Looking Backward: Tribune notes from 1890 and 1919
From the August 4 1890 Tribune entries: Centennial Charlie Dunham returns with top gear. Fred Hanson reports cattle straying from Madison. Henry Stover and Ben Wilkes build new houses. John Seybold favors Montana. water works debate. Will A Jones and M L Davidson on a hunting trip. geyser party to Yellowstone planned. Wm O Gibson and George Wall eye a new school. From the August 1 1919 Tribune: shade trees die from drought. brief London visit plans for Mrs Ellen Cooper and Mrs George Bott. Miss Louisa Almy sails to Portland. Mrs John Collins and daughter viajar to Great Falls Havre. Joe Wedum, discharged, returns from France. varied summer travel noted.
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Will A. Jones
M. L. Davidson
Phil D. McGough
Ella McGough
Bella Rife
Aura Cummings
Messrs
Elza
Smith
Harry Poindexter
Phil Thorpe
Will. Orem
Ww. O. Gibson
George Wall
the Tribune
Ellen Cooper
George Bott
London
England
Great Falls
Havre
Joe Wedum
Dillon
France
Special school election and local notes from Dillon
August 12 marks a special school election to decide a $3,000 maintenance tax for School District No. 10 for the next year. Other items note a $3,000 lost theft, Chas. Gooch’s mining trip, Lima and Dillon phone link, property sale, Alf Decker’s heat illness, a surge of vagrants being apprehended, and a 1909 reminiscence of early Beaverhead county events and local business moves.
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J. G. Willis
Chas. Gooch
Bannister
Idaho
Lima
Dillon
George W. Palmer
Mary L. Bigler
Alf Decker
Bedrock
Metlon
Pyle
Gills
Top Court Takes Over Liquor License Action
The state supreme court has assumed control of a suit from Seven residents of The Five Mile near Butte seeking saloon licenses at $200 yearly instead of $600. The liquor board sought a venue change to Helena, Butte judge Downey denied it, and the board appealed. The high court ordered the Butte court to act on the change or appear to show cause on September 25.
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State Supreme Court
Silver Bow
Five Mile
State Liquor Board
Liquor Board
Butte
Helena
T. E. Downey
Supreme Court
James
Cote
Radian Gilmore
Peris
Unemployed Workers Lose Job Insurance Under Montana Ruling
Montana's unemployment compensation commission ruled that striking workers are not entitled to job insurance benefits. Commission attorney E. Lofgren said the ruling applies to WPA workers and employees of private contractors on government projects.
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Helena
Montana
State
Unemployment Compensation Commission
KE. E. Lofgren
Commission
WPA
State Vet reports no sleeping sickness in horses since May
Helena Utah dispatch says Dr. W. J. Butler state veterinarian reports no cases of sleeping sickness among horses or mules to the state live stock sanitary board since May.
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Helena
W. J. Butler
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Model geyser ends decade lull in Yellowstone eruption
Yellowstone Park rangers report the Model geyser has restarted after about 70 years of inactivity. They traced records from the Hayden expedition of 1872 showing the geyser active then, confirming the new eruption.
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Yellowstone Park
Wyo
Parole Board Approves Release Of Twenty One Prisoners
Twenty one inmates will be released from the Deer Lodge state penitentiary this month after approval by the state parole board. Ten prisoners receive parole on half their sentences as first time offenders. Eleven have completed their sentences. Three released individuals were awaiting charges other than those for which they were imprisoned.
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Deer Lodge
State Parole Board
Montana Islands Sold to Federal Government for Fort Peck Project
Helena Montana report says several Missouri river islands totaling 957 acres were sold to the federal government for 4787 dollars in connection with the Fort Peck dam project. The islands will be partly submerged as the lake forms.
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Sells Island
U. S.— Helena
Montana
Missouri River
Fort Peck
Roosevelt and Labor Lockstep in Time of Crisis
A March of Time piece recounts Roosevelt urging noninvolvement to deter war while labor clashes with Congress, WPA protests fade, and Green's pushback dampens marching rhetoric. Morgan banking refunds are detailed with exact sums as Rockefeller-era tax relief.
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Franklin Roosevelt
Washington
United States
United States Congress
WPA
Pennsylvania
California
New York
Ohio
Lewisconsin
Minne
William Green
Congress
White House
President Roosevelt Receives 12-Volume Mussolini Set
Washington reports Mussolini sent FDR a 12 volume edition of his political speeches limited to 100 superb copies. The president remarked they even smell good and praised the elegant presentation.
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Washington
Benito Mussolini
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Sweden birthplace tale of a boy denied schooling
A fragment recalls a Swedish birth about twenty years ago and a boy deemed unfit for education. The scant text hints at barriers to schooling and social judgment affecting the child’s early life.
