Freeman’s two attempts lead to Yellowstone river voyage
Lewis R. Freeman, a former Livingston ballplayer and renowned traveler, twice set out to descend the Yellowstone from above Yankee Jim’s canyon. His first craft foundered and he clung to three boards, while the second attempt, twenty years later, succeeded and inspired his book Down the Yellowstone.
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Missouri
Fort Ben Or
St. Louis
Fort Benton
Yellowstone
Livingston
Montana
Big Horn
Billings
Virginia City
Civilization
Lewis R. Freeman
Montana State
Stanford University
South America
Africa
Asia
Yellowstone Park
Yankee Jim
George
Old Jim
Freeman
Hickman
Owledge
Park
Jim
Therk
Hickman, Ky
Ken
Ed Ray
Paddy Yan
Paddy Ryan
August Fack
California
Helena
Riley
Lavingston
Big Timber
Sidney Lamartine
Livingston youth wins Walsh fellowship for research work
John M. Cummings of Livingston, Montana State College graduate, wins the Thomas J. Walsh fellowship worth 425 dollars for a year of agricultural research at the college. He will study agents affecting range sheep genetics using Montana Agricultural Experiment Station sheep. Cummings is noted for top scholastic record and leadership in Agricultural Club activities and livestock shows.
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John M. Cummings
Livingston
Montana State College
Thomas J. Walsh
A. L. Strand
Sen
T. J. Walsh
Eee Emery
Cummings
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station
Strand
Agricultural Club
Little International Livestock Ethe
Corrina
Chicago Livestock
Samitningane
Little Theaters Urged by Kalispell Actor Swetland
Noted Kalispell performer William Swetland urges the community to establish a small, educational theater. He hopes amateur productions focus on enjoyment and reasonable quality, with melodramas and one act plays, and notes directing quality matters. Swetland plans to direct a Room Service stock company in Maine for the summer.
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Kalispell
London
William Swetland
England
Swetland
Maine
River voyage tale of Freeman and the Kentucky Mule
Freeman sails the Kentucky Mule through a canyon with Yankee Jim aiding from shore. The boat fails, baying rocks and a cottonwood tree save only a few planks as Freeman presses on toward Livingston with a new skiff promised by Sidney Lamartine that ends in another swamping.
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Jim
Cinnabar
Freeman
Livingston
Kentucky
Brag Pevingston
Sidney Lamartine
Mier
Tepee Air Depot Aids Glacier Park Station Opening
Chief James White Calf offers a tepee as a temporary passenger depot at Browning Montana for Western Air Express to handle the Glacier Park opening June 15. Superintendent A. Stephenson praises the 30 foot diameter tepee filled with skins beadwork and decor, noting it provides radio and ticket space and adds atmosphere for visitors. A language gap is bridged by an interpreter.
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Western Air Express
San Diego
Calif
Great Falls
Glacier Park
Browning
Stephenson
National Parks Division
White
Thief
White Calf
Steve
Mr. Stephenson
Pierre
Montana Nurses Worldwide Map Shows Practice Locations
Montana State Nurses Association officials publish a large map marking where Montana registered nurses work. It lists 35 states plus Montana with certificates to practice, plus Alaska Canada Hawaii India Chile and several U S states. California hosts 131 Montana nurses followed by Washington 92 and Oregon 30. Canada has nine nurses and Alaska seven with one in Hawaii and one in India.
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Montana
Montana State Nurses’ Association
Alaska
Canada
Hawaiian Islands
India
Chile
California
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Hawaii
South America
Inland river voyage storyteller’s unusual steel boat trip
The passage recounts a man named Freeman who navigates a river journey with a companion, slipping down a river miles to a distant spot near his cabin. He then continues along the Yellowstone, the Missouri, and the Mis rivers in a small steel boat, a voyage described as unique in inland U.S. history.
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Yellowstone
Livingston
Bob Phillips
Spokane
Pete Nelson
Freeman
State Fish and Game Department
Pete Holt
Yellowstone Park
Chamber of Commerce
West
Phill
Holt
Pita 2
Joe Evans
Big Timber
le Aes
Missouri
United States
Big Wheat Crop Indicated for Nation Says Taylor
Taylor projects a national wheat crop near 830 million bushels, about 160 million above average disappearance. He notes favorable spring conditions and suggests prices may ease if this level is achieved.
