No Flu Bugs In Anaconda Town
Anaconda reports no influenza cases despite Montana epidemic as smelter fumes and arsenic in the air are proposed as reasons. The town, with 16 000 residents, enjoys crowded hotels at nearby hot springs resorts like Boulder Alhambra and Hunter's. Doctors remain mystified while theories attribute the effect to air pollution or sulfur fumes.
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Boulder
Alhambra
Hunter's
Anaconda
Montana
Materia Medica
Anaconda- Butte
Tabu
Lieutenant Vidal in Tank Corps joins fight on the front
Lieutenant Lawrence Vidal, formerly with the Great Falls National Bank, now serves in the Tank Corps in France. He aided in the St Mihiel breakout, where his detachment moved for rest after fierce combat. A front line station reunion revealed his father, Captain C. B. E. Vidal, in command.
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Lawrence Vidal
Great Falls National Bank
Tank Corps
Army
Vidal
Second
Montana
Mexican
France
St. Mihiel Salient
Salient
C. BE. K. Vidal
Great Falls
Geographical Misfit Found in Rattlesnake Valley
Forestry officials surveying the Rattlesnake valley north of Missoula discovered that the peak named Mount Murphy by the USGS is not the real Murphy. The impostor Murphy sits about 10 miles up the valley near the Hogsback, while the actual Mount Murphy lies 14 miles north of Missoula on the Flathead Indian reservation line near Schley, east of the Northern Pacific station.
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Rattlesnake Valley
Missoula
Mount Murphy
United States Geological Survey
Flathead Indian Reservation
Schley
Northern Pacific
Murphy
Devine's Steamboat Journey to Montana via Liverpool and Fort Benton
The article recounts William Devine, a Liverpool born sailor who left Britain for New Orleans by steamer, then traveled up the Missouri to Fort Benton in 1876. He settles at Sun River, Montana, amid Fort Shaw’s garrison and Sun River’s rough town life, where bull whackers, gamblers, and soldiers mingled.
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Montana
William Devine
Sun River Crossing
Fort Benton
Devine
Liverpool
California
United States
Rocky Mountains
New York
Gold Country
America
Missouri River
St. Louis
Mississippi
Rocky Mountain Country
New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Paddy Wynne
Commonwealth
Western
Coulson Packet Company
Wynne
Missouri
Custer
Little Big Horn
Terry
Gibbons
Miles
Wild Bill
Yankton
Wild Bill’ Hickok
Deadwood
Black Hills
Helena
Concord
Sun River
Fort Berton
Fort Shaw
Trops
General Gibbons
George
Charles M. Russell
Big Nose
Wyoming
Fort McGinnis
Sam Hughes
Ulma
Hughes
Last Chance Gulch
Frozen Hill
Jack Trost
Fort Benton-Helena
Vaughn
Benton
Great Divide
England
Gen Greenan calls 3399 men for army
Adjutant General Phil Greenan issued a call for 3259 men aged 19 to 36 from September registrants for military service. County allocations include Butte City 607, Cascade 368, Missoula 190, Gallatin 134, Silver Bow 227, Yellowstone 253, and other counties listed.
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Phil Greenan
Beaverhead
Big Horn
Blaine
Broadwater
Butte City
Carbon
Carter
Cascade
Chouteau
Custer
Dawson
Deer Lodge
Fallon
Fergus
Flathead
Gallatin
Granite
Hill
Jefferson
Lewis and Clark
Lincoln
Madison
Meagher
Mineral
Missoula
Musselshell
Park
Phillips
Powell
Prairie
Ravalli
Richland
Rosebud
Sanders
Sheridan
Silver Bow
Stillwater
Sweet Grass
Teton
Toole
North Dakota Allows Liquor Shipments Amid Influenza Treatment Claims
Minnesota Attorney General William Langer advises Twin City express firms may ship liquor anywhere in North Dakota. Physicians reportedly back liquor use for influenza treatment, continuing fallout from a 1917 bone dry law controversy raised by Justice Robinson.
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North Dakota
Twin City Express
William Langer
Minnesota
Justice Robinson
Montana Women Working Abroad
Mrs. Young directs an English canteen and runs a hospital in England after converting her home. Ruth Clark serves as a telephone operator in France, with other Montana women noted in overseas war service under General Pershing.
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Christian Yegen
Billings
Young
England
Ruth Clark
France
Miss Clark
R. W. Clark
Yellowstone County
Stratton-Audley Hall
Des Dames Angliases
Ruth Clarke
Europe
Christian Yeren
Mrs. Young
London
America
Portland
Ore
Oregonian
Miss Clarke
Hello
Miss Ruth Clarke
University of California
Pershing
New York
Army
Secret
Montana girl in Red Cross recounts sinking of German sub
Miss Jewel B. Bell, formerly of Great Falls, now with the Red Cross in Paris, writes of a convoy destroyer engagement in which a German U-boat was destroyed. She details travel via Genoa to Paris, wartime rationing, scarce butter and desserts, limited mail, and the siege atmosphere as Paris endures air raids.
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Paris
The
Red Cross
Montana
Jewel B. Bell
Royal Milling Co
Great Falls
Miss Bell
Mediterranean
Genoa
Gibraltar
Italy
Europe
Bell
America
Champs Elysee
Fifth Avenue
Women urged to refuse German made toys in boycott appeal
Elizabeth Marbury, president of the Women's National Committee of the American Defense society, urged women to refuse to buy German goods including toys and china. The call followed a strong protest by the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs against the German imports.
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America
Germany
China
Elizabeth Marbury
Women’s National Committee
The
American Defense Society
New York City
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lieut. Vidal
How Devine
John Largent
American Fur Company
Sun
American Fur Co
Greenan
J. B. Bell
Great Falls Brick & Tile Co
1St National Bank
Irving Whitehouse Company
Vareprant Aie Department “A
Spokane
Washington
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