Banker's Humble Beginning Then Rise in Melstone Town
A young banker C W Greening arrived in Melstone to start a bank guarded by a gun and a roll of cash. He slept under a lumber shed with 4000 dollars while cowboys shot the town. The Melstone bank opened July 1908 with 3430 cash, 2257.55 on day one deposits, and grew into a regional banking chain with Greening later leading Melstone Sumatra Vananda Ingomar and Jordan banks.
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Melstone
Musselshell
C. W. Greening
Tenderfoot
Jack
Midland Lumber Company
Grand Meadows
Minnesota
Ing
Morpheus
Greening
Miles City
Sumatra
Vananda
Ingomar
Jordan
Muselshell
Melstone Bank
Jeff Davis Gulch Fostered Clark Fortune From Digging
In Beaverhead county Montana Jeff Davis gulch once a thriving placer site fed the rise of W A Clark. Miners formed a self governed district on July 4 1863 creating early laws from a hotel register repurposed as a county record. Clark helped dig a water ditch and later built a copper empire.
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Clark
Judge Lott
Jeff Davis
Jeff Davis Gulch
Beaverhead County
America
W. A. Clark
United Verde
Jerome
Arizona
Graham
States
Territory
Montana
I. W. Harvey
W. B. Perkins
G R
Clark Gus Graeter
Bannack
Jeff Davie Gulch
Graeter
Henry Lovewell
W. R. Vandruff
W. B. Dance
Price
Senator Clark
Matrimonial Mix Up of Early Days
Charles Beerher recalls a Virginia City miners court divorce followed by an improvised marriage. A widow sought separation to support her children amid frontier poverty. A lawyer prevailed, the miners granted a divorce, and a later quick law allowed a celebratory marriage between ex spouses.
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Charles Beerher
Virginia City
Aldergulch
British Consul Reports Cellulon Fiber Substitute Found
The British consul general at Zurich notes Germany has a wood pulp fiber named cellulon as an efficient substitute for jute and cotton. Swiss spinners monitor the development as samples show the cloth to be extremely strong though produced directly from wood pulp.
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London
Zurich
Germany
German Crop Report Notes Early Harvest in Western Districts
London official German agricultural dispatches report crops in western and northwestern Germany are three to four weeks earlier than in 1917. Rye growth is luxurious and summer grain condition satisfactory. Cattle are recovering. oats are scarce. pigs in poor condition. Labor shortages hinder soil tillage.
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London
Germany
Pershing Early Career and the Sawed-Off Shotgun Legend
In Fort Assiniboine days young General Pershing rode stages with gold shipments. Gold dust attracted highwaymen, and express messengers carried a famed weapon the sawed-off shotgun. The hazardous encounters forged a reputation for swift, decisive action in protection duties.
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Pershing
Fort Assiniboine
Pershing Deploys Sawed Off Shotguns On Front Lines
The article praises hands of brave men salvaging millions and notes Pershing’s plan to arm American troops with sawed off shotguns in trench warfare. It claims ten thousand such shotguns are in American trenches, to be used when shock troops advance.
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Montana
Pershing
Montana Livestock Output Seen Higher This Year
A report to the Federal Land Bank of Minneapolis from H. F. Wessel notes Montana livestock production will be much greater this year than last. A rancher told Wessel he survived winter with a 95 percent increase, contrasting with losses over 50 percent the previous year.
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Montana
Federal Land Bank of Minneapolis
H. F. Wessel
Investi
Sulphur Shortage Threatens U S Munitions Plants
A Senate mines committee hearing heard evidence that a sulphur shortage endangers national munitions industries. If unaddressed, new plants nearing completion may lack material and vital industries could suspend operations.
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Montana
Washington
Senate Committee On Mines and Mining
Sub convoy destroyed by depth bombs in mid ocean
Sailors arriving at port report eight destroyers shelling transports with depth charges sinking a submarine. The latest super carrier carries six deck guns of eight or nine inch caliber.
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New York
Port Said
Soaking Rain Firms Shelby County Harvest Prospects
Heavy rain in Shelby County last week measured about one and a half inches, brightening hopes for a strong grain yield. Farmers, who have faced drought risk, anticipate a bumper crop as additional rain is expected soon.
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Shelby
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