American Inventors Dominate Modern Inventions, Claims Rise
A long-winded defense insists Americans created the majority of modern inventions, outpacing Germany and Europe. It credits Edison, McCormick, Wrights, Morse, Bell, Ford, Westinghouse, and others for leading in electricity, aviation, rail, office machines, agriculture, and steel, arguing the United States sits at the dawn of a new invention era.
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America
Germany
Europe
Edison
Orient
Britain
France
Italy
McCormick
Whitney
Luther Burbank
Morse
Alexander Graham Bell
Theodore N. Vail
Wright Brothers
Dayton
Ohio
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Glenn H. Curtiss
Marconi
John H. Patterson
Globe
Elias Howe
Goodyear
Butte Colonel Stivers Nominated for Croix de Guerre
Montanan Colonel D G Stivers of Butte is recommended for the Croix de Guerre the French war cross for gallantry in action. A Spanish-American War Rough Riders captain he later served as major in the quartermaster's department and now heads supplies for a division in France. Judge John Lindsay of Butte reports Stivers invited him to the front but was denied by military authorities.
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America
Fulton
Seven Seas
John Hays Hammond, Jr
United States
Cyrus W. Field
Atlantic
Pullman and
Westinghouse of America
Pullman
George Westinghouse
Commodore Vanderbilt
Westinghouse
France
Henry Ford
Chicago
Ford
D’gay Stivers
Butte
Stivers
Rough Riders
Cuba
Germany
Quartermaster’s Department
John Lindsay
Chris Connolly
Silber Bow County
Connolly
Edwin the Dude Tames Frying Pan in Montana Range Tale
In 1884 a stylish range rider known as Edwin the Dude, Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden, defuses a boastful Texas rider named Frying-pan with a swift show of force. The incident precedes Arden’s later fame as a playwright and actor, linking his steayride exploits to a varied early career and friendships with Roosevelt and Sidney Pagett.
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Edwin the Dude
Edwin
St. Louis
Texas
Montana
Pan
South
Missouri
Frying
Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden
New York
Arden
Maude Adams
L’aiglon
Thief
Raglan’s
Montana Sailor Saved From Warship Near Irish Coast
Ed Gerber of Great Falls Montana, a navy destroyer survivor, was rescued after the ship was struck off the Irish coast. Only 2 of 135 crew survived, and he endured 36 hours in the water before rescue. He is home on furlough and awaiting orders for further service.
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Ed Gerber
Montana
Great Falls
Gerber
Uncle Sam
Irish
Vigilance Costs Talked Down To Ten Dollars
A brief editorial notes that constant vigilance can incur expenses, citing a ten dollar sum as a symbolic price of maintaining safeguards. It emphasizes practical costs over abstract ideals.
Wobbly Strike Cuts Copper Output in Butte Area
Anaconda Copper Mining Company reports September copper production at 21,800,000 pounds, down 3,100,000 from August due to the I W W strike. Most ore goes to government war munitions, with about 9,500 underground workers and rising miner efficiency. Normal ore tonnage not yet reached, but expected soon.
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Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte
East Butte
Davis-Daly
Anaconda
State War Council Demands Surrender and War Focus
The Montana state council of defense, via Governor Stewart, urged President Wilson that there be no negotiated peace with Germany and that unconditional surrender be the only terms. It also seeks assistance to secure Montana’s share of workers for munition plants and authorized a $50,000 defense fund loan for building attacks at Butte Bozeman and Missoula for Student Army Training Corps units.
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Montana State Council of Defense
8. W. Stewart
Wilson
State Council
Germany
United States Employment Bureau
Europe
M. M. Donoghue
Butte
N. T
Great Falls
Will A. Campbell
Helena
Council
Butte, Bozeman
Missoula
Students’ Army Training Corps
Warrenton Poised for Grain Trade Boom and Investments
Warrenton Oregon leaders say after the war grain moved west will ship by rail to Pacific ports and by water worldwide, boosting Warrenton as a future grain port. The plan includes salvage savings of 10 to 12 cents per bushel and land purchases for terminal elevators, with government and rail investments cited as spurring rapid growth and property appreciation.
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Montana
Western States
Pacific Coast
W. G. McAdoo
Panama Canal
Atlantic Seaboard
Warrenton
West
The
American Society
of Equity
Columbia River
Atlantic
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Cyrus H. McCormick
International Harvester
George Watt
CITE
O’gay Stivers
Frying-pan
Cheyenne River
State War Council
Warrenton, Oregon
Great Northern Steamship
Warrenton Dock
E. A. Tyler Realty Company
Todd Block
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