Havre’s Buffalo Provokes Townsfolk With Wild Ways
Havre Montana struggles with a roaming bison that loots hay, raids the streets, and resists removal. Debate rages over its origins from a Stampede show or traveling medicine act as officials propose remedies and residents grow tired of the animal’s antics.
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Havre
Bull Hook Creek
Royal Corral
Stampede Association
Hill County
Jack Maybee
Bull Hook
Thespians
Montana
Charles J. Kops
Great Falls
Tom C. Penny
Bozeman
Carruth
Penny
Kops
Stampede
Pioneers of Montana Move to Aid Needy Members
A Helena man authors a letter urging the Montana Pioneers association to act at its Anaconda meeting September 5 and 6 to assist aging pioneers in need. Plans call for a committee to research and provide monetary support and a suitable home or rest place for distressed members.
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Pioneers OF Montana
Helena
Montana
Montana Pioneers’ Association
Anaconda
Sons and Daughters of Pioneers
Commonwealth
Society of Montana Pioneers
Two Great Falls Lieutenants Killed in War Casualties
Three Great Falls men with second lieutenant commissions from Fort Sheridan died or near death in April battles. Herbert K. Jones was killed. Bernard McMeel was gassed and returned from hospital. Scott L. Lennen died of wounds weeks earlier. Jones worked at Conrad bank. his father Llewellyn Jones is a Meade, Kansas prominent citizen.
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Great Falls
Fort Sheridan
Herbert K. Jones
Bernard McMeel
Scott L. Lennen
Lennen
McMeel
Jones
Conrad Bank
Llewellyn Jones
Meade
Kansas
Miner Awarded for Loss of Defective Eye
The Republic Coal company asked the state industrial accident board whether an employer must compensate a miner for the loss of a defective eye. The board ruled the company must pay as for a normal eye, and if total blindness occurred the award could reach about 4000 dollars or five dollars weekly for life.
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State Industrial Accident Board
Republic Coal Company
Andrew Martin
Klein
Mexican Service Ribbons Issued For Mexicans In Early Wars
The army will award two Mexican service badges to soldiers who served in Mexico between 1911 and 1917. The first badge honors those in the Vera Cruz expedition and punitive expeditions with color bands green yellow dark blue yellow green. The second badge recognizes border patrol service starting in 1916 with a green center and surrounding narrow stripes of green yellow blue.
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France
Philippines
Mexico
Border Patrol
A. BE. F
National Guard
Shorty’s Saloon through the Trails to the Past
A nostalgic lyric poem by John R. Ritch recalls Shorty's Saloon on the plains, its primitive bar offering licker as cowboys and freighters gathered to drink, gamble, and sing. The verse blends memory and tragedy, noting the migration west and the fading of the old frontier life.
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Nowhere
Shorty
Pard
Bacchus
Sing
Joy
Borderless
Gopher Poison Threat to Prairie Birds Angers Montana Sportsmen
Eastern Montana sportsmen report poisoned grain used to kill gophers is wiping out prairie chickens sage hens and song birds. Farmers note meadow larks vanish and horses may ingest poisoned oats as debates grow over safer placement of bait.
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Montana
DeHart
Valley County
Gallatin
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Red Cross
Council of Defense
The
Elks Lodge
Havre Cemetery Association
Buffalo
Pyper
Archie Bazoot
R. G. Linebarger
Linebarger
Animal
Shorty Young
Insurance Department
American Society Equity
John R. Ritch
Lewistown
Lenine
Trotzky
Russia
Yellowstone Park
Yellowstone Park Camping Company
Livingston
PY Merte
Boyd
Es Etree
Butte College of Telegraphy
Butte, Montana
Carnation
Carnation Milk Products Company
Seattle
Wash
Ayte Ve
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