Women of Livingston Club Lead City Cleanup Effort
The Women's Club of Livingston organized a civic campaign starting with civics training then voter registration drives. They aided health inspections, pursued convictions for adulterated products, revamped garbage systems, promoted fly swatting, and backed Baby Week. They pushed for a county library expansion and a woman deputy sheriff, hoping for a protective female officer at depots and dance halls.
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Press Association
Livingston
High School Plans Winter Agriculture Course
Lewistown reports a county high school winter course in agriculture starting Monday November 6. A four year plan includes agriculture farm mathematics manual training and English aimed at farm boys. The program runs through spring and ties lessons to home projects and local farming conditions.
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Lewistown
West Virginia Official Recommends Civic Woman as Health Officer
A city official asked state health commissioner Dr. S. L. Jepson how to secure a suitable health officer. Jepson replied to find a woman interested in civic affairs who will roll up her sleeves and work against public health enemies to obtain the best health officer.
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S. L. Jepson
West Virginia
State Federation Dates Change for District Meetings
The fourth and fifth districts shift meeting dates due to infantile paralysis in Billings. Billings club proposes October 25 and 26, with Red Lodge joining to allow a joint session. Red Lodge district meeting thus moved to October 24 and 25, with October 26 for Billings attendance.
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Billings
Red Lodge
Baptists Name Billings Next Meeting Place
The Montana Baptist convention selected Billings as the next meeting site. Rev. C. G. Cress reported the year ended debt free. Officers elected include C. B. Allen of Missoula as president and A. J. Storman of Great Falls as vice president.
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Billings
Lewistown
State Baptist Convention
C. G. Cress
State Board of Missions
C. B. Allen
D. D
Missoula
A. J. Storman
Great Falls
Effie M. Bradley
Eureka
R. L. Stezer
Butte
C. A. McDonald
J. S.immons
Women nominees for congress widen historic bid
Besides Jeannette Rankin three women seek seats in Congress. Frances C. Axtell of Washington runs on the progressive ticket with expected Democratic support in her campaign. Josephine Marshall Fernand, Democratic nominee from California fourth district, raises three children while campaigning and avoiding criticism of rivals.
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Jeannette Rankin
Montana
Congress
Frances C. Axtell
Washington
Wilson
Josephine Marshall Fernand
California
Fernand
Date and Walnut Cookies From Classic Biscuits
A vintage recipe passage describes two cookies. The first uses eggs sugar flour dates pecan meats vanilla and cinnamon baked on a greased pan. The second mixes shortening water brown sugar soda molasses flour salt ginger nutmeg and cloves then chills rolls and bakes with walnuts.
Raisin Cookies Recipe From an Old Cookery Page
Two cupfuls of brown sugar and one cupful of lard and butter are creamed, then two eggs are added with a sifted mix of one teaspoon soda and one teaspoon baking powder into three cups of flour. Nutmeg and raisins are folded in, then dropped onto a greased pan and baked quickly.
Cocoanut Cookies Recipe Techniques
Beat two eggs until light. Stir in sugar and cream then add shredded cocoanut. Mix in flour with baking powder and salt. Chill dough, roll to half inch thick, and cut into rounds.
Doctor’s bill proves easier to read than prescriptions
A humorous note contrasts deciphering a doctor’s prescription with understanding his bill. It highlights how medical invoices can be clearer than handwriting, suggesting the bill’s items or totals are more intelligible to patients.
Montana Towns Register for November Elections
A roundup of notices from towns including Hinsdale Helena Great Falls Lewistown Butte Manhattan Roundup Anaconda Sidney Billings Bozeman and Helena shows county and city registration tallies for the November election, personnel changes, and local development plans. It notes new bank consolidations, a post office burglary in Manhattan, and civic organization efforts in Lewistown with a 500-member chamber of commerce pushing diversified farming and agricultural support.
