Montana Smallpox Vaccination Debate Faces Butte Controversy
The Health Review from the Montana health department cites 549 cases and two deaths since January 1, 1928, urging vaccination to prevent outbreaks. In Butte, orders require schoolchildren to prove vaccination at reopening, triggering mass meetings and petitions led by anti-vaccinationists.
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State Board of Health
Health Review
Montana Health Department
Montana
Kansas City
Missouri
Denver
Colorado
Kalispell
Butte
Silver Bow
State Board of ‘Health
Great Falls
Outlaw Ned Ray and Bannack Vigilantes Tales Told
Reader Martha Edgerton Plassmann recalls Bannack Montana in 1863. The account centers on Ned Ray of Plummer’s gang, Dutch John Wagner’s capture, and Neil Howie’s solitary takedown view, plus the Virginia City vigilantes forming a Bannack branch to quell road agents.
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Ned Ray
Plummer
Bannack
Ray
Buck Stinson
Leroy Southmayd
Horse Prairie
Lucia Darling
Meen
Neil Howie
Neil
John
Featherston
Town
Howie
Dutch John
Yankee Flat
Dimsdale
Wagner
Virginia Vigilantes
Piranthia
Colonel Sanders
Virginia City
Vigilantes
George Chrisman
Chrisman
Territory of
Montana
Plassmann
John” Wagner
Butterflies Signal Uncertain Winter in Montana Records
In Great Falls local notes speculate on weather patterns with a butterfly's emergence as a sign. Tribunetells of a golden brown butterfly breaking its cocoon Sunday and prompts talk of a cold or open winter, while a Native lore angle is mentioned.
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Great Falls
Los’ Angeles
Tribune
Buck Goes Wild Attacks Keeper at Gibson Park
A six year old whitetail in Great Falls's Gibson park paddock attacked park superintendent Frank Reimer as former Alderman Sleevy bludgeoned the animal with a hardwood club. Reimer suffered leg goring and cuts. Sleevy helped him escape as the deer raged on, with public warned to stay away. A previous blacktail buck killed a mother doe two years ago, and a bull elk once attacked daily in November.
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Gibson Park
Great Falls
Frank Reimer
Sleevy
Reimer
Mr. Sleevy
Mr. Reimer
Federal relief plan proposed to aid four wheat states
A Minneapolis meeting of four spring wheat state representatives endorsed a plan to lend $35 million to Montana North Dakota South Dakota and Minnesota. Each farmer could borrow up to 1000 to buy cattle hogs sheep and poultry with a five year term at 6 percent interest. The plan aims to help farmers grow their own living on the farm and shift from pure wheat production to diversified farming.
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Minneapolis
W. A. Selvidge
Montana Development Association
John Lee Coulter
North Dakota Agricultural College
Montana
North
South Dakota
Minnesota
Selvidge
Congress
Spring Wheat
Great Falls Poppies Bloom in Local Gardens
Great Falls residents report California poppies in their flower beds, brightening several gardens this season. Neighboring yards showcase clusters of vivid orange blooms as warm weather sustains growth.
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Great Fallse
California
Great Falls
Inventor Offers Free Oil Lamp to Early Adopters
A Chicago inventor of a new oil lamp claims it burns 94 percent of air and outperforms gas and electricity. He offers one free lamp to every locality user who helps introduce it and seeks agents. Write for particulars.
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Lake &T
Chicago
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Martha Edgerton Plassmann
Henry Plummer
Buck
Great’ ‘Alls ‘Park
Frank
Doe
Government
Free Radio Catalog
U. 8
van Blarkem Co
Helena Mont
S. C. Huseth
Optician
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