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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1919
Page
6
An advertisement touts organic phosphate nitro-phosphate as a cure for thinness and nervous weakness. It claims substantial weight gain, improved health, and brighter eyes, citing Miss Georgia Hamilton's 15 pound transformation, with a caution against use by those not wishing to gain flesh.
The death of New York-Colonel Robert Bacon, once ambassador to France, is reported as occurring recently at his home. The bulletin notes Bacon's prominent career and his wartime diplomacy.
The Musselshell county tale centers on Doyle the shepherd who found sapphires near Roundup around 1908. Local residents hold hundreds of gems, while investigators and townsfolk debate the mine’s location and Doyle’s sanity, hoping the hidden dyke yields riches.
In Missoula a forestry program planted 248 210 trees at 1 cent each. Whitehall reports a railroad bridge destroyed by incendiary fire, ten hours of traffic disruption. Lewistown plans a $700 000 good roads bond in September. Missoula sells 80 000 feet of government timber in Absaroka. Whitehall awards contracts for a $51 500 schoolhouse. Helena discovers $5 000 in currency in a pioneer saw filer’s trunk. Helena installs moving pictures at Galen sanitarium. Scobey awards a $150 000 water and sewerage project contract. Lewistown to divide the old N-bar ranch into small farms. Deer Lodge chamber of commerce votes to quit state girls vocational school race. Missoula merchants meet to organize better western Montana. Harlem ditch doubles capacity with a $10 000 dredge. Roundup nearly 100 men seek to join local national guard pending permission. Butte crime decline linked to prohibition by county attorney. Wolf Point cooperative creamery formed to aid dairy cattle purchases.
Historical notes say Doyle bought lumber in Musselshell in 1910 to build flumes and sluice boxes for mining. Doubts persist among locals about whether he actually built the boxes or started development work.
Classified notice style advertisement listing homesteads and relinquishments with open water and timber in Montana. Equity Realty Co. offers replies from Great Falls. farm loans promoted by W C McClintock of Custer County Bank Miles City. Billings firm promotes mortgage corporation loans. livestock insurance from D Watson Robb Co. Great Falls. poultry supplies from Blatchfords and Crab & Field Co. Butte.
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