Browning World’s Greatest Firearms Designer Visits Montana
The silent self effacing John M Browning, Ogden Utah, is hailed as the world’s leading designer of pistols rifles and machine guns. His work spans Winchester patterns Colt automatics and the Browning machine rifle praised for deadly effectiveness in France with 14 pound weight and 20 round capability.
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Browning machine gun praised as crowning gunmaker achievement
Army officers tout the Browning machine gun as a powerful defense against bayonet charges. It weighs 31 pounds, fires at 500 rounds a minute, and has logged 40,000 shots without a lull. Gun designer Browning calls it his career peak, though he deflects praise.
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Forest Fires Reach Levels Lacking 1919 Toll
Last two weeks see new fires with smoke haze across parts of the state though not matching the 1919 season. In 1919, three died and 200 injured as 1,957 fires burned 624,740 acres, destroying timber worth 1,863,452 and costing 1,293,539 to fight, totaling 3,156,891 for Montaha’s losses. Montana holds 26 million forest and mountain acres with three-fifths in national forests, plus 500,000 state forests and 5,000,000 private acres and 5,000,000 public domain or Indian reservations.
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Fergus Reports Strong Winter Wheat Yields
Threshing is slow but early reports from eastern Fergus show winter wheat yields around 30 bushels. Recent rains boost expectations that spring grain crops will also produce good yields.
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Montana Bankers Hear W A Clark Pioneer of Montana
At the Montana Bankers convention in Butte former Senator W A Clark spoke on Montana history and his rise from humble beginnings in Bannack to vast business influence. The address touched on taxation, the Anaconda Company, and alleged state tax disparities, while warning bankers to guard against agitators after crop failures and social unrest.
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Bartley Named President by Montana Bankers at Butte
P B Bartley vice president and cashier of the Conrad Trust and Savings Bank Helena was chosen president of the Montana bankers association at the Butte convention August 6 7. Bartley has been in Montana banking 14 years and was closely linked with the late W G Conrad becoming an executor of his estate.
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Mighty Twohy fortunes born of grit and expansion
Associates of Marcus Daly and D. W. Twohy rose from modest beginnings in Butte to a vast Northwest business empire. They built railroads from 1890s plans, owned banks, shipyards, and timber interests, with headquarters in San Francisco and branches in Seattle Portland and Spokane.
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State Insane Asylum Needs New Building
Anaconda Rotarians heard Dr. J. M. Scanland Warms Springs superintendent review the State hospital’s growth from 18 patients in 1877 to 1,325 today. He outlined needs including a women’s building 75000 dollars a recreation building 125000 dollars a working patients building 60000 dollars and additional farm buildings. The plan hasRotary endorsement to go to the next legislative session with state rotary clubs backing.
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Whisky Lost in Milk River Flood Becomes Local Legend
Longtime Milk River fisherman Dad Minugh discovers a corked bottle of Bourbon whiskey aged 23 years in the river. The bottle, part of 100 bottles lost in 1897 when a wagon capsized, sparks town efforts to dredge the river or divert water to recover the rest.
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Prices of Hides Drop in Montana Markets
Dealers report a strong downward trend in Montana hide and pelt markets with no quotations for horse hides and sheep pelts. Beef hides bring 8 to 10 cents a pound, calfskins 17 cents, and sheep pelts around 15 cents, far below last year's levels where calfskins were 5 cents and beef hides 35 cents a pound.
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