Stockmen Expect Surge of Livestock Loans as Blank Delays Subside
Montana stockmen and bankers anticipate a flood of livestock loan applications through the War Finance Corporation after the state committee gains full operation. With blanks absent and details still missing, banks will convert livestock paper to cash, aiding small country banks and freeing cash across the state as the Helena headquarters provides guidance.
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Montana
War Finance Corporation
State Committee
L. M. Ford
Great Falls
Ford
Helena
Advertising tip and tragic hunting accident headline
An advertisement promotes Cuticura products for scalp itching with a daily routine. Separately, Billings Grant McNay, 10, son of a local hotel man, was accidentally shot and killed by his younger brother during a hunting incident.
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Billings
Grant McNay
End of Alder Gulch dredging era nears
A long review of Alder Gulch placer mining notes that dredges since 1898 have nearly exhausted available gold. It highlights Conrey Placer Mining Company, its electric dredges, expenditures over 1.5 million dollars, and two major Bannack and Grasshopper creek histories, with praise for collective invention behind the No. 4 dredge.
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Alder Gulch
Gulch
Scientific Department
Harvard University
Gordon McKay
Conrey Placer Mining Company
Conrey Company
Pioneer Company
Alder
Poor Farm Company
N. S. Shaler
Montana Power Company
Madison River
California
America
Aldergulch
Montana
United States
Grasshopper Creek
Beaverhead County
Bannack
Gold Dredging Company
Ruby Valley
Conrey
Colorado
Hennen Jennings
United States Bureau of Mines
Jennings
Odell McConnell Montana Lawyer Dies in New York
Odell W. McConnell a leading Montana lawyer and former general counsel to Montana Life Insurance Co died in New York after health decline. Born 1868 in Tennessee he practiced in Helena and served as vice president of Helena Light and Railway and director at Conrad Trust. He trained at Vanderbilt, joined Montana bar in 1891, and partnered with his father Judge N. W. McConnell.
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Montana
New York
Odell McConnell
Odell W. McConnell
McConnell
Helena
Montana Life
Conrad Trust & Savings Bank
W. C. Callahan
Helena Light & Railway Company
Mr. McConnell
Tennessee
N. W. McConnell
Cleveland
Marshall County
Masonic Academy
Hartsville
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Bar of
Vanderbilt University Law Department
McConnell and McConnell
McConnell, Gunn & McConnell
Made in Montana campaign aims to boost local goods
December will be Made in Montana Month with a state wide push by chambers of commerce to promote Montana products and producers. A committee led by Max Goodsill L P Wills and L E Jones plans a classified directory of Montana made goods to guide shoppers to local products.
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Montana
Chambers of Commerce
Max Goodsill
Helena
P. L. Wills
Butte
L. E. Jones
Great Falls
Chamber of Commerce
Goodsill
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Finance Corporation
Prospect
Philippine Islands
Alaska
South America
Bannack City
W. A. Clark
Charles Kamerer
Odell
Connell
Lewis and Clark County
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