Deer Lodge Girl Wins Art Award
Lorraine Graeter of Deer Lodge wins the Frank Alvah Parsons memorial scholarship to study at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. At Montana State College she has held leadership roles in Delta Phi Delta and the Art Club, edited the Montanan yearbook, and acted in college plays while pursuing strong scholastic achievement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York School of Fine and Applied Arts
Montana State College
Frank Alvyah Parsons
Lorraine Graeter
Deer Lodge
Olga Ross Stannon
Paris
Frank Alvah Parsons
Miss Graeter
Delta Phi Delta
Art Honorary
Mortar Board
Montanan
Edith Allport
Montana State
Caroline Busch
Butte
Wilda Parker Axelson
Margaret Gordon
New York City
Jayne Tuttle
Freight Wars and Chinook Winds Shape Early Montana Days
Over 1863 to 1878 freight rivals cut rates from 60 cents to under 3 cents per pound, yet limited shipments in winter helped trigger Montana’s 1869 1870 downturn. Merchants overstocked, placer mining waned, and many firms failed. spring 1870 brought renewed activity as placers yielded again. The piece links freight peril, Chinook winds, and the era’s rough road to Montana’s growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. Kerttula
Montana
Utah
Colorado
Lucky
Freight Rates and Railways Shape Montana Trade in 1860s 1870s
The narrative tracks freight shifts from pack trains and river freighting to railroad competition in Montana. It notes rates from 15 to 60 cents per pound, toll-road profits, and the rise of river and overland rivals. By 1872 rates fell as Corinne and Missouri river services battled rail expansion, lowering costs and transforming living standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph
Leavenworth
Kan
Walla Walla
King and Gillette
Prickly Pear Canyon
Montana Business and Historical Directory
Missouri River
Fort Benton
St. Louis
Benton
Helena
Union and Central Pacific
Montana
Corinne
Utah
Henrys Fork
Beaverhead
Far West Co
Far West
Missouri
Union Pacific
Northern Pacific
Minnesota
Dakota Prairies
Bismarck
Pittsburgh
Letters Written in 1842 Had No Envelopes and Stamps
The 1842 letters of Joseph Annin, father of W. B. Annin of Columbus, Montana, show mail without stamps or envelopes, sealed with wax and marked 10 paid. A four page November letter details beef, potatoes, cider, soap, wood, and garden bulbs sent from Boston. Other notes recount planks, a nightly stagecoach, a skunk episode, embossed paper use in 1846, and reflections on thrift, honesty, and work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Annin
W. B. Annin
Butte
Columbus, Mont
le Roy
Boston
William and
James
Joseph
N. Y
Stanley
Annin
Dave
Columbus
New York
Montana
Livingston
Commerce and Exports of the Year on the Missouri Route
The record notes 18 830 tons of diverse merchandise valued at 4 687 500. T C Power Bros exported 552 tons including buffalo robes skins wool hides and ore valued at 304 750 and 3 650 tons were imported worth 912 500. Murphy Neel Co shipped 1192 bars bullion and George Clendennin released 750 head beef cattle all moving down the Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. Power & Bros
Murphy, Neel & Co
George Clendennin
Missouri
Good Will Tour of Park May 5
Governors of Montana Idaho and Wyoming will speak at Old Faithful in Yellowstone park to open the 1940 touring season. The Tri-state Yellowstone Park Civic association reports bands from Sun Valley Idaho and Casper and Powell Wyoming will perform. Cabin and hotel accommodations are listed at Gardiner Cody Red Lodge Cooke and West Yellowstone with park entrances already open to traffic.
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Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Old Faithful
Yellowstone National Park
Poenty
H. F. Taviin
Gardiner
Tri-State
Yellowstone Park Civic Association
Sun Valley
Casper
Powell
Lake and
Cody
Red Lodge
Cooke
West Yellowstone
Helena Chamber Forms Census Review and Tourists Meet
The Helena chamber directors appoint a committee to check census taker accuracy and set a general membership meeting for May 6 to discuss entertaining Helena's 1940 tourists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Chamber of Commerce
Helena Girl Wins First in Catholic Students Apologetics
Margaret Mullen of Girls Central high school Butte won first place in the annual apologetics contest at Helena Cathedral high school. She spoke on "Why Look to the Papacy for Leadership in Effecting World Peace?" Seven other Montana students from as many schools competed with no other rankings announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Mayo
Rockies
Treasure State
Montana
American Northwest
Alvin T. Barrows
United States Weather Bureau
Barrows
Nire
Kipp
Mont
Dillon
Red Lodge
Miles City
Havre
Helena
Weather Bureau
North
Pacific
America
Alaska
Russell
Charles M. Russell
Gland
Wallace Huidekoper
American Fork Ranch
Martinsdale
Boston
Margaret Mullen
Girls' Central High School
Butte
Helena Cathedral High School
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New York School
Scott
United States
Department of Agriculture
Columbia River
Hudson’s Bay Fur Co
Astoria
Ore
Oregon
Washington
Rocky Mountains
Dakotas
Wisconsin
YT. C. Elliot
Chinook
Great Northern Railroad
Elliot
Pacific Coast
Bancroft
Northwest
H Bancroft
San Francisco
Walter E. Taylor
Sam L. Simpson
Simpson
Oregon City
Madame Dorion
Oregon Parks
Ees
Lloyd Oakland
Oakland
Conservatory of Music
Cornell College
Montana State University
California
Ake
OLD Faithful Inn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Jessen
Fife
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