Red Cross Nurses Honored by French Government
Captain Mark D. Hoyt, serving at a base hospital in France, extols the Red Cross nurses as brave and tireless. He notes seven nurses decorated by France after three and a half years of war service, often working 40 to 60 hours, enduring hardship, and remaining devoted to duty. He praises French soldiers and describes frontline conditions and Allied officers.
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Red Cross
Bilys
United States
Mark D. Hoyt
Glasgow
Pease
Fritz
McKenzie
Hoyt
Captain McKenzie
Miles City
Mesopotamia
Captain Hoyt
Fitch
Rochester
N. Y
France
Don Kelley Rising to Head of Anaconda Copper
The article recounts Cornelius F. Kelley known as Don Kelley becoming president of the Anaconda Copper Mining company, tracing his rise from a Butte youth delivering tools to miners, to lawyer, legislator, chief deputy county attorney, Amalgamated Copper adviser, and finally head of Montana’s largest employer with about 30,000 on payroll. It notes his career amid the Amalgamated fight, his ties to John D. Ryan, and the corporate reorganization that led to his leadership and local acclaim in Butte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Cornelius F. Kelley
Anaconda
Great Falls
Montana
Northwest
Ite
Don Kelley
Ann Arbor
Silver Bow County
William Scallon
Marcus Daly
Amalgamated Copper Company
Kelley
Amalgamated
F. Augustus Heinze
United States
John D. Ryan
Ryan
Heinze
Amalgamated Company
Thomas F. Cole
Duluth
Arthur J. Shores
Hill
New York
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
America
Wilson
Red Cross
Department of Aviation
Anaconda Company
Tana
Con” Kelley
W. A. Clark
Anaconda Copper Company
Mother Lode Legend Lures Bannack Miners Across Time
In Grasshopper and Bannack districts old prospectors chase a mythical mother lode said to lie beneath rotten quartz at granite contacts. Tales recount Jim Olafson finding rich quartz, a fortune of $12 000 per ton, and a mind undone in Idaho asylum. Generations cling to theories of a vanished vein as Bannack plumbs for untold wealth.
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Big Hole
Old Baldy
Jim Olafson
Mother Lode
Idaho
Bannack
Alaska
South Africa
Young Montana Flying Officer Writes Inspiring Letter
In Butte last week ex Senator Lee Mantle praised a Montana officer's mood in the face of war. Lieutenant Arthur M. Weirick of Helena born, educated at Shattuck and Penn, wrote a letter to his mother on the eve of the July offensive at Chateau Thierry detailing duty courage and the aim of living a life true to oneself.
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Butte
United States
Lee Mantle
Camp Lewis
France
Montana
American Flying Corps
Chateau Thierry
Arthur M. Weirick
Helena
EB. B. Weirick
California
Army
Weirick
First National Bank of
Lewistown
Shattuck Military Academy
Pennsylvania University
New York State
Welrick
Mantle
Montana Fulfills Nurse Reserve Quota First State
Montana becomes the first state to fill its United States student reserve nurse quota by submitting between 260 and 270 applications. An additional 50 completed applications remain on file, with campaign leaders predicting hundreds more nurses soon.
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Montana
United States Student Reserve
Sherlock
Rontana
Making of Officers Through S A T C Training in Montana
Montana youths sixteen? years old and up may join the Students Army Training Corps to train as officers and technical experts. The program offers grammar and high school graduates paths from detachments to central officer camps with pay, rations, uniforms, and potential commissions. Further details available at the University of Montana School of Mines and other branches.
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The
War Department
Students
Army Training Corps
Army
United States
England
France
America
School of Mines
University of Montana
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