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Hinsdale
First National
Helena
Lewis and Clark County
Great Falls
Cascade County
Lewistown
L. H. Frye
Mack Malone
Standford
Butte
Milwaukee
Deer Lodge
Manhattan
Anaconda
Deer Lodge County
John C.carey
Hennessy’s
John F. Cullerton
E. H. Roberts
Grantsville
Utah
Anti-Tuberculosis Society
P. Mathewson
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
British American Nickel Corporation
Toronto
Sudbury
Sidney
Yellowstone Valley National Bank
Farmers’ National Bank
Yellowstone Valley Bank and Trust Company
R. S. Nutt
Northern Pacific
Enid
Richey
Billings
Annie Cunningham
Bessie Ingraham
Belmullet
Mayo
Ireland
Richard McCormick
Dennis Bingham
Bingham
Bozeman
Agricultural College
University At
Chamber of Commerce
Lewistown Chamber Expands Services to Farmers
The Lewistown chamber of ecommerce grows with strong farmer participation and a free employment bureau. Secretary L. D. Blodgett highlights job placements, charity work, and note-based loans that reduce charity stigma while aiding merchants and residents.
Nationwide drive to discuss Irish question in Commons
London reports indicate Irish nationalists will press to bring the Irish question before Parliament at the earliest opportunity. Other items include casualty tallies for German forces, a large war credit approved by Parliament, and diverse notes from Madison to San Francisco on war matters, finance, and diplomacy.
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London
House of Commons
Asquith
San Antonio
Carranza
Chihuahua
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Phillips
St. Paul
Electric Steel Company
G. W. Harrison
Washington
Post Office Department
Chicago
New York
New York Times
Boston
Hetty Green
John D. Rockefeller
Mt. Clemens
Mich
M. V. Bowers
Justice of the Peace
George John
Bowers
Rome
Carlo Giordano
Italy
Adamelle
Pullman Company
Detroit
Henry Ford
Ford
Chinese-American Exchange Company
Clarence J. Owens
Southern Commercial Congress
Kai Fu Shah
United States
San Francisco
Pacific Ocean
Henry C. Fox
Wayne
Indiana
Japan
State Department
China
Lansing
Sheep and Lambs Sold At High Prices Across Yellowstone Region
Ranchers north of the Yellowstone report strong demand for sheep and lambs with more than 20,000 head recently sold and delivered as prices stay elevated.
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Miles City
Yellowstone
Lewistown Chamber of Commerce Activities
The Lewistown Chamber of Commerce furnishes free employment to 1 500 persons annually and lends money on notes to distressed individuals. It buys and sells real estate and farm animals, runs a farmers information bureau and a farmers exchange bulletin, distributes 50 000 mail pieces yearly, publishes farm bulletins for 4 000 farmers, advertises in eastern papers, guarantees truthful literature from directors, provides real estate inquirer names, warns about grafters, and collects old magazines for winter reading for farmers.
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Chamber of Ecommerce
Bureau of Information
Farmers’ Exchange Bureau
Warning from the street on fate and jail
A terse reflection warns that the force keeping men from crime may not save them from hell when the end comes, implying consequences beyond legal punishment.
Germany Faces Coffee Shortage Througout War
Amsterdam reports that German coffee houses may close after the war as Germany runs out of coffee. Reserve stocks from Hamburg Bremen and later Antwerp helped briefly but British blockade halted shipments to German ports leaving Germany to brew the last of its berries. Germany previously imported about 55 million dollars annually from Brazil and Guatemala.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Hamburg
Bremen
Antwerp
Holland
Scandinavia
Brazil
Guatemala
Wisconsin educator pushes gum racks in schools
Madison reports the State Educational Bulletin praises River Falls normal school President J. W. Crabtree for gum racks in schools. He argues pupils have a right to chew gum and suggests racks at room entrances with pegs for each pupil to manage chewing during recitation and assembly.
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Madison
J. W. Crabtree
River Falls Normal School
Crabtree
Long Service Marks S. D. Warren Workers in Portland
Seven employees at the S. D. Warren company in Portland boast lengthy tenures. Sewall S. Leighton has over 59 years, Archelus H. Levi 49, Edwin M. Racheider 42, and brothers Thomas 47, John 45, Henry 45, plus three more Watson brothers all over 40 years with the firm.
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Portland
S .D. Warren Company
Sewall S. Leighton
Archelus H. Levi
Edwin M. Racheider
Thomas
John
Henry Watson
Henry
Japan actions in China prompt urgency to Tokio
Important communications to Tokio regarding Japanese actions in China. Official state department reports say Japan accepted the information with grave concern. In New York financial circles react to Sabin claim that Ambassador Gerard will return from Germany to seek peace talks on Germany’s behalf. Gerald denies it, but certainty remains unclear.
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Tokio
China
State Department
Japan
New York
Sabin
Guaranty Trust Co
Gerard
Germany
Wilson
Kaiser
United States
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