Statistical report shows US losses far lower than Civil War totals
A War Department summary by Col. Leonard Ayres tallies American casualties in World War I at 120,000 killed or died, with 50,000 battle deaths and 236,000 wounded. The Meuse Argonne offensive lasted 47 days, with 2,086,000 Americans overseas and 1,390,000 who fought in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meuse-Argonne
Germany
Leonard P. Ayres
General Staff
War Department
Russia
France
Great Britain
Austria
Italy
Turkey
Serbia and Montenegro
Belgium
Romania
Bulgaria
United States
Greece
Portugal
Marine Corps
Army
America
National Guard
Patents Granted to Montanans by Patent Commissioners
Edwin R. Hanson of Redstone receives a tractor attachment for automobiles. Hans Nagelsaker of Great Falls is awarded a nest box for hens. John W. Schroeder of Zurich is granted a stone gathering machine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Multiple Montana notices of deaths and developments across towns
A sequence of brief Montanan dispatches reports deaths from head injuries and fires, appointments and promotions in state offices, forthcoming conventions, public works, and accident injuries. Notable items include Nettie Tracey's death after a horse incident near Lewistown and a fatal home fire near Billings, plus civic and military notes from Helena, Butte, Roundup, Missoula, Forsyth, Deer Lodge, and other towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewistown
Nettie Tracey
Billings
William Flannery
Toluca
W. B. Woodman
Butte
D. Gay Stivers
W. A. Clark
Columbia Gardens
Helena
Alice B. Krokker
Cabin Creek
Nora Thoet
Morehead
Frank J. Benn
Limestone
A. D. Prouty
Addie de Baugh
Barton Gendle
Panama Canal
Dardanelles
Greenan
Deer Lodge
Homer
Cumming
National Democratic Central Committee
West
J. Bruce Kremer
Missoula
Thomas Antiste
Joe Antiste
Courtney Daly
Western Montana Good Roads Association
Babcock-Selvings
Forsyth
Rosebud State Bank
W. J. Wallin
J. R. Middleton
Hysham
C. L. Whiting
Milwaukee
Legion of Honor
France
Whiting
Boston
William McLaughlin
William Glancy
Glancy
McLaughlin
Record Flight From Havre to Malta Shatters Speed
Jack Maybee and Spud Hill flew a Curtiss aircraft 83 miles in 43 minutes proving a new speed record for the Havre to Malta route. To confirm the feat watches at both ends tracked the time as 7,000 locals watched the landing near the Great Northern hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Maybee
Spud Hill
Havre
Malta
North Country
Maybee
Great Northern
Spud” Hill
World War Era Briefs Hit From Amsterdam To Paris
A mosaic of wartime notes reports the Kaiser courting Dutch defiance as he buys a new home fortress and Holland. Postal Telegraph builds 18 000 miles of copper wire. British Chief of Staff notes 23 wars. 26 000 men are authorized for Mexican border service. Congress sets 2 300 000 for anarchist prosecutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Therat
Amsterdam
Holland
New York
Postal Telegraph
London
Washington
Secretary of War
Congress
Department of Justice
Berlin
Eduard Bernstein
Germany
Winnipeg
Petrograd
Trotzky
Kronstadt
League of Nations
Wilson
League
War Industries Board
United States
Russia
Paris
Osborne
California
Department of Federal Highways
Madison
Wisconsin Senate
America
Atlantic
Boston
Wilmington
N. C
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New Orleans
Galveston
Jacksonville
Hamburg
France
National Association For the Protection of American Rights
Mexico
Gerl
Bob” Wood
Sam
Deputy Smith Dives Through Blaze To Reach Drowned Boy Scout
Deputy Les Smith drove a Cadillac at 70 mph through raging timber fires toward Lake Delmo to recover the body of 16 year old Pissot. Firefighters later contained the blaze as dynamite charges failed to reach the submerged body despite a relief party and backup from Sheriff O Rourke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Les Smith
