Community notes from Farmington and region
Farmington district updates include Mr and Mrs Jas Collins in Great Falls, cattle shipments planned by Jack Kerr, and many farmers reporting bumper potato crops. Local church meetings in October honor a service flag, with eighteen stars, and a Norwegian Lutheran church supper and sale slated for October 19. The article also discusses Baruch addressing price controls on goods and anticipated shoe price standardization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. Collins
Great Falls
Jack Kerr
Sunriver
Olaf Forseth
Theodore Bollerud
Bollerud Bros
T. S. Gap
Bess Kale
Gilman
Guy
Meta Kathmash
Chateau
T. A. Smith
Gunder Hanson
Goward
Nels Johnson Place
Mr. Gillaland
Gamble
Alice Otnees
Ellen Hanson
Spokane
Dolalie
Evenson
Hanson
Wolaire
Price controls expand to all wearing apparel
War Industries Board will regulate prices and distribution of nearly all wearing apparel. Chairman Baruch announced at a National Dry Goods Association meeting that fixed shoe prices are only the first step in a broader policy to control clothing costs and distribution. He warned exhibitors not to doubt the program and asserted it must be done.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baruch
Mr. Baruch
War Industries Board
National Dry Goods Association
Teachers Examination Dates In Four Montana Cities
Grace M. Thompson announces teachers examinations in Chateau Conrad Valier and Cut Bank on October 24 and 25 with sessions for second and first grade subjects such as Arithmetic Algebra Theory and Practice History Civics Geography and other professional courses. If necessary a Saturday session will be held. First publication October 10 and last October 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chateau
Conrad
Valier
Cut Bank
Grace M. Thompson
Rankin notes shift in women voters rights
Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin of Montana observes that former women constituents pursue their right to change their minds. The piece mentions the YWCA operating hostess houses in cantonments and recalls humor about miners riding in autos once used to pull farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeanette Rankin
Montana
Animals as sentinels in war tales and odd observations
The piece notes how animals sense danger before humans, citing birds locating approaching aircraft, parrots at the Eiffel Tower, pheasants, pigs, hens, toy dogs, cats, and cavalry horses adapting to gunfire sounds. It mentions a robin nest found in an empty shell case as a striking image of resilience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nia
Agathe
Animal Kingdom
Eiffel Tower
Bac
Zepparimas
Srk Mieng
Girl in London Air Raid Ward Shows Harsh War Wounds
Irvin S. Cobb recounts visiting a London hospital where a severely maimed girl clings to a painted doll and sings. One hand lost at the wrist, the other badly shattered, she lies with a bandaged stump and a remaining hand swathed in wrapping, a haunting image of wartime suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Prussia
Irvin S. Cobb
Saturday Evening Post
Move to Save Wild Turkeys in Washington State
Prisoners at the Washington state penitentiary run a game bird farm and raise wild turkeys for Thanksgiving. With wild turkeys thinning in western forests, Warden L. R. Darwin begins larger scale breeding and summer flocks to repopulate the woods. He is crossbreeding to create a hardy self sustaining bird useful to poultrymen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Penitentiary of Washington
L. R. Darwin
Nurse Girl Not Mother Says Tommy
Tommy observes a hen brooding fancy incubator chicks in a school yard. He notes the hen cannot be their mother and, after a moment, declares she is only the nurse girl in a humorous kindergarten moment.
