Good Fairy Statue Spreads Joy Across the World
Helena resident Mrs. Jessie Raleigh sister of George Barr McCutcheon and John McCutcheon conceived The Good Fairy a small alabaster figure meant to beckon happiness. Created with Miss Josephine Kern in Chicago, it has grown into a world wide movement with clubs promoting self help and positive action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh
Helena
Jessie Raleigh
George Barr McCutcheon
John McCutcheon
Josephine Kern
Chicago Art Institute
Atlantic
Pacific
Montana Births in 1916 Prompt Child Welfare Bill
Twelve thousand Montana babies were born in 1916 with boys outnumbering girls by about a thousand. A proposed bill would fund child welfare by charging $2 for marriage licenses, directing revenues to welfare work. Public health advocates cite infant mortality as a key social indicator and urge broader sanitary and housing reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
W. F. Cogswell
State Board of Health
Cogswell
Baltimore
Chicago
United States
Margaret Hughes
Helena
Babes
Boards of Health
Senate
Longest Mail Route Driven By Circle Woman
Mrs Fletcher of Dawson county built the longest U S mail line from Circle to Watkins across 105 miles with 15 post offices serving 10 000 residents. She started on a cayuse twice weekly, moved to autos and now drives a six cylinder stage daily in all but the coldest weather. The route connects Glendive Paris Circle Brockway Watkins and Crowley with a broad 4 000 square mile territory and a 40 mile railroad shadow.
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Circle
Cayuse
Watkins
Fletcher
Dawson County
United States
Redwater
Glendive
Paris
Timber Creek
Lindsay
Union
Woodrow
Brockway
Watkins and
White
Crowley
van Norman
Brockway Bulletin
Butte Telegraph College Grows in Montana Fame
Butte shifts from mining camp to city hub with its telegraphy college. It claims Montana’s only telegraph school and the west’s largest, enrolling over 125 and placing dozens with railroads and businesses. Telegraphy offers a clean, quick path to steady income with four to six months of study at under one hundred dollars.
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Butte
Butte College of Telegraphy
Montana
West
Northwest
England Seeks Women Workers for Farms Under Policy Change
A government agriculture official says women are needed in large numbers on English farms as many female workers leave for munitions mills for higher pay and weekend holidays. The plan aims to remove from recruitment lists men deemed essential to farming.
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England
Department of Agriculture
The New Gauntlet Gloves Price List
The article lists soft lustrous champagne and white leather gloves priced at 2.50, washable kid street gloves with crochet forchettes at 2, washable ivory kid muff gloves at 2.25, and lacquer glove boxes at 2.50. It notes long evening gloves are rare and current high prices limit demand, with many women owning several pairs.
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Howard EB. McCoy
London
Ont
Detroit
Mich
U. S
Dawson’s
Vero Pegil
Symons
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