Bachelors Build Cliff Dwellings Near Klein mines
Four Italian bachelors built rock cliff houses in 1910 near Klein after the Republic Coal mine opened in 1909. The structures used slabs of limestone for floor walls and a roof, later joined by two room and frame additions. The dwellings attracted visitors and became an enduring landmark known for ingenuity and warmth in winter.
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Klein
The
Rock
Republic Coal Company
Milwaukee Railroad
Dominic Finco
Nick Art Dominic Stella
Christ Vesco
Klein Mine
No. 2
Farreltown
Claude Raymond
Pete Raymond
Cliff
Raymonds
Frank Fievet
Rock House
Miners
Neldy Fievet
Italy
Finco
Erma Fargo
Alfred Finco
Gecond Finco
New York
Ernest
Edward
Farm Deferment Plan Explained by State Director
Major S. H. Mitchell state director of selective service outlines deferment aims for livestock dairy and poultry workers to maintain food production. He explains occupational reclassification rules referral to U S Employment Service for workers on smaller farms and the possibility to seek employment on larger units before drafting. Appeals must go through local boards within 10 days of 1 A classification.
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S. H. Mitchell
Selective Service
Montana
U. S
Mitchell
State Board of Appeals
Self serve baked bean supper for holiday gathering
A practical holiday menu promotes a decaffeinated coffee service with self-serve buffets for college and school guests. Recipes include baked beans with Boston brown bread and a Chocolate Tapioca Cream dessert, plus a guide to decaf drip coffee brewing and serving.
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New England
Boston
Smart new buttoning pattern 9125 by Marian Martin
The design features front buttoning that extends below the waist into a skirt panel, with shaped revers and cuff tabs. Three quarter sleeves. Pattern 9125 comes in misses and women sizes 14 through 40. size 16 requires 3 1 2 yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 16 cents to order pattern. Also offered is a winter pattern book with 32 pages. send 10 cents for a copy. Send orders to Pattern Department MN 232 W 18th St New York NY.
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Marian Martin
Pattern Department
18Th St
New York
N. Y
Early Fairfield Postmaster and Red Lodge Deaths
The article notes the early Fairfield postmaster, a Pennsylvania Dutch native born in 1856 who helped establish the town and later moved his office. It also reports the death of Thomas Foy Jones, 86, in Port Orchard Washington, detailing his move from Ogden to Vernal, Burlington, Absorbee, Bearcreek, and his long work as a blacksmith and miner.
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Miles City
Arthur E. Wankel
Pretty Amy Janssen
Wankel
Bob Thomas
Badlands
Zimmerman
Fairfield
Pennsylvania
Colorado
Montana
Fort Assiniboine
Havre
Conrad
Red Lodge
Thomas Foy Jones
Iver Jones
Port Orchard
Wash
Jones
Ogden
Olive Madora Lemmon
Northup
Utah
Vernal
Big Horn Basin
Burlington
Wyo
Absorbee
Bearcreek
Housewives Advised How to Use Stale Bread
Montana State College expert Bessie McClelland suggests using stale bread in hot bread and milk for breakfast or snacks, oven dried toast, stuffings, creamed dishes, and French toast. She notes enriched bread helps and outlines simple steps for toasting and reheating.
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Bessie E. McClelland
Montana State College
University Farm Forestry Project enters third year in Montana
The Flathead farm forestry project near Kalispell, a collaboration of Montana State University and the U S Soil Conservation Service, shows western Montana farmers how to profit from woodlands. Supervisor Matt Spencer notes 36 cooperating farms and guidance to many more, with potential earnings of 12 to 20 dollars per acre and added income from Christmas trees, fuel wood, sawlogs, fence posts, and ties.
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Montana
Montana State University
Flathead Farm
School of Forestry
United States Soil Conservation Service
Matt Spencer
Forestry School
Kalispel
Spencer
Kalispell
Thirtysix
Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment Station
The
Conservation Service
Grapefruit Victory Food Special Set for December Boost
Fresh grapefruit and tangerines will headline victory food specials Dec 3 through Dec 12 to aid conservation and add nutrition. The seasonally abundant grapefruit totals about 45 million boxes, up 17 percent from last year, while Florida grown tangerines reach an estimated 34 million boxes, surpassing 1940-41 production.
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Victory Food
Agricultural Marketing Administration
State Extension
Montana State College
Florida
Sage Hen Replanting to Be Continued in Montana
Robert Cooney reports Montana’s sage hen trapping and replanting showed encouraging prospects for continuation or expansion. A total of 246 birds were captured near Piniele in Carter County with 29 drives and transplanted to Ravalli Lewis and Clark Powell Jefferson Cascade and Carbon counties where they once thrived. Weather and huge flocks led to an early end on November 1.
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Montana
Robert Cooney
Cooney
Piniele
Carter County
Ravalli
Lewis and Clark
Powell
Jefferson
Cascade
Carbon
Mammal Size Gap: Baby Whale Largely Outweighs Opossum
A comparison notes that both whales and opossums are mammals, but a baby whale weighs about 45,440,000 times more than a baby opossum of the same age, highlighting a vast size difference between species.
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Gulf Stream
Great Falls
Cambridge
Charles Regan
Walter P
Christina Hansen
Katherine Elizabeth Markuson
Billings
Gronlund
Nels Gronlund
Butte
Mary A. Eslick
Walkerville
San Francisco
Eslick
William F. Eslick
Anaconda
Katherine McCloy
St. Ann Hospital
Helena
Raymond I. Soule
Fort Harrison
Jefferson City
Melvin Soule
Soule
John Zimmerman
Seattle
Canada
University
Charles M. Russell
West
Montana Newspaper Association
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