Potash King Was State Resident Wealthy Prospecting Life
Frank L. Hulen, once jailed in Colorado for bigamy, became a potash magnate. He built an 85 percent US output share with a major plant at Antioch Nebraska after years of legal battles and a prison parole via Warden Tom Tynan. He wooed and married the Colorado sheriff's daughter while awaiting trial.
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Frank L. Hulen
Carbon County
Elk Basin
Wyoming Line
Montana
Hulen
Colorado
America
Denver
Tom Tynan
Colorado Penitentiary
Hullen
Tynan
Oklahoma
Wyoming
Bertha Fennell Hulen
Charlotte Richards Hulen
Jefferson County
Courts
Golden
Canon City
Colorado School of Mines
Nebraska
Miss Dennis
Uncle Sam
United States
Antioch
Neb
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Graves to be marked and photographed for Montana dead overseas
The graves registration service will ensure proper burial and care of American soldiers in France. Each grave will bear a cross or marker with an ID tag and card showing rank unit and death details, with photos sent to relatives and ongoing cemetery inspections.
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Montana
France
Army
Graves Registration Service
Europe
Registered Men Responsible Under Crowder Draft Rules
General Crowder warns Montana registrants that failure to meet selective service duties is a misdemeanor with up to one year imprisonment. All exemptions and deferred classifications are revoked after December 15, 1917, and notices will be posted or mailed for each step in the process.
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Montana
General Crowder
Selective Service Law
Selective Service
Crowder
Ates
Sloan
Pocket Book Joke Turns Long Face Short
A quip about how a small pocket book can sour a mood, suggesting a light contrast between size and expression and the humor of everyday inconveniences.
Home Guard to Guard War Efforts Nationwide
President Wilson signed a plan to form 25 000 men as the United States Guard. In Montana and nationwide the force will relieve regular troops by serving near homes, guarding war industry, bridges and tunnels. Enlistment ages are 31 to 45 with draft optional. Battalions led by majors, uniforms in blue, armed with Krag Jorgensen rifles.
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Montana
Wilson
United States Guard
National Guard
Europe
Sugar Rationing Kept For Northeastern States Pending 1917 Crop
To avert a temporary sugar shortage in the northeast until the 1917 sugar crop arrives, the United States food administration limits confectioners to 50 percent of their normal requirements through January 1, 1918. The limit also applies to syrup, ice cream, gum, and cordial manufacturers.
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United States Food Administration
Sugar limit set at 36 pounds per person nationwide
The food administration in Washington warns of ongoing sugar shortages and urges consumers to limit purchases to 36 pounds per person per year, about eleven ounces weekly. Dealers and some Montanans were misinformed ten days ago that supplies were abundant, leading to confusion and theft reports.
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National Food Administration
Washington
Federal Administration
Montana
The
Food Administration
Fergus County Pioneer Leaves 250000 Estate
Alvin Lincoln a Montana pioneer who died in Fergus county left an estate estimated at 250000. His Deerfield ranch near White Sulphur Springs is valued among the state’s finest properties. The will provides widow Annie Lincoln a 26000 share, daughter Leonie Hufine and her children five dollars each, and a life interest for son George Lincoln with trustees Pack and Belden overseeing for five years and potential extension. If George fails to manage, trusteeships extend five more years. future inheritance depends on issue and death conditions.
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Alvin Lincoln
Montana
Fergus County
Deerfield
Annie Lincoln
White Sulphur Springs
Leonie Hufine
George Lincoln
Charles W. Pack
O. W. Belden
Billings
Gladys Ballard
Canada
Rosebud
Townsend
Ben Kember
Broadwater County
Winston
Harry Gallway
Red Cross
Silver Bow
Wallis Huidekoper
Aviation Corps
Lewistown
Tacoma
Fort Benton
Missouri
Brockton
E. H. Dabney
Lin-Dal Fiber Company
Spokane
Billings Army Recruiting Office
Warren Alexander
Pershing
France
Hinsdale
Henry McGregor
Bozeman
R. D. Sloan
State Agricultural College
Milwaukee Railroad
Butte
Butte Grocers
California
Los Angeles
George Parker
Malta
Park
No Quarter Given by Sammies as German Cruelty Sparks Rage
Dr. Phillip G. Cole reports from France that American troops in the front line refuse to take German prisoners after witnessing German brutality. A Boche misdirected into No Man's Land was bayoneted by several Americans who turned him into a human pincushion. Cole notes early American wounded arriving at his field hospital and urges letters and Camel cigarettes for the hospital staff, with supplies to be sent through First Lieutenant P. G. Cole, M. O. R. at Field Hospital No. 2, First Division, A E F France.
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France
George E. Neill
Helena
Phillip G. Cole
Europe
No Man's Land
Dr.Cole
Cole
Field Hopital
Field Hospital No
A. EB. F
Henry Saunders Defrauded Many in Post Office Scam
Henry Patten Saunders, former British army officer, served 18 months at Leavenworth for a ghoulish fraud involving letters to dead officers seeking five pounds or $25. He was jailed in Helena, charged with robbing the Scobey post office after fleeing to St. Paul, and later confessed to the Scobey crime.
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Henry Patten Saunders
Helena
Scobey
St. Paul
Montana
Leavenworth
Saunders
Flanders
Canada
Britain
France
England
Estate bequeathal aims state home for Montana orphans
The entire estate is to go to the state of Montana to fund a Lincoln ranch based state home for orphans. The arrangement directs the creation of a dedicated facility for orphaned children under state care.
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Montana
Lincoln Ranch
Mont Calamity News From Montana Towns
Montana items report a varied week with labor surplus in Billings a federal farm loan formed at Plentywood and gopher control funds in Hill County. Roundup mines plan coal output rise while Bozeman orders smallpox vaccination. A Roundup steer sold for 261 dollars and Hill County tax roll rose to 684 442 dollars.
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Billings
Plentywood
Federal Farm Loan Association
Hayre
Hill County
Bozeman
Board of Health
Roundup
Alex Woolfolk
Chicago
Havre
Tyans
Mackie McDonald
Frank Parker
Carpenter Creek
Big Sandy
Quarrel Turns Fatal on Ranch as Man Is Shot
A quarrel on a ranch ends with Parker dead after Shellito shoots him. Shellito walks 70 miles to the county seat despite four bullet wounds. In a separate case Mrs. Eghtman accuses her husband of spying. Kahliman is cleared after seven days in jail.
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Shellito
Parker
Butte
George Eghtman
Kahliman
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the Home Guard
Henry Saunders
Hoame Grown
Butte Floral CO
Mont
U.s.health Bureau
Hassalto
Aectoria le Hirdoctet
Rie
State Boards of
Beste Vareeyes
Fanterius Bhig. Tolede
Arma
Grippe
Dr. King
Elk Run
Herefords
West
Thomas Melvin
Elk Run Ranch
Highwood
Dakota Family
Central Ave
Great Falls
Alhambra Hot Springs Hotel
M. J. Sullivan
Frank Lemmer
Central Avenue
P. O
Harry H. McCole
S. C. Huseth
Optometrist's
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