Zig Zag Reading Technique Sparks Broad Debate
National advertising of Conoco Bronze gasoline promotes a Zig Zag reading style that reverses word order on alternate lines to reduce eyestrain. Critics call it gimmickry while supporters cite faster reading times and novelty.
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Conoco Bronze
Conoco
Chicago
Reader's Digest
Daily Democrat
Durant
Okla
al Falfa
Excelsior Springs
Linotype
Advertising Age of Chicago
County Superintendent Suit in Chinook Faces Challenge
Mrs Alberta Ronne Flynn, former Blaine county superintendent and now Chinook teacher, sues her successor Mrs Ruby Schwaller Ellis in district court to oust Ellis from the county superintendent’s office. Flynn alleges Ellis lacks valid certificates or standard college qualifications and seeks a declaration of Flynn as the lawful incumbent.
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Chinook
Alberta Ronne Flynn
Blaine County
Ruby Schwaller Ellis
Ellis
Fort Peck Dam Construction Expands With Early Season
Fort Peck reports an earlier start to the building season with several work items advancing. Employment has risen to about 3,140 men as the dam project proceeds ahead of the usual seasonal increase. The article also notes Mozart toured at age six and a fan crediting a ring on his left hand with his early brilliance, which he then removed to play even better.
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Fort Peck
Mozart
Senate
House
Congress
Missouri River
Fort Peck Dam
State Board of Health
Lake
Petroleum County
Assembly
Manhattan World’s Fair Air Map and Transit Routes
The document lists express routes and landmarks from Manhattan to the World’s Fair grounds including Fifth Avenue and 34th Street location, Wall Street distance, Triborough Bridge entrance, Holland Tunnel route, Battery, bridges, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Grand Central Parkway, North Beach Airport expansion at 30 million dollars, and the New Whitestone Bridge as a direct gateway from New England and Canada.
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State
Fifth Avenue
34Th Street
Fair Grounds
Wall Street
Lower Manhattan
Triborough Bridge
Holland Tunnel
New Jersey
Williamsburg Bridge
the Battery
Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan Bridge
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Queensboro
59Th St
Grand Central Parkway
North Beach
Whitestone Bridge
New England
Canada
Legislature weighs bills on prisons and licensing changes
Montana lawmakers consider a prison study commission and a second Lake County seat. the Senate kills HB 186 and defeats a drivers license bill. Other actions include barbershop pricing, unemployment tax relief, anti married woman employment, and airport development. Appropriations for custodial institutions pass. salary loan cap fails. insurance control moves to state level. several concurrent measures approved or concurred. State water projects await funding decisions.
Electra: A Small Modern Home For Newlyweds
Western Homes Foundation presents Electra plan by Howard H. Riley offering 564 square feet in a modern one bedroom design. Built for about 2256 dollars at 4 dollars per square foot with FHA financing a small monthly housing cost is feasible. District Office Helena Box 214 and local lumber dealers supply working plans.
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Western Homes Foundation
Howard H. Riley
W. C. Bell
Western Homes Foundaon
Bell
Winnna
Hama
Ausy
Equippeu Blueeaus
Electra
Helena
WPA administer Parker outlines water conservation projects
Joseph E. Parker state WPA administrator outlined the status of state water conservation projects to be financed by WPA for an open forum meeting with senate and house members.
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Joseph E. Parker
WPA
Parker
Senate
House
Stone House Landmark Being Torn Down Near Augusta
The old stone house along Flat Creek Road near Augusta is being dismantled and its material used to upgrade a modern ranch owned by Durnin & Proctor. Built by the Embody family in the 1880s, it served as Hogan post office and later changed hands to Frank Woodard before becoming a cattle and sheep operation. Descendants of Embody now live in Conrad.
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Flat Creek
Augusta
Durnin & Proctor
Embody
Hogan
Frank Woodard
Louis Heitman
White Sulphur Springs
George Cook
Lewistown
Conrad
Poultry Breeders Tour to Visit Montana Aug 9
William G. Ferguson Montanans Inc. says a special train of foreign and U S poultry breeders will arrive in Montana on August 9. The group travels across the United States after the world poultry congress held July 28 to August 7 in Cleveland.
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Helena
William G. Ferguson
Montanans, Inc
United States
Montanna
Cleveland
Population in United States and New England in 19th century
In 19 29,000,000 people were in the United States and 9,000,000 lived in New England, illustrating regional population distribution.
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United Sta
New England
Hound Trailed Car Dynamiter recall in western Montana
Bloodhounds were added to the Forestry Service staff in western Montana to search forests for lost persons. An Hamilton elder recalls an early century incident when a dynamite blast destroyed the town’s first automobile owned by F. H. Drinkenberg, as J. J. Fitzgibbon incidentally filed the memory.
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Forestry Service
Montana
Hamilton
F. H. Drinkenberg
J. J. Fitzgibbon
Bloodhounds on Western Montana Trains and a Pioneering Driver
The article recalls the use of bloodhounds to track a dynamite case linked to Drinkenberg and notes his garage incident. It mentions a dog found dead at the Daly estate with a note signed Dynamite Dan, and describes early automobile adoption around 1907 as Hamilton and Ravalli county figures era.
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Heonras
Drinkenberg
Hamilton
Daly
Dynamite Dan
Jody Stokes
Ravalli County
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State Nursery and Seed Co
Helena, Montana
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New York World’s Fair
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Lake County
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Board of Examiners
Public Welfare Department
House of Representatives
Labor Committee
State Highway Commission
Warm Springs
Galen
Insurance Control Board
State Board of Equalization
Committee of the Whole
Sullivan
Silver Bow
Stone House
Hound
Car Dynamiter
North Montana State Fairgrounds
Great Falls
Dan P. Thurber
North
Montana Hereford Association
At Mirage
Suse
Martha West
Book of Household
Montana Flour Mills Company
Great Falls, Montana
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