Grant News Quietly Records Local Movements
Local notes report Frank Blair and J Shefer hosting visits, Mrs. Churchill's Dillon trip, vehicles bought by William Ames and Carl Decker, and multiple townsfolk traveling for school fairs training camp and stateside events. Dwellers discuss promotions, relocations to Whitehall, and ranch updates as Beaverhead county testimonies shift with harvest and social rounds.
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Grant
Frank Blair
J. Shefer
Frank
Fred Rife
H. Duff
Henry Chapman
Dillon
Fred Hale
Bannack
May Stoker
Pocatello
Carl Hanson
Georg Terrel
James Hamilton
Hans Anderson
Carl Decker
Columba Mansfield
Sheridan Marriages and Local News Highlight Montana Sparks
Sheridan reports the marriage of Douglas McCollum to Cecil Sutherland in Helena with Rev. J F McNamee officiating. McCollum, a Sheridan native, worked as a printer in Helena and serves in the Second Montana regiment at Fort Harrison. The note covers family moves, farm life near Salmon Idaho, mine work in Ramshorn and Bear Gulch, and local visits including Mrs O J Olson in Helena.
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Sheridan
Douglas McCollum
Cecil Sutherland
Helena
J. F. McNamee Pasor
The
Baptist Church
Douglass
Madison County
Will Shaffer
R. L. Dewar
Ben
Montana
Fort Harrison
Kirkpatrick
Forest Office
Denver
Bedford
Ramshorn
Baker
Baker Company
Boise
Wade
al Marion
Bear Gulch
Twin Bridges
O. J. Olson
Edgar Fletcher
Sheridan Hey
Fletcher
Glasgow Flour Mill Unable to Meet Rising Demand
The Glasgow Flour Mill reports booming orders with 16 carloads backlog as demand grows daily. For the past month the mill operated at capacity, running 24 hours a day with only brief boiler washes when needed.
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Glasgow
Glasgow Flour Mill Company
President Wilson Promoted to Unprecedented War Powers
President Wilson holds broader authority than any king, under recent Congress measures and wartime laws. He controls federal food supplies, can fix prices, commandeer plants, issue bonds up to 7 billion dollars, loan 3 billion to Allies, and direct naval and army actions. He can draft, embargo, seize ships, and regulate trade with the enemy during the war.
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Wilson
Congress
United States
War Department
National Guard
Argentine President Chooses Neutral War Course
Washington October 2 report says President Irigoyen will ignore Congress and public pressure to act against Germany. He favors a neutral policy and proposes a South American conference to determine war direction, a plan unlikely to succeed as major governments previously rejected it.
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Washington
Germany
Irigoyen
South America
Oklahoma wreck kills twenty seven and injures fifty
A head on collision near Kellyville Oklahoma between a St. Louis and San Francisco passenger train and an empty troop train left 27 dead and 50 injured. Both locomotive crews survived their jumps but were badly hurt.
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Tulsa
Okla
Whellville
St. Louis
San Francisco
Polecat Creek
Kellyville
Reward for Deserters Triggers Nationwide Draft Roundup
Washington reports a $50 reward for each deserter prompts a drive by the provost marshal general to curb unreported draftees. Nonwilful delinquents go to camps, while wilful deserters face court martial.
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Washington
San Francisco Ironworkers Return Start Shipbuilding
In San Francisco and the bay district about 90 percent of the 80 000 ironworkers who walked out two weeks ago to demand a 50 percent wage increase returned to work yesterday in shipbuilding plants and foundries. Government contracts valued at 150 million dollars for ship building motors and airplanes resumed under a temporary agreement mediated by Gavin McNab acting for President Wilson. The Iron Trades council kept the right to consider another strike.
