Warrenton Port Hope Promises Big Wheat Rate Changes
Montana Equity News reports long consideration of a western terminus at Warrenton. It cites proposed freight rates from Havre to Liverpool and notes rail costs, arguing Warrenton could become a major sea port as value and opportunities rise. The piece urges investment in Warrenton property to share future profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warrenton
Mobak Etertbeg Aester
Gene Road
Us & Gata
Minneapolis
New York
Havre
Pacific
Liverpool
Montana
Spokane
Columbia River
Montana News In Brief From Across The State
A snapshot of Montana items including Hardin land selling at 150 dollars per acre, Packers, mills and merchants expanding in Billings Lewistown merges two local firms and Musselshell Red Cross chapters expanding to 43. Fires burn landok kerosene mishap near Malta. Rural telephone projects and a seven foot coal vein near Havre. Mountain States completes 12000 dollars of cable work. Hardin approves 100000 dollar high school bond. Roundup wool record price 69 12 cents per pound. Goulding Creek road delay. Red Cross hog sale raises 704 81 dollars. Verdun veteran Len Johnson returns home in Plains casualty list. Fort Benton teacher knocks disloyalty rumor. Miles City County largest in state status noted. Republic coal mine production record of 2985 tons in a day. Crow Indians to testify in Washington. Roundup Boy Scouts plan 6000 dollars for clubroom. Polson convict jailed on sedition charge. Liberty bonds and war savings rise in Roundup miners union. Butte dairying delegates gather with 150 attending. Local burns as boiling water spills. 200000 bond for dam and canals. Kaminski Belgian Croix de Guerre informed from overseas. Havre wine room cases tally. Hardin considers 9600 bond to buy Hardin Light and Power Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Billings Stockyards Company
Lewistown
Montana Lumber Company
Montana Hardware Company
Roundup
Musselshell Red Cross
Malta
Fred Messerly
Whitewater
Farm Bureau
Havre
Lethbridge
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Hardin
Alex Woolfolk
Goulding Creek
Red Cross
Plains
Verdun
Len Johnson
Fort Benton
John Kirby
Chouteau County
W. E. Bradley
Bradley
Miles City
Custer County
Dawson County
Republic
Crow Reservation
Washington
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
Boy Scouts
Polson
J. M. Darby
Union of
Mine Workers
Butte
Northwest
Northwest Milk Dealers’ Association
Gorporal Herman Kaminski
Ford Hardin
Hardin Light and Power Co
Bitro-Phosphate Promises Nervous Strength and Flesh Gain
An early 20th century medical advertisement touts Bitro-Phosphate as a tonic for nervousness weakness and neurasthenia. It claims to build flesh increase vigor and nerve force by promoting food assimilation with noticeable gains in weeks. A caution warns against use by those not seeking weight gain.
Profiteering in the Early Mining Camps
Dr. Steele recounts life in early mining camps with vivid sidelights. He took as much as $500 a day from a rich claim in Last Chance Gulch, illustrating rough frontier economics and local figures who shaped the era.
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Steele
Last Chance Gulch
Early Montana Tales of Dr Steele and Hangman’s Tree
Dr Steele, arriving in 1863 from Denver, tried selling mules and a wagon then panned for potatoes in Nevada and Virginia City. He recalls profiteering, linseed oil schemes, and a life of stampedes, colorados gold discovery, and a hangman’s tree incident involving Sanders.
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Matt W. Alderson
Dr. Steele
Montana
Denver
Salt Lake City
Virginia
Nevada
Virginia City
Bob Hale
Billy Morris
Bivens Gulch
Woolfolk Wool Clip Brings $6 Per Sheep In 1918
Alex Woolfolk, a leading state sheep grower, received 69 1 2 cents a pound for his 1918 wool crop, equating to about $6 per sheep. The figure far surpassed his 1896 sale of 63 4 cents per pound, or under one tenth of the 1918 price, with the clip consigned to a Boston firm and sold to the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex Woolfolk
Woolfolk
Boston
World News Chronicle Highlights from Global Dispatches
Paris General Moiner dies in Paris while veterans and governors report from conflicts across Europe. Reports note quakes in Southern California with no damage, arrests in Pierre for alleged Wilson assassination plot, and Soviet bolshevik tensions in Germany.