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Tommy
Tom
Portraits and busts in Tongatapu palace spark diplomatic notes
The New York World recalls Tonga’s relations with Germany before and after World War I. A life size Kaiser portrait gifted by Germany hung in Nukualofa’s palace, alongside busts of Frederick and Bismarck used as hat racks on festive occasions. After hostilities began, Britain urged removal citing Tonga as a protectorate, though Tonga remains an independent kingdom with a monarch, cabinet and parliament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Tonga
Pacific
Kaiser
George Tubon II
Archipelago
Weeteen
Nukunalofa
George
Lmporory
Frederick
Ixiace von Bismarck
New York World
History wrought in stone in architecture Francé supreme
In architecture Francé is supreme. Noting that without France there would be no Gothic architecture, Cass Gilbert praises French cathedrals Notre Dame Paris Bourges Reims Chartres Rouen Amiens Beauvais Coutances as miraculous feats of design and devotion. The piece argues these churches express a noble Franco spiritual ideal and craftsmanship spanning a thousand years, now threatened by German armies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francé
France
Cass Gilbert
Notre- Dame de Paris
Bourges
Reims
Chartres
Rouen
Amiens
Beauvais
Coutances
Germany
Wolf Howl Echoes From French Forests
In a scene from Sound of the Guns, Beebe recalls hearing a wolf’s cry in the misty woods near the front in France. The sound, vivid and haunting, rises with dusk and seems a symbol of the northern wilderness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Wiliam Beebe
Atlantic
Advertising hat sign by French inventor gains glow
A French inventor creates an advertising sign housed in an opera hat with letter holes covered by light fabric. When lit by battery lamps carried in a pocket, wiring runs up to the hat and the design flashes on and off via a coat pocket switch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Science Monthly
Chinese Admitted to Bar in California
Chang Chung Wing, a native of California, becomes the first Chinese American admitted to the California bar. He received his papers from the district court of appeals after an examination in which he scored 96 out of 100. He ranked among the top three in the class of 86, where 49 passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chang Chung Wing
Calfornia
District Court of Appeals
Importance of Canned Tomatoes in Army Feeding
Government calls for a 50 percent rise in canned tomato production from tomato canning states. Canned tomatoes supply energy and curb thirst, reducing water needs in camps and on the march, as noted by the People’s Home Journal.
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People’s Home Journal
Cost of Enrolling a Soldier as Drafts Rise
Figures from early draft records show government cost about five dollars per man drafted. Draft board expenses were seven cents of this total. In contrast volunteer recruiting cost about 24.48 in 1914, 3819.14 in 1915 and 28.95 from mid 1916 to April 1917, including travel and subsistence prior to acceptance.
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Popular Science Monthly
Fortified Berlin Locked by Hidden Giants and Siege Lines
Swedish-born John Erickson claims Berlin is ringed by massive hidden guns set in seven feet of granite within pits. The batteries, spaced 125 to 150 feet apart in two defensive circles, are covered by a dirt roof with grass and crops growing above. Electric controls allow rapid deployment when the German army needs them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
John Erickson
Sweden
Erickson
Motla
Germany
Ericson
Electric light in the cow barn advertised for farms
An ad describes how a Delco-Light system can safely light a cow barn and other buildings. It notes cows can kick over lanterns but a wired ceiling light is controlled, and promises a demonstration at the reader’s home to show how milking can be quicker with electric illumination and powered equipment.
Diarrhoea Treatment Advised For Children
An early 20th century notice recommends Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy for children one year old or older. It urges keeping the remedy on hand and giving a dose of castor oil at the first sign of unnaturally loose stools in the bowels.
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Farmington
Tion
The
Handsome
Chateau Hardware Co
Irving
Cobb
London Hospital
Wapinndtr Suis A
Psiate
Tonga King’s
Mone Ares Tri
Brande
Henry Kind
Power
Ford Auto and
Tractor Attachment
R. G.thorn, Choteau
S. Maccany, Choteau
Cook Car
C. EB. Struthers
Dick Gorter
Fairfield State Bank
W. A. _ Cleland
G. H. Hotaling
Oetf
Glasgow
Estrayed
J. BE. McCullough
Fairfield
Stafford
Pure Oil Co
Choteau
Burton Beach
W. W. Gamble
Choteau, Mont
Maxwell Roadster
Rogers-Templeton Lumber Co
Hirshberg
Acantha
Gulre
E. D. Beeman
Spokane Hotel
Wash
Belleview Stock Ranch
W. D. Luther
Mary Co. Taylor
Union Bank
Trust.Go
Burbank
A. C. Furbank
J.-J
Otness
Farmingter
Avery
Emerson
R. J. Bonin
Joe Ettema
Maceacre
Agawam, Mont
Wah
HL. HaHaday
S. W. Snyder
Burton
Te Ata
McCullough Electric Co
Teton and
Toole “Counties
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