American Invention Leadership Shown Across World
A sweeping defense of American ingenuity credits Edison Morse Bell and Wrights among others with leading roles in electric lighting aviation and telecommunications. It lauds Cyrus McCormick Henry Ford and Westinghouse and notes wartime service tales and comparing European claims to American industry dominance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
Europe
Orient
Germany
Britain
France
Italy
America
Cyrus H. McCormick
International Harvester
George Watt
Pullman
Westinghouse
Henry Ford
Chicago
United States
Ford
John H. Patterson
Globe
Elias Howe
Goodyear
Edwin the Dude Tames Frying-Pan on the Montana Range
The tale recounts Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden known as Edwin the Dude, a skilled range rider who confronts Frying-pan a Texas long-roper. Arden warns and disarms him with a quick draw after quips about his companionable cigarette, sending Frying-pan south toward the Cheyenne River. Arden later becomes a notable stage actor and playwright, born in St Louis and linked to Roosevelt and Sidney Pagett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin
St. Louis
Texas
Montana
South
Missouri
Frying-pan
Cheyenne River
Edwin the Dude
Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden
New York
Arden
Maude Adams
L’aiglon
Thief
Raglan’s
Roosevelt
Dakota
Sidney Pagett
Montanan One Of 185 Saved From Warship
Ed Gerber of Great Falls Montana, a navy sailor aboard a destroyer, survived a mine strike or torpedo hit off the Irish coast. Of 135 crewmen only two were saved including Gerber after 36 hours in the water. He shows no ill effects and heads for further service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Gerber
Montana
Great Falls
Gerber
Uncle Sam
Irish
Vigilance Comes With Cost in Everyday Life
A lighthearted item notes that staying vigilant in daily life can come at the price of ten dollars in added costs rather than grand political stakes. The brief underscores practical expenses tied to constant watchfulness.
Colonel Stivers Nominated for Croix de Guerre
Among Montanans in France, Colonel D Gay Stivers of Butte has been recommended for the French Croix de Guerre, the war cross awarded for gallantry in action. He was captain of a company in the unit serving abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rough Riders
Cuba
America
Germany
Quartermaster’s Department
France
John Lindsay
Butte
Chris Connolly
Silber Bow County
Stivers
Connolly
O’gay Stivers
D’gay Stivers
Wobbly Strike Cuts Copper Output In Butte
Anaconda Copper Mining Company smelters processed 21.8 million pounds of copper in September, down from 24.9 million in August due to a 16 day I W W strike. About 9,500 men work underground, with ore tonnage below normal but rising efficiency. Government munitions demand absorbs all copper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte
East Butte
Davis-Daly
Anaconda
Demand for Unconditional Surrender by State War Council
The Montana state council of defense, via Governor W. Stewart, telegraphed President Wilson urging no negotiated peace with Germany and unconditional surrender as the only terms. A sub-committee including M. M. Donoghue, N. T. Lease, and Will A. Campbell was named. The council authorized a possible loan of 50,000 from its war defense fund to build barracks in Butte, Bozeman, and Missoula for student army training corps units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State Council of Defense
W. Stewart
Wilson
State Council
Germany
United States Employment Bureau
Europe
M. M. Donoghue
Butte
N. T
Great Fally
Will A. Campbell
Helena
Council
War Defense
Butte, Bozeman
Missoula
Students’ Army Training Corps
Warrenton Set to Grow as Grain Shipping Hub After War
The piece predicts Warrenton Oregon will become a major west coast grain port postwar. It cites W G McAdoo and planned rail water routes to distribute grain worldwide with freight salvage 10 to 12 cents per bushel. It notes land purchases by the American Society of Equity and government rail and river improvements. Investors are urged to respond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Western States
Pacific Coast
W. G. McAdoo
Panama Canal
Atlantic Seaboard
Warrenton
West
The
American Society
of Equity
Columbia River
Atlantic
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McCormick
Whitney
Luther Burbank
Morse
Alexander Graham Bell
Theodore N. Vail
Wright Brothers
Dayton
Ohio
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Ae Glenn H. Curtiss
Marconi
Fulton
Seven Seas
George Westinghouse
Commodore Vanderbilt
Montanan
Cite
Warrenton, Oregon
Great Northern Steamship
Warrenton Dock
E. A. Tyler Realty Company
Todd Block
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