Traffic safety can save lives on Montana highways
The piece notes over 90 highway fatalities this year in Montana and projects the total to exceed last year by 30 to 40. It highlights a national safety push and Dr. Herbert J. Stack’s continental traffic safety tour to integrate driving instruction into high school curricula, arguing early training yields lasting safety benefits and civic responsibility.
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Montana
National Safety Council
Herbert J. Stack
National Conservation Bureau
Backward Glimpses From 1888 and 1917 Beavershead Notes
In 1888 the Ladies Aid Society at the Baptist church plans a September fair with plain and fancy articles to sell, evening suppers, ice cream, and a quilt prize for the popular lady in Dillon. The Beaverhead jail is painted and the 19 inmates occupy improved quarters on Tom Jones’ sheep land. In 1917 Cosgrove slaughter house burns with losses of ten thousand dollars, only part insured. draft exemptions are processed with 82 of 220 passing physicals and 50 of 74 exemptions approved.
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Ladies Aid Society of the Baptist Church
Beaverhead County
the Tribune
Cosgrove
Pioneers Meet to Expel Corvallis Flock Herders
Thirty two settlers in the Big Hole basin gathered at a spring between Brown’s ranch and the Battleground to force two Corvallis shepherds to quit the basin with their charges. After their camp was broken up and traps loaded, the herders began the move westward without damage or violence. A grim note warned that a future return could prompt the hiring of an undertaker.
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Big Hole
Brown
Battleground
Corvallis
Beaverhead High School Head Foote Freed From Quarantine
The Tribune notes Professor L R Foote principal of Beaverhead County High School and his family were released from a two week quarantine on Reeder street after their son contracted diphtheria. It also mentions strikes among Butte mines and machinists seeking wage concessions as copper prices fall.
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the Tribune
L. R. Foote
Beaverhead County
Reeder Street
Jess
Threshed Crops Spur Dry Land Farming Outlook
The report notes that after threshing, dry land farming will not be found wanting, signaling confidence in post-harvest yields and regional agricultural performance.
Wheeler Couple Visits Local Family
Dr. and Mrs. H. E. Wheeler of Long Beach California are visiting A. S. Johnson home. Mrs Wheeler is the former Miss Sue Johnson of this city.
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H. E. Wheeler
Long Beach
California
A. S. Johnson Home
Wheeler
Miss Sue Johnson
The Time editors on subsidized cancer research HQ
A Time editors note government funding fuels a new cancer research headquarters. Dr. Thompson says he no longer conducts research himself but watches his team and helps secure continued funding to keep the work going.
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Ernment
Senator Guffey Calls for Recorded Remarks on Record
The passage notes Senator Guffey demanding supreme assurance and stating his remarks will be recorded in the Record as proof of his stance. It also says all Senators may extend their remarks in the Record on the subject.
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Guffey
Congress funds National Cancer Institute laboratory plan
Washington reports the Senate passage of a bone labeled finance bill to fund the National Cancer Institute with 750000 for a new laboratory and 700000 for a year of operations. The proposal, backed by Representatives Bulwinkle Maverick and urged by Surgeon General Thompson, marks a major NIH expansion.
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Washington
U. S. Senate
Homer Truett Bone
Senate
National Cancer Institute
Bulwinkle
North Carolina
Maverick
Texas
Lewis Byers Thompson
U. S. Public Health Service
Roosevelt
Yale
Thompson
Public Health Service
Congress
National Institute of Health
Bethesda
Gov
Exiled King and Queen Face Uncertain Return to England
British papers focus on the ex-King and his wife as they pursue possible social work in England. The Kents plan a Yugoslavian trip with a Windsor visit en route, while the government offers no clear encouragement for their return amid persistent calumnies and slander.
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Venice
Foscari Palace
Romeo
Wasserloenburg Castle
Austria
Kent
Duke of Windsor
Duchess of Kent
Greece
Vienna
Yugoslavia
Windsors
Star
England
London gossip stirs Dorothy Thompson on presidency idea
Gossip writer sparks reaction from Dorothy Thompson who calls the presidency talk ridiculous while Sinclair Lewis supports the plan, saying a column named My Day could be syndicated.
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London
Dorothy Thompson
Newshawks
Sinclair Lewis
Traffic Safety Council reports motor deaths rise in first half 1937
The National Safety Council reports 17 200 motor accident deaths in the first six months of 1937 an 18 percent rise from last year while vehicle mileage grew about 10 percent. June deaths fell to 2 860 from 2 905 in June 1936. President Paul Gray Hoffman praises stricter stateside traffic laws as lifesaving.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Paul Gray Hoffman
Studebaker Corporation
Automotive Safety Foundation
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Iowa
Minnesota
Sidney J. Williams
Council
Public Safety
Reuben N. Forney
Notice of Proving Will for Martin Butch Estate
In Beaverhead County Montana District Court the time and place for proving the will of Martin Butch, deceased, were set for Saturday August 28, 1937 at 10:00 A M in the court room. The hearing will consider Frank C. McFadden's petition for letters of administration with will annexed. Interested parties may appear and contest. Dated August 10, 1987. Norman Giles, Clerk.
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Mary Doe Holt
Mary Doe Radtcliffe
Nora Anderegg
Lena Stroh
Rose Lecuyer
Lily Bachman
Kate Peterson
Rudolph Peterson
Margaret Walling
George W. Peterson
John Peterson
Susie Peterson
Lily Peterson
Charles Lyngberg
Fred Lyngberg
William Lane
Marie Osborne
Viola Lane
Wilda Walters
Charlotte Brown
Edwin Strongham
Theobald
Peterson
Edwin Sneider
Kate Sneider
Albert Peterson
Mary Doe Smith
Montana
Defale
Beaverhead County
Barnett
Dillon
Norman Giles
County of
Beaverhead
Martin Butch
Frank C. McFadden
Notice for Publication Original Stock-raising Homestead Entry
Department of the Interior notices Peter Stef anick of Dillon Montana filed for three year proof to establish a land claim. The hearing occurs before Frank A Hazelbaker in Dillon on August 30 1987. Witnesses named include Bert McMenamney Archie Henneberry Leo Tallent Pat Flynn.
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wUly Hey Lpo
Cook Sheep Company
Dillon
Montana
United States
Register of the
U. S Land Office
Great Falls
Thos. F, Corbally
Register
Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Office
Peter Stefanick
Montana Meridian
Frank A. Hazelbaker
U.S
Bert McMenamey
Armstead
Archie Henneberry
Leo Tallent
Pat Flynn
Notice of Sale of Real Estate in Montana Estate
Notice shows the Beaverhead Montana District Court order in the Estate of Della A Nolan. Administrator with the will annexed intends private sale to the highest cash bidder subject to court confirmation. Lands described in order to show cause why sale should not be made. further particulars referenced in order.
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District Court of
Fifth Judicial District
State of
Montana
Beaverhead
Della A. Nolan
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Cancer Institute
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New York State
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George von Elm
New York
Herbert H. Lehman
Georgia
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Charles Francis Hurley
Rivers
James Cunningham
New Jersey
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Robert Elliott Moore
Hurley Leach,piaintfi
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Kelly Kash
United States Department of the Inner General Land Office
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