Fugitive McLeish Sought After Bankrupt Firm Closure
Great Falls June 11 Officers nationwide have been issued circulars with photos and a rearraitional of Merlin McLeish, fugitive broker and former secretary treasurer of McLeish Securities, who left town May. The firm closed May 20 and McLeish is charged with grand larceny as ballet. Rumors place him near Neihart, Highwood, Havre and beyond with reports of sightings in Chicago and Canada. About 100 circulars have been sent. W. Cameron named receiver. Molumby Busha Greenan counsel for the receiver. CPA William Finlay audits books.
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Great Falls
United States
Canada
Mexico
J Merlin McLeish
McLeish Securites Corporation
McLeish
Guy Palasi
Leish
Bear Paw Mountains
Neihart
Highwood
Havre
Chicago
Mittugan
W. ©. Cameron
Carlos Pray
Molumby
Busha
Several Injured In Poplar Highway Crash Near Chelsea
A car carrying Poplar residents left the highway near Chelsea and overturned several times. Speedy Banden, owner, suffered the most serious injuries while others in the party received cuts and bruises. The vehicle then crashed through a fence onto the Great Northern right of way as the group was returning from a Oswego dance. Willams, the driver, and Jim Giladus and Eugene Allet were among those hurt. some were treated at the government hospital in Poplar. The Empire Builder note at the depot preceded officers reaching the scene.
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Wolf Point
Chelsea
Great Northern
Speedy Banden
Oswego
Waliams
Cora Willams
Jim Giladus
Eugene Allet
Willams
Allen
Government Hospital
Poplar
Deer Lodge Preparations for State G A R and V F W Convention
Deer Lodge expects a large gathering from the Grand Army of the Republic Ladies and Veterans of Foreign Wars post 688 to attend the state convention in Helena June 13 to 15. Mrs J E Pears, GAHR president, will lead events with Mrs Betty Bover and Noel H Bover among speakers. many members will drive over for the activities each evening.
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Deer Lodge
Grand Army
Helena
J. E Pears
Gahr Ladies
Betty Bover
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Noel H Bover
Booklets on Swimming from Washington Information Bureau
Vacation season prompts swimming tips. The Helena Independent advertises a Washington Information Bureau booklet with Red Cross instructions on swimming, diving, rescue holds, and safety. Cost ten cents, mail coupon to Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington DC.
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Bros
Washington Information Bureau
American Red Cross
Helena
Falls Firestone Building Nears Completion in Great Falls
Construction of the Firestone Tire and Rubber plant at First Avenue North and Fourth Street in Great Falls is approaching finish. The warehouse office and superservice station will soon be complete with about 15,000 square feet of floor space and a frontage of 125 by 190 feet. The contractor, Flosh Pappin of Pappin Sons, reports steel and brick work done and roof nearing finish with cement floors to start. The project is valued around 25,000 dollars and expected to be fully finished in the coming week.
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Great Falls
Firestone Tire and Rubber
Ommany
First Avenue North
Fourth sreee #1
Flosh Pappin
Pappin € Sons
Pappin
First Avenue
Fourth Street
End Grace Period for Powell County Taxpayers
Deer Lodge notices the 1934 tax assessment grace period ending Tuesday. With many homeowners. loans and the extra 10 days granted from June 1, all delinquent taxes now incur a 2 percent penalty and 1/2 percent interest.
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Deer Lodge
Liquor to be Sold in Yellowstone Park This Season
Livingston reports Yellowstone National Park will begin selling liquor this season for the first time. Officials say the park is federally authorized to be wet but must follow Wyoming liquor codes. Cocktail rooms will be allowed in hotels and lodges with liquor by the drink and selective bottle sales inside the park at Pryor and Hamilton retail stores.
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Livingston
Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming
Atiso
Pryor
Hamilton
Local notes from Watson and area social visits
Watson and nearby communities report daily movements of forest service staff and residents. George Zieg, A P Morgan, Elston, and Elston of White's Gulch engage in work, cattle movements, sales of saddle horses, and display of artist works at White Sulphur Springs. Visitors include Helen Lingsore of Helena and the Lyng family. The Great Western Sugar Company claim compromise resolved by J Burka Clemente, state industrial accident board chair, and London Guaranty and Accident Company.
