Mayors Back Commission Government In Montana Cities
Montana study by A J Breitenstein notes Missoula and Helena adopted the commission form to centralize responsibility and cut debt. Missoula reduced debt and saved funds this year. Helena completed debt refunding saving money. Captain Tom McAdow’s suffrage bid at the 1889 constitutional convention is recounted, including opposition by Major Maginnis and Toole and near success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
A. J. Breitenstein
State Chamber of Commerce
Missoula
Helena
Purcell
Breitenstein
State of
W. A. Clark
Society of
Perry W. MeAdow
Billings
Tomlinson
Captain Tom
McAdow
Tom
Martin Maginnis
Joseph K. Toole
Maginnis
Toole
Convention
Congress
Thomas Francisco Meagher
United States Senate
St. Louis
Missouri
Thomas F. Tutt
How Montana Named Its Name and the Territorial Fight
This ponderous account tracks how the name Montana emerged in political struggle. It covers proposals Idaho Jefferson Colorado and Montaña del Norte. Figures include James M Ashley Stephen A Douglas Sidney Edgerton and Banack figures and the 1864 passage by Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson
Montana
Congress
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana del Norte
Bannack
Golden Gate
Montana Kantner
Deer Lodge
Missouri
Idaho
James M.ashley
Committee On Territories of the
House
Senate
Ashley
Stephen A. Douglas
J. W. Denver
Kansas Territory
Denver
Douglas
Senate Committee On
Territories
Great Rocky Mountain Country
Wilbur Edgerton Sanders
I. M. Clavenger
Clavenger
City of
Idaho Territory
Sidney Edgerton
National Capital
Bitter Root
Lewistown
Sanders
Montana Historical Society
House of Representatives
Committee On Territories
Cox
Ohio
Butte Feeds Miners With Machinery Restaurant
A feature on the Chequamegon lunch counter in Butte where copper miners and millionaires dine side by side. The restaurant uses mechanized service from order to plate delivery, with rapid turnover and a $4,000 monthly profit for owner Tom Casey. Patrons like Percy Rockefeller are noted, and the scene is described with machine driven efficiency.
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Butte
Chequamegon
Percy Rockefeller
Percy
Pat
Broadway
Tom Casey
Nome
Tke Heilbronner
Davis Daly
al Green
DeWolf Hopper
Casey
Michigatt Woods
William Davy
Compulsory Farming Movement in France Aims to Reconstruct Life
A movement in France advocates compulsory agricultural service to cut postwar living costs. Leaders seek a law to bring unused rural land under cultivation and promote intensive farming. They also push for cheerier farm life as part of rebuilding the nation.
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Paris
France
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Secretary OF State
Chamber
Preme
Sisterhood
County Court House
Reunion
Society of Framers of the Constitution
Paris Gibson
Great Falls
Hobson
Walter Cooper
Bozeman
Charles 8
Eugene H. Dickerson
Cornelius Hedges, Jr
David G. Browne
Fort Benton
Samuel W. Langhorne
R. E. Hammond
Havre
William Muth
W. M. Bickford
Dickerson
Hedges
Langhorne
Montana Town Company
Lawrence
Kansas
Auraria
West
Defeat
Washburne
Abbyssinia
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