Jake Hoover The Lucky Boy Recalled As Montana Mine Discoverer
A Seattle boating-merchant and Montana scout Jake Hoover famed as The Lucky Boy is remembered for rich finds in Fergus county sapphire mines and Yogo Creek gold. He mentored Charles M Russell as a youth and later became Seattle’s top fishing adviser at Puget Sound.
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Jake Hoover
Montana
Lake Union
Seattle
Hoover
Jake
Iowa
Fergus County
Charles M. Russell
Puget Sound
Rich
Deer Lodge
South Fork
Judith River
Helena
Yogo Creek
Judith
Lumber Prices Will Be Higher Advised to Buy Lumber Now
Montana farmers are urged to purchase lumber before prices rise further as demand grows with a bumper crop year. The piece notes industry struggles in Washington and Oregon, a 35 percent price rise versus other goods, and warns delays may lead to shortages during and after wartime reconstruction. It stresses stocking barns, granaries, homes, and storing grain until rail movement improves.
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Washington
Oregon
United States
Montana
Mother Seeks To Bid Son Goodbye In 13 Years Silence
A Montana mother, Susie Nash, seeks her son Lloyd Nash who was placed with a foster family in 1904 and has not been heard from since. She promised not to contact him until age 21 and now fears he may have enlisted as he reaches draft age. Officials have no records of the boy or his guardians, and a message for the son through Otto Schoenfeldt, state humane officer, is carried in the report.
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Jake
Tenderfoot Bar
Gold Creek
Montana
W. A. Clark
Hoover
Judith Basin
Bill Buchanan
Yogo Creek
Yogo Gulch
Yogo
Golch
Pike’s Peak Gulch
Rich
Deer Lodge
Jake Fnally
Alaska
United States
Sunrise
Resurrection Bay
Rex Beach
Seattle
North
Lake Union
Russell
Jake Hoover
Charles M. Russell
Judith
Fort Benton
Lye
Hoover’s Place
Charlie Russell
Ies
Lloyd Nash
M. L. Rickman
Bureau of Child and Animal Protection
Otto M. Schoenfeldt
Susie Nash
Chester
Great Falls
Schoenfeldt
Perry A. Hetor
Trout Creek
Sanders County
Washington State
Rickman
Nash
Quiet Household Tense Quit Ends With Broom Sweep
A distressed mother and father quarrel with silence between them. The mother waits for the father to sit, then begins sweeping around him with a broom to provoke him, expecting his reaction to escalate.
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Mother
Father
Gold leads and returning strikes in Montana chatter
The narrative recalls Civil War era talk of pausing Northern hosts and a man named Jake planning a comeback to Montana. He mentions hidden gold prospects and intends to return next fall to strike in the hills, claiming rich veins remain unprospected in the state. Russell leaves for a hot battle, returns weeks later, and the subject fades from mention.
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Russell
Montana
Jake
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