Read This Montana Pilot Letter On Bombing Voyage
A raw wartime letter from Lieutenant Bruce Hopper of Billings describes a bombing mission over France. He details preflight routines, formation climbs, anti aircraft fire, bomb runs on rail yards, and intense aerial combat with Boche fighters, ending with night raid observations and the awe of war.
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Bruce Hopper
Billings
Hig
Intelligence Office
Bowie
Bodie
Kelly
Sammy Lunt
Sammy
Boche Cavaliery
State Receives 25 Percent Forest Reserve Lease Funds
A Treasury warrant for 76 597.56 arrives to Montana as its share of federal forest reserve lease receipts for the year ending June 30 1918. The funds go to public schools and roads with Montana dispersing distributive shares among Absaroka Beartooth Beaverhead Bitterroot Blackfeet Cabinet Custer Deer Lodge Flathead Gallatin Helena Jefferson Kootenai Lewis and Clark Lolo Madison Missoula Sioux and other reserves.
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Stewart
United States Treasury Department
McAdoo
United States Treasury
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of the Treasury
Montana
Absaroka
Beartooth
Beaverhend
Bitter Root
Blackfeet
Cabinet
Custer
Deer Lodge
Flathead
Gallatin
Helena
Jefferson
Kootenai
Lewis and Clark
Lolo
Madison
Missoula
Sioux
British General Maurice Praises Allied Open Warfare Edge
General Maurice says recent events show German barriers can be broken by the Allies and that in open warfare manpower favors the Allies. He also terms German open fighting commanders as ordinary mortals and claims the Allies can beat them man for man.
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Gur
Kelly
Maurice
England
More Cars for Shipping Sheep and Stock Car Relief
Regional Director Aishton announces federal aid to Northern Pacific with double deck stock cars to ease sheep shipments to eastern markets. New rules reserve double decks for sheep only, with single decks handling feeding nearby markets, plus supervision to speed movement. State livestock commission backs actions to improve in transit rates, while hearings continue on broader rail issues and cattle feeding rate.
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Northern Pacific
Aishton
Federal Department of Railroad Operation
Montana Railroad Commission
Milwaukee
Montana
Thees
State Livestock Commission
Railroad Commission
War Price For Hogs Advisory Committee Sets Minimum
The national agricultural war advisory committee of the government food administration recommends a minimum price of 15 dollars and fifty cents per hundred pounds for hogs during the war. The administration cannot fix a final price but can regulate via controlled orders for the army navy allies and export trade.
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National Agricultural War Advisory Committee
Government
Food Administration
The
Major conscription expects 2.3 million accepted
Officials project that among 13 million men registered under the 18 to 45 conscription law about 2.3 million will be accepted into the army. The estimate reflects the selection process and manpower needs during the current mobilization effort.
Relinquishment Wanted for Cash Offers
Classified notices seek relinquishment deals for cash with location and price details. Parallel ads include hotel for sale, telegraphy school in Montana, hemstitching services, ozone treatment, liberty bonds private sale, hatter in Butte, canaries, and local lodging options with pricing.
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Cornelius
Phoenix Building
Butte
Montana
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Fidelity
State Commission OF Aid
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S. O. Huseth
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Jena
Judith Basin
Farmers Land Co
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Range
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Great 8
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Shields River Valley
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Livingston
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McClintock
Custer County Bank
Miles City
Carl R. Meyer
Hart-Albis Building
Business Training School
West
Granite Street
Lena Adjustment
A. S
Butte College of Telegraphy
T. A. Roberts
Pendroy
Benedict
Pennsylvania Block
Hard Bros
Edison Block
Butte, Mont
Nickerson
W. Park
J. W
N. Main
Eller
W. J. Mathers
Yardley
Otl Park
R. Cleason
City
Acoma
New
Park Hotel
West Park Street
Columbia
W. Broadway
Woreek
Atana
Colling Realty Co
Ee Onta DA
Vingston
Asher Murray
Wadena
Minn
Canada
Badian Pacific Railway
Duon Block
Great Falls
Spring Valley
Eden ‘Creamery
Great Alls
Norby Brothers
C. H. Campbell & Son
Holstein Rolls
Ulstein Bolls
Northwestern
Ford & Hollister Baseb(Inc
Darby
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Huntsberger-Givens Co
Great
Pitman Live Stock Company
EL Paso
Texas
Alexander-Giichrest Co
Denton, Mont
Robert R. Johnston
Dupuyer
Escallier
J. Taylor
Cascade
D. Watson Kobb Co
Arke, Davis & Co
Detroit
Wilds-Thurston Motor CO
Saln Ave
Maxwell Distributors
Misuellansuus
WICK
Montana Pians Co
G Land
Pratt & Heath Co
Liberty Bond
Gooding College
Charles Wesley Tenney
Gooding
Idaho
Lewistown Hide & Fur Co
A. L. Rose
FURS
Krepa
Hoenck
Minneapolis
Montana Fur Mfg. CO
Scott, Steele
Broadway
KODAK
Eastman Kodaks
Ad Supplies
Bias
Blue Print & Sa i Co
Dunn
Greet Palle
Ashayers
Chemis Beto
Tout & McCarthy
Mall Chemista
Botte
Wyoming
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Actina
Oaks
Paris
Bath
Alog
Mark Free
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45 Lumber Exchange
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Lewistown, Montana
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