Dead Letter Office Exhibit At Post Office Museum
The third floor museum showcases items lost in transit and stored by the dead letter office. Highlights include Civil War photographs, the oldest item a Franklin manuscript, Owney the postal dog and a vast array of oddities from letters to toys and coins. The display also features moving picture cabinets illustrating rapid mail handling and a Havana iron drop used during Spanish rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
the Tribune
Mafla
Department
Benjamin Franklin
Johnstown
Owney
Railway Postal Clerks
Albany
N. Y
N, Y
Postoffice
United States
Canada
Europe
Asia
Mikado
Japan
Aria
Toledo
Antieenm
Sur
Western Mounted
Porto Rico
Havana
Real Estate Transfers for Week Ending Sept 6
Real estate transfers include multiple Dillon properties with deeds from Selway to Dawes and Dawes to Bishop, and from A S Johnson to Luella Hobson. Other entries cover quitclaims, mining deeds in Dark Horse and Pioneer districts, and several Mauldin addition transfers in Lima and Dillon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert B. Selway
Wellington
Dawes
Dillon
W. C. Johnson
Samuel Engleajgerd
Marianna Engeajgerd
Elkhorn Springs
This County
W. H. Rideout
Pioneer Gold Mining and Mill Co
Cyclone Lode
Dark Horse District
C. M. Shively
Lulu Shively
Leo Shively
Mary FE. Hennessy
Mary KE. O’rourke
Big Sheep
Trail Creek
Georgia
Pioneer District
Eugene A. Bailey
Barzilla W. Clark
Lima
A. S. Johnson
Luella Hobson
Mauldin Addition
Nancy A. Mauldin
R. W. Hoone
Jota
Robert W. Boone
Frederick Schuler
Mauldin
H. B. Selway
T. J. Maloney
Ned L. Washburn
Paxton Sheep’ Co
Point of Rocks
Patrick O’ Donnell
Neal
O’donnel
Frank P. Blair
Silver Bow
Silver Bow Lode
Bloody Dick
Ervie KE
Phillips
Frank B Felt
Ivanho Tunnel
Elkhorn District
John March
Fred Randolph
Henry Jacobs
Friday Lode
Green Rock Lode
L. J. Swanson
W. D. Nichols
T. C. Witherspoon
Airship Stroebel to Feature Montana State Fair Spectacle
The Stroebel airship, 65 feet long, will be shown as a major fair attraction with Capt. Jack Dallas piloting flights over the city and ground daily during the September 28 to October 3 event. Flights will be tethered to the ground, no rides allowed, and hydrogen gas produced from sulfuric acid will power the craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Jack Dallas
St. Louis
Aastatanta
Fair Ground
Stroebel
J. W. Pace
The
Fair Management
Pace
Homesteaders Move on Forest Reserve Lands in Helena Area
The Helena land office notes many settlers claim agricultural lands in forest reserves under a law allowing entries of up to 160 acres not necessarily surveyed. Entries require forest service review, posting notices for sixty days, and posting proof when final proof is offered. Homesteaders are active in Helena and other forest reserves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Washington
Jland
United States Survey
General
Land Register
Homeeteadera
Also Mentioned on This Page
Books of Pearl
Smith
Nanan
Fair Grounds
Golden Rule
and Innis
Yellowstone National Park
Wylie Permanent Camping Company
Gardiner
Livingston
Northern Pacific
Butte
N. B
Mammoth Hot Springs
Park
Oregon
Idaho Falls
Yellowstone
Williamson Haffner CO
Nerd Arti
Banks Feathery
Dillon, Montana
Beaverhead
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!