Josephine Steamboat Redefined Montana Yellowstone Trade
The Josephine, built at Pittsburgh in 1873 for Grant Marsh and used by Coulson Packets, operates on the Yellowstone and Missouri. It carries troops and supplies, aids surveys, and endures ice and low water while shaping river navigation and commerce in 1870s to 1880s Montana.
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Josephine
Missouri
Yellowstone River
Sellowstone
Montana
Peetonians
Seventh Cavalry
Coulson Line
Fort Benton
South Dakota
Yukon River
Alaska
America
Josep la Barge
Grant Marsh
Yellowstone
Pittsburgh
Coulson Packet Company
Marsh
Northern Pacific Survey Party
Seventh ‘Cavalry
Baier
G. A. Custer
General Stanley
Key West
Mart Coulson
Far West
Abner Shaw
Custer
Terry
U. S
John ‘Todd
Ohio
Mississippi
St. Louis
Glendive Creek
Todd
Cow Island
Carroll
May Lowry
Wolf
Union
Powder River
Big Horn
Pays Pillar
Billings
Canadian
Northwest Territory
Benton
Canada
I. G. Baker
Baker
Coulsons
Bismarck
Down River
Dakota
Prairies
U. S. Army
Crook
Gibbon
Army
Rosebud
E. H. Durfee
Coulson
Upper River
Silver Lake
Little Big Horn
Northern Pacific
Manitoba
Joe Todd
Sioux
Coulson Packet Co
J. Maratta
Coulson Company
T. C. Power
W. H. Gould
John Belk
Co Packet Co
Tosee
Government Co
Upper
Missouri River
Shonkin
Marins
Judith Rivers
Jim Hill
F. Y. Batchelor
U.S
River Press
Rowe’s Island
River and
Avalon
Sioux City
Red Lodge Officials Near Finish on WPA City Hall
Rapid progress on Red Lodge's uniquely designed WPA city hall a 26000 project. Since July the work has employed about 28 workers with 23082 spent to date and interior finishing remaining before transfer to city departments including the jail. The total cost will be under 10000 and features native stone timber quarried locally by WPA crews plus 4600 cubic feet of granite and cobblestone on the first floor garage and jail walls with peeled logs on the porch and a creme stucco second floor.
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Red Lodge
WPA
Montana Women mobilizing Army fights cancer statewide
The Montana section notes a women led mobilization by the American Society for the Control of Cancer. Led by Mrs. H. W. Peterson of Billings with national backing, the effort promotes early detection education and a 1 dollar enlistment in a statewide crusade spanning January to March with a culminating public enlistment in April.
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Montana
The
American Society For the Control of Cancer
H. W. Peterson
Billings
Marjorie B. Illig
New York
Peterson
Ed Henrichs
Troy
Aubrey Knowles
Anaconda
H. G. Merkle
Geraldine
W. H. Bunney
Belfry
Darwin Harbicht
Fort Peck
Helen Tupper
William Rendicker
Chateau
Nail cutting superstition in Yorkshire child lore
An old Yorkshire superstition warns that cutting a child's nails in the first year will cause the child to grow up a thief. The belief appears in local sayings reflecting moral conduct and folk wisdom of the period.
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Yorkshire
England
Flying altitude efficiency range for plane operation
Tests show the most efficient average altitude lies between 5 000 and 6 000 feet for optimal aircraft operation.
Former State Auditor recounts mining congress fate
George P. Porter recalls being pressed into speaking at the 34th Spokane mining congress about a decade ago. He describes being summoned to fill in for absent speakers on Montana day and delivering a two hour talk on the blue sky law, then narrowly avoiding a repeat invite years later due to fear of tempting fate.
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George P. Porter
Spokane
Mr. Porter
Davenport
Francis Thomson
Idaho University
Montana School of Mines
University of Wacoton
Montana
Charley Muffley
Broadwater County
Montana Mining Association
Butte
Erickson
A, P
Enlistment Goal Set for Educational Crusade in Montana
The campaign relies entirely on volunteers and seeks one enlistment per 100 people, or about $5370 for Montana. Literature on cancer and its control available by writing Commander Mrs. W. H. Peterson at 605 Lewis Avenue, Billings.
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Montana
W. H. Peterson
Lewis Avenue
Billings
Louis XIV Aimed Versailles to Create Wealth and Jobs
The statement notes that Louis XIV justified building Versailles as a way to provide employment for 30,000 workers over many years, highlighting the project’s economic and labor impact as a motive beyond prestige.
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Louis XIV
Great Palace
Versailles
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