Local residents and visitors seen in Dillon area
A parade of names shows travelers shoppers and guests in Dillon and nearby towns. Residents from Butte Missoula Helena and Lakeview visit Dillon while others travel to Li m a Bannack Sheep Creek Nampa and Idaho. Notables include Annabel Desmond moving to New York City for a copy writer post with General Outdoor Advertising after RCA work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Coullem
Dillon
W. C. Jennings
Bill Jennings
Butte
Clyde Sewell
Wolf Point
C. C. Horn
Helena
James Harrison
George Harrison
The
Grasshopper
A. A. Hayden
Lakeview
Ray Martinell
Dell
County
Annabel Desmond
General Outdoor Advertising Company
New York City
Radio Corporation ,of America
Government to Aid Farmers Through Production Credit Plan
Hoover administration studies emergency interpretation of the agricultural marketing act to push production credit for cotton and livestock. Carl Williams outlines using the National Feeder and Finance corporation and National Livestock Marketing association to funnel funds through regional banks, enabling livestock as collateral for feed loans and potential $50 million credit via $5 million Farm Board capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Hoover
Farm’ Board
Carl Williams
Williams
National Feeder and Finance Corporation
National Livestock Marketing Association
Marketing Association
Feeder and Finance Corporation
Farm Board
American Cotton ‘Co-operative Association
Department of Agriculture
Hyde
Washington
Congress
Robinson
Arkansas
White House
Federal Farm Loan Board
Farm Land Banks
Joint Stock Land
Camp visitor reports phosphorescent wood glow at Birch Creek
W G Squires and his family at their Birch Creek canyon summer camp witnessed a strange white flame on a rotted wood pile. The wood appeared coated with phosphorus which lit up when wet after he walked to the back of the cottage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. Squires
Birch Creek Canyon
State Farm Review Issued With Livestock and Crop Data
The Montana Farm Review Vol. 5 No. 1 for 1929 is off the presses and will be mailed to interested parties. It includes monthly farm prices for 1928 and 1929, acreage changes, seeding data, weekly rainfall, and 1870 to 1930 Livestock classifications, but omits county crop tables due to funds. Copies are available from the state publicity division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana Farm Review
U. S. Department of Agriculture
State Department of Agriculture, Labor and Industry
Montana
Federal
Jay G. Diamond
Federal Statistician
Montania Ivestock
New Farm Review
State Publicity Division
Air mail pay shifts to mileage basis nationwide
National Parks Airways explains airmail payments switch from pound based to mileage based under the McNary-Waters act. The route certificate, signed July 30 in Washington, ties pay to miles flown plus a standard per-route cost. Operators view the change as more equitable and akin to railway pricing, promising safer, profitably run services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UGUST
National Parks Airways
W. G. Ferguson
Helena
Salt Lake City
Washington
Noel Nibley
Alfred Frank
Post Ofice Department
W. G. Herron
American Air Transport Association
McNary-Watres
Aggregate loans on securities reach 12 billion in June report
Federal Reserve Board preliminary monthly review shows aggregate loans on securities at 12.065 billion on June 30, down 4.925 billion from October. Member banks held 10.68 billion in securities loans. other lenders 1.37 billion. Loans and investments by member banks rose to 35.633 billion, up 577 million since March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Federal Reserve Bureau
Bank Call
New York Stock Exchange
New York
The
Stock Exchange
Montana Legion Auxiliary Reports 66 Units in Good Standing
Bozeman August 6 Mrs O L Lundin Montana department president of the American Legion auxiliary said 66 units in good standing with a total membership of 2456 and no charter revoked in the past year. She noted 67 mothers in Montana are due for overseas pilgrimage and Gold Star pins were issued to mothers in Wibaux Libby Walter and Chinook with Bozeman units presenting pins to Galatin county mothers at the convention. Montana is the Northwest's only state publishing a department bulletin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bozeman
O. L. Lundin
Great Falls
American Légion Auxiliary
Montana
Wibaux
Libby
Walter
Chinook
Gallatin County
Northwest
Landin
Silver mining in Montana’s eighties reshaped mining
The article recounts Montana silver mining from 1870s to 1890s, detailing key figures like Sam Hauser, W A Clark, and Marcus Daly, the shift of ore processing to Butte, smelting advances, and the rise and fall of silver with the Sherman act and Bryan's 1896 campaign influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elena
McKenzie
Hast Helena
American Smelting and Refining Company
Rotary
Associated Press
Paul C. Phillips
State University History Department
Samuel Hauser
Montana
Philipsburg
Helena
Black Chief
Butte
Dexter
W. A. Clark
Marcus Daly
Granite
Jefferson
Beaverhead
Clark
Daly
Bryan
Hauser
Interiro
Maginnis
Congress
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John Minter
John Nell
Clarkston, Wash
Ike Edinger
Divide
Mr. D. C. Devaney
Small Daughter
Melrose
Nampa
Idaho
Louise Burnham
Seattle
George Melton
Ike Rife
William Sbranstetter
Alex Crosby
Jackson
Robert Crosby
Edwin Whitworth
Sheep Creek Basin
C. W. Stallings
Valera Stabler
James Jackson
Jimmy Walsh
Melbourne Jackson
Mary Schoenborn
Los Angeles
Cal
University of Southern California
Eddie Wright
Porcatello
C. Wright
Jon Mulkey
Lemhi County
Dan Piccone
Reichle
Fred Smith
H. T. Kraabel
Clay Perry
Moniday
Joe Browne
John Gelhaus
B. J. Metlen
Horse Prairie
John Powers
Polaris
George Pyle
C. W. Woodburn
H. M. Brundage
Roy Forrester
Clarence Call
Ralph Cushing
Great ‘Falls
Lorenzo Cushing
Elkhorn Springs
J. W Finsley
Jackson Rancher
Fred Pennell
Rita Birrer
Lima
Caverly
Ralph O’leary
Rose Hainds
Camas Nelson
Levant Taylor
Ralph Harding
Big Hole
Tim Blair
Grant
George Hughes
Henry Thompson
Kidd
Fern Davidson
Ed Ely
Missoula
Mamie Hoffman
Helen
Kenneth Wheat
Eleanor Wheat
Yellowstone Park
Illinois
I. W. Rodgers
Carlton Rodgers
Cairo
H. G. Rodgers
Rodgers
Erage
Hazelbaker
Legion Auxiliary Units
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