Hail Losses Heavy Across Montana Counties
Montana hail reports show 1923 losses far exceed prior years with Prairie and Golden Valley counties hit hardest. Total risk written top over one million dollars, 1,412 farms insured, 592 long claims, and 42 percent of insured filing claims as payouts strain the state treasury.
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Montana
National
United States
Canada
Valley County
Prairie
Golden Valley
Fergus
Toole
Treasure
Daniels
Garfield
Musselshell
Yellowstone
Old Smoky and the Hashknife Boss Rider Tales
In a Sun River camp story, Stub recalls Old Smoky the feared horse, and Red the foreman. A tenderfoot kid tests Smoky, riding him boldly and besting the outlaw, prompting the camp to rethink who qualifies as a true rider and leader. Lewistown
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Smokey
Willers
Old Smoky
Skate
Smoky
Red
Quitte
Cayuse
Montana Manufacturing Census to Begin After New Year
A Montana business census covering manufacturers mines quarries and other industries will start after the new year by the U S Census Bureau. The biennial report classifies statistics by industry and shows prior Montana data including 445 manufacturers with under 5000 capitalization 474 with 5000 to 20000 and a total wage bill of 24742562. The oil sector and total establishments with 137176277 capitalization are noted.
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Montana
Census Bureau
Washington
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Bank officials in Great Falls convicted of false entries
Julius C. Peters and R. B. Noble, directors of Commercial National Bank of Great Falls, were found guilty in federal court of making false entries. Judge Bourquin sentenced both to two and a half years at Leavenworth and a $2,500 fine on the first count, with identical terms on the other counts, to run concurrently. Peters, 36, a successful financier and president of several oil ventures, was said to be a millionaire at the bank’s 1922 collapse. Noble, 58, head of Noble Mercantile and longtime civic leader, held multiple properties and public posts. Both men are married with large families.
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Julius C. Peters
R. B. Noble
Commercial National Bank of
Great Falls
George M. Bourquin
Leavenworth
Homestake Oil Company
Cat Creek
Homestake Exploration Company
Kevin
Montana
Noble Mercantile Company
West Side Bank
Peters
Noble
Bold pirate captain tries night escape with arms cargo
Crew of the Mexican freighter Mexico recounts how a daring skipper attempted a dusk harbor exit to transfer arms to Obregon government, after seizing his vessel by Mexican revolutionists.
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San Francisco
Mexico
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Cy Buck
Sun River
Helena
Pippin
California
Lewistown
David Weaver
Emigrant Gulch
Weaver
Henry Edgar
Bill Fairweather
Pennsylvania
Montana Historical Society
Patrick Gass
West
Pacific Coast
Julius O
R. B Noble
National’ ‘Bank of
Great ‘Falls
Montana Financial, World
T. J. Hocking
Glasgow
Charles M. Russell
Rawhide
Rawlins
Russell
Great Western
Cheely-Raban Syndicate
Rawhide Rawlins
Rawlin
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