World's Biggest Flying Camp Named for Montana Man
In 1911 Lieutenant G. E. B. M. Kelly sacrificed his life at the San Antonio aviation field, now Camp Kelly, the world’s largest flying camp. Kelly, a Montanan and war aviator, chose to crash his plane rather than endanger tents with soldiers, earning a monumental memorial in the air training center. Quarters for 40,000 airmen are planned at Kelly Field as practice and display unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ieutenant
G. EB. M. Kelly
San Antonio
Texas
Kelly
B. B. Kelly
EB. W. Kelly
Great Falls
Montana
England
Anaconda
New York City
Coast Artillery
Thirteenth Infantry
United States Army
Camp Kelly
G. E. M Kelly
New Hotel for Flathead Lake and Palatial Ferries
Col. A A White announces plan to erect a modern Flathead Lake Hotel at a picturesque site with headquarters in Missoula. The Flathead Lake Hotel Co will also build two palatial ferries to operate day and night between northern and southern railway terminals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flathead Lake
Col
A. A. White
Missoula
Colonel White
Kalispell Interlake
Adv
Air squadron organization plan details fleet and staff
The document outlines over 40,000 flyers divided into squadrons of 154 enlisted men and 19 officers. Each squadron gets twelve aeroplanes, 23 trucks, 24 trailers, one car, two repair trucks and six motorcycles. Armament includes 12 machine guns, 154 rifles and 173 pistols. The command structure lists a major, a captain and multiple commissioned officers for supply, engineering and 12 aero sections totaling 19. It also mentions four master signal electricians and a sergeant major among the personnel.
Local Great Falls ads list auto, floral, accounting and sales
Classified notices feature WILDS-THURSTON MOTOR CO and McGivern Paint Shop in Great Falls offering auto services. Also B ST JOHN HOWLEY accountant, Harley Clark grain auditing, Douglas Wilson & Co. offices. A rural Oregon 15 acre home near Portland offered for 10 000 dollars by J Q Jamieson Route 1 Oswego.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. ST. John Howley
Ford Building
Great Falls
Mont
Harley-Clark & CO
Montana
Portland
Ore
Mt. Hood
Cascade Range
J. Q. Jamieson
Box 169
Oswego
Aviation Training Camp Organization Described for Army Flyers
Detailed breakdown lists ranks and units in an aviation training camp including first sergeant, clerks, truck masters, and 16 sergeants, plus 33 corporals, 6 cooks, 39 privates, and a four-person medical department. It compares aero squadrons to racing teams and notes a machine shop where planes are built and repaired.
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Aero Squadron
Four Hundred Dahlias Grow in One Montana Garden
John L. Waddell a Hardin lawyer grows four hundred dahlias in one garden in Big Horn county earning Montana a record largest amateur bed. The plot includes twenty varieties with prizes from New York 1916 and California 1917 1918 shows, plus classes in decoration peony flower collarette single cactus and pompon. A near bed of gladiolas with over 200 bulbs adds to a leading family garden that ships blooms nationwide.
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John L. Waddell
Hardin
Big Horn County
Montana
New York
Waddell
California
Land for sale in Montana and Alberta acreage offers
Multiple farm land listings across Montana and Alberta. Properties include 640 and 1280 acre tracts near Great Falls and Fairfield with plow land and grazing, prices from 7.50 to 8 dollars per acre with terms up to 10 years at 6 percent. Alberta land advertised with Canada Pacific rail offer and inspection trips from Great Falls. Also parcels near Grass Range and Judith Basin with 160 acre subdivided tracts and 7 per acre.
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Fagan, McCutcheon & Price
Central Ave
Great Falls
Montana
Central Avenue
Alberta
Canadian Pacific Railway
Boundary
Eakin
Lands
Dunn, Elk
Great Falla
Mont
PARM
Grass Range
John A. Coleman
Box
Lewistown
J. W
Jefferlin
Livingston
Mont Judith Basin
Farmera Land Co
Washington and Oregon Farmers Buy Millions in Land Deals
Central Montana Ranches Co promotes Montana land as an empire of destiny. The circular touts Kremlin to Joplin as 82 miles apart with many elevators per mile of railroad and only a fraction broken. It urges readers to request descriptive literature and prices from Hingham Maine and Cut Bank Montana offices.
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Kremlin
Joplin
N. G
Central Montana Ranches CO
Hingham
Maine
Cut Bank
Montana
West
Farm land sale in Musselshell and Fergus counties
Advertisement offers 820 acres in Musselshell county with open water near town and school. Price 15 per acre with 700 down and balance over eight years. Also options in Fergus county via Henry C Gorham in Lewistown Montana to help buyers relinquishment or locals on a good place.
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Washington
Idaho
Montana
Spokane
Mege & Watkins Co
Paulsen Bidg
Wash
Fergus County
Lewistown
Station
W. O. Downing & Co
Musselshell
Schoo
Bresnahan
Henry C. Gorham
Fifth Ave
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Buzzards
Kelly Field
Railrad
Liggetts Myersdotacco On
el Emhil
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co
Fifth Avenue
N. Y. City
DL. M
12Th St N
Ashdoars
Wilds-Thurston Motor CO
Istave. N
Packard, Hudson, Liberty, Saxon
McGivern Paint Shop
5Th Ave
Electric City Conservatory
Nontana
Brainerd
Havre
Empire Studio
Diamond Block
Accountants and Auditors
Douglas Wilson & Co., Inc
United States
Austin
Price
Fairfield
McDonald Realty Co
Punbgbusgne-Giveoe Co
Great Vaus. Ont
Wheatland
Hill and Toole Counties
Oregon
J. George
Everett, Wash
Farm Land Loans
Judith Basin
Hilger Loan and Realty Co
Bennett & Terrell
Billings
Idivisson Commission Co
James I Parker
Southern Building
Washington, D. C
Western Hide & Fur Co
Carlsbad
Eagle Drug Co
Butte, Mont Price
Hottie
Indian War Pensions
James I. Parker
Southern
Frary & Burlingame
Nat'l Bank
Miles City
M. R. Wise
O. B. Nelson
Howard Elliotts
Dyer Potato Company
Helena
Montana Plano Co
Butte
A. A. Berry Seed Co
Box 10
Clavinda
Iowa
FURS
Richard P. Hoenck
Minneapolis
Butte College Telegraphy
Utte
Lake County
P. O
Harlem
Royal Typewriter Agency
Butte, Mont
Nee BE. Morris Co., Inc
Dept. T
Great Walls
Robert H. Lindsay, Jr
U. S
First Nat. Bank Bldg
Archit
OTS
Geo. H. Shanlbey
Apensteck
First National Bank
Sam'l Henry Haas
First Nat. Bank
Auto School
Montana Automobile School
South Main
Lout & McCarthy
Usit
Ent
Lewis & Walkeder
Sasayers
Wyoming
Furriers
Beckman Bros
Wilming Montane
Wood-Safford Machine Works
Fair
Certified Accountants
WM. B. Finlay
First National Bae Building
Victor Astro’s
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