neighbors endure Nez Perce war path across Yellowstone valley with stage raids and small battles near Canon creek and Brockway. Crows profit from horse capture while settlers fortify Stillwater area. Reed sustains family by washing and ferry work before moving to Coulson and later Billings.
Former Helena Resident Abner Hall Dies in Oakland
Abner Jim Hall 80 longtime Helena resident died recently in Oakland California where he had lived since retiring from Helena business ventures. He once ran a book and curio shop in Helena and later joined Ha Gilmore and Van Brent in the Gmore Furniture Co. Hall born 1859 in Marysville California worked as a printer's devil in Portland Oregon before moving to Montana by cattle trail. He served as the first customs collector at the Canadian border post at Piskun in 1900 and gained Montana attention in 1935 when a Chinese tong chose him to officiate at a ceremonial burning of stolen bank pets floating to sea.
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Abner
Jim) Hall
Helena
Oakland
Calif
Ha Gilmore
van Brent
Gmore Furniture Co
Brent
Hall
California
Marysville
Baker Ore
Oregon
Portland
Masonic E
Montana
Pocatello
Idaho
Dan Haggerty
Wwistown
Lorina Samples
A. P. Samples
Fo Benton
Canadian
Piskun
China
San Francisco
Pacific
Montana Winter Wheat Crop Estimated At 20 Million Bushels
Montana forecasts an 18 364 000 bushel winter wheat harvest this year with a 10 year average above six million bushels less than 1938. The season brings moisture to boost crops while rains offset drought, aiding beets and sugar crops and easing cricket and hopper invasions in eastern Montana.
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Montana
Bureau of Agricultural Icstry
Extension Chemist to Retire After 40 Years of Service
Professor Edmund Burke of the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station will retire as head of the chemistry department after nearly four decades of service. He will become a consulting chemist on a half time basis to analyze and interpret research data from the retrenchment period. Burke, born in 1865 in Niles Michigan, arrived in Montana in 1888 at age 23 and has held membership in the American Chemical Society since 1900.
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Montana Agricultural Experiment Station
Edmund Burke
Sap. 1
Clyde McKee
Burke
McKee
United States
Montana State College
Montana
American Chemical Society
Niles
Mich
Coun
Montana Girl's Steer Crowned Grand Champion at Intermountain Show
Helen Monforten 11, of Gallatin Gateway Montana owned and showed a grand champion Hereford weighing 892 pounds at the Intermountain Junior Stock show in Salt Lake City. Her sister Marie won first in beef showmanship while Helen placed third. Over 400 head of baby beef plus hogs and lambs were judged and sold.
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Montana
Helen Monforten
Gallatin Gateway
Intermountain
Salt Lake City
Orval S. Brown
Utah
Marie Monforten
Helen
One of Montana’s Last Indian War Vets Buried at Crow Agency
John Stanley of Joliet Montana one of Montana’s last Indian fighters was buried at Custer Battlefield National Cemetery Crow Agency He enlisted in 1876 served five years at Fort Custer and later worked as tinsmith sheepman and school janitor He was born January 3 1854 in Ogdensburg New York and died recently leaving a widow as survivor He married Christine A Smith in Boston October 1881 and moved to Billings area before relocating to Joliet in 1931 He was a member of Nelson A Miles Camp No 12 Indian War Veterans.
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Montana
Custer Battlefield National
Crow Agency
John Stanley
Joliet, &5
Stanley
Old Fort Custer
Taft
Roosevelt
Billings
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Third Infantry
Montana Frontier Post
Tie
Christine A. Smith
Boston
Joliet
Nelson A. Miles
Montana State College Chemist Remains A Physics Of Agriculture
Professor Burke, a Montana State College chemist and meteorologist for the Montana agricultural experiment station since 1906, advanced from preparatory work in 1898 to a B S in 1907 with studies at Cornell and Michigan State. His research spans eight fields from soil analysis to nitrate accumulation and cement chemistry, and he has been active in community life as Bozeman mayor and Alumni Association founder.
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Montana
Montana State College
Cornell
Michigan State College
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station
Burke
Bozeman
How Women in Their 40's Can Attract Men
Guidance for women entering menopause ranges from 38 to 52 describing fears of reduced appeal and symptoms like hot flashes and moodiness. It advises fresh air, eight hours of sleep, and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to boost vitality and ease nervous symptoms.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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Byerly
Glacier Park
Crown Prince
Olay
Martha
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Park
D. S. Libbey
Polson City
Reeds
Stillwater
Plains
Custer Hill
Joseph
MacAdoo
Brockway
Canon Creek
Ed Forest
Hank Eastman
Heffner’s
Heffner
Mrs. Shock
Park City
Rapids
Coulson
Hoskins
McGirl
John Alderson
Burnstein
Thomas Nicholson
MacAdow
Muggins
Taylor
Custer
Helen Banks
Wickersham
John Shock
Jim” Hall
Lewistown
Bureau of A Cultural Economics
New Exce
Edmund Burke SR
America
General Electric Supply Corp
Ava
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