Montana Board Aims Rehabilitation For Industrial Cripples
The Montana Industrial Accident Board reports total annual wages of 85 million for 74 000 employés and outlines high costs in neighboring states. Chairman Spriggs advocates vocational rehabilitation to convert disabled workers into producers, proposing state facilities at Fort Harrison or Fort Missoula to serve Montana and the Northwest.
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Montana
Industrial Accident Board
A. E. Spriggs
Nevada
Oregon
Washington
California
Spriggs
Congress
Dominion
United States
Federal Board
Europe
Fort Harrison
Helena
Fort Missoula
Missoula
Northwest
$50,000,000 to Stimulate Mining in Montana Camps
The war minerals bill authorizes a $50 million revolving fund to develop rare minerals and related lands and plants. It empowers the president to requisition, store, and distribute necessities and to develop or lease mines smelters or deposits, with compensation rules and a two year sunset after the war. Montana is highlighted for deposits including chromite manganese graphite and vanadium with potential for significant production if federal support and transportation facilities are provided.
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Bridger
Red Lodge
Jardine
Colorado
Congress
Montana
United States
District of Columbia
Senate
House of Representatives
Philipsburg
Anaconda Company
United States Geological Survey
Idaho
North
Commandoed Barbers Conversation for War in Havre
Havre Montanas Hill County adopts a conservation of conversation plan with barbers agreeing to four one minute topics each to support the war effort. They will discuss Liberty loan Red Cross war production and cautions on current topics. Louis Christianson a Dane is sentenced to two to five years for sedition in Miles City. Deer Lodge sees a growing pro German colony.
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Havre
Hill County
Liberty Loan
Red Cross
Ingh Haman
Louis Christianson
Miles City
Deer Lodge
Montana Briefs Reflect Local Industry and Lawmakers
A Montana summary of small items reports the Wolf Point flour mill sale to Nedrud and Wold of Oswego, coal shortages threatening mine tie ups, fire destroying a new schoolhouse, stock movements to Chicago, a wolf drive plan in Billings, an egg raid at George Harris’s ranch, wheat purchases by mills, and various local notices. Additional notes mention reservation land payment deferrals, a citizenship dispute in Simms, a £4,000 shire stallion death from nail injury, a jeweler offering free time service, a leaking Yellowstone ferry fixed with wheels, a Great Falls arrestee for sedition with IWW material, a Red Cross donation via John Biering, and labor curtailment rules affecting wholesale deliveries.
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Wolf Point
John Listerud
Nedrud and
Wold
Oswego
Circle
Big Timber
Phil Cook
Chicago
R. W. Bateman
Simms
George Harris
Kalispell
Butte
Montana
Federal Employment Bureau
Billings
Elks
Joseph Hocevar
St. Ignatius
Reynold Davis
England
Grey Cliff
Yellowstone
Great Falls
Vance L. Kane
Public misinformed on shoe price regulation details
A wartime notice clarifies shoe pricing. current stock remains at existing retail prices while new post October 15 products are graded A to C and priced 3 to 12 dollars. Dealers may sell high grade stock until June 1, 1919, after which regulation shoes enter the market with plainer styles.
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War Industries Board
Warrenton poised to grow as grain port after the war
A Warrenton promoter forecasts grain from Montana and the western states shipping westward by rail to the Pacific then worldwide by sea. He cites government canal work on the Columbia and railroad investments, pledging Warrenton’s rise, land holdings, and profitable opportunities for investors. Correspondence invited.
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Montana
Western States
Pacific Coast
W. G. McAdoo
Panama Canal
Atlantic Seaboard
Warrenton
Atlantic
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Dillon
Chinist
Great Northern
Bozeman
John Biering
Biering
Conservation Division
Lewistown
Warrenton, Oregon
West
The
American Society
of Equity
Columbia River
E. A. Tyler Realty Company
Todd Block
Great Northern Steamship
Warrenton Dock
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