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San Francisco
Bay District
Gavin McNab
Wilson
Iron Trades Council
Omaha Market Report Hogs Cattle Sheep Oct 3
Hogs receipts 3,300 with market lower heavy to mixed prices range from 17.18 to 19.50. Cattle receipts 12,600 with market steady including native steers 9.17 cows 6.50 to 9.50 western 8.50 to 14.50 Texas 7.50 to 10.50 calves 9.12. Sheep receipts 44,000 with market lower yearlings 12 to 13.50 wethers 11 to 12.50 ewes 10.50 to 11.26 lambs 15.25 to 18.25.
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Omaha
Texas
Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices Steady in St Paul Market
Hogs receipts 2,000 with steady market and price range 18 to 18.85 and bulk around 18.60. Cattle receipts 5,000 with kill levels steady to strong. steers 14.25, cows and heifers 9 to 9, veal calves 14.50, stockers and feeders 5 to 6. Sheep receipts 1,000. lambs 26 cents up, lambs 16.75, ewes 5 to 10.50, weth ers 7 to 13. Sheep steady overall.
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Paul
St. Paul
Chicago Livestock Market Report Update
Chicago Oct 8 hogs receipts 9 000 market weak bulk 18.45 19.36 light 18.15 19.80 mixed 18.50 19.50 heavy 16.16 19.60 rough 18.15 19.36 pigs cattle receipts 11 000 market steady native beef cattle 7.50 17.50 western steers 6.50 15 stockers and feeders 8.25 11.25 cows and heifers 5 12.60 calves 9.75 16. Bhoep receipts 13 000 market strong wethers 12.75 ewes 8.80 11.88 lambs 13.25 18.45
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Chicago
Bhoep
Market Updates From Minneapolis Grain Trade Volume
The report shows wheat prices fluctuating with small gains and losses. Prices cited include 1.19 and 1.15 with a 49 percent plan noted. The summary mentions flax at 3.19 and other grains like yellow and white varieties with assorted figures.
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Minneapolis
Six Die in Blast Furnace at Gary Plant
Six men died at the United States Steel Gary plant as an indirect result of a switchmen strike in the Chicago Joliet and Eastern yards. The strike caused material shortages and a clogged blast furnace. Foreman Emery Padgett led eight workers into the furnace to clear it when a gas valve exploded, asphyxiating five of the men.
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Gary
Ind
United States Steel Corporation
Chicago, Joliet & Eastern Railway
Emery Padgett
Padgett
Portland Market Report North Portland yard prices week start
North Portland Oregon October 2 The market remains healthy with strong cattle activity and steady price ranges. Beef steers bring 9.00 to 9.75, cows 4.00 to 7.50, heifers 7.00 to 8.00, bulls 4.00 to 6.50, calves 7.00 to 9.50, stockers 4.00 to 7.25. Hog prices top at 18.50 for prime light and 18.00 to 18.25 for prime heavy with pigs 16.00 to 17.25. Sheep demand rises with Western lambs 13.60 to 14.00 and valley lambs 12.75 to 13.50.
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Salem
Marion County Pig Club
Yearlings
Wethers
Ewes
Hoover urges tripling hog production this year
Herbert Hoover told a food supply conference that farmers should raise three times as many hogs as last year. He noted that current hog exports exceed domestic production and urged increasing output to meet needs.
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Herbert Hoover Sauuday
Pennsylvania Committee On Public Safety
Liberty Loan speech urges bonds for war effort and peace
W G McAdoo urges purchase of Second Liberty Loan bonds to fund arms, ships, planes, and support for troops. He touts safety, convertibility, and 4 percent interest while stressing patriotic duty to sustain Allied rights and democracy against German menace. The appeal targets every citizen to lend money to the government.
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France
United States
Congress of the United States
Secretary of the Treasury
American People
Congress
Treasury Department
Trea
Battl
America
High Sea
Europe
Free
League Patriots
Duplicating Second Aa For Letters Claimed At Tribt Book Store
The note states that the best duplicating second a a for letters may be had at the Tribt Book Store. It appears as a terse ad fragment indicating available printing aids or alphabets. No further details or dates are provided.
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Tribt
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