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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1921
Page
3
Livingston resident Mrs. M. Clark reports long use of Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble and back pain. She says the pills relieve dull ache quickly and have never failed, price 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. manufactures in Buffalo New York.
Nick Bonifide a 17 year old youth from Beloit Wisconsin is recommended for a hero medal after diving three times to save three boys who slipped into a deep pool while swimming at an old hole.
A notice requests readers to send $1.10 to Great Falls Cook Book Box 1790 Great Falls Montana for postage paid mailing of the book. The item appears as a promotional request in a historical newspaper snippet.
A digest of dispatches notes railroads losing 21.89 million dollars to theft in the year, wool up for sale in August, and leaders like Sir James Craig withdrawing from peace talks. Other items cover labor and wartime costs, famine, and political shifts across cities including Washington Boston New York and Berlin.
Development in the Devil's Basin field gains speed with Van Duren and Alberta No. 1 wells rising to 96 and 250 barrels per day respectively. Paul A. Dratz directs operations for Montill and Roundup Oil & Gas, reducing costs and boosting efficiency while Canadian and eastern interests expand drillings in Montana’s pioneer oil district.
John S Grimm of South Bend Indiana reports lakes Goose and Gosling in Yellowstone about 1000 feet above Grasshopper glacier near Cook City are covered with ice thick enough for a horse to cross. Snow drifts around reach 40 feet. a new tourist camp between glacier and lakes is under construction for visitors arriving by horseback.
Shirley C. Ashby Jr claims NP engineers are expert cattle men who can identify thoroughbreds when hitting cows. He notes current incidents involve few cows struck and asserts accuracy in judging stock, implying high quality stock assessment by the road's crew.
Loco weed spreading in Colorado ranges as state works to curb it. The plant resembles alfalfa. once cattle start eating it they refuse other feed and become dopey and emaciated, often dying from malnutrition.
Reports say the Butte Miner and McKee Printing job shops returned to work after a 10 week strike. The bulletin lists multiple Montana items including highway patrol fines, political appointments, and local accidents across Helena Butte Missoula Bozeman Billings Havre and surrounding towns.
The body of Mrs. Albert Smith Sr. was found twelve miles below Townsend after a nine day search along the river from Toston to Townsend. She disappeared on July 5 and leaves sons Albert Jr and Leslie plus Willis. Authorities seek to determine if death was accident or foul play.
Smallpox records 20 cases and tuberculosis 12 in state reports to Dr. John J. Sippy, epidemiologist. Other illnesses include typhoid 1, diphtheria 6, scarlet fever 2, measles 1, whooping cough 2, chickenpox 1, mumps 2, spotted fever 2, and venereal diseases 16.
Four Montana federal aid road and bridge projects will have bids opened July 29 in Helena by the state highway commission. They include a six mile gravel road in Gallatin canyon. a 60 foot steel bridge with two 30 foot wooden approaches across Big Sandy creek on the Roosevelt highway west of Havre. three concrete bridges over creeks west of Glendive on the Yellowstone trail plus a 120 foot timber bridge re floor. and a 40 foot concrete bridge across Jones creek east of Miles City on the Yellowstone trail.
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