Night Flight Thrills From American Bombing Squadron
A lieutenant's vivid letter from the French front describes an American bombing squadron’s day of rest followed by a perilous raid. He recounts prepare and takeoff procedures, anti air fire, formation tightness, and combat with German scouts, including a dramatic tail attack and observers firing from rear guns. The piece closes with a glimpse of a nearby French night escadrille preparing for dawn raids.
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Bruce Hopper
Billings
Plancheier Les Vaches
Ara
Mother
Intelligence Office
Bowie
Bodie
Kelly
Sammy Lunt
Sammy
Boche Cavaliery
State Receives Federal Forest Reserve Rental Payment
Montana officials announce a $76,597.66 federal warrant from Secretary McAdoo under the 1908 act allocating 25 percent of forest reserve receipts to the state for public schools and roads. The list of forests and shares includes Absaroka Beartooth Flathead Madison Missoula Bitterroot and others with individual amounts.
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Stewart
United States Treasury Department
McAdoo
United States Treasury
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of the Treasury
Montana
Absaroka
Beartooth
Beaverhead
Bitter Root
Blackfeet
Cabinet
Custer
Deer Lodge
Flathead
Gallatin
Helena
Jefferson
Kootenai
Lewis and Clark
Lolo
Madison
Missoula
Sioux
Allies prove parity with Germans in open warfare
General Maurice says recent events show Germans cannot thwart Allied advances. He notes that man for man the Allies can beat the enemy in open warfare and that German commanders are ordinary mortals.
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Maurice
England
Double-Deck Stock Cars to Ease Northern Pacific Shortage
Regional Director Aishton announces relief efforts to boost double-deck stock car supply for the Northern Pacific. New regulations reserve double decks for sheep shipments, with single decks handling unloading at feeding stations, plus supervised car movement to relieve market pressures this week. The Montana railroad commission and livestock board are informed as hearings continue in the northern part of the state.
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Northern Pacific
Aishton
Federal Department of Railroad Operation
Montana Railroad Commission
Milwaukee
Montana
State Livestock Commission
Railroad Commission
War Price For Hogs Sets Minimum at 15.50
The national agricultural war advisory committee of the government food administration recommends a minimum price of 15.50 dollars per hundred pounds for hogs during the war. The food administration cannot fix a definite price but can regulate via controlled orders for the army navy allies and export trade.
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National Agricultural War Advisory Committee
Government
Food Administration
The
Army Draft Accepts About Two Million Of 13 Million Enlisted
Officials estimate that from 13,000,000 men registered under the 18 to 45 conscription law roughly 2,300,000 will be accepted into the army. The figure reflects the screening process and eligibility standards applied to volunteers.
Liberty Bonds Buyer Seeks Cash Offers for Bonds
Advertises purchase of Liberty Bonds in denominations of 50 and 100 dollars and offers immediate payment. Willing to buy partially paid receipts and return funds the same day bonds are received. All business confidential. Cornelius, 458 Phoenix Building, Butte.
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Cornelius
Phoenix Building
Butte
Montana
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Pirates
Trappers Secrets
Ourmoor
Funsten Bros. & CO
Ota Louis, Mo
Pennsylvania
Pure Oil CO
Minneapolis
Minn
Western Accident & Indemnity Company
State Commission OF Aid
Meyer
Mayer Shoes
F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Co
Milwaukee, Wis
Arizona
Corner Park
Robert Metcalf
Huseth
Die
Optometrist and Optician
Great Falls
Mont
Ciel Tt Cc
Sidney
HERBERT _A. HOVER
Judith Basin Farms
Warmers Land Co
Lewistown
A. J. MacDonald, Lane,da
Range
Teton County
Hart Co
Steele
P. O
Wilsallon Railway
Shields River Valley
J. W. Hefferlin
Livingston
Protopt
Farm Mortgage Corporation
Joana
W. C. McClintock
Custer County Bank
Miles City
Carl R. Meyer
Hart-Albin Building
Business Training School
West
Granite Street
U. S
Butte College of Telegraphy
T. A. Roberts
Pendrey
Benedict
Pennsylvania Block
Hard Bros
Edison Block
Nickerson
W. Park
J. V
N. Main
W. J. Mathers
Yardley, Wash
Park
Cleason
Prop
City
Bath
Acoma
New
Cart Pass
Park Hotel
West Park Street
Columbia
W. Broadway
Wolf Creek
Tona
Colling Realty Co
Asher Murray
Wadena
Canada
Adlan Pacific Railway
Dunn Block
Spring Valley
Helen Creamery
Norby Brothers
C. H. Campbell & Son
Ford & Hollister Raschine
Darby
Huntsberger-Givens Co
Great Alls
Pitman Live Stock Company
EL Paso
Texas
Alexander-Gilchrest Co
Denton, Mont
Robert R. Johnston
Dupuyer
J. Taylor
Cascade
D. Watson Robb Co
Parke, Davis & Co
Detroit
Mich
Seetom, Mach
Wilds-Thurston Motor CO
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Maxwell Distributors
Montana Piano Co
Platt & Heath Co
Gooding College
Charles Wesley Tenney
Gooding
Idaho
Lewistown Hide & Yur Co
Etowa
Atontana
A. L. Nose
Hoenck
OUR
MBG. Co
Scott
Breeze Building
Broadway
KODAK
Esterno
Hastman Kodaks
Enyon & Wheeler, Druggista
Blue Prints
Blue Print & Supply Co
Drafting Supplies
Dunn Bg
ETO
Tour & McCarthy
Ail
Lewis & Walker
Wyoming
Harley-Clarre & CO
Speciate la Rain
Tod Block
Real Falls
Wood-Safford Machine Works
Great Falla
Contractors Lumber Supply Co
Lumber Exchange
Seattle
Wash
Yreite
Ness-Thelsen Construction Co
Ford Building
Great Palla
Great Falls Typewriter Exchange
Ford
Great Falls, Mont
Montana and Eastern Corporation
Lewistown, Montana
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