World News Snapshots Across Cities and Markets
World prices move with silver and currencies while railways and mining laws reshape trade. Notable items include $45,000 for the Meteor yacht, debt and tax shifts in the U S, and large life insurance holdings led by Rodman Wanamaker at $4.5 million, with others like Pierre du Pont and the Rockefellers close behind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dallas
Texas and Pacific Railway
Vienna
Paris
Theodore N. Vail
Vermont
Washington
House
Chicago
Cologne
United States
Berlin
Germany
Mexico City
Mexico
Christian Scientists
Madison Avenue
Ped Matheson 63 Enlists for France In Third Cavalry
W B Matheson of Deer Lodge Montana 63-year-old veteran receives honorable discharge after serving in the Spanish American War with the Third Cavalry He enlisted in September at Fort Wright sailed to Brest France and served in Bordeaux He hopes for another chance in Mexico and jokes about staying in the laundry unit at the front line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Cavalry
Mexico
W. B. Matheson
Deer Lodge
Ed McMahon
France
Quartermaster’s Corps
Fort Wright
Campohnston
Fla
Camp Merritt
N. J
Brest
Bordeaux
Kaiser Bill
Matheson
Third
United States Cavalry
Uncle Sam
Wounded Veteran Regains Speech After Gas Attack
Townsend James Kelley, once unable to speak for fourteen months due to gas exposure on the Argonne front, surprised himself by requesting a waltz as a phonograph played. He is now able to talk as well as ever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Townsend
James Kelley
Argonne Front
Montana News Briefs Hit Montana Towns In Petroleum And Labor Updates
Across Montana towns from Ashland to Roundup and Billings, reports describe new electric generation plans, a 28 member Veterans of Foreign Wars post, a three football snake removal, steel wage disputes, fall homecoming plans, wholesale hay financing for Musselshell farmers, a new federal bureau office aiding drought efforts, the largest Phillips county wool clip sold at 60 cents per pound, eight hour work strikes at Eureka Lumber, double shifts for Flathead mills, a Logan fire with $60 000 loss, drownings in the Big Horn, forestry surveys, expected oat yield, rebuilt steamboat Montana resuming service, a drowning of a Billings man during bridge work, a U S water polo team member from Billings, new Inland Empire Aerial Training incorporation, oil well drilling activity in Roundup and surrounding areas, and high demand for oil leases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashland
Scobey
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Miles City
East Fertile Prairie
Butte
Roundup Commercial Club
Billings
Federal Bureau of Animal Industry
Harlem
George Petrie
Phillips County
Eureka
Eureka Lumber Company
Polson
R. Logan
Logan
Bridger
Frank Kohler
A. W. Kohler
Big Horn
Missoula
R. R. Fenska
Montana University
Broadus
Ernest Preston
Montana
Flathead Lake
J. McCalvery
Yellowstone River
Wilson McDonald
U.S
Norman Ross
Pershing Stadium
Paris
U. S
France
Inland Empire Aerial Training Corporation
John Hessler
Livingston
Jack Neeham
A. B. Schmidt
Whitehall
Hessler
Neeham
Aviation Service
van Dusen Company
Devil’s Basin
Greybull & Montana
Crazy Woman's Pocket
Tri-City
Jacobs Brothers
Brush Creek
Big Hole Basin Emerges as Montana’s Greenest Spot
Beaverhead and Madison ranchers in the Big Hole Basin report a lush season with 150 stacks of hay daily, 150 tons per stack, and an expected August 15 finish. Prices range 18 to 20 dollars per ton as farmers sell hay to feed stock cattle and sheep amid favorable weather and abundant labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Hole
Montana
Butte
Beaverhead
Big Hole Hole Basin
Wanted dental office for land or secured papers in large Montana town
WANTED to trade dental office for land or secured papers. One of the best equipped four chair offices in the largest town in the state. Doing a good business. Address Box 148 Great Falls Montana. Detectives Revelarh Secret Service handles only high grade cases covering the entire northwest. Address communications head offices Pocatello Idaho L B May President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenson
Great Falls
Mont
Revelarh
Secret Service
Northwest
Salt Lake
Boise
Pocatello
Portland
Butte
All Communications
Ida, L
Montana Veterinarian Recalled From War Service
Major M. E. Knowles, longtime Montana state veterinarian, led evacuation forces for the American Expeditionary Forces and headed the army corps caring for animals overseas. He rose swiftly from lieutenant to the top rank and has returned to Helena widely known across Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E. Knowles
General Pershing
Helena
Major Knowles
Montana
Veterinary Corps
Army
Also Mentioned on This Page
Atlantic
Gulf
Galveston
Texas
Carranza
Shanks
Europe
Rhine
England
Senate of Texas
Congress
Republic of Texas
Philadelphia
Rodman Wanamaker
Pierre du Pont
John Wanamaker, Sr
J. P. Morgan
Percy Rockefeller
Julius Rosenwald
Henry P. Davison
Irying Whitehouse Company
Rainbow Hotel
Montanan
Kentucky
Chy
Montana Newspaper Association
Grover & Leuchars
1St Ave. S
Rovig Lumber Company
First Ave. S
Seattle
Wash
Dunn Bg
Great Falla
Hoenck
Minneapolis
KODAK
Fern Studio
Lewistown
Eastman Kodaks
Wheeler Drug Co
Central Avenue
Helena Adjustment CO
Montana Farmer
Farmers Land Co
MonteGoe
Spokane County
Spokane
EDWARDS / Paapeae LUMBHR CO
C. H. Campbell & Son
Monetana Ranches
Sixth Avenue
Bowdoin
P. O. Box
Henry J. Angermeier
Steele
Howland & Maser Security Company
Ontana
W. C. Cunt
Custer County Bank
City
Liberty Bonds
Brary & Burlingame
Great Balls
North Matin
Greatalls
Word & HollIster Ranch (Inc
Darby, Mont
Blatchfords Foods
Orsh & Qgreenfield Co
Columbia Gardens
Columbia Floral Co
W. Broadway
Parke, Davis & Company
Detroit
Mich
Bozeman
Gallatin County Fair Association
French Dry Cleaners
Unique Cleaning & Tailoring CO
Granite
Butte College of Telegraphy
Tout & McCarthy
Lewis & Walker
Wyoming
Ont
General Supply Company
S. C. Huseth
Dollar Rooms
Broadway
Express
Harold Sowers
de Ave
Brooklyn
N. Y
Wisconsin Colonization Company
Sawyer County
Great Clay Loam
Wisconsin
Bulletin
Wisconsin Colonization CO
1St Ave
General School Supply Co
Great Falls, Montana
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