Montana Cowboy World Champion Triumph at New York Rodeo
Daring rider Hugh Strickland of Idaho won the Roosevelt trophy and Kenn Maynard trophy as best all round cowboy at the charity rodeo in Madison Square Garden New York City. Mike Hastings Iowa Park Texas won 1200 cash and silver cup in steer wrestling. Louis Jones Cristoval Texas won 1200 and silver cup for best calf roper. Bob Askin Miles City Montana captured the broncho riding finals and 1000 for trick roping. Ted Filder Denver Colorado earned 1000 for fancy riding. Grace Runyon Spearfish South Dakota won 700 for broncho riding and Tad Lucas Douglas Wyoming 1000 for fancy riding.
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Madison Square Garden
New York City
Hugh Strickland
Bruneau Valley
Ida
Roosevelt
Kenn Maynard
Mike Hastings
Iowa Park
Tex
Louis Jones
Cristoval
Bob Askin
Miles City
Mont
Ted Filder
Denver
Colo
Grace Runyon
Spearfish
8. D
Tad Lucas
Douglas
Wyo
Cypress Used by Egyptians For Mummy Cases
A fragment notes cypress timber from ancient Egypt used to craft mummy cases, estimated at about 3000 years old and still in good preservation.
Trappers of Montana Prosper From Reliable Great Falls Market
A note on Montana trappers profiting from a steady Great Falls fur trade. Traders sent out from posts on the Upper Missouri and lower Yellowstone to barter with natives for furs, feeding a growing industry. The Great Falls house, started by David Beckman and now run by Albert Beckman, expanded to meet demand.
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Lewis and Clark
Montana
Pacific Coast
Northwest
Missouri
Yellowstone
St. Louis
Europe
American Fur Company
Great Falls
San Francisco
Los Angeles
David Beckman
Albert Beckman
Beekman Brothers Fur Trade Chronicle Of Montana Commerce
The article recounts historic Montana trading posts on the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers tied to the McKenzies Culbertsons and the Curators, detailing the fur trade’s rise as a money making Northwest enterprise. It highlights Beckman Brothers of Great Falls as a trusted Montana fur house with extensive buying territories and modern facilities.
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Northwest
Astors
McKenzies
Culbertsons
Colters
Becktiai Brothers
Beckman Brothers
Montana
Farmore
Billings to Send 100 Delegates to State Fair
Billings Commercial club admits loss of wager with Helena club over good roads vote. Yellowstone county cast 6892 for 753 against 90.15 percent in favor while Lewis and Clark voted 5500 for 653 against 90.88 percent. As penalty Billings must send a 100 person delegation to the Montana State fair next September, with Helena pledging a Midland Empire fair delegation if Lewis and Clark also loses.
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Billings Commercial Club
Ray M. Hart
Helena Commercial Club
Yellowstone County
Lewis and Clark
eYllowstone
Montana
School Board bans silk stockings for Carter County girls
The Carter County Montana school board orders girls to stop wearing silk stockings. The rule targets female students across district schools as part of a uniform standard.
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Carter County
Montana
Hamlet Has Most Lines in Shakespeare Play
Hamlet speaks the most lines of any character in Shakespeare with about one thousand one hundred sixty nine lines, more than other figures in the tragedy.
Montana Votes Repeal Prohibition and Gas Tax Increase
Montana voters repealed prohibition by 10 249 votes amid a 114 703 to 42 232 victory for the gasoline tax rise to three cents a gallon funded for highway construction. Other measures failed, including a five mill school levy and county unit bail insurance.
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Helena
Montana
State General Fund
Pegeeser 8
Freshen a Heavy Skin with Cuticura Talcum Powder Ad
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Talcum Powder as antiseptic fragrant economical for face skin baby and dusting use. It touts Cuticura as part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio with Soap Ointment and Talcum and claims it renders other preparations superfluous.
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Talcom
Russell paintings on Safe Doors Reveal Early Montanan Art
A Fergus county painting by Charles M. Russell sits on a Lewistown bank safe door and another by him is on a Great Falls garage safe. Russell, known for western scenes, painted a solitary Indian brave with a rifle and pipe among teepes and figures on steel in the early days.
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Charles M. Russell
Russell
Bank of
Fergus County
Lewistown
Great Falls
Ludwig Garage
W. H. Ludwik, Sr
Cascade
Preservation Note on Portrait Door Protection
The fragment describes a steel door of three sixteenths inch thickness, well preserved with a single minor ceratory blemish near the edge. It states the door can be rebovert to allow preservation of the painting behind it.
Phillips estate filed as five children share inheritance
The five children of pioneer Montana sheepman B Phillips who died in Rochester Minnesota share equally in his estate. The Rochester executed will dated October 7 names Benjamin M Phillips and Walter W Phillips as executors without bond. Heirs include Roy D Phillips Mia Alma Browne and Mrs Sarah Newhell of Oakland California.
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B Phillips
Montana
Rochester
Minn
Benjamin M. Phillips
Walter W. Phillips
Roy D. Phillips
Mia
Alma Browne
Sarah Newhell
Oakland
California
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U.S
Coleman Lame Co
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Wichita
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Onta
Big Horn
Old Fort Union
Missouri River
United States
Beckman
Washington
North Dakota
Canada
Edmonton
Alberta
Peace
MacKenzie
Seattle
Alaska
Beckmans
Vicks
Vick
Bear Creek
Billings
Alex Louttit
Liberty Tailors
Liberty Theatre
Alhambra Hot Springs
M.J Sullivan
Butte
Aynss
the Park Hotel
Great Falls, Mont
Brandford
Public Land Grants Department
Capitol Building Fund
State Board of Examiners
Montana Forest and Timber Handbook
State University
Bancroft-Whitney Company
Twentieth Legislative Assembly
Legislative Assembly
Ben Phillips
Eirl
Dean
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co., Mfg. Chem
Buffalo, N. Y
Western Wallboard CO
9Th Ave
Beattle
Bridger Canyon
Gallatin Valley
Bozeman
Bozeman Canning Co
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