Big Cadillac
O'Rourke
Silva Bow County
Lake Delmo
Columbia Gardens
Pissot
John K. O’rourke
Delmo Lake
Pipestone
Smith
Les
Coarthouse
Butte
Butte Visit Of Renowned Poet Berton Braley
Berton Braley the Montana writer and poet of international repute visited Butte recently. Once a reporter on the old Butte Inter-Mountain, he now writes and serves as war correspondent. Braley tours with Finnish exporters seeking markets for their country’s products. He recalls prewar trade with Germany and Russia and praises Henry Ford’s wartime effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berton Braley
Butte
Butte Inter-Mountain
Butte Daily Post
Montana
Braley
United States
Germany
Russia
Europe
Henry Ford
France
Coller’s
Puck
The
Saturday Evening Post
New York
Use Russian Thistles as Greens in Winter
Miss Gertrude Erickson Philips county demonstration agent promotes using young Russian thistles as greens when beets are scarce. She conducts canning demonstrations showing households can preserve greens for winter meals, highlighting local resource conservation and practical kitchen ingenuity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Erickson
Phillips County
Miss Erickson
Philips County
Distribution Challenge in War Time Camp Supplies
The report notes 000,000 pounds of potatoes and 20,000 cans of evaporated milk and monthly spending of 600 million dollars for 436 camps forts posts and stations. A 3 million cut minus 20 million pounds of prunes was achieved by buying direct from trees rather than a middleman.
Farm Lands for Sale and Exchange in Montana and Michigan
Mont carries numerous real estate offers including 820 acres near Bowdon, Montana for cattle exchange. 160 acres dairy farm with water rights and spring. two sections in Prairie County for sheep or cattle ranches at 7.50 per acre. 10,000 acre tract suitable for cattle ranch with spring water. plus farm loans, livestock insurance, poultry supplies and services from Lewistown, Great Falls, Helena and Butte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Coast
San Francisco Bay
Puget Sound
Bowdoin
Phillips County
Montana
P. O
Howland & Maser Security Company
Montana Building
Lewistown
Montana Ranches
Avenes
Helena
Mont
Prairie County
H. M. Wells
Miles City
Wisconsin Colonization
Sawyer County
Great Clay Loam
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Colonization CO
1St Ave
Great Falls
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Ota
Fergus
Nathaniel
T. B, Beaton
St Helena
Remig Co
General Supply Company
MONO
Montana Oil Co
S. O. Huseth
Fige Optometrist and
Opticias
Laat US
Argonne
General School Supply Co
Great Falls, Montana
Warrenton
Stanton Bank
Ian Cill
C. McClintock
Crater County Bank
FAEM
Liberty Bonds
Frary & Burlingame
D. Watson Robb Co
Holstshiln
Don
Hollister Ranch
Lnc
Darby, Montsant
I NP
Blatchfords Foods
Orsh & Greenfield Co
Columbia Floral Co
W. Broadway
Parke, Davis & Company
Detroit
Mich
Roghrs Studio
Greatlt Falls
Mat Makkhe
Hreal Monnhy Makhr
College Studhnis Lea Pleasant
Pacific Extension University
Spokane
Bozeman
Gallatin County Fair Association
KODAK
Fern Studio
Hantman Kodaks
Wheeler Drug Co
Central Avenue
Marchant Calculators
Montana Typewriter Co
Butte, Mont
French Dry Cleaners
Unique Cleaning & Tailoring CO
Mail Or Express
Granite
Paces Butte College of Telegraphy
Atte
Ghover & Leuchabe
Pia
Revelarh
Secret Service
Northwest
Salt Lake
Boise
Pocatello
Portland
Communiccations
Ida
J. S. May
Rovig Company
Birst Ave
Seattle
Wash
Blue Prints
Blue Print & Supply Co
Dunn By
Tout & McCarthy
Mali
Lewis & Walker
Wyoming
Hoenck
Minneapolis
MN. A
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