Marconi Predicts Wireless Contact With Other Planets
Marconi states that wireless communication with other planets will arrive. He foresees a future where news from the entire universe is covered by special dispatches, a demanding yet inevitable task.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marconi
Prohibition-Era Food Shortages Persist Despite Law
In clear defiance of the prohibition regime, butter eggs and meat continue to decline in supply with a small daily drop, signaling ongoing scarcity and noncompliance amid the era's restrictions.
Buffalo Herd Struck by Flu Like Illness in Yellowstone
Bacteriologists report a hemorrhagic septicemia outbreak in Yellowstone Park buffalo, killing 31 and sparking alarm. A germ has been isolated at the state lab, with vaccine prospects for immunity. experiments in Denver and Washington proceed as authorities segregate sick from well buffalo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone Park
United States
State Laboratory
Capitol Grounds
Rudolph Snyder
Bureau of Animal Industry
I. Wallman
Wallman
A. H. Moray
Snyder
Denver
Washington
Farm lands for sale and Canadian land ads mix in Beaverhead valley
Classified market notice lists farm lands for sale with details on acreage water rights and equipment near Dillon and Madison valley. Also promotes Canadian lands for sale via J Winchester KHEDIVE Sask and a five section upper Madison valley listing. Includes drafting supplies and accounting services ads from Miles City and Butte.
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J. Winchester
Khedive, Sask
Canada
Madison Valley
Dance
Three Forks
Mont
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Frank Lemmer
Central Ave
Great Falls
P. O
Montana Farmers
Great Maritime City
Montana-Warrenton Development CO
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Great Falls, Mont
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Grizzley Gulch
Sanders
Beidler
Doc Steele
THE
Paris
Moiner
Los Angeles
California
Kansas City
Pierre Pierre
Wilson
Siberia
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Amsterdam
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Karl Radek
Friedrich Ebert
Count von Bernstorff
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Chicago
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Europe
League of Nations
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Wilfrid Laurier
Waterville
Anti-saloon League
Switzerland
Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau
Congress
Executive Council
Building Trades Department
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
France
Belgium
Building Trades Employers’ Association
A. J. Simons
Russia
Holy Land
American Red Cross
American Committee For Relief
Near Haat
SA Waterloo
Umley
C. J. Oberst
Hingham
H. Corazens
Edwards
Hard Bros
Edison Block
Butte, Mont
Agoma Hotel
Bette
ACR
Beaverh
Dilton
Jeranary
Dillon
Canadian Pacific Railway
J. I. Eakin
Broadwater
Chouteau
Granite
Lewis & Clark
Powell, Prairie, Valley Counties
Herbert A. Hover
Judith Basin
Conn Ree Land Co
Shields River Wall
J. W. Hefferlin
Levteameen
Livingston
C. Campbell & Son
City of Spokane
Consolidated Land Co
Elk
C. McClintock
Custer County Bank
Ford & Hollister Ranch (Inc
Darby, Mont
Huntsberger-Givens Co
Great Falla
D. Watson Robb Co
Blatchfords Fooda
Nol. Com
Carbola
Poultry A
Greenfield Co
Woodruff-Boyce Seed 1 Co
Pike Street
Seattle
Wash
Liberty Bonds
Karl Mercantile Award
W. Sixth Ave
Helena, Mon
Ford
Teanes
Glendive
A. L. Rose
West Park Street
Lewiston & Fur Co
Hoenck
Montana Furacturing Co
Bee Mall
Express
Broadway
Kenyon Wheeler
Ecista
Systema
Eulet
Aseayers
Botte
ALKE
Gne
Leuchars
Great
Talouman
Dept. K
S. O. Huseth
Optician
Hughes Loan & Land CO
Alhambra
M. J. Sullivan
Irving Whitehouse Company
Third Street
Great Fpalia
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