Charles M Russell Profile Recalls Montana's Famous Artist
A brief biographical sketch notes Charles M Russell was born in St Louis 76 years ago and highlights his career. The formal biography prepared for a holiday edition of the Old Butte Inter Mountain mentions his move to Great Falls at the request of a bartender who contracted his yearly painting output.
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Charles M. Russell
Montana
St. Louis
Old Butte Inter-Mountain
Great Falls
Russell
Mrs. Russell
Green
Rusae
Charles Schatzlein
Butte
Schatzlein
Russells
Charley
Charley Russell
Charles M Russell the Cowboy Artist and Montana Legend
Charles M Russell known as The Cowboy Artist is remembered as Montana's premier painter born March 19 1864 in St Louis. He moved to Montana in 1880 and rose from cowhand to fame painting Western life. his Lewis and Clark meeting at Ross Hole mural in the Montana State Capitol is a famed 1911 commission valued at $30 000.
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Russell
Frank Bird Linderman
Montana
Linderman
Lewis and Clark
Ross Hole
House of Representatives
Helena
Sacaawea
Dakota
York
Armstead
Capitol
Idaho pushes plan for shorter Lochsa river highway
Northern Idaho civic leaders from Lewiston Kamiah Kooskia Payette Weiser outlined a 52 mile cliff carved route along the Lochsa to create a direct Lewis Clark highway segment to Montana markets. Elbert Stellman of Lewiston said completion would allow motor truck shipments at feasible costs and boost tourism and gasoline tax receipts.
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Lochsa River
Montana
Losha
Idaho
Lewiston
Kamiah
Kooskia
Payette
Weiser
Great Lakes
Portland
Great Falls
Rogers Pass
Missoula
Boise
New Meadows
Grangeville
Nez Pe National Forest
Clearwater Middle Fork
Lochsa
Powell Ranger Station
Elbert Stellman
Montana to Get 68175 for NYA Jobs Plan
The national youth administration funds Montana for student employment with 505 slots across institutions. Montana State University receives the largest share at 24 570 yearly, followed by Montana State College and Great Falls areas, totaling 68 175 yearly for 505 positions at wages up to 30 dollars monthly.
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Montana
National Youth Administration Fund
Aubrey Williams
Billings Polytechnic Institute
Carro} College
College of Great Falls
Custer County Junior College
Hasternontana State Normal
Great Falls Junior College
Montana School of Mines
Montana State ,College
Montana State Normal College
Montana State University
Northern Montana College
Annual High School Week At State College in April
Montana High School Week at Montana State College to be held April 25 26 and 27 1940. Nineteen student chairmen and assistants organize committees Foods Open House Registration And Housing Entertainment and Gymkhans. Dave Mikkelson of Boulder is men's chairman and Helen Briot Thompson Falls is women's chairman with Ray Lakey Missoula and Margaret Smith Bozeman as assistants.
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Montana State College
Ufe
Dave Mikkelson
Boulder
Helen Briot
Thompson -Falls
Ray Lakey
Missoula
Margaret Smith
Bozeman
Natalie McDermott
Fairfield
Dale Skaalure
Big Sandy
Roland Breed
Helena
Roger Barto
Thompson Falls
Pauline Brittan
Kenneth Sire
Jean Berg
Pompey’s Pillar
Fred Orton
Wendell Foreman
Deer Lodge
F. PF. A
Arnold Berglund
Grass Range
Lloyd
Jensen
Sidney
Amy Pound
Lewistown
John Fisher
Gymkhans
Paul Johnson
Terry
Sara Cole
Big ‘Timber
Two Montana educators reappointed to state board of education
Gov. Roy E. Ayers reappoints W. T. Cowan of Box Elder and John P. Fabrick of Bozeman to four year terms on the state board of education, expiring February 1, 1944. Both filled vacancies recently and served on the board during the university hearing.
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W. T. Cowan
Box Elder
John P. Fabrick
Bozeman
Roy E. Ayers
State Board of Education
Welles to Judge Stanford Drama Contest Anderson Award
Orson Welles agrees to act as final judge for the Anderson award in verse drama at Stanford University. Competition closes May 1, 1940, with $200 prize and public presentation at the university. Other prizes include Etherege, Mc Gaw, Gray awards. judges include Lynn Fontanne and Brooks Atkinson.
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Orson Welles
Mercury Theater
Radio
Dramatists’ Alliance
Stanford University
Welles
Alliance
Anderson
Etherege
McGaw
Lynn Fontanne
Brooks Atkinson
New York Times
Dramatists’ Assembly
Address Dramatists’ Alliance
English Department
Helena Police Chief Resigns to Run Farm Near Portland
Helena Police Chief Roger Smith will resign April 30 after serving since May 1, 1934 to operate a small farm near Portland Oregon. Deputy Rolla Duncan of Lewis and Clark county named as his successor. Duncan is a former U S marshal for Montana and has two terms as Lewis and Clark sheriff plus six years as deputy sheriff. Read the Classified advertisement.
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Roger Smith
Helena
Big
Portland
Ore
Rolla Duncan
Lewis and County
Smith
U States
Montana
Lewis Clark County
Shet
Brian D. O'Connell
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Edward B. Reynolds
Charles Russell
West
OH Ranch
Louise Kaufman
Jesse Phillips
OH Outfit
Phillips
Russell Dover
Louie
James Rankin
New Yorker
Butte Inter- Mountain
Inter-Mountain
Utah
Pike Miller
Judith Basin
Miller
Pike
Jake Hoover
Jake
Jim Fulkerson
Billings
Hoover
John Cabler
Ross Fork
Judith
Cabler
Aso
Ed Older
Kid Russell
True
Northwest Territory
Horis Cruster
Ross
Milk River
Charley Green
Monty
Nancy Cooper
Cascade
C. W. Russell
Stone
Nancy C. Russell
NYA
State University
State College
Helen Briggs
Stanford
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
U. S. Bureau OF Mines
Copper Mining Company
Butte, Montana
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