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Watson
George Zieg
Forest Service
Newton Gulch
A. P. Morgan
Townsend
Raven Bros
Ernest Broderick
Johnson
Lealie Watson
Dalghters
Hoge Place
Beaver
Myre
Charles Ashford
Carl
Mirasoula
White Sulphur Springs
Wetzel
Duck Creek
Benton Gulch
Otto Hoge
Helen Lingsore
Helena
Walker Ranch
Rock Creek
Robin Lyng
Sherbourne
Twn
Browning
Dan Mackintosh
Cement Gulch
Arthur Watson
Slaughter
Shirley Ann
Luella
Halton
White's Gulch
Fargo
N. D
Watson Gren
Agalnot
Great ‘Western Fugar Company
London Guaranty and Accident Company
Clarence Ritz
J Burka Clemente
State Industrial Accident Board
Tentative Vender License Plan Faces Garden Group Opposition
Great Falls voters hear strong protest from City Federation Garden Club as council screens a proposed ordinance requiring itinerant venders and transient merchants to obtain city licenses with heavy fees and possible penalties. Protests also come from other groups over fairness to farm and garden produce sellers.
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Great Falls
City Federation Garden Club
The
City Federation Garden Clu
Nudists in Missoula Have Gay Afternoon
Missoula police found four children aged four to six playing naked on the pool deck after an incident at the municipal swimming pool. The scene occurred as officers arrived to respond to a hurry call about the pool area.
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Missoula
Decker
Railway seeks to eliminate light globe thefts
Great Falls June 1 railroad officials report breaking of light globes from flood lights and warning signals along tracks. Chief probation officer C G Robinson says a close watch will be kept to apprehend offenders, including minors. Globe thefts were recently reported at the flood signal on the highway to Giant Springs and recurring trouble involves children damaging warning lights and red signals.
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Great Falls
Beng
C G Robinson
Robinson
Great Northern Railroad
Black lace suit with pink carnation corsage description
A vintage clothing item features a black lace suit with a plain skirt single breasted jacket and sheer blouse. A pink carnation corsage with edged ribbons accents the outfit, describing a delicate travel ensemble.
Photographic Air Maps Made of Western Woods
In Missoula on June 11 a thousand square miles of photographic mapping has been completed. Howard Flint leads the project with three hundred square miles mapped north of Plains and remaining work on the Kanikeu forest. An air survey will cover natural forest boundaries in the Blackfoot valley. A test drop of food and supplies to a Clearwater Sponge Creek fire crew proved successful with 1,200 pounds delivered despite limited landing options.
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Missoula
Howard Flint
Kanikeu
Blackfoot Valley
Flint
Sponge Creek
Sponge Creek Blaze On the Clearwater
Pearl Buck Steals Husband From Friend in Nevada
In Reno Nevada Pearl Buck the author famed for China novels won a divorce from John I Buck and married Richard J Walsh. Buck’s friend Ruth A Walsh had a legal separation and witnessed the marriage after learning of the romance. Both women cited cruelty as the basis for their actions. the private trials lasted about ten minutes.
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Reno
Nev
Pearl Buck
Farmouus
China
John I. Buck
Richard J Walsh
Ruth A. Walsh
New York
Walsh
Home at Galen hit by lightning bolt destroys roof
A lightning strike on a Galen home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Welst caused roof damage and a collapsed chimney. The blast shattered radio components and lighting globes but did not injure the couple or their two children inside. Plaster shower affected all four occupants. nearby houses in the same block reported similar damage and burned-out appliances.
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Edward Welst
St Galen
Acroba
Atrika
Registration Opens for University Summer School
Missoula June 11 Registration will start today for summer school at the state university. The first convocation featured addresses by W E Maddock director of the summer session and J W Lavery director of summer session trips. Musical numbers were given by Dean Deloss Smith and Mrs Smith. An exhibition of Indian collections and Montana related books will be shown in the treasure room Wednesday afternoon. Thursday’s program includes a lecture American Music in Contemporary Life by Professor Andrew Corry. A mixer dance is planned Friday evening at the men’s gym for students and faculty. Saturday a hike over Mount Sentinel departs Main Hall at 9 m.
