Stimulating All Business Through Construction Demand
Governors and Mayors at a Washington conference urged resuming building and construction, resisting large price cuts for materials and wages. Prof Irving Fisher warned prices will stay high and urged adjustment to a new price level to avoid stagnation. Public Works division backs local Own Your Home efforts to boost housing, labor, and stability.
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Washington
Irving Fisher
Yale University
United States
Fisher
Prof. Fisher
Europe
New World
South Africa
Cripple Creek
Milaska
America
Funers
Division” of Public Works
U. S. Department of Labor
Department of Labor
Division of
Public Works and Construction Development
Court Matters Recap From Beaverhead District Court
Frank Shoemaker vs Oregon Short Line ended with $2000 damages for personal injuries after a train crossing collision. Finley Wynes was acquitted of liquor violations in a separate case. Local police and sheriff activity were unusually quiet since prohibition, with only two minor traffic fines and no sheriff arrests reported. Mrs Ruby Williams vs Mutual Life Insurance began in district court before adjournment.
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District Court
Frank Shoemaker
Oregon Short Line Company
Western Wholesale
Pease and Stephenson
Beaverhead County
Finley Wynes
Wynes
Montana
N. R. Emmons
W. H. Jones
Ruby Williams
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Letters From Over There Describe Field Truck Struggles
In a January 1919 installment, a U S A P gas oil branch correspondent recounts getting multiple trucks stuck while delivering aviation gasoline, using a Cleveland tractor to pull them free. He notes camaraderie, frequent trading of souvenirs, and wartime scavenging among soldiers, including pistols, helmets, pipes, and helmets.
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Gondrecourt
Light Railways
Forest road funds boost national system and independence
The Post Office appropriation act signed by the President expands Federal aid for roads and trails. The Agriculture Department gains 9 million dollars for National Forest roads and maintenance, with potential executive power to build essential routes without local cooperation.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of War
War Department
Highway Commissions
National Forest
Henry 8. Graves
Forest Service
Dillon Oil Plans Big New Mexico Plant Expansion
Dillon Oil Co president C. W. Robnett describes plans to boost shale oil output at the New Mexico shale plant, targeting 500 tons per day and production costs around sixty cents per barrel. The project includes repairs, open-cut mining through a hill, and high grade flotation oil expected to fetch thirty-five to fifty cents per gallon.
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The
Tribune
C. W. Robnett
Dillon Oil Co
Robnett
Dillon
Phelps Dodge Corporation
New York
Tyrone
N. M
Is Germany's special pleader
The Republican Publicity Association issued a Washington statement denouncing President Wilson for ignoring that Germany planned and precipitated the war. It argues the German people bear responsibility for wartime destruction and costs, cites trillions in damage, and urges hard measures including reparations, while opposing entangling alliances and liberty loans.
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Washington
Republican Publicity Association
Thra
Jonathan Bourne, Jr
Wilson
United States
America
Belgium
France
Paving Question Considered by City Council
A special Monday meeting considered paving and grading Dillon streets. The council passed resolutions of intention for street improvements and last week approved lighting and sewer district plans. Im provements are urged by progressives, with property owners to decide on proceeding.
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Dillon
Ace volunteers for dangerous mission at Dutches aviation field
A narrator recalls waiting for a chance to join a raid as an ace pilot seeks a teammate. He had delivered gasoline to the aviation field at Dutches for months and finally decides to attempt a flight with the ace during a recent discussion with a flight commander.
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Rue Neuve Gondrecourt
New Street
Dutches
Development plans to protect National Forests and improve access
The legislation aims to simplify protection of the Forests and reduce fire fighting costs in inaccessible areas. It would assist small communities near the Forests by enabling trunk line roads and subsidiary routes, expanding recreational use and public access. The law prioritizes veterans for the required labor.
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Congress
Big crowd expected at the cattle sale Monday
An unusually large attendance is anticipated for the cattle auction at Dillon Horse Sales company yards on Monday March 24. Buyers are expected to bid keenly as stock men from across the country show strong interest in the sale which may offer over a thousand head of cattle plus many thoroughbreds.
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Dillon Horse Sales Company
Back From France Kins Colling Returns to Dillon
Kins Colling a former Dillon boy returned from France last Sunday after nearly a year in active service with the American expeditionary forces. He visited his mother and sister near Melrose before coming to Dillon Tuesday to see many friends. He is looking fine and every inch a soldier.
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Kins Colling
Dillon
France
Melrose
Kins
Frank Nelson Returns From A E F Service
Frank Nelson the youngest old soldier in the A E F returned from France Sunday. Mrs Nelson met him in Butte and he, a railroad engineer, ran supply trains to the rear of the front. He is past sixty and appears forty. he wishes he had seen Paris but is glad to be back in Montana.
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Frank Nelson
France
Nelson
Butte
Montana
Paris
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Shoemaker
Scott
Lieut
American Expeditionary Forces Gasoline and Oil Branch
Bocie
Germany
Argonne Forest
Dillon Oil
New Mexico
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