White Sees Doom of Great Cities After War
William Allen White, traveling in Montana for the Red Cross, foresees cities becoming mere business centers after the war. He predicts people will commute by airplane from country homes, air traffic will be regulated, and commercial aviation will transform society. He also discusses democracy, labor standards, and militarism in a forthcoming postwar world.
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William Allen White
Montana
Red Cross
White
Emporia
Kansas
Our Town
Court of
America
Brass beds blocked by wartime conservation order
Montana readers are urged to buy brass beds now as a federal conservation board bans their manufacture to reserve brass for war needs. Civilians are told to reuse existing furniture and reduce designs while restricting fabrics and materials, including a curtailment of imported Damar white enamel.
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Federal Conservation Board
OIL
Harris
Oil and Mineral Journal
Billings
Montana
Dan
Auesey
Montana cattle shipments seen at record highs
D W Raymond secretary of the state livestock commission predicts this season will trim cattle to the bone as shipments fall near last year’s 320000 head. The Montana inspector at South St Paul reports being overwhelmed by cattle from northern Montana and notes dry district speculation.
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Montana
D. W. Raymond
State Livestock Commission
South St. Paul
Raymond
St. Paul
Health report at Camp Lewis notes 61 weekly illnesses
The Camp Lewis weekly health report records 61 illness cases for the week with no deaths. Influenza adds 18 new cases, others include 13 mumps, 9 pneumonia, 6 measles, 2 diphtheria, 2 chickenpox, and 1 German measles.
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Camp Lewis Health
Garden of Frank Conley grows peppers peanuts and melons
The state prison garden camp near Arlee grows a diverse 140 acre crop including radishes corn peanuts and watermelons on 320 acres leased from Indian owners. Eighteen prisoners tend the fields with a foreman and irrigation crew supplying water from the Jocko canal. Shipments of vegetables are sent to Deer Lodge by express and soon by carload to the prison.
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Arlee
Flathead Agency
Jacko River
Conley
Jocko
Flathead Irrigation Project
Reclamation Service of
United States
Deer Lodge
Express
Flour and Wheat in Pioneer Montana Camps
Trexler surveys Montana economy 1862 to 1870 focusing on wheat and flour in Indian missions and gold camps. It notes Civil War price parallels, bread riots as abnormal spikes, and wartime relevance to current food shortages.
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Montana
Harrison A. Trexler
Department of History
State University of Montana
Trexler
Life
Aran
Secretary Baker Denies Pershing Criticism of DeHaviland Plane
Secretary Baker rejects a published report that General Pershing criticized the DeHaviland aircraft. He states Pershing has only requested a large additional shipment of these machines.
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Baker
Pershing
DeHaviland
World News Roundup: War Efforts and Allied Victories
A wide spread World War I dispatch notes trained pilots in Paris and ships launched in the Atlantic theatre. It reports heat related deaths in New York and the Warilda hospital ship torpedoed, with 123 missing. U boat activity, mass labor outputs, and moral boosts across nations are summarized.
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Paris
Liam
Philadelphia
Wilson
New York
London
Cherensky
America
New York Times
Supreme Court of New York
Mt. Vernon
N. Y
Hearst
Ford
Epiedes
Washington
Atlantic
Bismarck
N. D
John Fontaine
Minneapolis
Army Y. M. C. A
New Jersey
West Virginia
Germany
National Association of Dental Examiners
France
el Paso
Villa
San Francisco
Pacific
Itinerant Merchants Ordered To Work Or Fight In Red Lodge
Itinerant merchants with goods but no stock faced Judge Charles A. Taylor in Carbon County. After pleading guilty to direct information and failing habeas corpus, seven men were fined 25 dollars each and warned to seek useful work. Names include Steve I. Smith Norman Colbert J. E. Bowers George Kutova Mayer K. Maxwell Nathan Bransom Pete Gutana. Judge Taylor’s strict interpretation suggests future warrants will be common as courts push production under work or fight laws.
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Red Lodge
Carbon County
Charles A. Taylor
Steve I. Smith
Norman Colbert
J. E. Bowers
George Kutova
Mayer K. Maxwell
Nathan Bransom
Pete Gutana
Taylor
Battle songs our boys are singing in the trenches
British tommies favor humorous marching songs that mock the foe while the American and British soldiers use humor to cope with the war’s grim realities. French songs remain lighter yet acknowledge the tragedy, with Germans sung with heavy, somber tunes and explicit hatred.
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Hell
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Helena
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Canada
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Canadian Pacific Patney Land
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Rite M. A. Strang
First National Bank
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Carl RB. Meyer
Hart-Albin Building
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Cotswolds
Deseret Sheep Co
Boise
Idaho
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Elmer L. Strever
Hart Albin Building
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Butte, Mont
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Butte
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Deaane
Pialls
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Sendus Drugeista
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Lumber Exchange
Seattle
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SON
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Helena, Mont
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Great Falls, Mont
Montana Eleoctric CO
Butte, Montana
KODAK
Schoettner Studio
BUTTR
Main Street
Beer
Oo Celal
DR. Potvin
Third Street
Montana Farms Landscrip
Frary & Burlingame First Net's Bank Bldg
Third
Persa
Batte
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