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Missoula
The
State University
Firat
W. E. Maddock
J. W. Lavery
Dean Deloss Smith
Schol Jot Muele
Mra. J Smith
Montana
American Munle
Andrew Corry
Mount Sentinel
Main Hall
Bozeman Pioneer Sylvester Bragg Dies After Illness
Bozeman resident Sylvester Giles Bragg age 75 died at his home 104 South Bozeman after four years of illness with heart trouble the longtime Montana and Bozeman rancher who came to the state in 1880s and 65 years ago married Ella Taylor then Sallie Martron a Gallatin Valley pioneer Bragg was born March 22 1860 in Mount Grove Missouri and spent years ranching before retiring 12 years ago He was a Christian church member.
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Bozeman
Sylvester Giles Bragg
South Bozeman
Mr. Bragg
Montana
Sam and
Anna Bragg
Mount Grove
Ella Taylor
Itelona
Fort Benton
Minn Sallie Martron
Borzeman
Gallatin Valley
Bragg
The
Christian Church
Victims in shooting case and local notices from Montana
The report details Orvill Williston 24 in critical condition after a gun discharged by his father in a fatal domestic incident, with his mother also wounded. It also lists Nebraska VFW election results, a land office notice in Great Falls Montana, and bids for a Lewis and Clark County motor grader sale plus property tax deeds and notices from Helena Montana.
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Lewis and Clark County
Hove
Helena
Lewis and Clark
Biate
Montana
Board of County Commissioners
Wal
Board of County Comminiones
AJ Duncan
County Clark
Lewin
Clear Montana
Clerk
Mon
Walteo
Schoo
Lewin and Clark County
Mont
Hellstea Montina
Skelton Sues for Car Crash Damages in Grant Falls
Grant Falls June 11 A contract action Suvoiving 8228.40 was Monday commenced in diaryriet court by R W Skelton against Fidelity and Casualty Co of New York. The suit arises from a northbound crash about Aug 25 1932 three years earlier near Stanford on the Stanford Lewin town road with driver W H Love. Negligence alleged. In Silver Bow County the action was filed and later moved to Judith Basin County. On Oct 18 1933 a jury awarded Skelton 3000 damages and costs.
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Grant Falls
Diarriet
R. W. Skelton
Fidelity and Casualty Company of
New York
Plaineltt
Stanford
Stanford-Lewin
W. H Love
Skelton
Love
Silver Bow
Judith Baslh
Enrollment Opens for Summer Term at Normal College
Dillon, Jung reports enrollment starts at Normal College for the nine week summer term. Many registrants are two year graduates taking advanced courses and aiming for degrees. Most arrive by car or train, as the summer season program is set for Wednesday night with the Chicago Symphony String Quartet performing a program of plantation and Indian music.
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Dillon
Jung
Chicago
Atring
Guards of Northwest Enjoying Maneuvers
Camp Murray Washington June 11 1919 thousands of tents pitched as more than 7000 men and 100 national guard officers from Washington Oregon and Idaho mobilized for the greatest peace time trading operations in the history of the Pacific Northwest Major General George A White division commander and Adjutant General of the Oregon guard is in command
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Camp Murray
Whsch
National Guard
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Northwest
Frances
George A. White
Oregon Guard
Montana and Public Notices From Early 1930s Records
Notices document land entry filings, bids, and court actions. Garneth Cole of Helena seeks proof of land claim for several parcels in Lewis and Clark County while Montana State reports a bid call for Red Lodge Creek drainage works. Public land patents and court actions target quiet title and property boundaries in Gallatin and Park counties.
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Department of the Interior
Creet Fall
Montana
Walien
Garneth Cole
Helena Montana
Erin
Lota
Becton
LON
Ofrin
Atul
Wotmry
Helens Montana
Duly
Jowan Vook
William Ro Fietener
Jean Aupel
Helena
Fenton Wellman
Sutin Moniane
Thor PF
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Tinerant
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Lewistown
Margaret W. Palmer
Fergus County
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Richard Ford
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Galen
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John & Pox
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TRE Duidoke
Land Office
Great Palle Montana
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Clark County
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Skelton 15
Montana Relief Commission
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Jon Tabor
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Thomas F. Conrally
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Tealt
Park County
Mantatin
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Pheftic Rat Way Company
Containine
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Lewy
Crnck County
Pinerr
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Wid
Northern Focule Railway Company
Niirthmont
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Englerly
Anid
Aberin G Jores
Chenaman
Ani
Jewly and
Clark Bays
Lowly
Mart Koontz
Bendy Mt Pane
Ciore
Ald Court
Will Whalen
Vinien
John Vo
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