West Holt Acton Wins National Health Crusade Pennant
Powder River County Montana schools headline the National Health Crusade tournament with West Holt at Acton winning a banner. Reeder at Kruger led eleven winning teams. Miss Ina Guthrie oversees sixteen pupils with notable health gains. Mrs Hazel Heaton lauds 50 percent attendance and improved habits, sleep, fresh air, and germ avoidance.
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Powder ‘River
Ita
Cabin
Holt
Acton
Montana
Modern Health Crusade
Reeder
Kruger
Broadus
Powder River County
Hazel Heaton
West Holt
Heaton
Turret
Butte
Pinto
JAIL TEX HUNTER CAPTURED AFTER FUGITIVE CHASE
Tex Hunter a convicted bootlegger who fled Great Falls in December 1920 with a $500 bond and dodged federal court, has been captured in Greybull Wyoming and jailed in Billings. United States Marshal Joseph L. Asbridge and Sheriff Gordon reported the arrest, ending rumors of escape to Mexico.
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Tex) Hunter
Great Falls
Gordon
Cascade County
Tex
Greybull
Wyo
Billings
United States
Joseph L. Asbridge
Hunter
C. C. Hopkins
Hopkins
Central Avenue
George Bourquin
Mexico
Montana
Santer
Wealth and ruin in a Denver gold tale and Montana mine
The tale recounts James Tabor of Denver who struck it rich overnight, bought a grand theater, and died paupered after a witch’s curse. It also notes a Boston syndicate taking over the Silver Dyke property at Nelhart, while the two prospectors, Dick Heidenreich and Peter, are inmates at Warm Springs.
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Montana
Algo
Stalka
Tabor
Denver
Cripple Creek
United States Senate
Tabor Grand
Boston
Nelhart
State Insane Asylum
Warm Springs
Dick Heidenreich
Peter
Old-timers of Neihart and the treasure curse tale
The piece notes a superstition among miners that discoverers of hidden treasure meet violent ends. It recalls Thomas Paige Comstock, an early locator of the Comstock lode, who died by suicide in Bozeman, Montana, in 1870 after his discoveries and actions.
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Virginia City
Big Horn
Nevada
Montana Cattle Queen Dead and Wagon Train Scout at Fifteen
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Collins known as the Cattle Queen of Montana died at Chateau, aged 77. She crossed to Denver in 1859 at 15, then to Montana by mule train in 1862, serving as a scout for the wagon train. Her husband Nat Collins helped run the Hay Coulee ranch in Teton County.
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Nat Collins
Montana
Chateau
Collins
Elizabeth Smith
Plains
Denver
Wyoming
Big Horniver
Montana considers new publicity plan to attract tourists
The Montana Department of Agriculture Labor and Industry weighs a 1921 Montana featuring the state as a tourist attraction. With a $4500 annual budget, the plan favors mountains lakes and fishing over broad agricultural growth while highlighting economic opportunities and data for farmers.
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Department of Agriculture, Labor and Industry
Montana
C. C. Davis
Davis
Department
Stephen T. Mather
National Park Service
Yellowstone National Park
Glacier Park
Automobile Associations
Department of Labor and Industry
Statistical Department
Federal
Montana Men Urged to Enroll in Citizens Military Camps
Thomas A. Marlow of Helena urges Montana men aged 16 to 35 to apply at the Helena Commercial Club for enrollment in citizens' military training camps at Camp Lewis in Washington and the Presidio in California. Congress has appropriated 1 million dollars for the camps to run July 6 through August 6, with government paying all expenses including transport.
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Camp Lewis
Presidio
Max Goodsill Marlow
Thomas A. Marlow
Helena
Montana
Ninth Corps
Marlow
Cal
Wash
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William Farrell
Meadow Lake
San Francisco
West
Big Horn Mountains
Lode
Big Horn Canyon
America
Custer
North America
Lost Cabin
Mrs
Nat. Collins
State Department
aIals Amdnt
Derrick
AN Investors’ Guide
TODAX
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Lewistown
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