Alberta's northern hero Cornwall leads war efforts across borders
The piece portrays James K Cornwall as a prominent western Canadian figure and fur trader who built a northern empire from Mackenzie posts to Peace River, organizing the Northern Steamship company and forming the Sportsmen battalion. It notes his influence with Indigenous groups, opposition to HBC, and ceremonial support in Peace River Crossing. It emphasizes Alberta's large war recruitment, church-driven enlistment drives, and parallels to U.S. conscription fears.
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James K. Cornwall
Montana
Coxey
Army of the
Halifax
Sportsmen ’S
British Army
Dominion
Alberta
Peace
Mackenzie and Peace
Great and Lesser Slave Lakes
Lake Athabasca
Cornwall
North Country
Hudson’s Bay Company
International Boundary Line
Order of the White Dog
Peace River Crossing
Woodby
Montana Women in the News of the Week
Discussion of school nurses becoming a permanent feature in public schools across Montana. Nurses inspect classrooms and buildings, teach hygiene, track absences, and push for county-wide coverage to aid rural and urban students, citing cases of typhoid and truancy prevention.
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Montana
News OF the Week
Montana News Roundup of Fire Loss and Local Events
Fire damaged the Hefferlin block in Livingston with $33000 loss from an overheated chimney. Billings bakers raise bread price to 10 cents a loaf. Deer Lodge reports Missoula division line now electrified to East Portal. Wesland Hansard dies at 77 in Billings. Great Falls auction sets cattle records at $150 each. Medicine Lake woman injured by a bull. Lewistown investigates flax fiber plant prospects. Baker in Fallon County hosts study. Chateau notes rising ranch tract purchases. many new arrivals from Washington Oregon and Iowa. Bozeman reports death of A D McPherson, longtime probate judge. Lewistown bonds sell at premium. park site funded. Conrad hosts Pondera Poultry show officers named. Helena reports large homestead act designations. a Montana jail transfer and prisonerSales. Butte man McDonald arrested for parole disturbance. Helena Indian affairs tour notes cattle shipments from Crow reservation and sales to Omaha and Chicago.
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Livingston
Hefferlin
Billings
Deer Lodge
Missoula
Milwaukee
East Portal
Wesland Hansard
Montana
Virginia City
Great Falls
Frank Freed
Highwood
Medicine Lake
Violet Geary
Lewistown
L. D. Blodgett
Chamber of Commerce
Baker
Fallon County
Chateau
Teton County
Washington
Oregon
Towa
T. C. Larson
Bynum
Bozeman
A. D. McPherson
Royal Arch
The
Eastern Star
Tie
Montana Commercial Club
Montana Municipal League
Conrad
Pondera Valley Poultry Association
W. Strickland
W. Pollock
Robert Kelly
C. A. Greenfield
Butte
Helena
A. R. Johnson
Libby
State Industrial Board
Lane
State Federation Women Clubs Hold District Meetings
Red Lodge and Billings hosted district meetings with over forty delegates each. Deliberations focused on a state vocational training farm for delinquent girls, with a bill to be presented to the next Montana legislature. Big Timber to host district four next September. district six chooses its site later. Mrs. Seidlitz presided Red Lodge. Mrs. Ward Nye led the joint session. Mrs. Bea W. Graves named supervisor of Seattle Orthopedic hospital outpatient department, aiding children from across the West, many treated for infantile paralysis and club feet. Graves, a former Montana resident, remains a native and nurse by training.
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State Federation of Women’s Clubs
Red Lodge
Billings
Chambers of Commerce
Seidlitz
Bozeman
Ward Nye
Montana
Big Timber
Bea W. Graves
Seattle
Washington
Women Push Move to Screen Alice in Wonderland for Children
Women seeking better films for children back a campaign to stage Alice in Wonderland in local moving picture shows. The films are prepared and supporters plan to press the effort with local theater managers.
Conrad to Host Big Poultry Show Next December
Pondera Valley Poultry association outlines a four day show from December 19 to 22 with new officers W Strickland president W Pollock secretary Robert Kelly treasurer and C A Greenfield of Butte as judge Merchants are being contacted for support and a premium list will be released soon. organizers promise the best poultry show yet in the region.
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Pondera Valley Poultry Association
K. L. Johnstone
W. Strickland
W. Pollock
Robert Kelly
C. A. Greenfield
Butte
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Iberia
Calgary
Northwest Mounted Police
Jim Cornwall
Prophet of
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England
United States
Bryan
James Stanford
Mounties
Mounted Police
Norman Rankin
Department of Natural Resources of
Canadian Pacific
Rankin
Uncle Sam
Great Britain
State Health Board
Melrose Orr
Ralph Shepherd
Fort Leavenworth
Joe Howard
Charles Cosgrove
Stewart
McDonald
Silver Bow County
Helena—Cato Sells
Indian Affairs
Frank B. Linderman
Paris Gibson
Commissioner Sells
Chicago
Crow Reservation
Omaha
WAR Eagle's
AR Eagle
Uncle Remus
Br’er
Rabbit
Br'er
Fox
Manitou
Co Skee-See-Co-Cot
Charles M. Raseell
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Mong
Sloan
T. J. Bisson
Butte, Mont. Y
Telegraph College
Wesley
Butte College Telegraphy Lewishon Block
Butte, Mont
Symons
Montana’s
Mange
Great Falls Drug
Montana Distributors
Great Falls Drug CO
Great Falls, Mont
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