Strange Birds On Lake Hauser End With Narrow Escape
Farmers John Wahrman and Harvey Fister heard eerie cries from Lake Hauser and found two men in the water after mistaking the figures for birds. The Helena attorneys Brown and Fister were rescued, found to be unable to swim in hip boots, and kept afloat by shallow sink holes until help arrived.
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Lake Hauser
John Wahrman
John
Wahrman
Reiad-His- Sun
John G. Brown
Helena
Harvey Fister
Harvey
W. M. Biggs
Major Cowley Awarded Commission to France
Stephen J. Cowley a prominent Montana lawyer and former chairman of the exemption board at Great Falls has been named a major in the judge advocate general department for overseas service. He plans to leave Montana soon to report for embarkation. Cowley is among three Montana lawyers in the JAG department alongside Colonel Albert Galen and Major Sidney Lanner.
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Cowley
France
Department OF Judge Advocate
Stephen J. Cowley
Montana
Great Falls
Department of the Judge Advocate General
Major Cowley
North Dakota
Elks
Order of Elks
Elks Clubs
Judge Advocate General’s Department of Our Overseas Forces
Albert Galen
Liberia
Sidney Lanner
Montana Supreme Court
Pioneer Montana Doctor Recalled for Army Duty
Captain A F Longeway of the United States medical corps, long a Montana medical figure based in Great Falls, is recalled to active service to report by October 21 at Camp Dodge Iowa. His son, Lieutenant Forrest Longeway, serves as an aviation pilot in France.
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A. F. Longeway
United States Medical Corps
Great Falls
Camp Dodge
Iowa
Longeway
Montana
Anaconda Company
Great Northern
American College of Surgeons
New York
Rockford
Ill
Longewey
Forrest Longeway
France
Persistent Miller Finally Enters Army as a Cook
Ernest C. Miller from Virginia City, 27, had five rejections for medical reasons at Camp Lewis Montana before six visits led to acceptance. Though initially discharged for a gunshot wound, he prevailed, offering to serve as a cook if unable to fight, and is now in France with his unit.
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East Prussia
Somme
Rhine
America
Appomattox
Virginia City
Camp Lewis
France
Ernest C. Miller
Miller
Montana
Fergus County War Relief Plans Christmas Cheer Paper
At a Fergus county war relief meeting the executive committee outlined producing a Christmas Cheer paper for soldiers and sailors from Fergus county. J B Ritch leads the project with authority to enlist help. The effort aims to represent all county sections. A Greenville Texas company donated 400 dollars to the state defense council to cover penalties for cottonseed pricing.
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Fergus County War Relief Association
Fergus County
J. B. Ritch
Greenville
Texas
State Council of Defense
Perfection Quest Strains Some Men's Vision
A reflective line notes the burden on men seeking flawlessness within themselves, suggesting the search for perfection can strain sight and judgment. The brief poses a moral inquiry into self-critique and personal standards.
Allied policy keeps pressure as winter approaches
A London cable to the New York World reports weather at the front improving and Marshal Foch may have five more weeks before German forces settle in winter quarters. The allied plan is to give the body no rest, disrupting a reinforced spring defense unless winter is unusually harsh.
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London
New York
Marshal Foch
Canada Cement Buys Montreal Site for Shell Plant
The Canada cement company purchases a $260,000 site in Montreal to construct a plant for producing 12 inch shells for delivery to the United States.
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Canada Cement Company
Montreal
United States
Granville Stuart Pioneer Who Found First Gold in Montana
A tribute recalls Granville Stuart as a key early Montana figure who helped discover gold in 1857 and sparked the stampede to Bannack and Alder Gulch. He aided state formation, served as US minister to Uruguay, and chronicled Montana’s frontier era through writings and memory.
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Granville Stuart
Montana
Bannack
Gold Creek
Alder Gulch
Stuart
United States
Uruguay
Cleveland
Society of Montana Pioneers
Anaconda
Northern Pacific
Aldergulch
Thomas Stuart
Colorado
Centennial State
Klamath River
Rogue River
Modoc
California Volunteers
States
Malad Creek
Salt Lake
American Fork
Commonwealth
Montana girl receives royal recognition for war relief work
Miss Jessie Shields of Conrad Montana has been awarded royal recognition and a medal for her relief work with English girls aiding mine sweepers in the North Sea. Queen Mary delegated Princess Louise to present the honor, one of only twenty awarded to women.
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Jessie Shields
Montana
Conrad
Miss Shields
Europe
Germany
Naval Canteen
Queen Mary
Princess Louise
Red Cross
Shields
United States
Kalispell
Whitefish
Eureka
Troy
Libby
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Pershing
Marne
Major Stephen J. Cowley
Camp Grant
Ilinois
U. S
Boise City
Ida
Robert Stuart
James
California
Neal
Sacramento Valley
Northwest
Military
Naval
Miss Jessie Shields
Naval Canteen Service
Great Falls Brick & Tile Co
1St National Bank
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