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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1917
Page
3
In 1914 a 19 year old Billings student took a wholesale tire line in Montana and, with Edgar Guthard and Audrey Clapper, built an auto accessory business that grew to handle a million and a half dollars in yearly goods with three branches, starting from nothing.
The piece highlights a Billings based auto accessory firm started by two Guthard brothers with wide Montana reach and expanding ops in Billings Great Falls and Pocatello Idaho. It notes a prosperous four year growth, large inventories, 30 staff, eight salesmen, and a convention for suppliers attended by forty presidents and managers. It also quotes longtime Montanans predicting a mild winter with Indian summer conditions and signs from wildlife and farmers.
Paul Beck used an 1885 Argus notice to confirm his birth date as September 7, 32 years old that fall. He learned from his mother and the paper's publisher and plans to have his name removed from draft rolls.
Attorney General Ford rules that the state cannot collect inheritance tax on a $45,000 bequest from Mrs. Ida Wilcox Dixon to the state university at Missoula. The ruling specifies the tax cannot be assessed on this donation.
Butte named state director location as headquarters for Montana drive. Commencing Oct 3 post offices banks and stores will sell thrift and war savings stamps with 16th stamp card exchange to war stamps and eventual $100 certificates. Certificates mature 1928 redeemable by postmasters with 1 percent monthly credit after 10 days notice.
Government control extends to Montana bakeries hotels and cracker makers as new bread sale rules are issued by federal authorities. The move sets standards for ingredients and processes in the industry under wartime or regulatory powers.
Classified WANTED GOOD RELINQUISHMENT from owner only Cash paid P O Box 1395 Great Falls Moat Sell your relinquishment it can find you a buyer M L Johnson Box 797 Great Falls Map eee eee eee eee with the kind of fish you get In the aver age inland store Buy it direct from the packera and get far superior fish at leas cost Delicious new salted Ocean Fish of all kinds freshly packed in brine on the day of shipment Spiced smoked kip pered and canned fish Write for free price list today Norway Fish Company 1911 Pike Place Seattle Wash
An advertisement promotes Wheat Land, Hill and Toole Counties Montana as a farming empire. It touts Kremlin Joplin distance, elevators per mile of railroad, limited land broken, and urges readers to contact Hilger Loan and Realty Co Lewistown for loans and rates. It lists Bennett Terrell Billings for loans, Hoenck fur repairs in Butte, and Great Falls Dye House cleaning services.
Multiple parcels advertised including 320 acres near Sun River Valley with irrigation, 160 and 820 acre crop lands with rich soil, a 1000 acre stock farm near Lewistown with cattle and hay, a 375 acre diversified ranch near Spokane, a 870 acre river bottom ranch in Oregon, 320 acres near Carter Montana, and other listings. Agencies include Northern Realty Co Great Falls, Norby Bros Great Falls, W. C. Downing & Co Lewistown, The Fred B. Grinnell Company Spokane, Ritter Lowe & Co Portland, and Farmers Land Co Lewistown.
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