War notes and bills shape postwar policy actions
Treasury plans Victory Liberty notes with $50 denominations and five year maturity as War Department updates on troop movements. Senate debates wartime prohibition enforcement while relief measures and armament funding face shifts.
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Treasury
House’ Ways and Means Committee
Glass
Peter E. Traub
Battle of the Argonne
Allen
Kansas
Senate’ Judiciary
Walsh
Montana
King
Utah
Dillingham
Vermont
Record of World War I era flying record and labor strife notes
The article reports Col Walter G Kilner flying Maj Albert Smith 115 miles in 88 minutes at 180 mph in a De Haviland aircraft from San Diego to Riverside. It notes James Fullerton's arrest in Eugene on criminal libel charges, debates on bolshevik strikes, and labor unrest. It covers Clemenceau's shooting attack, Panama Canal talks, and Russian civil strife with massive strikes and troop withdrawals.
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Rockwell’ Field
San Diego
Cal
Riverside
Walter G. Kilner
Air Service
Maj
Albert Smith
de Haviland
James Fullerton
the Hornet
Eugene
Ore
University of Oregon
P. L. Campbell
Georges Clemenceau
Lloyd George
France
Mile Cottin
Milou
M. Clemenceau
Edward M. House
Arthur J. Balfour
Panama
Petrograd
London
Montana Senate Advances Efficiency Bill And Related Measures
The Montana senate moved to create a state efficiency commission to study cheaper administration, reporting to a special session next fall. The governor indicated support for a commission while House committees advanced veterans welfare funding, school bills, and a road bond issue, with opposition and amendments shaping the legislative path.
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Helena
Montana Senate
Assembly
Judiciary
N. B. Holter
Frank Eliel
Dillon
D G. Browne
Fort Benton
W. A. Brubaker
Terry
T. M. Everett
Urarlem
W. M. Johnston
Billings
House Appropriations Committee
Lewistown
Brown- Jones
Great Falls
House
Veterans’ Welfare Commission
Lake County
Senate
Wghway Commission
R. L. Milzey
Tewistown
W. M. Biggs
Frank Conley
Deer Lodge
Conley
R. W. Beck
Hamilton
Macy
Smith
Lewis and Clark
Congress
Butte
Rusmussen
Brown and Jones
Richland
Bent
Great Walls
Washington
Montana
Higgins
State Board of Examiners
Montana Notes and Local News Highlights
Community notes cover an irrigation petition to form a district in Chinook, health board talks in Butte on influenza and city closures, and a Rudyard banker injured in a ditch accident. Also reported are bank debt burnings, a Helena Deaconess banquet, the Montana Plumbers’ convention in Great Falls, Great Northern line work near Havre, 150 influenza cases in Helena, veteran employment service bids, ROTC command changes, a Bozeman forgery case resolution, Custer County’s county size ranking, Butte’s immigrant education classes, and Bozeman Gallatin health department advocacy.
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United States
Germany
War Trade Board
Department of Labor
Employment Service
House
Appropriations Committee
Treasury
Montana
Committee On Agriculture
National House of Representatives
Larson of
Teton
Booth
Fallon
Senate
Helena
Board of Health
Soldiers Leave Butte After Strike Duty
Butte reports show many of the Forty fourth infantry regiment summoned to maintain order during the strike have returned to Forts Wright and Anton. All troops stationed here before the strike stay on as announced. Since arrival from Washington posts, the regulars under Brigadier General Watson Majors Halloran and Jones have seen little active duty but remain prepared for developments.
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Butte
Forty-fourth Infantry
Forts Wright and
Anton
Washington
Watson
Halloran
Jones
Whiskey ads reported in Missoula from Chicago firm
Missoula residents report receiving alluring advertisements for a Chicago whiskey brand. W. C. T. U. workers and church leaders note the material, sent through the Chicago post office, is being confiscated by local postal authorities.
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Missoula
Chicago
Move on foot to electrify Salesville project gains steam
A hydro electric generating plant is planned on Big Bear Creek five miles south of Salesville and one mile southwest of Bozeman to supply power to Salesville and nearby farming districts. Names of the men securing the site are withheld but are Gallatin County residents.
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Bozeman
Big Bear Creek
Salesville
Furmsight
Gallatin Coa
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War Department
United States Food Administration
Paris
Wilson
Lansing
Macy Board
Hurley
Shipping Board
Charles Piez
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Senate Judicial Committee
New
Indiana
Senate Military Committee
Baker
General March
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Seattle
Lawrence
Mass
Industrial Workers of the World
Wm. B
New York
Willam S’. Kruse
Victor L. Berger
Milwaukee
Leavyenworth
Landis
Excelsior Motor & Supply Co
Newark
N. J
Christian W. Fiegenspan
United States Brewers’ Association
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Central Federated Union
Ernest Bohm
Fish
Game Department
Pauline
Lincoln County
Livestock Board
State Health Department
Denlan
McKinley County
Lewis
Committee of the Whole
Healy
Morris
Slayton
Joint Committee On
MacCormick
Henderson
Franklin
Judiciary Committee
Hathaway
Ravalli County
Committee On Public Morals
Gullidge
Meyer
Wwe
Mrs. Hathaway
Donlan
State Board of Control
Demel
Gibson and
Bergeson
Board of Land Commissioners
McCone County
Dawson, Richland
Prairie Counties
Stewart
Chinook
County Health Board
W. H. Maloney
S. Keefod
Farners State Bank of
Rudyard
D. D. Crouch
Montana Plumbers’ Association
Great Northern
Havre
Orville L. Anderson
United War Veterans
Kalispell
United States Employment Service
Scott Leavitt
Federal Employment Bureau
J. Scott Harrison
Gillam
State University Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
8. O. Sisson
Camp Lee
Virginia
Lula. Pottma
Salvation Army
Spokane
B. I. Law
J. C. Snowden
Custer
Dawson
Garfield
McCone
Fergus County
Powder River County
Board of Education
Gallatin County
Boseman
Gallatin
J. E. Monroe
State Normal School
Monroe
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