Minister Launches Health Drive for Children
Rev Bryant announces a four week health program with aid from State Health authorities to screen eyes teeth throat height weight heart lungs of church children. Mrs Morse Miss Fox and Florence Levensaler will supervise exams and report defects with guidance to parents. A Sunday meeting and lunch follow, plus a three month health contest focusing on growth hygiene and vitality. Aimed to curb childhood illness and promote general welfare across the community.
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Bryant
Sara BE. Morse
Helena
The
Montana Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Marion Fox
State Board of Health
Florence Levensaler
Morse
Chicago
Elk Shooting Boom Draws Park County Hunters
Park County becomes elk hunting hub as heavy snows push thousands of elk toward Gardiner. Hunters travel from Chicago and other places, with extra licenses costing 25 dollars allowing two elk kills. Non residents pay 50 dollars, locals 1.50. Women hunters are notably active.
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Park County
Gardiner
Park Room
Livingston
Chicago
Locators Honored Founder of Anaconda Mine in Butte
Edward Hickey, locator of the Anaconda mine, is honored by the Tuoloule Tuolumne Copper Mining Company board who declined his resignation due to illness. Hickey, born 1841 in New York, helped locate Anaconda on New Year’s Eve 1875 and shaped Butte’s mining story. He later led several mines and banks, and funded newsboys’ welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuolumney Copper Mining Company
Edward Hickey
Anaconda
Butte
Great Mining Company
Hickey
Lawrence County
New York
St. Law
Red Cross Sends Cloth to Montana for Drought Victims
Montana Red Cross shipments from Minneapolis totaled thousands of yards of wool and cotton valued at over 15000 dollars. Counties adopt peace program extending home service to civilians, with nurses teaching hygiene and home care, inspecting schoolchildren, and supplying clothing and medical aid.
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Montana
American Red Cross
Minneapolis
Red Cross
Great Northern Railway
Hill, Valley
Custer
Dawson
North Carter
Phillips
Pondera
Rosebud
Montana man gave the electric range to the world
Frank M. Kerr, Montana Power Company executive, perfected the heat from electricity after years of experiments in Billings. He credits the first use of a heat producing wire and notes his alloy prevents oxidation, enabling uniform heat and the creation of the electric heater and its many offspring.
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Montana
Frank M. Kerr
Mana
Montana Power Company
Billings
Kerr
Mr. Kerr
Federal Farm Bureau Organizes Nationwide Farmers Federation
An entirely new organization of farmers entered the economic field with the first convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Its purpose is to protect the business, economic, social and educational interests of agriculture and to represent the nation’s farmers. Most speakers declared themselves opposed to any alliance with labor and that radicalism must be stamped out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Farm Bureau
United States
American Farm Bureau Federation
Car shortage cripples stockmen delaying cattle shipments
Montana and Dakota ranchers complain of severe car shortages delaying cattle to market. Poor weather and feed scarcity drive losses up to 20 dollars per head as shipments wait for railcars. Officials blame reduced stock car quotas, rail disruptions, and shopmen strikes for the ongoing bottleneck. Geologists note oil fields along the gulf coast of Mexico.
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Frank A. Southerland
Geyser, Mont
Chicago
J. W. Hudson
Miles City
North Dakota
N. J. Evenson
Ismay
Mont
H. R. Park
Chicago Livestock Exchange
Montana
Wyoming
North
South Dakota
Gulf Coast
Mexico
Roundup Center Oil Excitement Shakes Montana Town
Roundup Montana becomes a hub for oil operators as a first well by Van Dusen in Devil's Basin hits 1 175 feet. Oil rose 450 feet in 20 hours, tanks scarce, drilling paused while tanks are rushed in. Prominent visitors and rising stock interest forecast quick growth for Roundup and nearby Lavina as exploration expands across central southeastern Montana.
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Gera Deta Ae
Montana
van Dusen Company
Devil’s Basin
Calkins
Milwaukee Railroad
van Dusen
Roundup
United States Geological Survey
Lavina
Montana tops in licenses as 1919 hits high mark
Montana reports 59,100 automobile license plates issued by October 31 1919 up from 51,608 in 1928 with license revenue of 406 256. October receipts total 2 621 as 600 plate pairs are issued in late season, defying typical year end slowdown. State official predicts reaching 60 000 licenses. note: no drownings recorded at Great Salt Lake.
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Montana
Charles T. Stewart
of State
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North America
Anaconda Mine
Ill
Rence
Rock Island
Diamond Lode
State Savings Bank of
American Savings Bank of Seattle
Butte Crude Petroleum Company
Tuolumne Copper
Mining Company
Pilot-Butte and Butte Main Range Copper ‘Mining Company
Mecca
Great Salt Lake
Postum Cereal Company
Battle Creek
Michigan
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