No Flu Bug In Anaconda Town Hidden Remedy Cited
Anaconda claims a clean bill of health from influenza as the Montana epidemic rages. The city of 16,000 credits unusual air quality from the smelter and possible arsenic fumes for keeping cases at bay. Theories include a protective aerial effect and sulfur fumes killing germs, with other Montana hot springs resorts also reporting no influenza cases.
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Anaconda
Montana
Materia Medica
Anaconda- Butte
Tabu
Boulder
Alhambra
Lieutenant Vidal In Tank Corps
Lieutenant Vidal, once a Great Falls National Bank employee, now fights with the Tank Corps in France. He earlier served with the old Second Montana on the Mexican border and saw action in the St Mihiel salient. A reunion with his father, Captain C B K Vidal, occurred at a front line dressing station, where the physician leader welcomed his son.
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Vidal
Second
Montana
Mexican
Tank
France
St. Mihiel Salient
Salient
Cc. B. K. Vidal
Great Falls
Medical Corps of
Army
Misnamed Peak Found Near Missoula During Survey
Forestry crews surveying the Rattlesnake valley north of Missoula discovered that Mount Murphy is not the local peak. The real Mount Murphy lies 14 miles north on the Flathead Indian reservation line east of Schley, while the impostor Murphy sits northeast of Missoula beyond the Hogsback. The mix up changed hikers and scouts favorite spot details.
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Rattlesnake Valley
Missoula
Mount Murphy
United States Geological Survey
Flathead Indian Reservation
Schley
Northern Pacific
Murphy
Hogsback
Devine's Steamboat Route From Liverpool To Fort Benton
The article recounts William Devine, a Liverpool sailor who left the sea for Montana in 1876, traveling by tramp steamer to New Orleans then Missouri River boats to Fort Benton. He settled at Sun River, recalls local frontier figures like Big Nose George, and notes Sun River’s rough decline and iconic past from Fort Shaw to Vaughn.
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Montana
William Devine
Sun River Crossing
Fort Benton
Devine
Liverpool
California
United States
Rocky Mountains
New York
America
Missouri River
St. Louis
Mississippi
Rocky Mountain Country
New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Paddy Wynne
Commonwealth
Western
Coulson Packet Company
Wynne
Missouri
Little Big Horn
Terry
Gibbons
Miles
Wild Bill
Yankton
Wild Bill’ Hickok
Deadwood
Black Hills
Helena
Concord
Sun River
Fort Berton
Fort Shaw
General Gibbons
Custer
Big Nose” George
Charles M. Russell
George
Big Nose
Wyoming
Fort McGinnis
John Largent
American Fur Company
Sun
Sam Hughes
Ulma
Hughes
Last Chance Gulch
Frozen Hill
Jack Frost
Fort Benton-Helena
Vaughn
Benton
Robert Vaughn
Couch Estate
Old Fort Shaw
England
General Greenan Calls 3 359 Men for Army
Adjutant General Phil Greenan issued a call for 3 359 men aged 19 to 36 from September registrants for military service. County allotments list Beaverhead 98, Big Horn 52, Blaine 75, Broadwater 29, Butte City 607, Cascade 368, Gallatin 134, Missoula 190, Silver Bow 227, Yellowstone 253 and other counties. No entrainment date set.
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Phil Greenan
Beaverhead
Big Horn
Blaine
Broadwater
Butte City
Carbon
Carter
Cascade
Chouteau
Custer
Dawson
Deer Lodge
Fallon
Fergus
Flathead
Gallatin
Granite
Hill
Jefferson
Lewis and Clark
Lincoln
Madison
Meagher
Mineral
Missoula
Musselshell
Park
Phillips
Powell
Prairie
Ravalli
Richland
Rosebud
Sanders
Sheridan
Silver Bow
Stillwater
Sweet Grass
Teton
Toole
Valley
Wheatland
Wibaux
Yellowstone
North Dakota Allows Liquor Shipments Amid influenza claim
Minnesota Attorney General William Langer says North Dakota may ship liquor to any point after physicians urge its use to treat influenza. The move follows Justice Robinson’s statement that North Dakota's bone dry law in 1917 was faked.
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North Dakota
Twin City Express
William Langer
Minnesota
Justice Robinson
Montana Women Working Abroad in War Service
Mrs Young directs an English canteen hospital in England while her sister Miss Ruth Clark serves as a telephone operator in France. The Clark sisters, daughters of R W Clark of Yellowstone county, joined overseas service after training in French and English. Ruth Clark passed a rigorous exam with perfect French, selected from 1000 applicants, and the group is ranked as officers with Young as directress and Ruth Clark among the second lieutenants.
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Christian Yegen
Billings
Young
England
Ruth Clark
France
Miss Clark
R. W. Clark
Yellowstone County
Stratton-Audley Hall
Des Dames Angliases
Ruth Clarke
Europe
Mrs. Young
London
America
Portland
Ore
The
Oregonian
Miss Clarke
Hello
University of California
War Vessels Sink Submarine in Adriatic Mission
Montana girl Jewel B Bell in Red Cross service in Paris recounts convoy action where destroyers sank a German U boat. She traveled Genoa to Paris via Gibraltar, noting Italian coal shortages, scarce butter, and rationed desserts. Paris life shows war sacrifices, limited baths, and sporadic mail amid air raids.
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Paris
The
Red Cross
Montana
Jewel B. Bell
Royal Milling Co
Great Falls
Miss Bell
Mediterranean
Genoa
Gibraltar
Italy
Europe
Bell
America
Turn Down Enemy Made Toys
Elizabeth Marbury president of the Women's National Committee of the American Defense society issues an appeal to American women to boycott goods made in Germany and curb imports of German toys and china. The effort follows a sharp protest by the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs against the sale of these toys.
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America
Germany
China
Elizabeth Marbury
Women’s National Committee
The
American Defense Society
New York City
Federation of Women’s Clubs
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Tank Corps
Lieut, Vidal
How Devine
American Fur Co
Greenan
J. B. Bell
Great Falls Brick & Tile Co
1St National Bank
Liberty
Irving Whitehouse Company Department
Spokane
Washington
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