Mighty Montana stock growers to marshal beef drive in Great Falls
A historic Montana Stock Growers association convention is set for April 16-17 in Great Falls. Senator R. P. Heren leads a drive to expand membership and boost meat production to aid war efforts. The piece ties old frontier gambling figures to a modern mobilization around cattle and sheep interests.
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Montana
Free Range
Montana Stock Growers’ Association
Great Falls
Electric City
Long Beach
Stock Growers’ Association
Congress
Commission
Long Drive Era Shapes Montana Stock Industry Milestones
A historic narrative traces the rise of Montana cattle commerce from early stock outposts to the modern industry. It covers the Long Drive, key routes to markets, brand lineage, and growth of associations, with figures on cattle numbers and valuations through 1917.
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Montana
Texas
West
Territorial
Northern Pacific Railway
Chicago
Northern Pacific
Helena
New Wheat Price Confuses Montana Farmers and Mills
Grain men in Montana are puzzled by a $2 per bushel price in Great Falls. They warn the government ruling could create a primary market or simply shift gains to Minneapolis, with freight and handling costs eroding the farmer’s profit and keeping Montana farmers at about $1.88 to $1.91 per bushel.
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Sam” Walling
Montana
Nome
Rawhide
Butte
Helena
Chance
Riley Grannan
Sam
F. Augustus Heinze
Nevada Desert
Walling
Grannan
Miles City
Great Falls
West
Jock
Royal Milling Company
J. B. Moore
Equity Grain Department
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Glasgow
Shelby
Big Sandy
Ingly
Chicago
Open Home to Invalid Soldiers Aims to Help Returning Vets
Utica farmer A C Stoutenberg proposes housing eight soldiers in Montana to aid their recovery with free lodging meals and a seven passenger auto. He asks others with suitable homes to offer rooms and government to provide bedding and medical aid. Governor Stewart supports the example and urges follow up statewide.
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A. C. Stoutenberg
Utica
Mont
Stewart
C. D. Greenfield
Stoutenberg Bays
Montana
Alleged IWW Plot to Poison Cattle and Burn Mills Revealed
Charles Aisenbach confesses involvement in proposed actions along the Pacific coast including poisoning cattle burning grain farm houses and lumber mills as part of alleged IWW plots in a German witness statement.
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Pacific Coast
Charles Aisenbach
Wrapped Bread Preference Urges Sanitary Packaging
H M Shea of the state board of health food and drug department urges preferring wrapped bread. Government figures show wrapping a loaf costs five mills and the covered loaf is delivered without contamination.
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H. M. Shea
Food and Drug Department
State Board of Health
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