Congress Eyes Melt of 150 Million Silver Dollars for Export
Legislation drafted would melt 150,000,000 silver dollars stored in the treasury to supply bullion for export to allies and to pay trade balances. Treasury would also buy all U S silver produced at about $1 an ounce, with silver certificates withdrawn and replaced by silver certificates in reserve notes. Negotiations with Britain target American and world silver output distribution among allies.
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Treasury
United States
Montana
Congress
America
Federal Reserve Bank
Baker
Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve
Third Liberty Loan Issued Quickly by Secretary McAdoo
Secretary McAdoo announces a new issue of 400 million dollars in treasury certificates of indebtedness at 4 percent. The certificates will bear interest from January 22 and are payable April 22. The issue to be issued immediately to support wartime financing.
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McAdoo
Treasury
Busy in Montana for Forty Years
S S Hobson a long time Montana leader built a major brick and tile plant near Great Falls costing about 200000. He began as a cattle king, then mined sapphire in Fergus County, then ran a Judith river ranch and grain operation before this latest enterprise. He is not a youth by age.
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S. S. Hobson
Montana
Fergus County
Judith River
Twin Cities
Coast
Great Falls
Hobson
Great Falls Brick & Tile plant pioneers Montana industry
Montana’s Simeon Hobson, a leading business figure, unveils the Great Falls Brick & Tile company. The facility, modernized and highly productive, can output 90,000 bricks daily and 30 million yearly, using local clay near Sand Coulee and Field. It also plans vitrified sewer pipe, drain tile, and hollow ware with eight kilns and a four story drying factory.
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Montana
Simeon 8
Hobson
Great Falls Brick & Tile Company
Sand Coulee
Out of season grouse leads Montana woman to seek remedy
Nebraska taughter asks State Game Warden J L DeHart how to square an out of season grouse kill. He suggests staying out of Montana until statutes run out or paying a $15 limited nonresident hunting license. The warden notes the conscience weighs heavily and compares it to wartime remorse.
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Jake DeHart
Nebraska
Montana
Square
J. L. DeHart
de Hart
State Game Warden
Sherman
Clay storage bin and electric plant with Great Falls holders
A bin building stores 40 cars of clay and operates by a 200 horsepower electric plant. Mr. Hobson is the largest stockholder, with other investors described as Great Falls business men.
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Hobson
Great Falls
Montana and regional briefed items from Lewistown papers
Montana towns report varied updates from Harlems lighted streets to Plentywood creamery opening. notes include a pioneer widow death in Missoula, a soldier’s status at Camp Lewis, a minor contract ruling, new land office appointment in Billings, a Roundup farm loan group, and increased wages for Helena city workers. details span divorce awards, license to wed for Sioux pair, wildlife near Livingston, and infrastructure boosts across cities.
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Lewistown
Harlem
Plentywood
Plentywood Creamery
Missoula
A. L. Demers
Montana
E. E. Erickson
Scobey
Camp Lewis
Helena
Supreme Court
Billings
Frank T. Woods
Wheaton
Fort Benton
Joseph Crontier
Robert
Livingston
A. Arnston
J. H. Lewis
Gage
J. E. Tenehill
Malta
Malta Woman’s Club
Post Office Department
Railway Commission
Farmers’ Mutual Telephone Company
Bozeman
Gallatin County
Hardin
Robert A. Vickers
United States
Butte
Jerry Murphy
Miles City
Shirley
Ford
Great Falls
Employers’ Association of
John H. McIntosh
F. X. Hollenberger
William Dolan
B. Connolly Company
Yellowstone National Park
Franklin K. Lane
Department of the Interior
State Savings Bank
Helena Light & Railway Company
O. F. Wasmansdorff
Montana Association of Architects
F. B. Connolly
Billings Chamber of Commerce
Feeley
William Brasier
Stewart Olson
Olson
Equity Society
McDowell
Meyers
W. B. Saunders
Sco‘bey
Pat Carney
Waterloo
Great Falls Officials and Draft Evader News
Great Falls director and O S Warden serve as vice president with R B Skinner as secretary. Butte vaudeville actor Herbert Esselton registered for the army draft at Butte and was seized by a federal agent for draft evasion after leaving Rock Island stage. Helena counties Jefferson Phillips and Prairie seek federal aid for post road projects totaling up to their own appropriations. Livingston declares February 2 Old Shoe Day to aid Belgium with shoe collection and repair. autos to be used for gathering, projects to be staged in the town’s main street.
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Great Falls
Skinner
Butte
Herbert Esselton
Rock Island
Illinois
Helena
Jefferson
Phillips
Prairie
Livingston
Park County
Belgium
Valley County Farm Institute Dates Set in Glasgow
An extension school of the state college of agriculture will be held in Glasgow on February 20 21 and 22 with instructors F E Fuller agronomy W E Tomson dairying Miss Rowe Betz Olson on domestic science and 8 E Stebbins Valley county agent on local conditions Professor F B Cooley will give a special lecture. Day meetings occur at the courthouse and evening events are planned at the high school as many farming problems will be discussed and farmers from the county are expected.
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State College of Agriculture
Glasgow
F. E Fuller
W. E. Tomson
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