Oldest Montana postal employee faces retirement after 38 years
Billy Bishop, 78, a long-time Helena post office official, is slated to retire under a 65 age rule despite appeals by Helena officials to Washington. He has served through the South Main Street office era and earlier locations, with 30 years yielding a maximum pension of 60 dollars a month. The department denied retention beyond the near 40-year tenure, and Bishop begins vacation while retirement looms. In other news a Polish counter offensive with bayonets near Pultusk north of Warsaw challenges Russian advances.
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Helena
Washington
Billy Bishop
Congress
West
Bishop
South Main Street
Joseph Davis
Masonic Temple
Broadway
Main Street
Post Office Department
General Woodruff a Hero of Big Hole Battle
Brigadier General Charles A. Woodruff, retired, died in Berkeley California on August 13 1920. He was the last living commissioned officer who fought at the Battle of the Big Hole in 1877 where 180 white troops faced Nez Perces and Bannock forces. Woodruff, wounded three times, rose from private to captain and later served on General Gibbon’s staff. Senator W A Clark of Butte recalled aiding Gibbon at the Big Hole and the pursuit of Chief Joseph, with Miles eventually forcing surrender in the Bear Paw mountains.
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Charles A. Woodruff
Berkeley
California
Big Hole
Nez Perces
John Gibbon
Woodruff
Gibbon
the Big Hole
Montana
Idaho
Pacific
Bitter Root Mountains
Bear Paw Mountains
Blaine County
Joseph
Miles
Nez Pérces
Wallula Valley
Howard
West Point
Yellowstone
Fort Shaw
Custer
Reno
Big Horn
Deer Lodge
Butte
Helena
Battle of the Big Hole
W. A. Clark
Senator Clark
Degr Lodge
Horse Prairie Creek
Lemhi
Monida
Snake River
Yellowstone Park
Plains
Mississippi River
Fort Keogh
Bearpaw
Heir Born To Marcus Daly Millionaire Founder Story
Montana readers learned that an heir to Marcus Daly’s fortune was born at the Radium Institute in New York after a Caesarean by Dr. B F Roller. Daly’s son Marcus Daly Jr inherits a wealth estimated at 25 to 30 million dollars and Daly’s rise from Irish immigrant to copper magnate is recounted with notes on family, partners, and the Anaconda mine empire.
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Marcus Daly
Montana
Marcus Daly, Jr
Radium Institute
New York
B. F. Roller
Daly
Bie von Herrenreich Young
Church of the Ascension
Percy Stickney Grant
Altois von Herrenreich
W. Harry Young
United
Butte
Margaret Evans
Yale
John D. Ryan
John G. Morony
Ballyjamesduff
County Cavan
Ireland
United States
Brooklyn
California
Nevada
Senator Hearst
Salt Lake
Walker Brothers
Alice
Great Anaconda Hill
Utah
Anaconda
Hearst
Messrs
J. B. Haggin
One Tevis
San Francisco
Haggin
Tevis
Helena
St. Lawrence
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Swansea
Wales
Lake Superior
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific
Bitter Root
Netherlands
Radiium Mine Near Kalispell Claims First Deposit Found
Dr C H Stanley and seven partners filed claims for a radium deposit discovered in the mountains near Java along the Great Northern railroad east of Kalispell. Stanley reports detection via fluorescent screen and notes the rock near the site emits strong rays casting his shadow from about 100 feet underground. A ranger once found a rock that sparked when moved, later tied to the same radium site.
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Java
Great Northern
Kalispell
C. H. Stanley
Stanley
Secral
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Helena P. D. Clerk
Capital
Department
Pultusk
Warsaw
Postum Cereal ‘Co, Inc
Battle Creek, Mici
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