Pratting recalls Custer battle and Nez Perce times
Sergeant John F. Pratting Civil War veteran Indian fighter and ranchman buried at Big Timber remembered for his role in the Little Big Horn aftermath and the 1877 Sherman expedition. He recounts burial feats, prairies, and the Nez Perce encounter near Mammoth Hot Springs.
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John F. Prutting
Big Timber
Montana
Pratting
Second Cavalry
Nez Perces
William T. Sherman
United States Army
Wield
Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park
Sherman
Cowan
Fountain Geyser
Joseph
Howard
Lower Geyser Basin
Mr. Cowan
Mammoth
Sergeant Pratting
Floweree & Lowry Livestock Co
Sweetgrass
Lake
Three Forks sailor earns Silver Star for heroism
Paul Pogreba boatswain's mate first class, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pogreba of Three Forks, decorated for heroism with the Silver Star after enlisting at the Butte sub-station in 1933.
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Three Forks
Paul R. Pogreba
Preshia Pogreba
Butte
Oldest Yellowstone Tire Displayed in Gardiner Scrap Drive
Warren E. Hall of the W A Hall Co displayed the oldest tire from Yellowstone National Park on a national rubber drive in Gardiner. The Goodyear tire, likely from 1915, measures 27 inches in side diameter and 363 inches outside diameter with a 164 inch girth. It was tied to Roaring Joe Marlow who says it rode on the first car allowed into the park on August 1, 1915, owned by H W Childs, late president of the Yellowstone Park Hotel and Transportation Co.
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Yellowstone National Park
America
Gardiner
Warren E. Hall
W. A. Hall Co
Goodyear
Joe Marlow
H. W. Childs
Yellowstone Park Hotel and Transportation Co
Bozeman Man Wins Farmers Union Essay Contest
Bozeman resident W H Oldenburg placed third in the Farmers Union national essay contest held at the Oklahoma City convention. The prize topic was How to live on $25,000 a year. Mrs Ben Hutt of Anselmo Nebraska earned another top spot.
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Whitehall
Kate Tuttle
Ohio
Iowa
Dave Tuttle
Fish Creek
Renova
Tuttle
Bozeman
Ben Hutt
Anselmo
Neb
Farmers Union
Oklahoma City
W. H. Oldenburg
Bozeman, Mont
Marian Martin Pattern 9113 Ladies Frock for Misses
Silhouette described for a feminine frock titled Marian Martin pattern 9113. Includes scalloped yoke panels, optional short sleeves, available misses sizes 12 through 20. Size 16 requires four yards of velveteen. price is 15 cents. order to Pattern Department MN New York NY.
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Marian Martin
Pattern Department
18Th St
New York
N. Y
Dried Food and the War
Article explains wartime push to dry foods to save shipping space. It notes dried foods use about one eighth to one seventh the space of fresh goods and detail moisture content across food groups from vegetables and milk to bread and cake.
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James A. Tobey
Pantry Shelf Recipes from Kathryn Wynn
A collection of fruit cocktails and savory dishes including a grapefruit orange cup mix and cranberry ham slices. Also spinach souffle and Vemetene glaze sauce with bacon, flour, sugar and lemon juice, serving six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathryn G. Wynn Sraneral
Commercial drying of foods gains ground in wartime
The passage notes that sun drying has long been common but large scale commercial drying is recent. Since 1900 dried milks and powdered eggs appeared, and since 1923 skim milk solids have fed into white bread. Drying preserves most nutrients though vitamin C may fall with heat while vitamins A and riboflavin remain stable. Minerals largely stay intact and dried foods are often more digestible, sometimes tastier, sometimes less palatable, a consideration in wartime.
State Liquor Board To Show Top Profit
Montana liquor board profits set to surpass prior highs as A. E. McFatridge of Billings predicts record earnings this year. Through October 1942 profits reached about 3 million dollars, with holiday sales still to come, and gross sales edging above 1941 levels due to higher prices and taxes.
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Montana Liquor Control Board
A. E. McFatridge
Billings
McFatridge
Lquors
Montana
Ban on Electricity For Holiday Lights Across Montana
The federal power commission instructed all electric utilities not to provide power for street decorations this holiday season. Montana cities including Great Falls Helena Kalispell and Livingston had already announced plans to abandon Christmas lighting during the war.
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Montana Railroad and Public Service Commission
Federal Power Commission
Montana
Great Falls
Helena
Kalispell
Livingston
Alaska Airfields Reach Major Milestone in Passenger Traffic
The report notes more than 150 airfields across Alaska and annual passenger miles flown totaling about 8,000,000. This highlights the vast scale of aviation activity in the state and its growing connectivity.
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Alaska
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Custer
Terry
Day
Little Big Horn
Gibbon
Tullock
Reno
Benteen
Jordan
Frank B. Haney
Good Samaritan Hospital
Garfield County
Nebraska
Hall Creek
R. V. Bottomly
Elmer Wang
Fallon County
Utah-Idaho Sugar Co
Lewis Penwell
Internal Revenue
State
James W. Masterson
Miles City
Earl W. Scovel
J. Grant Florin
Mark C. Rowan
Fred Buck
Lolo
Lolo Creek
Alberton
Superior
Malta
Arthur Johnson
Johnson
Minnesota
Julius J. Wuerthner
Cascade County Salvage Committee
Wuerthner
Glendive
W. D. Pearce
Northern Pacific Railroad
Fargo
J. A. Mercer
Eastern Lines
St. Paul
Howard McCauley
Wis
Pearce
George H. Barbour
Falmouth
S. T. Hauser
Arthur Nelson
War Production Board
David R. McKechnie
Malta Congregational Church
United Congregational Church of
Oconomawak
Eastern Association of Congregational Churches
Frank G. Givens
H. H. Ewing
First Presbyterian Church
Mon
Tana Deaconess Hospital
Scottish Rite Temple Association
Givens
Jacob Thorkelson
Walter Winchell
McFadden Publication, Inc
O. J. Elder
C. H. Shattuck
Ernest C. Heyn
Sheppard Butler
Luke P. O’keefe
Thorkelson
Winchell
Liberty Magazine
O'Keefe
Butte Magazine
Emmet Womack
Republic
Alameda
Calif
Sally Ann
Archie Parks
Fred Carlson
New York City
Duluth, Minn
Max Atwater
Butte & Superior Mining Co
Davis-Daly Copper Co
Linton
North Butte Co
Clay Products Institute of California
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Mining Association of the Southwest
Texas
Texas Gulf Coast
Houston
Owen Allen
Houston, Texas
Kitchereclinic
Rex
Pat
Betty Crocker
Home Service Department
Red Cross
Ladies’ Aid
Young Princess
J. A. Tobey
Vicks
Vicks VapoRub
State Liquor Board
Razoil
Razoil Products
Poplar Bluffs
Cee
Sade
Marvel. Dental CO
Dept
S. Dearborn St
Chicago
Sunny Brook
Kentucky
Bourbon Whiskey National Distillers Products Corporation
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