First News Of Custer Massacre Told By Crow Scout Curley
Crow scout Curley conveyed initial word of Custer’s defeat to the Far West crew at the Little Big Horn mouth. He drew a diagram on paper to show the circle and inner dots, then explained Sioux defeat through improvised symbols and gestures to Capt. Marsh and his officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Custer
Curley
Big Hyyn
Little Big Horn
Big Horn
Grant Marsh
Army
Terry
Gibbon
Joseph Mills Hanson
Captain Marsh
Missouri
Baker
Better Recipes from and for Montana Cooks
A collection of reader submitted recipes from a Montana contest. Pork Ensemble mixes potatoes and onions with meat and milk baked in an open dish. Three Pint Ring Lemon and Cheese Salad uses knox gelatine with cream cheese and fruit for a molded ring. Ginger Cookies cream and spice a molasses dough then bake into cookies. Ginger Creams blends brown sugar shortening eggs syrup and spices to form soft cookies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathryn G. Wynn
Lawrence Ja. Rich
Cohagen
Knox
Philadelphia
Harry White
Manhattan
John McKain
Sioux War Sign Language Reveals Grim Battle News
In a tense scene, Curley signals a brutal fight as Captain Baker admits defeat. Exposed by a Sioux war dance, white observers grasp the mass danger to soldiers, realizing they are learning first details of a large battle with many slain and scalped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Curley
Hunt for Loot of Highwaymen Near Bannack and Virginia City
The article recounts Montana youths chasing legends of buried gold from vanished highwaymen tied to Vigilante history. It notes old tales near Glenn and Butte, a buried foot kept by a hanging stage robber, and the erased dugout along the stage road, now hidden by plows and mowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Captain Kidd
Desert Isles
Glenn
Butte
Virginia City
Apron Pattern 255 for Embroidered Hostess Gifts
The ad promotes Pattern 255 by Claire Tilden for a versatile apron with flower embroidery at pockets and top. It offers three top treatments, optional pockets, and a slipover bodice, with size options small to large and fabric needs for the small size. Orders go to Pattern Department M. N. 70 Fifth Avenue New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claire Tilden
Sewinr
Pattern Department
Fifth Avenue
New York
N.Y
Gold Dust Dreams Haunt Bannack and Grasshopper History
Tales from Bannack to Grasshopper Creek recount buried treasure legends and a mother lode rumored to lie in Grasshopper country. Prospectors chase elusive riches while smart misers fade into memory and one Missouri man is said to have found wealth before losing it to folly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bannack
Virginia City
Montana
Grasshopper Country
Grasshopper Creek
Grasshopper
Third Montana Day in Yellowstone Feb 16
The Gardiner Commercial club receives permission to erect a portable ski tow in Yellowstone for the third annual Montana Day in Yellowstone on February 16. The event promotes winter viewing of wildlife along the Gardiner to Cooke road with free hot dogs and coffee for attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park
Director of
National Parks At
Washington
Gardiner Commercial Club
Gardiner Organization
Gardiner
Cooke
America
Gardiner Club
Yellowstone Park
Fortunes Found and Lost in the Beaverhead Country
A greenhorn sent to the Big Hole river returns in a frenzy claiming barrels of gold found along a gleaming river. His tale proves false, yet he builds a ranching fortune in Beaverhead, though his Missouri family grows up distant and memories fade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Hole
Greenhorn
Beaverhead Country
Missouri
Heavy Grasshopper Infestation Forecast for Valley County 1941
Valley county faces the second heaviest grasshopper problem in Montana in 1941 per a Bureau of Entomology survey cited by Charles E. Jarrett. Infestation stands at 34 percent, about three quarters of 1939 levels, with Beaverton-Saco divide area the worst. Pondera is heavier at 38 percent. No federal aid is expected for control. farmers urged to repair poison spreading machines and reuse old bait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Entomology
Valley County
Montana
Charles E. Jarrett
Beaverton-Saco Divide
Glasgow-Nashua
Baylor
Opheim
Glentana
Nashua
Lustre
Larslan
Genevieve
Average 1939 North Carolina farm livestock mix
The 1939 NC farm average carried one mule one milk cow four hogs and 33 chickens reflecting typical farm holdings of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Wyoming Man Finds Stomach Relief
A 70 year old Wyoming resident describes years of stomach trouble with excess acid and pain. After trying various medicines he used two weeks of Wong Sun Company Chinese herbs in February and reports no stomach pain since, with improved health. He later used another week’s supply and recommends the company. Dated December 24, with variations of address in Cowley Wyoming and Billings and Missoula Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wong Sun Company
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Crow Scot Curtey
Clarks Fork Valley
Anaconda Copper Mining CO
Lands Department
Missoula, Mont
Orion
Ancient
Greece
OOVA
East Indies Company
Thomas A Kempis
Averyon
Charlemagne
Miss Wynn
Great Falls
Hunt
Chae Ton
Wyoming
J. A. Daubenspeck
Cowley, Wyoming
Billings, Mont. Missoula, Mont
Helena, Mont
Great
Falls, Mont
Fort Peck Dam
United States
THE
Glasgow Courier
Glasgow
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