Treasure State farm and livestock push to boost meat output
Montana livestock officials at the state capitol discuss increasing beef sheep and hog production to aid the war effort. While no formal plan was set, the group agreed Montana’s capacity exceeds current output and pledged a thorough whirlwind campaign to mobilize stockraisers and farmers toward higher production.
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Montana Food Conservation Commission
Livestock Department
State Capitol
Montana
Is This a Farmers' War in Germany Slugfest Debate
Clarence Ousley assistant secretary of agriculture visited Great Falls Montana for a farmers convention and challenged the view that farmers have no stake in the war. He recalled Germanys January 31 1917 pledge to extend the submarine zone and offered a weekly ship to Britain with protections for passengers, highlighting the broader costs to American farmers and citizens.
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Clarence Ousley
Montana
Great Falls
Ousley
Germany
Europe
Great Britain
France
Italy
Falmouth
England
Robbers Enter Butte Saloon After Fake Beer Call
Two armed men, wearing masks, used a staged beer drop to lure the porter, then robbed the Bismarck saloon at 3:30 am and took about $1,000 from the cash drawer. One man covered the porter with a revolver while the other searched the till.
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Bismarck
Butte
Germany Proposes Limited Shipping to Europe
In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913 the United States exported farm products to Europe worth 1,123,661,985 dollars. The text notes that a proposal of one ship per week would not meet export and import needs and that a 100 million bushels wheat surplus could push prices below production cost.
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Europe
Exports of Cotton and Wheat and U S Sea Rights
Mr Ousley argues the United States must retain the right to export cotton and wheat and to import goods. He calculates massive potential cargoes and stresses that denying exports would force farmers to surplus production and hurt the nation's economy. He warns that a power restricting exports would also restrict imports in its own interest.
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Mr. Ousley
Europe
Germany
Heeding Nation's Call for Sugar Urges No Crop Diminution
The national food administration urges no reduction in domestic sugar production as beet crops crucially support wartime needs. It notes sugar firms and Western farmers should respond to the national call, preserving irrigated and non irrigated land for beet sugar and adaptable crops.
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National Food Administration
The
Montana youths urged to join United States Boys Working Reserve
In 1917 a broad call for boys aged 16 to 21 to join the United States Boys Working Reserve explains a non military civilian army aiding war effort. The program offers agricultural and industrial units with bronze badges after service, stressing farm labor, factory roles, and vocational preparation.
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Montana
United States Boys’ Working Reserve
Department of Labor
Bureau of Publicity
United States Department of Labor
Federa State
United States
The
Reserve
State Council of Defense
Himsel
Army
Navy
World News in Brief From Cities Across the Globe
A condens ed tour of wartime items: Canada trims building expenditures. Mexico taxes entrants. U S rations costs. I W W leader Haywood freed on bonds as German casualties soar. France charters captured German ships. Britain halves meat ration. coal savings prompt losses to Grand Rapids furniture makers. Additional notes on ships, seaborne trade, and espionage efforts in New York and Chicago.
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Washington
Navy
Chicago
William D.haywood
Paris
Brazil
Germany
London
England
Grand Rapids
Senator Smith
Michigan
Boston
San Francisco
California
France
Lord Rothmere
British Air Board
Great Britain
John Robinson
Illinois State
Joliet
Hia
War Department
Tuscania
Margaret Field
United States
Secret Service Code
New York
Secret Service Bureau
Eric Geddes
Detroit
William Rockfeller
Tarrytown
N. Y
County Fuel Administration
Rockfeller
Bankin
The World Is Small Christmas Package Found in France
A package mailed by Mrs. A. V. Brown of Livingston to Red Cross headquarters in France ended up with Lieutenant R. F. Ragland of the American engineering corps somewhere in France. Ragland, a Livingston resident before the army, knew the Montana sender, illustrating the world’s smallness.
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A. V. Brown
Livingston
Red Cross
France
R. F. Ragland
American Engineering Corps
Ragland
Army
Montana
Sugar trade shifts from ships to trains in national story
The nation once depended on tropical sugar ships docking at ports. Now emphasis shifts to the modern freight train moving sugar from the Rocky Mountain region, signaling a change in the supply chain and production prominence.
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Tropics
Rocky Mountain Region
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Livestock Department of Montana Food Conservation Committee
F. O. B. Butte
Sone Seoesse
Lewis Poultry
Ompany Butte, Mont
Eges
Kelley-How-Thomson Co
Duluth
Minnesota
Dakota
Snowy Mountain Ranch
Carlo
Beau Jackson
Montana Ranch Company
Aoes Brown
Moore
Bret
Rocky Mountain
Boys OF
Second Line of Defense
Emergency Bureau of
Toronto
Canada
Mexico City
Carranza
Mexico
Rsass
Cae Re
Sra Levaa
Red River Valley
Fargo
North Dakota
Montana’s Poultry Supply House
Queen
Buckeye
Essex
Mandy le
Buckeye Standard
Steve
Rhode Island
Clay, Robinson & Company
Fort Worth
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