Hoboes Target Montana Gridiron Road Trips
A Missoula feature recounts Montana college men forming a Hobo club to ride free to football games. Members earned travel by bum's means, rode boxcars and sleeves rolled up through Pullman, Bozeman, Minneapolis, and beyond. The club grew to a third of students and earned campus recognition.
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State University
Missoula
Montana College
Spokane
Pullman
Wasr
Bozeman
Butte
N. P
Montana
Northwest Conference of Colleges
Washington
Oregon
Coast
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Hobo Club
State Agricultural College
Aggie Bees
North Coast Limited
North Coast
Limited
Andy Getchell
Northern Pacific
Hell Gate
Getchell
Agun
Reed Point Women Boost Town Pride With Baseball Team
Reed Point in Stillwater County gains praise for its ambitious women led baseball team. The town’s players, many remaining residents, continue to promote Reed Point while former rivals and spouses alike celebrate the spirited local effort.
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Reed Point
Stillwater County
Homesteader Creates Northern Empire in Montana Frontier
In northern Montana counties Sheridan and Valley history shifts from cowboys to homesteaders. Railroads arrive, grain replaces range, and towns like Plentywood boom. Scobey markets nearly 2 million bushels in 1915 while Great Northern and Soo Line railroad expansion reshapes the frontier.
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Patrick E. Burke
Montana
Sheridan
Valley Counties
Valley
Dakota
Missouri River
Great Northern
Mondak
Havre
Scobey
Bainville
Plentywood
Scobey’s meteoric growth linked to Great Northern line
The article recounts Scobey Montana rapid town growth after Great Northern Railway expansion from Plentywood through Redstone Hill to Scobey. It notes early 1900s population boom, hundreds of new buildings, multiple hotels, banks and stores, a major grain trade with Canada, customs duty, and plans for a new county seat and an additional railway feeder from Poplar to Opheim.
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Sheridan County
Plentywood
Fort Peck Reservation
Plenty Wood
Soo Line
Ambrose
North Dakota
Whittail
Scobey
Great Northern
Poplar
Montana
Scobey Country
Redstone Hill
Redstone
Flaxville
Opheim
Uncle Sam
Sheridan
Valley
Chicago
Daniel Webster Opposed Railroad Through Northwest Montana
A historical passage recalls Daniel Webster’s Senate protest against ideas of building a railroad across the Missouri and Rockies into the Montana region. It notes contemporaries who doubted western value, calling the area barren and desert, with skepticism about rail access and settlement prospects.
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Northwest
Montana
Daniel Webster
United States Senate
Great Northwest
Missouri River
Rockies
Monana
Columbia
Webster
Great Britain
Oregon Country
Divide
Prairie Country
Missouri-Columbia
Pacific Coast
Boston
Edward Everett
William L. Dayton
George D. Prentice
George McDuffie
United States Becomes Richest Nation as Resources Grow
Comptroller Williams reports U S resources rose by more than 4 billion in two years to 15.52 billion, surpassing major world banks. Federal Reserve plans to appoint them as correspondents as nations borrow from the United States after the war. Montana leads in wealth per capita in the union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Williams
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Bank
Montana
Union
Montana's First Wireless Linked Miles City to Jordan
A 90 mile commercial wireless telegraph line will connect Miles City and Jordan in Dawson county. The project marks Montana's first foray into wireless long distance communication.
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Miles City
Jordan
Dawson County
Montana Crop Values Quadruple in Seven Years
A Montana report to Governor Stewart shows crop values rising from 31.9 million in 1909 to 94.9 million in 1916. Wheat value up fivefold to 46.13 million, corn up elevenfold, oats and barley near doubling, rye fourfold, flax threefold, potatoes and hay up notably. Original homestead entries reach 126,000 since 1909, with 28.29 million acres.
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Montana
Seth Maxwell
S. W. Stewart
Maxwell
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Lena Findley
Venus Oglesby
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S. J. Bassett
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H. B. Boyles
Nellie Reynolds
Miss America Razor
Marion,Kan
Daniel ‘Webster
West
McDuffie
Senate
Indies
Rocky Mountains
Sahara
Louisville
Russia
Siberia
England
Botany Bay
Missouri
Washington Irving
Rosebud
Custer
Prairie
Dawson
Wibaux
Richland Counties
Irving
Captain Bonneville
Yellowstone
Bank of England
Bank of France
Bank of Russia
Reichsbank
Bank of Italy
Bank of Spain
Bank of the Netherlands
Bank of Denmark
Swiss National Bank
Bank of Japan
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