Montana School Progress Amid Growth and Funding Struggles
The Montana state education department notes rapid population-driven expansion from 1880 to 1920 with 2,000 districts and 126,288 enrolled. It highlights new laws on teacher certification, rural supervision, and county nursing and librarians, while warning that insufficient funds and transportation leave about 1,500 children without schooling, urging statewide support and reforms.
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Carl A. Jesen
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Placin
Mont State Builds 26 Bridges in Two Years
The Montana state highway commission reports about 26 highway bridges completed in two years at a cost around 705 386 dollars. The catalog highlights reinforced concrete viaducts and modern designs, noting high workmanship and several federal aid projects.
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Crow Nation Adopts Italian General Diaz as Chief Plenty Cops
In Washington, General Armando Diaz is adopted by the Crow as a full tribe member and Chief Plenty Cops after a ceremonial dance and songs. Diaz, honored for valor, receives Indian attire and pledges to send a costume to his son in Italy as Crow leaders praise friendship and shared history.
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Armando Vittorio Diaz
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Marshal Foch
Washington
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Russell White Bear
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America
White House
Christmas Seal Sale Opens Thanksgiving in Montana
The Montana Tuberculosis Association announces the annual Christmas seals drive opens on Thanksgiving and runs to Christmas. Past years raised nearly seven thousand dollars in 1916 and nineteen thousand seven hundred seventy five in 1920, with thirty thousand dollars in seals shipped to chairmen statewide. Seals stay local, with 95 percent spent in state to fund health campaigns.
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Tuberculosis Association
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Montana Tuberculosis Association
Forest rangers to wear uniforms nationwide
Rangers in uniform are to appear in the Helena forest district by next summer. Orders from the national forester Colonel W. B. Greeley in Washington DC direct all forest rangers to adopt uniforms as soon as possible, changing the appearance of local patrols.
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County Treasurer Backs Off on Horse Tax Bill
County Treasurer J T Wilson of Custer County declines to pursue $20 tax on a herd of 21 range horses, opting not to use legal machinery to collect the levy and allowing the horses to leave the county unmolested.
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J.T. Wilson
Custer County
Elevated Montana Bridges With Federal Aid Details
The commission notes federal aid under the Federal Aid Road Act covers up to half the cost while the U S bureau of public roads coordinates with state engineers. Hill Fergus and Missoula counties secured high quality bridges cheaply, with Great Falls seeing two reinforced concrete arches built without federal aid. The First Avenue north bridge totals seven arches 131 feet each plus a 48 foot approach span, costing about 223000 dollars.
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Bridge project leaders named for Montana federal aid work
Bros of Spokane were the contractors. The professional engineers of the state and bureau who have charge of federal aid bridge work in Montana are J. N. Edy chief engineer of the state highway commission H. W. Holmes bridge engineer for the state highway commission T. M. Keene district engineer of the bureau of public roads located at Missoula and Roderick Pearson bridge engineer for the bureau.
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