State Fair in Montana Sets 30000 Prize Kickoff Week
The twenty-second annual exposition in Helena runs September 23 to 27 with $30000 in prizes plus cash premiums totaling $80000. Weekly events include harness and relay races, acrobatic acts, music, fireworks, auto racing, and special days for school children veterans Montana Princess and other groups. Livestock and poultry exhibitors from the northwest seek space while 264 Boys and Girls Clubs participate in junior fair entries.
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Montana
Northwest
Moore
Fair Board
Montana Princcess
Great Falls
Gallatin
Kiwanis
Northern Montana
Coronation
Butte
Rotary Club
Deer Lodge
Farm Organization
Queen of Montana
Pioneers
Helena
Rhode Island Red Hen Lays Six Ounce Egg at Winnett
I E Thomas of Winnett shows a Rhode Island Red hen that laid a six ounce egg far heavier than the usual two ounce eggs. This is the second such egg this summer and he suspects a second egg inside the first. He plans to boil and varnish the egg for display at the Petroleum County corn show this fall.
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Petroleum County
Rhode Island
News Wireless of Custer Massacre From Bismarck, 1876
The article recounts the first rapid spread of news about General Custer and his command being killed at Little Big Horn. Telegrapher J. M. Carnahan in Bismarck sent the initial brief, with eastern papers clamoring for details as the telegrams rolled east. Carnahan details his career and the extraordinary 24 hour stretch of transmitting official reports and private dispatches, culminating in the New York Herald special that cost over $1,700 and stretched to more than 22,000 words.
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Montana
Custer
Bismarck
N.D
Northwestern
The
Telegraph Company
Fargo
J. M. Carnahan
Western Union
Missoula
Carnahan
General Terry
War Department
Colonel Smith
Terry
New York Herald
Little Big Horn
Athens
Ohio
Scott's Landing
Cincinnati & Marietta
Cincinnati
Nashville Coton Exchange
Pacific & Atlantic Company
Chicago
LaCrosse
Wis
Frontier
Bis
the Little Big Horn
Fort Lincoln
Reno
Smith
R. H. Porter
St. Paul
the Coutry
New York
James Gordon Bennett
Will Gridley
Ed. Hughes
Terrys
Petreshnaenite
Far West
James Kelly
Telegraph
Herald
Fetterman
Carrington
Bridger
Northwest
Fort Phil Kearney
Indian Warfare on the Plains A Difficult Undertaking
Martha Edgerton Plassmann reflects on the post Civil War era as soldiers from both Union and Confederate sides fought Indians on the Plains. She notes ignorance of Indian tactics, the role of scouts like Jim Bridger, government neglect, and the widening gap between Washington and the western territories.
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Martha Edgerton Plassmann
Plains
Custer
the Little Big Horn
Jim Bridger
Drive for Better Highways in Montana Begins in Helena
The Montana Good Roads and Automobile Association forms in Helena to seek legislation saving roughly 2.38 million dollars in federal aid road funds for 1925 and 1926. Sid J. Coffee presides Missoula and Charles H. Roberts serves as secretary treasurer. An executive committee will set details, aiming to establish a permanent state-wide road program funded by automobile licenses and gasoline taxes to match federal aid.
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Montana
Montana Good Roads and Automobile Association
Helena
Charles H. Roberts
Missoula
Coffee
State Highway Commission
Sid J. Coffee
State Automobile Association
Scott Leavitt
Congressional Committee On Public Roads
U. S
Great Falls
A. J. Breitenstein
George D. Prentice
L. B. Jones
Wm. E. Dowlin
Billings
P. N. Bernard
Kalispell
Edgar L. Baird
Whitefish
D. P. Bates
Livingston
L. BE. Hathaway
Bozeman
M. W. Wilson
W. G. Ferguson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Aspirin
Bayer Aspirin
Bayer
N. D
Northwestern Telegraph Company
Fort Abraham Lincoln
Missouri River
Seventh
U. S. Cavalry
Fort Hancock
Northern Pacific Railroad
Cheyenne Wyo
Montana Electric Com
Pany
Montana Electric Company
Butte, Mont
Atlantic Seaboard
Africa
Congress
Great Britain
France
Washington
Credit Mobilier
Col. Sanders
Martin Maginnis
Capitol
Maginnis
Rockies
Fort Laramie
Platte
Bozeman Trail
Henry B. Carrington
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