Wibaux’s Montana Legacy and Roosevelt Bond
Pierre Wibaux the Montana cattle king built a permanent memorial with a statue and park naming, plus a bank stock and cash bequest to employees. He befriended Theodore Roosevelt as rustlers menaced border cattle, later leaving his son Pierre Wibaux Jr. to manage the estate after war service.
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Pierre Wibaux
Montana
Wibaux County
Wibaux
Wibaux Park
Miles City
France
Mosito
Mediterranean
Europe
Pierre
England
Great West
America
Roosevelt and
Wibanx
West
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Pierre Wibaux, Jr
Americans to speed up airplane program as war in Europe grows
John D. Ryan leads the aircraft board policy to push ahead with American plane production while Europe sees rapid changes. German Rhine cities panic over alleged monster American air invasion as Allied airpower expands.
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John D. Ryan
Rhine
U. S
West Front
France
Washington
The
Aircraft Board
Europe
England
Italy
Germany
London
Constantinople
Admiral Feary
United States
Army
Navy
Crowder Outlines WWI Draft Size and Class One Exhaustion
General Crowder told the House Military Affairs Committee that drafting 2,170,000 men by July 1 will exhaust class one registrants and likely reduce other classes. Call for classes two and three will come only after the 2,000,000 class one men are processed. It is expected that about one third of the 2,000,000 are physically unfit.
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Crowder
Washington
House Military Affairs Committee
Baker
Next Loan Issue Not Until Winter
Senator Simmons asserts the United States is over $5 billion better off than a year ago and a Liberty loan may not be needed until next winter. He projects tax returns may exceed estimates by $1 billion, delaying higher tax legislation. Government war expenditures for the first fiscal year are put at $16 billion, at least $5 billion below prior forecasts.
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Washington
Simmons
Senate Committee On Finance
United States
Congress
Aircraft Expenditures and Aviation Funding Outlook
Washington reports actual aircraft expenditures by the signal corps amounting to 200 million dollars. Treasury deposits total 691 million with congressionally appropriated sums. The signal corps has obligations exceeding 691 million and a 400 million deficiency appropriation is pending. The army aviation budget for the next fiscal year may surpass 1 billion dollars.
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Washington
Signal Corps
Treasury
Congress
United States
Army
Schwab credits enthusiasm and rivalry in shipbuilding
Charles M. Schwab says success in handling large projects rests on two words, enthusiasm and rivalry. He notes the Pacific coast leads in shipbuilding now but foresees a Delaware river spurt to push that region forward. The Times estimates Allied forces in France total about 3,000,000 with British and French forces large and American strength unknown.
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New York
the Times
France
Enormous War Tax Revenues Debate and Warship Growth
Treasury and Congress clash over war tax take with estimates ranging from 3.5 to 5 billion dollars. The United States is building a 35 knot battleship of 874 feet length with 14 inch guns, costing about 25 million dollars. Chicago Chamber forecasts a winter wheat yield near 650 million bushels with spring wheat acreage up 15 percent.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Congress
Pomerene
Ohio
Smoot
Utah
Uncle Sam
United States
Chicago
Chamber of Commerce of the
War Lord Victims on Namur Liege Rail Route
A Hague newspaper reports 265 trains carried wounded German soldiers home from Picardy and Flanders in three days along the Namur Liege line. Open coal cars were used to transport the wounded.
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London
Germany
Picardy
Flanders
Hague
Namur-Liege
Red Cross aid expands in Belgium to help 12 000 children
General Eliot Wadsworth details a Belgian Red Cross tour from Paris to Le Havre visiting two hospitals and several children colonies. He notes joint work with Belgian authorities, the Salle Franklin hospital plan, and Red Cross purchases like navy blue suit donations for boys while observing adaptive devices for limbs and arms.
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Paris
le Havre
Red Cross
Salle Franklin
Havre
Commission
van Schaick
Belgium
Depage
Speech to a cow remarks aside as aid to Belgium children
A speaker dismisses critics about addressing a cow and emphasizes Red Cross support at home. He notes ongoing strain on wartime funds and predicts more reliance on American generosity to aid 12,000 Belgian children regarded as especially needy.
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Red Cross
America
Belgium
Reduced Train Service Across Transcontinental Lines
On June 2 passenger service on Northern Pacific Great Northern Union Pacific and Milwaukee transcontinental lines serving Montana will be reduced by orders issued from Washington.
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Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Union Pacific
Milwaukee
Montana
Washington
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Pierre. Wibaux and
Typewriter
Montana Typewriter Co
Butie, Montana
S. C. Huseth
Billings Gas Company
Free
Eliot Wadsworth
O. F. Wadsworth, Jr
Great Falls
H. P. Davison
War Committee
Jim Perkins
van Schaik
Bicknell
Lee
John Brown
Madame de Wiart
Uae
Lmit
Kelley-How-Thomson Co
Duluth
Minnesota
Ia At
Jeakrs
Harold Somers
DeKalb Avenue
Brooklyn
N.Y
Gombault
Tex
Otto A. Beyer
Lawrence-Williams Company
Clevaland
Aimefore
Capoll
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