How Ned Toomey Won Army Place
Ned Toomey, formerly of Montana and a Helena attorney, obtained a waiver from the secretary of war after a year of failed attempts. He enlisted as a private in April 1918, rose to regimental major by May, and serves as mounted officer and staff in the Eighth Division of the regular army, commenting on gas drills and the challenges of gas masks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of War
Galen
Ned Toomey
Montana
Toomey
Helena
Islands
Koester
Fort Harrison
Chlorine
McCoy
Ned
State Staff Corps
Hater
Division No. 1
National Army
Camp Fremont
Cal
John F. Morrison
Eighth Division
Regular Army
United States
B. M. Bower
Berkoin
Warold Baldwin
Canadian Expeditionary Forces
Canada
Prairies
Ypress
McKee Stationery CO
Great Falls
Mont
B. E. Calkins Co
Butte
Montana War Savings Drive Defends Liberty and Patriotism
An official Montana proclamation denounces pro German and I W W propaganda as false, urging support for the War Savings Loan. It explains the loan details, the nationwide distribution network, and Montana's $9,459,740 share. It stresses self denial to free resources for the war effort and calls June 28 National War Savings Day for pledges and unity.
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Wall Street
Treasury Department
State of
Montana
Harry W. Turner
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
National War Savings
War Savings
War Savings Loan
Montana financier predicts strong frontier stock industry
John R. Clay of Clay Robinson & Co visits Billings and other Montana cities saying Wool and Wheat profits will fuel growth in Montana and Wyoming stocks. He notes the Montana National Bank project nearing completion, praising its planned occupancy and the bank’s five and a half years of rapid growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Clay
Banking and Commission House of Clay, Robinson & Co
Montana
Wyoming
Clay
Great Britain
Scotland
Mr. Clay
United States
Billings Bank
Billings
A. H. Marble
Cheyenne
Montana National Bank
Broadway
Second Avenue
Marble
Montana and Wyoming Finances Improve With Wool and Wheat
Mr. Clay cites strained budgets in Montana and Wyoming from last year’s dry season causing feed shortages and out of line banking. He notes cash from wool shering may total 15 to 22 million dollars easing conditions and forecasts Montana wheat output around 60 million bushels with strong crop prospects overall.
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Montana
Wyoming
South
Female enemy aliens to register June 17
Beginning Monday June 17 at 6 a.m. and continuing daily except Sunday through June 26, female enemy aliens must register under Justice Department instructions via U S marshal offices. Native-born wives of enemy aliens must register. postmasters outside nine Montana cities act as registrars, while police chiefs in listed cities enforce registration.
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Department of Justice
U. S. Marshal’s Office
Montana
Police
Helena
Billings
Great Falls
Livingston
Bozeman
Butte
Anaconda
Kalispell
Missoula
Navy Seaplane Flies From Philadelphia to Hempton Roads
A navy seaplane with two Liberty engines carried five passengers on a three hour and fifteen minute flight from Philadelphia to Hempton Roads, demonstrating endurance and speed for naval aviation.
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Philadelphia
Hempton Roads
Seed loan totals for Montana farmers under Mason Law
Montana’s seed and feed fund under Mason Law, administered by the Montana Council of Defense, has lent 312 434 10 dollars as of May 24 to 34 counties. Valley County leads with 90 600 dollars, followed by Richland 29 966 25 and Phillips 238 636 75. Average loan outside Valley is 172 03 dollars.
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Mason Law
Montana Council of Defense
F. S. P. Lindsay
Agriculture and Finance Committee
Council
Lindsay
Valley County
Richland
Phillips
Lewis and Clark
Dawson
Deer Lodge
Fallon
Fergus
Flathead
Granite
Gallatin
Jefferson
Madison Eae
Meagher
Musselshell
Park
Powell
Sheridan
Silver Bow
Stillwater
Sweet Grass
Sanders
Toole
Wheatland
Wibaux
Yellowstone
Valley
War Risk Insurance Rate Cut Named for Merchant Crews
The War Risk Insurance Bureau recommends lowering life insurance rates for merchant vessel officers and crews in war zones from 2.50 to 1.50 per 1000 dollars as submarine danger decreases.
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Washington
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
World War Era Briefs From Across The Globe
A world of quick war updates including the German Reichstag’s Dr Kaempf death in Amsterdam, U S revenue talks, Texas 1918 wheat harvest, Ukrainian peasants destroying crops, Red Cross funds from Rockefeller, German crown prince’s latest attack, German offensives, the Faith cargo ship arrival, women nursing cadet programs, orders for 500000 tons of wooden barges, Alaskan naval patrols against I W W, Russian nobility selling newspapers, Baker projects 1.5 million U S soldiers in France, large army appropriation bill, Pershing communiques discontinued, Mississippi Valley Suffrage Conference in Sioux City, horses dying from overwork amid rationing talks, and a German submarine entering a Spanish port.
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Amsterdam
Johanes Kaempf
Washington
Congress
Fort Worth
Texas
Moscow
Ukraine
Virginia
Navy Department
York
Red Cross
Rockefeller Foundation
Paris
Aisne
Pacific
Faith
the Shipping Board
New England
Petrograd
Baker
France
House
General Pershing
Sioux City
Mississippi Valley
London
Madrid
Montana Man May Run For Governor of N Y
Friends of Colonel William Boyce Thompson urge him to enter the Republican primaries for the New York gubernatorial nomination opposing Governor Whitman. Thompson, born in Virginia City Montana, built wealth in copper, moved to New York a decade ago, and has funded the American mission to Russia and Red Cross work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Boyce Thompson
Whitman
Thompson
Montana
Virginia City
Butte
New York
Red Cross
Russia
Weather observers begin U S Army training in College Station
In College Station Texas the first group of one thousand men selected to be trained as weather observers for the U S army in France has arrived. The crew has been sent inland due to mechanical trouble, with operations resuming locally.
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College Station
Texas
U. S. Army
France
Zurich
Switzerland
Charles of
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
Constantinople
Washington
Ireland
Bitro-Phosphate Promises Nerve Relief for Thin, Nervous People
An advertisement touts Bitro-Phosphate as a nerve builder to overcome nerve starvation, claiming five grain tablets with meals restore strength, plumpness, and cheerful health. It notes Buro-Phosphate aids digestion and Euro-Phosphate relieves nervousness but warns against use by those not seeking weight gain.
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O. Jay
McDowell Co
Billings, Mont
Harry W.turner
Sappho
U.s.marine Corps
O’leary
J. L. Asbridge
Jeremiah O'Leary
WAR Defense Fund
THE
N. Y
Norway
Great Falls, Ment
Marold Somers
DeKalb Avenue
Brooklyn
M. Y
Clapper Machinery CO
BIG Bull
Williams
Vulcan
Eastman Kodaks
Kenyon & Wheeler
Great Falls, Mont
Crimmins & Peirce CO
Summer Street
Boston
Mass
First National Bank
E. Martin
Maintana
Regina Sapat
Hennessy’s
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