First peanut shipment to Last Chance nets $4000
Ss F Gilpatrick a Helena resident and pioneer merchant recalls being Montanas first real peanut butcher selling 2000 pounds from St Louis for Fort Benton. Profit reached 4000 as 500 pound sacks arrived late season. The peanuts sparked a territory wide run with miners buying by the handful and more shipments to Helena and surrounding camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ss. F. Gilpatrick
Last Chance Gulch
Helena
Montan
Gilpatrick
Bryant
St. Louis
Fort Benton
Montana Post
Virginia City
State Street
Oliver
Systematize Road Building and Commission’s Reform Plan
Montana road funds grew by 62 616 dollars and 66 815 from motor vehicle fees in 1917 with a gross return of 295 000 dollars. Administration cost 25 069 dollars. One fourth of the balance returned to counties, three fourths to the state highway fund. one third of the remainder to counties, half to general expenses. The commission urges county control and centralized studies for efficiency, warning against road district supervisors and calling for a state organized, scientifically driven program.
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Montana
Secretary of State
Commission
General Administration
Highway Department
Bridge Department
Stewart
Sytem
Montana News Roundup From Havre to Helena
The state reports a wide range of developments from farm sales and price shifts to public service appointments and military mobilization. Notes include Havre hay pricing at 30 dollars per ton, new bank branches, teacher pay advocacy in Yellowstone, a Blaine county stock bureau, and park season opening June 25. Also reported are health division leadership, newspaper acquisitions, major cattle purchases, real estate sales, a fatal housefire incident, Alaska travel, wage and price trends, draft evasions, and Montana soldiers sailing to France aboard the Vaterland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Territory
Montana Post
Post
Virginia Daily Enterprise
Virginia City
Nevada
Mark Twain
Dan de Quill
West
Gilpatrick
Bryant
San Francisco
Alta California
St. Louis Republican
New Orleans Tribune
Illinois News of Chicago
Harpers
Waverly
Helena
Catholic Hill
Havre
Billings
Minneapolis Loan and Trust Company
County
Miller
Yellowstone County
Harlem
Blaine County
Livingston
Yellowstone Park
L. C. Williams
Drug and Food Division
State Board of Health
Plentywood
Joseph F. Dolin
Medicine Lake
Plentywood Pioneer Press
Charles W. Buck
Charles Deveraux
I. W. W. Glasgow
Miles City
Lewistown
Otis Smith
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Bozeman
Mary Rust
Red Cross Service
Ivan
Fergus County
Emma_ Horwith
Big Timber
E. T. Fisher
Alaska
Sam DeVee
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Butte
Butte Limit Club
Lee Simonsen
A. H. Barth
Simonsen
Crow Indian
Barth
Montana
J. J. McGuinness
Second
Montana Infantry
France
Atlantic
Vaterland
Sloan's Ointment Advertisement for Pain Relief
An old ad extols Sloan's ointment for neuralgia headaches and general pains. It promises quick relief after stopping bard da, claims to be easier than plasters, and says it does not irritate skin or clog pores. Available in 25c 50c and 1.00 bottles at druggists.
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Sloan
Addressing Letters to Soldiers Abroad
War department guidance directs careful addressing of mail to German vessels seized by the United States. Letters to soldiers abroad must include name, rank, company, regiment, division if known, and use A. E. F. instead of American Expeditionary Forces. All addresses should be written in ink.
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Helena
War Department
Following the Call That He Will Never Catch
A fragment notes many men pursue a calling believed unattainable, highlighting a broad sense of striving and disappointment amid ambition and struggle.
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Last Chance
Dissolve Partnership
Colonel Sanders
Hauser
Colonel Smith
State Highway Commission
Sloan’s
Liniment Sgu
Nome
Typewriter
Montana Typewriter Co
Butte, Montana
Barkemeyer
Grain and Seed Co
Great Falls
S. O. Huseth
Ree Optometrist and
Optician
Stillman
James A. Stillman
C. Gotzian & Company
Sir Saint Paul, Minnesota
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