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Taylor
United States
Fort Union to Rise Again as North Dakota Landmark
The North Dakota Historical Society plans to buy 8.26 acres at the Missouri river boundary to reconstruct Fort Union near Williston. Secretary-treasurer Chris Arnt announced the restoration, aiming to rebuild the fur trade fort as its original form with works possibly starting this summer.
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Great Northern Railway
Northwest
Stout
Fort Union
Hugh L. Scott
Frank Weinrich
Missouri River
North Dakota
Montana
American Fur Co
Upper
Missouri
Fort Lloyd
Northwest Company
Montreal
Columbia Company
John Jacob Astor
Fort Garry
American Fur. Co
Isaac I. Stevens
Washington
Jefferson Davis
Yellowstone
The
Milk River
Grace Flandreau
Fort Union St
Catlin
Prince Maximilian of
Wied
Prince Paul
Wurttemberg
Jim Bridger
Sir George Gore
Father DeSmet
Audubon
Fort Benton
Northwest Fur Co
Fort Buford
Rankin
Third Oil Refinery Opens in Kalispell Amid Investment
A new refinery in Kalispell, Finibad Refining Co., expands capacity to 40,000 barrels per day. Backed by Kalispell investors and named executives include Nepstad, H Harvey, E O Bratsberg, Harold von Sunburst, Walter Byder, and James Burnett. Project value about 26,000 dollars with plans to produce gasoline, fuel oil, and road oil, employing about ten workers.
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Kalispell
Finibad Refining Co
Kalspell
Gordon Campbell Memorial Fund Aims For Statewide Drive
Following Gordon Campbell's funeral in Shelby a group of Shelby residents and visitors from Montana cities met to plan a statewide fundraising campaign for a permanent geologist memorial. Attendees included Gov. Ro Ayers and several business and civic leaders, with W. M. Fulton named chair and a committee of DeSchon Stout Beard and Hannah appointed to lead the drive.
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Gordon Campbell
Shelby
Shelby and Sons
Montana
Ro Ayers
Woman Pioneer Maggie Jenkins Ellis Dies at White Sulphur Home
Maggie Jenkins Ellis a Montana settler for over six decades died at White Sulphur Springs. She was May Irvin of Great Falls, sister of late James Irvin, and widow of John W. Jenkins a rancher who died in 1924 after a 60 foot fall near Townsend.
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Maggie Jenkins Ellis
Montana
White Sulphur
Springs
Jenkins
Great Falls
May Irvin
James Irvin
Rea
John W. Jenkins
Townsend
Smith River
Tenderfoot Creek
Queen the Conrad Drag Mare Dies After 16 Years Service
Queen a gray mare owned by A N Sluys Conrad drayman died at over 20. For 16 years she and her mate Babe pulled coal drays circling Conrad covering about 60000 miles. The team provided nearly the town’s drag service until her death near her stable.
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Queen
A. N. Sluys
Conrad Drayman
Babe
Conrad
Onl
Geese Rout Cow Elk in Madison River Standoff
In Yellowstone a cow elk was driven away by two Canadian geese that alternated dives from the air. The birds swooped and power dived, frightening the animal until it fled into the Madison River and crossed to the far shore.
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Yellowstone
Bo Rangers
Madison River
Anderson Heads Kinsey Area Development Plan
Harry C. Anderson of the Milk River project moves to the Kinsey area 14 miles east of Miles City in Yellowstone Valley for a resettlement based development. Murry of Malta serves as land engineer with Anderson as project engineer and Earl Sharp as assistant. Acquisition targets about 8 acres of irrigable land to support roughly 80 farm units with a pumped irrigation system from Dover. Gerald F. Stack funds the Milk River Farms model project.
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Harry C. Anderson
Milk River
Northern Montana
Miles Perpecuie
Anderson
Northern
Montana
Soeland BP
Cage Murry
Malta
Earl Sharp
Draugh
Dan Bey
Kinsey
Attech
Yellowstone
W. H. Ones
Gerald F. Stack
Dover
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Park County Ball I
Yellowstone River
George Finlay Simmons
Montana State University
Missoula
State Board of Education
Frederick C. Scheuch
M. J. Elrod
Simmons
Scheuch
Walsh
Cutler
Tepee
James White
Glacier Park Terminal
James White Calf
Dakota Historical Body
Yellowstone Valley
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