Wartime Finance and War Policy Briefs
Treasury to issue small denomination notes as part of Victory Liberty loan campaign with five year maturity. Secretary Glass aims to launch sales to millions of Americans starting April 21. Maj. Gen. Traub defends Army actions in Argonne. Departure of 700 officers and 20,000 men aboard seven ships announced. Legislation on wartime prohibition debated in Senate. Trade with Germany’s colonies resumes August 1, 1914, per War Trade Board. War risk insurance rates published.
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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
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
House
Senate Military Committee
Baker
General March
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Record of early 20th century war and labor events
The report lists rapid air travel between San Diego and Riverside by Col Kilner and Maj Smith in a De Haviland plane, arrest of James Fullerton in Eugene for criminal libel, and widespread labor unrest led by Bolsheviks and unions. It notes strikes in Seattle Butte and Lawrence, labor appeals in New York, and a series of political and military developments across Europe and Russia, including Clemenceau’s assassination attempt and North American waterway talks.
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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
Seattle
Butte
Lawrence
Mass
Industrial Workers of the World
United States
Wm. B
Wilson
New York
Chicago
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
Montana Senate Backs State Efficiency Commission Plan
The Montana senate approved a bill to abolish the highway commission, create a three member efficiency commission, and report to a special fall session. It also advanced local appropriations and a veterans’ welfare measure while adopting a critical audit of fish and game wardens and proposing tighter state building and finance controls.
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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
Pauline
Lincoln County
Treasury
Livestock Board
State Health Department
Denlan
Irrigation district planned in Chinook. health notes in Montana
An irrigation committee in Chinook arranged to file a petition for creating an irrigation district. Butte reports no Spanish influenza epidemic and health officials discuss quarantine as city faces potential closure. C. O. S. Keeford of Rudyard suffers critical injuries in a car crash. Montana notes cover bank debts, a Helena banquet, and a nurses school toastmaster Rev. D. D. Crouch. Policymaking, rail depot work, and influenza cases update Helena. Returned soldiers favored for jobs and ROTC leadership named. education shifts noted in Dillon and Bozeman.
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Chinook
Butte
County Health Board
W. H. Maloney
Montana
Helena
D. D. Crouch
Missoula
Stewart
Board of Health
Soldiers depart Butte as strike settles in
Butte activity eases as most of the Forty fourth infantry troops summoned to maintain order during the strike return to Fort Wright and Fort Anton. Troops already stationed there remain on hand though calm returns and few active duty duties are expected.
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Butte
Forty-fourth Infantry
Forts Wright and
Anton
Washington
Watson
Halloran
Jones
Whiskey ads seized in Missoula from Chicago mail
Missoula residents report alluring whiskey advertisements arriving via Chicago mail. W. C. T. U. workers and church leaders receive the literature, but local postal authorities confiscate the material.
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Chicago
Missoula
Move On Foot To Electrify Salesville
Bozeman reports a hydro electric plant project on Big Bear creek five miles south of Salesville and one mile southwest of Bozeman aims to supply power to Salesville and surrounding farming district. Names of site developers withheld but known Gallatin County residents secured the location.
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Bozeman
Big Bear Creek
Salesville
Furmsight
Gallatin Coa
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Ever
Germany
War Trade Board
Department of Labor
Employment Service
Appropriations Committee
Georges Clemenceau
Lloyd George
France
Mile Cottin
Milou
M. Clemenceau
Edward M. House
Arthur J. Balfour
Panama
Petrograd
London
Fish
Game Department
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
Rusmussen
Brown and Jones
Richland
Bent
Great Walls
Committee On Agriculture
National House of Representatives
Larson of
Teton
Booth
Fallon
Higgins
State Board of Examiners
S. Keefod
Farners State Bank of
Rudyard
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
5. C. Sisson
Camp Lee
Virginia
Lula. Pottma
Salvation Army
Spokane
B. I. Law
J. C Snowden
Custer
Dawson
Garfield
McCone
Fergus County
Powder River County
Americeanization School
Board For Education
Gallatin County
Gallatin
J. F. Monroe
State Normal School
Monroe
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