Purple Cross organization offers help to care for soldiers dead
Montana readers learn of a new American Purple Cross association formed to handle the care and return of fallen soldiers bodies from Europe. The group proposes embalmers, training, transport, and maintenance funded by the association, seeking integration with the Army quartermaster department under War Department oversight.
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Montana
War Department
American Purple Cross Association
Europe
United States
Vera Cruz
Howard
J. H. Mowbray
Philadelphia
District of Columbia
Quartermaster-General’s Department
Red Cross
Army Medical Department
Henry G. Sharp
United States Army
Baker
Purple Cross
France
Paris Captain Guynemer Uses Gun Trigger Camera
French flying ace Guynemer has a camera attached to his machine gun so a single pull photographs the target. The system is being adopted by the American aviation squadron to secure war pictures during combat.
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Paris
Guynemer
Army medical officer reserve corps ranks reveal gains
New York reports progress toward filling 24 000 trained medical officers with 12 000 in sight. Of doctors in the medical officers reserve corps there are now 350 majors 1 367 captains and 7 158 first lieutenants.
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New York
Army
Overwork Babes to Dodge Army in Butte and Silver Bow
Rumors reach draft boards in Silver Bow county about seven married couples using one dependent child to claim exemptions for husbands. A woman allegedly served as wife to two men, neither of whom is married to her. Investigations by federal agents are under way in Butte and other Montana cities, with possible arrests once the first quota is set.
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Draft Board
Butte
Silver Bow
Iowa City
Montana
Department reports tripling of canned foods in 33 states
The department of agriculture states that three times as much canned and dried foods have been put up in 33 states this year as in the previous year.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
St Mary Milk River irrigation project completed in 1916
The St Mary Milk River project, cost about 4.7 million dollars by June 30 1916, will irrigate 220000 acres in Montana and Canada. An international treaty directs Milk River Canada to carry flow and divide output between nations. Dams reservoirs and canals now serve towns Chinook Harlem Dodson Malta Saco Hinsdale Glasgow with Great Northern rail access.
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St. Mary River
Milk River
Montana
Reclamation Service
Hudson Bay
Atlantic Ocean
Glacier National Park
Canada
St. Mary
Missouri
Plains
Dominion Territory
Nashua
Mont
Great Northern Railways
Chinook
Harlem
Dodson
Malta
Saco
Hinsdale
Glasgow
Montana Patriotism Surges in War Effort and Red Cross Support
A Montana tribute notes the state supplied its full regular army quota without drafts, led national volunteer numbers, and exceeded Liberty Bond and Red Cross targets. It lauds practical patriotism over rhetoric, then shifts to a light verse about women’s summer fashions.
Farm Lands For Sale In Montana Classifieds
Multiple Montana listings advertise 160 acre fully equipped irrigated ranches near Helena with 618 acres Churchill Home ranch on Missouri river plus 10000 acres Fergus county irrigated or dry land with 20 percent down and ten year terms at 6 percent. Additional notices offer seven sections of land at 7.00 per acre with 2.00 cash and 10 year balance, and other prospects in Lewistown Great Falls Livingston and Judith Basin with brokers and direct owner deals.
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Bowden
Junod
Helena
Mont
Churchill Home Ranch
Missouri River
Lippard Siding
BE. K. Vidal
Great Falls
Montana
Fergus County
John A. Coleman
Box
Lewistown
J. W. Hefferlin
Livingston, Mont
Judith Basin
Farmers Land Co
Ftoriabuperemtveus Co
Ent
Canadian Pacific
Alberta
J. J. Hakin
Dunnbik
Aliberta
J. I. Hakin
Dunnblock
ACRH
Washington
W. Hoyle
Henry C. Gorham
Fifth Ave
WANTED TO LEASE Montana paper and shop for sale option
Classified notes seek weekly newspaper and job shop lease in Great Falls Montana with long-term or six month buy option. Also ads for piano sale 500 up from Montana Piano Co Butte. Photography studios advertise services and amateur developing from Lewistown. 680 acre mostly farmed property for quick sale in Great Falls district.
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Montana
Great Falls
Mont
Great Falls Realty Co
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American Purple Cross
NEW Patriotic Society
Silver Bow County
Chesterfield
Lem Ie
ST. Mary's River
Atlantic
Milk River Valley
Samuel
Nature
Union
Regar
McAdoo
Brother
Farm Land Loans
Bennett & Terrell
Billings
Hilger Loan and Realty Co
Escallier Sheep Company
Cascade
Escallier Sheep Co
Casade
C. B. Power
Todd Block
N. Y. State
Walter Storm
Vaughn
MS McGivern CO
Lee Forest Garage
Great Falls, Mont
O. A. Tronrud
Lamby-Thurston Motor CO
1St Ave. N
Packard, Hudson, Liberty, Saxon
Agents
J. J. O'Leary
Talbot Ave
Butte, Mont
Montana Piano Co
Bern
Empire Studio
Diamond Block
Lewistown, Mont
Accountants and Auditors
E. ST. Joln Howley
Ford Building
Harley-Clark & CO
Tod
Douglas Wilson & Co., Inc
Ford
Carlsbad
Eagle Drug Co
California Council of Defense
Homestead Bureau of Montana
Bronco A. Cumming
Siddline Men
Canfield Mfg. Co
Sigel Street
Chicago
Ill
Freeman
Dillon, Mont
Collies
Highwood
C. L. Harris
Robert H. Lindsay, Jr
First
Nat. Bank Bldg
Architects
Curtis C. Ofhmb
Stapleton Block
Geo. H. Shuanley
Birat __National Bank
Sam's Nenry Haas
Bel. Ees i Nat. Bank
Western Hide, Pelt & Fur Co
A. J. Mohr
Hix jAgency, Inc
Mercantile Service Ca
Mon
Avery
Daly Bank
Anaconda
Auto School
Montana Automobile School
South Main
Frig Oil Cielan
Roy Franklin Heath
Billinogs
Tout & McCarthy
Ont
Lewis & Walker
Wyoming
Furriers
Beekman Bros
Butta College
State Street
Wyoming Oil
Wyoming Monnan Public Oil Exchange
Casper
FURS
Richard P. Hoenck
A. Ranh
Minneapolis
Montanrn
Falla
Wood-Sa Machine Works
Fair
Ness- Theispn Construction CO
Certified Accountants
WM. B. Finlay
First National Bank
Bynum
Teton County
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