Payroll gains lift Montana business outlook this fall
Barclay Craighead reports rising payrolls in Montana improve employment and business optimism. In February 1939 about 64,564 workers were in firms covered by unemployment compensation, now estimated over 73,000. Mines in Butte reopen to add 1,950 jobs. 1,200 of 8,650 claimants found steady work. 27,000 benefit checks totaling 325000 aid unemployed workers. A farm accident near Belgrade claims William R. Kight, 50.
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Montana
Barclay Craighead
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Butte
Great Falls
Anaconda
Commission
Employment Service Division
The
Nation-Wide Lutheran Hour Broadcasts Announced
The Lutheran Hour with Dr. Walter A. Maier resumes Sunday Oct. 29 on 81 stations coast to coast. Choral groups Lutheran Hour chorus and St. Louis a cappella choir return, directed by William B. Heyne, broadcast 26 weeks Sundays 2:30 to 3 PM over KFYR Bismarck North Carolina.
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Walter A. Maier
Concordia Seminary
Lutheran Hour Chorus
St. Louis
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Dr. Maier’s Lutheran Hour Gains Broad Religious Reach
The Lutheran Hour has broad reach opposing atheism and communism and distributing crosses to listeners. Since 1931 Dr. Maier has become a spiritual confidant through broadcasts and devotional literature, with 135 000 letters from audiences last fall and winter and 10 000 letters in one week from diverse denominations.
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Lutheran Hour
Dr. Maier
Thou
Great Falls Youth Killed in Navy Bomber Crash
Teland E. Hall a native and lifelong Great Falls resident dies in the fog collision of two navy bombers over Black Mountain near San Diego California He was a 1935 Great Falls high school graduate and served as a navy radio operator He is survived by his parents his wife Evangeline Koles and a sister in Great Falls
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Teland E. Hall
Cascade
Great Falls
Black Mountain
San Diego
Calif
Hall
E. L. Hall
Evangeline Koles
J. W. Platt
Greatalls
Helena Man Knew Zane Grey as Boy in Zanesville
Ed Johnson of Helena traces his family back to Zanesville’s early inhabitants and Zane Grey’s maternal lineage. The longtime Ohio connection spans slavery era kinship, the Zane family and Black Mess Johnson, with Johnson recalling a long overdue letter to Grey before the writer’s death.
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Zanesville, O
Grey
Zane Grey
Altadena
Calif
Dude
Johnson
Helena
Zanesville
Ohio
Will
Heys
Johnsons
Zanes
Ed Johnson
Black Mess Johnson
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Wheeling
Black Mess
Col
Ebenezer Zane
Ake
Zane
Johnathan Zane
Muskingum River
William McCulloch
Silas Johnson
Mess
Ohio River
Sarah Zane Young
Silas
Mr. Johnson
Northwest Airlines posts growth in passengers and revenue
Crosl Hunter president of Northwest Airlines reports September passengers up 81.2 percent from a year earlier with passenger revenues rising 63.1 percent. Mail and express also gain while no seasonal drop occurs. Four more 21 passenger Douglas transports were bought to meet rising traffic and winter demand.
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Crosl Hunter
Northwest Airlines
Hunter
License Stats Show Growth in Pilots and Aircraft in 1938
As of October 1938 the United States had 21 526 pilots holding active federal licenses and 16 091 aircraft. This marks increases of 1 p pilots and 1 661 planes since October 1937.
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