Geyser Mystery Tied to Underground Handkerchief Link
Yellowstone park naturalists theorize an underground connection between Handkerchief Pool and Rainbow, now a major geyser, as silica covered cloths reappear with eruptions. Separately 1938 saw record traffic, 41 traffic convictions, one fatality, over 175000 vehicles, and rising bicycle use to explore park including a Chicago teen ride and riders from California and Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone Park
Poole
Rainbow
Handkerchief
Yellowstone National Park
Edmund B. Rogers
States Commissioner's Court
Ralph J. Slutz
Boston
Chicago
Lillian Stromy
Illinois
Miss Stromy
Park
Tetons
Denver
William Schluitzer
Lillian
Secania
Yellowstone
California
Montana
Wyoming
Utah
Traffic boards eyed for public streets in Madras
Madras in India plans central traffic control with district boards in each district and a provincial central board to oversee public place traffic management. This move aims to streamline regulation and improve road safety across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madras
India
Publi
Bering Strait and Sea Named for Vitus Bering
The Bering Strait and Bering Sea are named for explorer Vitus Bering who discovered the waters in July 1728.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bering Strait
Bering Sea
Vitus Bering
Indians Works Featured At Butte Art Center Exhibition
Montana artist William Standing, a full blooded Assinniboine from Fort Peck, displays two art groups at the Butte Art Center show: oil paintings and black and white sketches. His work blends humor and native studies, with depictions of Grand-Paws, buffalo trapping, and a self portrait notes on art and nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Butte Art Center
William Standing
Fort Peck Reservation
Standing
William Standin
Haskell Institute
Lawrence
Kan
New York
Derby
Buffalo
Big
Council House
Washington
Former champ Tunney visits Helena boy in hospital
Gene Tunney met 15 year old Jackie Warren in a Shodair hospital room in Helena. They talked about books and boxing as Tunney autographed a card for the boy and encouraged him to keep fighting while the two shared a cordial handshake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shodair Hospital
Helena
Gene Tunney
Jackie Warren
American Legion Hall
Jack Dempsey
Jackie
W. G. Warren
Gene
Central
Helena American Legion Post
Jack London
Champ
James Fenimore Cooper
Historic Slips of the Tongue by Montana Celebrities Preserved
A roundup of famous Montana misstatements from Butte and beyond. The piece recalls Lewis Duncan's “Everything's under control” line during miner riots, Patrick Mullins's San Diego hill mix up, Heinze’s “I stand now where I stood two years ago,” and Charlie Proprie’s German accent plea that closed Butte saloons, plus Ed Long’s courtroom cadence at a miners’ mass meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Philospher
Butte
Lewis Duncan
Miners’ Union
Russia
Union Hall
Duncan
Ple
Patrick Mullins
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Mullins
Pat
Finlen Hotel
San Diego Hill
San Juan Hill
Santiago
Associated Press
Teddy
Pat Carney
Waterloo
San Diego
F. A. Heinze
New York
Heinze
F. A
Kery
Charlie
Mayor
Vere
Ed Long
Long
Many Fish Planted in Glacier Park Hatchery Project
Supervisor Lloyd Justus at Glacier Park hatchery oversees a multi year fish program planting 578,700 native and 240,000 rainbow trout after importing 2,250,000 eggs from Yellowstone. Four shipments supplied eggs and a new Jessups mill hatchery near Kalispell is planned to open before the 1939 season with 24 rearing ponds and a large building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Justus
Glacier Park Hatchery
Yellowstone Park
Glacier Park Station
Park
New Park
Jessups Mill
Kalispell
Veteran mailman served 35 years in Butte posting a million pieces
The Butte post office honors W. C. Jackson, who began as a route carrier in 1903 and rose to superintendent of mails after 35 years. He estimates one billion pieces of mail have passed through the office since he started, having served under six postmasters and worked in every department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte Post Office
W. C. Jackson
Jackson
Post Office
West Park Street
Baltimore
Money Order Department
Postal Savings Department
Butte
Mr. Jackson
George Irvine
Malcolm Gillis
Phil Goodwin
Richard Brimscombe
Johnny Evans
Frank x. Monaghan
Officials Plan for Hardware Convention in Lewistown
Three officers of the Montana Implement and Hardware Dealers association visited Lewistown to arrange the state convention set for October 24 to 26. President Wallace Ulmer Miles City vice president C N Wall Helena and secretary R M O Hearn Townsend spoke with local dealers as they finalize speaker lists. The article also notes 1936 cheese consumption per capita in Canada and a New York requirement for teachers to conform to a standard weight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana Implement and Hardware Dealers Association
Lewistown
Wallace Ulmer
Miles City
C. N. Wall
Helena
R. M. O’hearn
Townsend
College Dean Returns From World Tour To Montana State
Dr Gladys Branegan dean of the division of household and industrial arts at Montana State College has returned after a year long leave to resume her duties. She traveled a world tour visiting schools and studying educational and vocational opportunities for women abroad. She joined Miss Mary Meek in Italy and Oxford while in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Branegan
Division of Household and Industrial Arts
Montana State College
Dean Branegan
Rangoon
Burma
India
Ceylon
Calcutta
Italy
Mary Meek
Eastern Montana Normal School
Billings
Oxford
England
Youth Riding Horse on Long Trip Visits State
Clayton Isaacson a 22 year old from Mahnomen Minnesota is riding a horse from Stockton California to his home. He stayed in Roundup a few days ago while en route to Crookston Minnesota where he will resume studies at an agricultural school this fall. He began about ten weeks ago covering more than 1500 miles at roughly 25 miles per day his California saddle stock mount has shed five times on the journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton Isaacson
Mahnomen
Minn
Stockton
Calif
Isaacson
Crookston
California
Auction sale in Dundee offers fishing gear and microscope set
Optimists and pessimists attended an auction in Dundee Scotland where bidders eyed an expanding fishing bag and a microscope set. In New England a 1755 quake was blamed on lightning rods in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dundee
Scotland
New England
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Long Dead Handkerchief Crater
Eige
Board of
Smith
Benton Avenue
Federal Building
Anaconda
WPA
Vely
John Maguire
Jim Murray
John
Light Brigade
Daly Bros
Armaugh
Maguire
Los Angeles
Frank Foley
Paul Davis
Main Street
First National Bank
Paul
Paul Avis
North Main Street
Frank Little
Little
Stars and Stripes
Wyoming Street
Department OF
Dominion of Canada
Bozeman
Index” Jewelry CO
Wheeling, W. Va
Charles M
Montana Newspaper Association
Great Falls, Montana
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