Experiences of an Early-Day Telegraph Operator at Silver Bow
James E. Stuart recalls his eighteen months as night telegraph operator at Silver Bow junction near Butte Montana after Hell Gate canyon work for the Northern Pacific. He details lonely nights coyotes Aeolian wires and his mentor D D McLaughlin who later became a tennis instructor and poet with Montana Standard features.
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Hell Gate Canyon
Montana
Northern Pacific Railway
Silver Bow Junction
Butte
Silver Bow
D. D. McLaughlin
Mac
Balboa Park
San Diego
Montana Standard
Standard
Silver Bow Canyon
Deer Lodge
Utah & Northern
Meas
Crash near Fort Shaw injures Muncich kills Chalmers near Farmington
Pilot John Muncich and farmer Walter Chalmers were involved in a crash northwest of Great Falls. Chalmers died. Muncich was injured and unable to determine a cause amid reports that aircraft controls may have locked. Silver Bow served as a terminal station during early Utah and Northern expansion.
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John Muncich
Fort Shaw
Walter Chalmers
Farmington
Muncich
Great Falls
Mauncich
Silver Bow
Utah & Northern
Silver Bow Canyon
Deer Lodge Valley
Garrison
Silver Bow Creek
Butte
Mac
Brown's Gulch
State University Missoula Opens New Student Union Building
The new Student Union Building on the Montana State University campus in Missoula opened during Homecoming weekend after years of effort by students faculty and alumni. The 1 463 seat theater a student store offices and three ballrooms anchor a center designed to centralize student life and hosting events from concerts to convocations.
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State University
Missoula
Public Works Administration
State of Montana
State Board of Education
Montana
Colege
The
Montana Masquez
Associated Students
Kirk Badgley
Philip Roberts
Helena
Wilbur Wood
Man Smith Boone
Great Falls
Stanley Koch
James Meyers
Drummond
Night Terror in the Silver Bow Wareroom
A night shift worker recounts waking cold and blind in a dark wareroom, fearing robbers, then finding the door locked. After a tense search he escapes by discovering a hidden latch, warms by a red hot stove, and reflects on somnambulism and a later career setback at Silver Bow and Deer Lodge.
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Tak Aren Pont Shag Reeves
Silver Bow
Butte
Deer Lodge
Sinclaire
Acton Girl Burns Survive After Gasoline Stove Explosion
Lila Gullard, 18, of Acton, is in her third month of battle after a gasoline stove explosion burned her from neck to feet in her home. She has slept under a special covering to keep bed clothes off the wounds and shows signs of improvement. Her sister attempted to help by rolling her on the ground and throwing water on the flames.
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Lila Gullard
Acton
Billings
Lila
Rate Reductions Denied by Interstate Commerce Commission
The ICC blocked proposed grain rate cuts from Canadian and southern points to eastern terminals. Montana and flour millers pressed for an 8 cent rate, keeping Montana at 12 cents, with protests upheld by the Montana commission. The decision cited no emergency warranting the reduction.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
State Public Service Commission
East
Montana
Montana Commission
Missoula Officials Help Gas Crises in Basin Tale
L. J. Croonenberghs and Robert H. Fletcher from Montana’s highway department recounted an odd incident on a dawn drive to Helena. Fletcher, wife Mrs Fletcher and W. G. Ferguson of Montanans Inc. found a gas shortage after forgetting to fuel up near Basin. They persuaded a local pump owner to lend gas after a brief altercation reflecting cooperation between the department and Montanans Inc.
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L. J. Croonenberghs
Missoula
State Highway Commission
Robert H
Bob” Fletcher
Highway Department
Fletcher
W. G. Ferguson
Montanans, Inc
Helena
Butte
Basin
Joes
Bayer Aspirin Promises Safe Regular Headache Relief
Readers are urged to consult their family doctor about safe regular use of Bayer Aspirin. The ad touts Bayer Aspirin as a fast, safe remedy for headaches and pains of rheumatism neuritis and neuralgia with a long track record of consumer safety. It stresses asking for the genuine Bayer Aspirin by full name at any drug store.
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Bayer Aspirin
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James E. Stuart
Missoula’s
the Roundup Coal Mining CO
Anaconda Copper Mining CO
Dept. “C
Anaconda, Mont
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