Highway meeting set for Billings
More than 800 delegates plan to attend the sixth annual Custer Battlefield Highway convention in Billings August 10 and 11. An auto caravan from Des Moines will travel route milestones such as Le Mars Chamberlain Deadwood Sheridan and arrive August 9 from Great Falls. Des Moines Register Tribune will cover the trek for a 140000 copy rotogravure feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Custer Battlefield Highway Association
Billings
W. D. Fisher
Des Moines
Fisher
le Mars
Iowa
Chamberlain
D. C
Deadwood
Sheridan
Wyo
Custer Battlefield
Great Falls
Whitney Morris
E. H. Westbrook
Midland National Bank
Des Moines Register-Tribune
Des Moines Caravan
Cuticura Talcum Ad Promotes Trio Line
An attractively scented Cuticura talcum powder is advertised as part of the Cuticura trio with Soap Ointment and Talcum priced at 25 cents each. The ad touts it as suitable for face skin baby and dusting with a perfume effect and claims it renders other perfumes unnecessary.
Bitter Root and Flathead Traditions in Missoula
In Missoula Montana the Bitter Root plant, Montana’s state flower, draws the Flathead Indians each May for bitter root harvest. The writer and grandson interview a lone tepee camp, learning the root is eaten with meat in soup and valued for the stomach, with Missoula Bitter Root prized over Anaconda’s. The piece links the plant to state identity and mentions historic notes on Father Ravalli and tribal ties.
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M. E. Plassmann
Missoula
Montana
Flathead
Higgins Avenue
Garden City
Marston
Charlot
St. Mary’s
Father Ravalli
Father
Ravalli
Stevensville
Anaconda
Lewis and Clark
Colorado
Two Naturalists Start Montana Fossil Expedition
Dr. Charles C. Mook and Coleman Williams of the American Museum of Natural History plan a southeastern Montana fossil expedition. They seek vertebrate remains from 500 000 to 2 000 000 years ago but will not specifically search for dinosaurs. Route includes Butte Pipestone Creek Dillon Madison Valley Smith River Helena Missoula Bitter Root Lemhi Idaho. They carry two 30 gallon gasoline tanks and two months of provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Museum of Natural History
Billings
Charles C. Mook
Coleman Williams
Montana
Dr. Mook
Butte
Pipestone Creek
Dillon
Madison Valley
Smith River
Helena
Missoula
Bitter Root
Lemhi
Idaho
Cement Shipments Rise to Montana in April
The geological survey shows Montana received 23 030 barrels of Portland cement in April, near April last year. In March 1925 Montana unloads 16 450 barrels versus 10 030 barrels a year earlier, indicating a higher month earlier and similar April totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Geological Survey
Novelist's Daughter Visits Kalispell Ranch in Big Draw
Mrs. Frank Chapman, daughter of writer Irvin S Cobb, staying at the Lewis hotel in Lake McDonald region for the park season, recently visited the Bierman Burns ranch during the big draw south of Kalispell.
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Park
Frank Chapman
Irvin S.cobb
Lewis Hotel
Lake McDonald
Bierman & Burns
Big Draw
Kalispell
Willett to receive pension amid leprosy exile in Mineral County
Former Montana state senator O G Willett living in exile near Alberton suffers leprosy. The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen at its Cleveland convention voted a forty dollar monthly pension for him. His wife and home near Alberton have comforts including a piano and radios. Health officials fear deterioration and possible transfer to a southern leprosy hospital.
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Willett
Spokane
Missoula
Montana
Alberton
W. F. Cogawell
State Board of Health
Brotherhood of Railway
Mineral County
O. G. Willett
Brotherhood of Railway Frainmen
Cleveland
Milwaukee Railroad
Philippines
First
United States Infantry
Alabama
The
State Boards of Health
Bureau. of Pensions
Philippine. Islands
Willetts
G. Willett
Pension Granted War Veteran Willett Relieved by Union
The National Brotherhood adopts a resolution urging a $40 monthly pension for Mr. Willett, a veteran whose illness led him to live with his wife in seclusion since leaving duty seven years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Brotherhood
Willett
Harris Elected President of Montana Master Plumbers
Chester M. Harris of Great Falls was elected president of the Montana Master Plumbers Association at its Boulder convention. Delegates from across the state attended, with national speaker Frank E H. Jones of Evansville Indiana addressing the group on the educational bureau. H B Mott of Missoula and Elwood Kuescka of Billings were re elected vice president and secretary treasurer, while H L Hansen of Butte was named a delegate to the Portland national convention June 22 to 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester M. Harris
Great Falls
Montana Master Plumbers Association
Boulder
Frank E H. Jones
Evansville
Ind
Trade Extension Bureau
Educational Bureau
H. B. Mott
Missoula
Elwood Kuescka
Billings
H. L. Hansen
Buttle
Portland
Also Mentioned on This Page
Custer Battlefield Association
Sugar City
Treasure State
Middle West
S. D
Montana Distributors
Idaho &T
Butte, Montana
Vine
Gove
Champion Spark Plug Co
Toledo, Ohio
Windsor
Ont
London
Paris
Greenfield & Bain
Adams
Servion
Great Falls Brick & Tile Company
First National Bank
Chinook
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