Montana Slogan Wanted For Prosperity Special Excursion
Montana Chamber of Commerce seeks a six word or shorter slogan for the Montana Prosperity Special excursion to the St Paul winter carnival. The trip will depart Great Falls January 27 with a green and yellow carnival uniformed party carrying Montana pennants.
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Montana
Louis Newman
Great Falls
Montana Chamber of Commerce
St. Paul
Rockies
Twin Cities
Mark D. Hoyt
Glasgow
W. N. Smith
Harlowton
W. G. Hilliott
Kalispell
Butte
Helena
Lewistown
State of
Great Northern
Treasure State
Minnesota
Elliott
Kalispel
Teacher's Happy Idea Brightens Belgrade School
Miss Elsom, a Belgrade schoolmistress, offers prizes to pupils who keep their faces and fingernails clean. A monthly record is kept and prizes are awarded at month’s end.
Rose worth fifteen thousand found in tale of love and roofs
A five inch pink rose valued at 15000 is linked to John Cook of Baltimore and J Horace McFarland. A Lewistown youth shyly courted a girl with the rose and kissed her after claiming he would buy many more roses. A New York composer Earl Carroll built a bungalow atop a skyscraper for his bride and uses the Film Building elevator to reach his office.
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John Cook
Baltimore
J. Horace McFarland
American Rose Manual
Lewistown
Fergus County
Tom Stout
New York
Earl Carroll
Carroll
Hudson
New York City
Gotham
Marie Zinsser
Hans Zinsser
Columbia University
Henry Ford's Son Weds His Boyhood Sweetheart
Edsal Ford, heir to a vast fortune and son of Henry Ford, married Elinor Clay, his longtime childhood sweetheart. Despite immense wealth and Ford's automotive success, the couple plans to lead a simple life.
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Henry Ford
Edsal Ford
Elinor Clay
Detroit
Butte Water Company Head Hosts 25th Year Dinner Dance
Eugene Carroll head of the Butte Water company celebrated a quarter century in Butte by hosting 68 guests from his firm and their spouses at a dinner dance at the country club.
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Butte
Eugene Carroll
Butte Water Company
Country Club
Carroll
Three Women Named Montana City Clerks
Mrs. A Jelgoe was appointed city clerk of Billings becoming the third woman in Montana to hold the post joining Grace Johnson of Hamilton and Ruth E Kellog of Missoula in this historic milestone.
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A. Jelgoe
Billings
State of
Montana
Grace Johnson
Hamilton
Ruth E. Kellog
Missoula
Mrs. Louis Accola Killed in Bozeman Auto Crash
Mrs. Louis Accola a leading Bozeman woman was instantly killed when the automobile overturned about 25 miles north of Bozeman en route to her daughter Mrs. Whitfield Spain. She was formerly Miss Fannie Miller a daughter of a Gallatin county pioneer family.
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Bozeman
Louis Accola
Whitfield Spain
Accola
Fannie Miller
Gallatin County
Great big baked potato scarce this year in Northwest
Northern Pacific dining car chief Hazen J. Titus reports a shortage of the large baked potato that boosted his service. Montana dryland crops yield meatier tubers. Bitter Root valley farms, notably C. B. Knight of Rosemont, grow two pounders. Titus plans a Northwest tour to contract supplies.
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Northern Pacific
Hazen J. Titus
Titus
Northern Pacific Dining Car Department
St. Paul
Minn
Mr. Titus
United States
Montana
New York City
Greely
Northwest
C. B. Knight
Rosemont
Butte Deaths and Local News Across Montana Briefs
Montana brief roundup highlights Butte deaths of Stephen J. Rodgers and Stephen J. Rogers on the eve of marriage, obituaries for Arthur C. Logan and Sheriff Elijah Adams, and a Virginia City death. Other items note voting machines in 28 of 68 Silver Bow precincts, a new substation near Ro wan, heavy lumber use in Butte mining, cattle sales records at Geraldine, a fatal Great Falls auto crash, cattle thefts on Fort Peck, and a planned Butte packing plant. Also mentions Dead leaves fertilizer encouragement in Helena.
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Butte
Stephen J. Rodgers
Silver Bow
Bozeman
Rowan
Montana Experiment Station
Montana
D. B. Swingle
Geraldine
Ben Mannville
Chicago
Ben Mandeville
Great Falls
Charles H. McKay
Fort Peck
Stephen J. Rogers
Billings
Arthur C. Logan
Grand Lodge of Masons
Mystic Shrine
O. E. Young
Sun River Beach
Mhaster
State Grange
Washington, D. C
Montana Grange
Grange
Sullivan
Company L
Sydney
Virginia City
Elijah Adams
Madison County
Adams
Sheridan
Sam Stewart
Twin Cities
Helens
County agent leader promotes advance seeding progress
M. L. Wilson state leader of county agents spends time in Fergus county saying Montana’s long fall fair weather has allowed seeding of an immense acreage. He thinks the work is 95 percent ahead of former years.
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M. L. Wilson
Fergus County
Montana
Record lamb price hits fifteen dollars per head in Montana
Rancher Ross Patton of Dean in Stillwater County has contracted to sell ewe lambs at $15 per head, the record price in Montana to date. He also sold 300 ewes at $12 each to a Gallatin County flockmaster. Many farmers statewide are expanding small flocks as big-range grazing diminishes.
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Montana
Bo Peep
Ross Patton
Dean
Stillwater Country
Mr. Patten
Patten
Gallatin County
Leaf Mould and War Refugees In Butte And Harlem Flax Yields
In Butte Karl Herstobrog, a German army reserve infantryman who escaped war by fleeing Bremen before July 1914, reflects on fortune and a brother's letter from the eastern front. In Harlem Clyde Davy reports the district's largest flax crop, yielding 22 bushels per acre from 32 acres, with Ed Baltreil at over 17 bushels and A. W. Anderson at 20 bushels per acre on nearby dry farms.
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Butte
Karl Herstobrog
Bremen
Herstobrog
Harlem
Clyde Davy
Here
Ed Baltreil
A. W. Anderson
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T. J. Bisson
Mont
Eeerort College
Guaran
Rallty
Pat Scanlon
Milwaukee
Paul McCormick
Paul
WAR Eagle's
Frank B. Linderman
War Eagle
Co Skee-See-Co-Cot
Charles M. Russell
Square &Co
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Oo Rey
ES Meee
Symons
Mange
Great Falls Drug Company
Montana Distributors
Great Falls, Mont
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