Treasure State farm and livestock push meat production
Montana Livestock Department of the Food Conservation Committee met at the state capitol discussing increasing beef sheep and hog output to aid the war effort. Members agreed Montana can raise more livestock and plan a thorough whirlwind campaign to mobilize stockmen and farmers, with a final report to follow.
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Stockmen
Livestock Department of Montana Food Conservation Committee
Montana
Montana Food Conservation Commission
Livestock Department
State Capitol
Is This a Farmers War for Ousley in Great Falls
Clarence Ousley, assistant secretary of agriculture, toured Montana to address a farmers convention at Great Falls and framed the issue as a farmers war. He noted Germany’s 1917 pledge to extend the submarine zone and allow limited U S steamship service to England under strict conditions, highlighting American economic stakes in the war.
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Clarence Ousley
Montana
Great Falls
Ousley
Germany
Europe
Great Britain
France
Italy
Falmouth
England
Robbers in Butte Hit Bismarck Saloon at 3:30 A.M.
Two armed but unmasked robbers visited the Bismarck saloon in Butte at 3:30 in the morning. One covered the porter with a revolver while the other helped himself to nearly $1,000 from the cash drawer. They gained entry by tricking the porter into opening the door after calling about a bottle of beer.
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Bismarck
Butte
What We Export. Oil Tobacco and Goods Data
Export data lists oil and tobacco among leading commodities with quantities showing total values of 210 523 721. The fragment notes diverse items including vegetable products and tobacco and implies detailed trade figures across export lines.
Germany proposes limited shipping for pleasures seekers
The text contemplates sending one ship per week each way to satisfy pleasure seekers but questions how much of US export and import business it would handle. It notes that in the year ending June 30, 1913 the US exported farm products to Europe worth 1,123,651,985 dollars and warns that with one weekly ship limit the surplus of 100,000,000 bushels of wheat would push prices below production costs.
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Europe
Germany
Right to the seas means freedom to trade and export
Mr Ousley argues that denying the right to use oceans would force self sufficiency and ruin US exports of cotton and wheat. He calculates vast shipments needed to move crops to Europe and warns that forbidding exports and imports would suffocate farmers and national prosperity.
Beets in War Time Sugar Drive Urges Full Crop Output
A wartime editorial urges no reduction in domestic sugar, stressing the beet’s role in irrigated western lands. It argues balanced farming and maximum beet production to meet national needs as the east depends on western sugar supplies and the beet is drafted as a food resource.
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National Food Administration
The
Rocky Mountain
Boys of Montana called to colors in war effort
Montana youths aged 16 to 21 were urged to join the United States Boys' Working Reserve. The program mobilizes boys to farms and factories to support the war effort, offering a federal bronze badge after enrollment and service in agricultural or industrial units.
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Montana
United States Boys’ Working Reserve
Department of Labor
Bureau of Publicity
United States Department of Labor
Federa State
United States
The
Reserve
State Council of Defense
Army
Navy
The World Is Small Christmas Package Reaches France
A Christmas package mailed by Mrs A V Brown of Livingston to Red Cross in France ended up with Lieutenant R F Ragland of the American engineering corps somewhere in France. Ragland had lived in Livingston and knew the Montanan sender, illustrating the world’s smallness.
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A. V. Brown
Livingston
Red Cross
France
R. F. Ragland
American Engineering Corps
Ragland
Army
Montana
World News in Brief Highlights From 1917 Totals
A digest of international items: Canada’s building expenditures fall from 1865 to 1917. Mexico imposes a $1.50 tax on entrants. army rations cost rise. William Haywood released on bond. German losses in 1917 around 2.2 million. France charters German ships for war use. England imposes meat rationing. U S coal and industry notes. transatlantic shipping and wartime measures cited. California seed beans and prune trees for France. Royal air fleet and potential US-UK aerial offensive. luxury tax in France. various prison and security notices. New York anti-German efforts. stroming of domestic coal thefts. Rockefeller coal usage and charity.
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Washington
Navy
Chicago
William D. Haywood
Paris
Brazil
Germany
London
England
Grand Rapids
Senator Smith
Michigan
Boston
San Francisco
California
France
Lord Rothmere
British Air Board
Great Britain
Prairie schooner to freight train sugar trade shift
The article notes a historic shift in sugar supply sources from tropical sailing vessels to modern freight trains. It contrasts the old reliance on ships delivering cane sugar with the current emphasis on rail transit moving sugar from the Rocky Mountain region to markets. This highlights changes in transportation and production patterns affecting sugar supply.
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Tropics
Rocky Mountain Region
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Dakota
Snowy Mountain Ranch
Carlo
Beau Jackson
Montana Ranch Company
Ross Brown
Moore
Boys OF
Second Line of Defense
Emergency Bureau of
Toronto
Canada
Mexico City
Carranza
Mexico
John Robinson
Illinois State
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War Department
Tuscania
Margaret Field
New York
Mayor’s Council On National Defence
New York City
Jellicoe
Eric Geddes
Detroit
William Rockfeller
Tarrytown
N. Y
County Fuel Administration
Rockfeller
Ohio
Red River Valley
Fargo
North Dakota
Tay Ane
Argo
RGO A
North Ocoakota
Jerry's Poultry Farm
Oterinda
Tore
Gaan
X Bay
Mandy Lee
Uckeye Standard
Steve
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Barred Rocks
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Fort Worth
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Denver, Colo
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