Classified ads list diverse sales in Brooks and Great Falls
Sale notices include Gage Grocery in Brooks Montana with full line groceries candy tobacco ice cream meat Texaco oils compressor and a 42 ton Chevrolet truck priced for quick sale to settle estate. Mrs Clarence Lillie administratrix Brooks Mont and Box 374 Blackfoot Idaho. 40 room modern hotel over 300 dollars monthly sick listing will sell sacrifice easy terms to buyers. Suburban grocery fountain living quarters included price 2000 terms write 126 20th St South Great Falls Montana.
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Gage Grocery
Brooks, Mont
Texaco Eas
Clarence Lillie
Blackfoot
Idaho
20Th St
South
Great Falls
Montana
SALE Light plant Delco 110 volt 1060 watt
Classified notice offers a Delco light plant rated at 110 volt and 1060 watts. Terms and conditions point to correspondence via P. O. Box 876 Livingston Montana for interested buyers or bidders.
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Yor Sale
Delco
P. O
Livingston
Montana
REA Projects Show Progress in Montana Co-operatives
Montana rural electric co-operatives report growth from December 1939 to December 1940. Membership rose 68 percent to 4,881 across 11 co-ops, with farm members up 43 percent, non farm residential 166 percent, and commercial use up 152 percent. Average monthly bill rose from 4.39 to 4.97, while unaccounted energy losses fell from 22 to 20.4 percent. Two new projects will add 426 miles of line, boosting membership beyond 6,000. REA allotments totaling 222,000 in December bring Montana total since July 1940 to 921,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armin J. Hill
Montana State College
REA
Hill
Rural Electrification Administration
Washington, D. C
Montana
Ray E. Cameron
Cameron
Billings
Not Really A Nudist Camp in The Treasure State
Clarence Horsley, assistant attorney general, reads a Montana letter asking how nudist camps are regulated. The writer seeks laws to avoid violations and to post camps to deter peeping, noting a camp would be in a secluded spot. No statutes on nudism as a cult. public disrobing rules apply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Horsley
Montana
Hanley
Territorial assembly of Bannack faced costs in early lawmaking
In December 1864 the first territorial assembly at Bannack had to send David Chamberlain to Lewiston Idaho for a copy of the Idaho territorial laws. The horseback trip cost Montana Territory 600 dollars for the retrieval effort.
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Montana
27Th General Assembly
Bannack
David Chamberlain
Lewiston
Idaho
Chamberlain
Montana Territory
World news and 4-H reports mix in 1940s dispatches
The column lists multiple international and domestic items: Lasker’s death in New York, Finger’s death in Arkansas, Menge’s death in Kentucky, Roosevelt’s governor nomination, and wartime economic and military updates. It includes ship and aircraft contracts, Irish emergency decrees, jet propulsion notes, gold stock, and a tragic aviatrix drowning. A Montana 4-H year-in-review with project values, profits, and camp activity concludes the item.
County officials elect Henry Buckley chairman
TIART OWTON county commissioners chose Henry Buckley as their chairman. Remainder of briefs note small local incidents including fire losses in Conrad, Kiwanis installation in Leavistown, a Malta jail sentence, and various community updates from Helena to Roundup with multiple local names and events.
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Owton
Henry Buckley
Malta
John Demarais
John Turly
Birate fish fly Like Birds In Air
A fragment notes fish described as flying creatures akin to birds, suggesting an unusual comparison of aquatic life to avian flight and the idea that they move through air much like birds. The text reads as a metaphorical observation rather than a report.
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Dublin
Eiie
Ireland
London
Polson Chosen as Plane Base For Seaplanes
At a joint city council and Chamber of Commerce meeting Walter Mahler from Missoula said Polson has been chosen as a landing base for seaplanes under a defense program. The site would be a joint project of the National Youth Administration and the Civil Aeronautics Authority on Flathead Lake, noted as spacious and distant from the Pacific coast.
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Polson Chamber of Commerce
Walter Mahler
National Youth Movement
Missoula
Polson
National Youth Administration
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Flathead Lake
Pacific Coast
Yale Grid Star Alble Booth Becomes Connecticut Ice Cream Seller
Alble Booth, formerly Yale football standout, has transitioned to selling ice cream in Connecticut. The ex star, once famed for his gridiron play, now runs a small parlor and distribution route in the region.
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Alble Booth
Tiero
Yale
Connecticut
Mail Sleds Move Between Kahbarovsk and Remote Settlements
Propeller driven sleighs carry mail from Kahbarovsk Kamchatka to distant settlements delivering messages across rugged terrain.
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Kahbarovsk
Kamchatka
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