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Sun
Stockholm
Sweden
World of Tomorrow fair faces price protests and cutbacks
Grover Whalen set 75 cent general admission for the World of Tomorrow at Flushing Meadows. By mid season attendance reached 13.5 million, far below projections, prompting calls to drop gate to 50 cents and reduce night admissions. Whalen offered 500 plus group discounts and half-price on eight large parking lots while plans to survey patrons continued. Denver Colorado Supreme Court ruling on Gamble-Skogmo stores sparks motor industry pushback against regulation.
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New York City
Grover Aloysius Whalen
Long Island
Flushing Meadows
Grover Whalen
Whalen
Denver
Colorado
Supreme Court
Gamble- Skogmo, Inc
Auto Parts
United States
General Motors
Agenta
Ford
Auto taxes May Reshape Distribution Chain In States
The passage notes Colorado inspiring 19 other states to consider taxes on chain-store licenses. If enacted, these levies could disrupt automobile distribution and other merchandised goods by altering the cost structure and business practices nationwide.
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Colorado
Insurance policy case settled by court orders
The case over a $10,000,000 state property policy settled by two court orders. Judge George W. Padbury Jr. dismissed suit by P. O. Davidson of Anaconda. Judge A. J. Horsky ordered State Auditor John J. Holmes to issue a $56,415.48 premium warrant with a July 26 show cause deadline.
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State Board of Examiners
New State Insurance Commission
George W. Padbury, Jr
P. O. Davidson
Anaconda
A. J. Horsky
John J. Holmes
Holmes
State plots salt distribution for big game hunts
The state fish and game department plans to distribute 34000 pounds of salt to deer and elk areas. Warden James A Weaver reports the plan, with purchase by state agent I B McQuitty forthcoming this year.
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State Fish and Game Department
James. A. Weaver
McQuitty
State buys 3000 inmate shoes for five institutions
State Purchasing Agent I. S. Mc Quitty ordered 3000 pairs of shoes for inmates across five custodial institutions. The purchase totaled about $6000, covering the prison, assum, training school, orphans' home and vocational school.
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I. S. McQuitty
Assum
Orphans’ Home
Governor Ayers Receives Roosevelt Telegram at Jubilee
The Montana governor Roy E Ayers received a telegram from President Roosevelt congratulating the state on 50 years of progress. The message came on the eve of the Diamond Jubilee celebration in Helena, the Capitol city.
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Helena
Roy ¥. Ayers
Roosevelt
Montana
Capitol City
Board draws resolutions on deaths of two Montana educators
The Very Rev. Emmet J. Riley of Helena Mrs Mamie Nance of Bir ney and W S Davidson of Bozeman all state board of education members are selected to draft resolutions on Reyn Leedom of Billings and E C Carrel of Havre who died recently. The resolutions will be presented to the families of the deceased.
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Emmet J. Riley
Helena
Mamie Nance
Birney
W. S. Davidson
Bozeman
State Board of Education
Reyn Leedom
Billings
E. C. Carrel
Havre
Spotted fever case reported in White Sulphur Springs
The state board of health was advised of another spotted fever case this week bringing 1939 totals to 19 with four deaths. Measles fell to 29 cases this week. The new case was reported from White Sulphur Springs in Meagher County.
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State Board of Health
Meagher
Gas Wells Numerous in New Montana Alberta Pool
In Cutbank North Cutbank area the Sunburst sand is yielding gas in very large volumes from the Cobb-Vargo well about three quarters of a mile north of Cobb State. Two wells tapped productive horizons this week and drilling continues in Cobb-Vargo with oil expected.
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Cutbank
North Cutbank
Montana
Alberta
Cobb-Vargo
Cobb- State
Public Notice of Property Auction in Dillon Montana
A description of a parcel bounded along a block and Chapman Street and Atlantic Street, with measurements 116 feet, 68.1 feet, 49.9 feet and a return to the starting point, to be offered at the front door of the county courthouse in Dillon Montana on August 4 1989 at 2 o clock p m. The notice is filed under 94 1089 80 11.
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Chapman Street
Atlantic Street
Dillon
Montana
Inio
Alias Summons for Divorce in Beaverhead County Montana
The Montana Fifth Judicial District Beaverhead County court issues an alias summons in a divorce action filed by Alex A. Steffen against Via Smith Steffen. Defendant must answer within twenty days of service or face default judgment. case notes desertion as grounds. First publication July 20, 1989. Attorney: AL Soon Collins, Dillon Montana.
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District Court
Fifth Judicial District
Montana
Beaverhead
Alex A. Steffen
Smith Steffen
State of Montana
Sal Court
Thia
Orman Gilb3
Said
District Court of
State of
Jennie Watters
Beaverhead County
Towit
Swynem
SIMWK
Neyswy
Frank C. McFadden
Christine Albers Odell
Jean B. Odell
Christine Albert Odell
Dillon
Dillon Tribune
Henry G. Rodgers
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