Great Falls Leads Montana in Factory Growth 1914 to 1919
The report shows Great Falls with 64 factories in 1914 rising to 73 in 1919 and capital invested growing from 3.293 million to 6.083 million. Output climbed 102.6 percent and wages rose from 675 thousand to 1.485 million. Butte remains the second largest, with 117 factories in 1919 and capital up 68.4 percent to 4.019 million, while output and wages also increased sharply. Helena and Anaconda also expanded, with output value and wages increasing by roughly 77 to 103 percent across five years.
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Great Falls
Butte
Montana
Anaconda
Helena
Helenia
Submit Your Recipe to Great Falls Cook Book
Ad invites readers to mail one dollar and recipes to Great Falls Cook Book at Box 1790 in Great Falls Montana. The fragment ends with an unfinished aside about an ape.
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Great Falls
New Meadow
Montana
Montana Newspaper Association
Turbulent postwar talks and shocks ripple nations
Reports from multiple cities describe stalled negotiations in Asia Minor as Allied and regional actors seek to delay offensive actions. In Wheeling 2.6 men displaced by steel plant suspensions. In Geneva gun barrel production sparks concern at a Danzig arms facility. In Chicago a fatal bolt of lightning claims a traffic chief. In Washington President Harding nominates Jennie P. Mosher as customs collector for district 48. New Orleans marks women’s constitutional signing as historic. Paris hosts the Grand Prix winner the Golitah.
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Asia Minor
Wheeling
Three Mile
Wheeling Steel Corporation
Geneva
Ill
Chicago
Burlington
Way
Washington
United States
Roy Up- Ayn
American Institute
Chiago
United
Herbert Myrick
Harding
Senate
Jennie P. Mosher
Salt Lake City
Utah
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Ogden
New Orleans
Louisiana
Paris
Aero Club of France
Ex Governor Rickards of Montana Retires from Public Life
The article recalls John E Rickards born 1848 in Delaware and his rise from Butte alderman to Montana governor and lieutenant governor. It notes his 18 year tenure as federal crop statistician in San Francisco and details his pivotal 1890s senate ruling that broke a Helena deadlock. It mentions his role in state institutions and a personal loss when his son Homer died after serving in the Spanish American War.
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John E Rickards
Montana
Butte
Department of Agriculture
San Francisco
Rickards
Senate
Richards
Helena
Wilbur F. Sanders
Hon
T. C. Powers
United States
Thomas B. Reed
House of Representatives
Reed
Legislative Assemblies
Delaware
Philadelphia
Colorado
Silver Bow County
Lowedel
State Senate
Richard
State’ Normal School
Dillon
State Agricultural College
Bozeman
School of Mines
Deaf and Dumb School
Boulder
Spain
Homer
Gorsior
Widow pension probe uncovers hidden assets and relatives
County investigators report widows aided by the fund held assets in relatives names and used fortune telling as a cover to ask questions. Several cases involve bank accounts transferred to brothers and property titles in widows names.
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Chamber of Commerce
Bullock
Silver Bow
Matt Canning
Butte
Hailstones as Large as Eggs Injure Billings Florist
John Partington, a Billings florist, was struck by hail during a 15 minute storm and taken to a hospital. Found unconscious at the rear of his greenhouse, he suffered severe bruising and feared skull fracture but later regained consciousness while remaining bedbound.
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John Partington
Billings Florist
Partington
Montana News in Brief From Across the State
Montana items report copper tax receipts and butter prices, markers of local economies. Incidents include a miner’s death claim in Libby, a missing rancher in Kootenai river waters, and a murder acquittal in Powell county. Also noted are road work crews near Libby, a droughts to floods update, postal job openings, and a fire losses tally in Boston.
Ranchman and Wife Struck by Lightning at Montana Homestead
The ranch home of Milo C. Cowles and his wife, five and a half miles south of Miles City on the Tongue river road, was struck by lightning during a recent storm. The west wall siding and interior plastering were damaged, five window lights broken, and Mrs. Cowles was momentarily knocked unconscious. Surrounding trees were toppled, and two wagons near the yard were hurled about four hundred feet and left locked together.
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Te Ranch
Milo C. Cowles
Miles City
Tongue River Road
Cowles
Mint Repowers Silver Dollar Coinage To Refill Treasury
The U S Mint resumes silver dollar production after seven years to replace 270 million dollars sold to Britain during World War I. Officials say the effort will span years and boost Montana and other silver states while the mint coins eight to ten million dollars monthly and has bought tens of millions of ounces of silver at one dollar an ounce since 1920.
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Great Britain
Montana
Mint
Treasury
Federal Reserve
Congress
England
India
Baker
Dean's Kidney Pills Backed by Satisfied User Testimony
Missoula resident Mrs. A. Vincent reports severe back pain and kidney discomfort eased after two boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills. She attributes relief to the product and notes no further kidney troubles. Price is 60 cents at dealers, Foster Milburne Co., Buffalo, N Y.
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Dean
A. Vincent
N. Third St
Missoula
Mont
Reliable marriage ads promise quick results and confidentiality
Classified notices solicit marriages from wealthy singles and lonely individuals. Ads from Mrs. Budd in San Francisco, Mrs. E. Nash in Oakland, and F. Morrison in Seattle offer free descriptions, confidential matchmaking, and payment upon marriage with years of experience.
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Budd
San Francisco
Cal
E. Nash
Oakland
California
Nan
F. Morrison
W. Holden
Seattle
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Turing Plants
Housewives
Cook Book
John E. Rickards
Ayroll
Fabian
Man
Wolf Point
Terry
Prairie County
Polson
Missoula Gulch
Lewistown
Judith ‘Basin
Moccasin Experiment Station
Libby
Jennings
Warrand
James Briggeman
Powell County
Joseph Knopf
Fall
Department of the Interior
Snyder Sheep Company
R. D. Miller
Hale Steenerson
Ural
Lincoln County
Kootenai
Barker
M. K. Gray
Rock Creek
Powder River
Deer Lodge
Philipsburg
Red Lodge
Boston
National Fire Protection Association of Boston
Korblan Asid
Floral Park
New York
Billings
Superior
Adv
Bankers Oil Reserve
sWlehits Falls
Texas
New York City
Holland
Real Estate—Business Exchange
Hhal Stat and Business Exchange
Arthur D. Johnson Sales Co
Ford Block
Great Falla, Mont
Lewis & Walher
Wyoming
Nationa
Heldnammont
Indiana
Ontana
Thacher
Thera the
Albert Teachers’ Agency
Northwest
Peyton Building
Spokane
Clarkston
Teachers’ Agency
Sycamore St
Facilte Telegraph Institute
Wash
Lewisohn Block
We Hondreda
Butte College Telegraphy
Montana Auto School
South Main Street
Butter
Ontana Auto School
Edwards & Bradford Lumbhr CO
Erle
Opewer
Brevine
Best
Phoenix Lumber Co
Okanogan Valley Ditch
Tonasket
C. A
John J. Black
Chippewa
Falls
Poultry and
Egos Poultry Supplies, Poultry, Egos. Dorsh & Greenfield Co
Butte, Mont
Aultman & Taylor
Jestrab Bros
Havre
Wichita Falls
Ught
Bainville
Great Northern
G. E. Reynolds
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Little Place
Clayton Rooms
Farmers Union
Mayfield
Kentucky
Ward
Valley
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Huseth
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