May Seymour Returns Home and Seeks a Wealthy Match
May Seymour, shunned after her husband’s suicide linked to her affair, returns to Helena with cash and searches for a rich husband. She encounters Her bert Waterbury and Dan Sprague in Atlantic City, borrows from Ulysses Forgan, and later finds a fragile homecoming with the Gregorys. Gloria arranges a bridge party as old friends thaw and May contemplates her renewed ties and future.
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May Seymour
Jim Carewe
Atlantic City
Herbert Waterbury
Dan Sprague
Carlotta Frolking
Dan
May
Waterbury
Los Altos
Calif
Carlotea
Dick Gregorys
Ulysses Forgan
Carlotta
Los Angeles
Alexandria
Gregorys
Helena
Northern Pacific
Herbie Waterbury
White House
Rick Gregorys
Gloria
Tron Helena
Herl
Fers
Fivo
Dicky Junior
Myra Gail
Fild
Christas
Ulysses Agin
Jordan Plans to Get Funds for Hospital
Garfield county residents may gain a new hospital as a special Commercial club meeting discussed raising funds via county commissioners. A committee including Dr. B C Farrand C Wilson John C Cavan and Floyd Tollefson will meet to explore options. A special election or levy was endorsed as the clearest path to distribute costs among taxpayers.
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Jordan
Garfield County
Commercial Club
B.C. Farrand
C. Wilson
John C. Cavan
Floyd
Tollefson
Husbands Bigamy Case Ends in Annulment in Butte
Jessea Whitehead Jones, who wed Byran D. Jones in 1925, was renamed as Jessea Whitehead after an annulment by Judge William S. Carroll. Jones returned to wife No. 1 in Provo with their two babies as Utah officials seek bigamy charges for both spouses. The case arose after Jones ran away with Whitehead to Butte and Calgary, then to Provo, with reports of a presumed bigamy law confusion in Idaho.
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Butte
Jessea Whitehead Jones
Byran D. Jones
Provo
Utah
Jessea Whitehead
William S. Carroll
Jones
David H. Jones
Mr. Jones
Miss Whitehead
Calgary
Silver Bow
Idaho
Montana
Purification Ad Promises Health Through Calotabs
An old advertisement claims Calotabs purifies the entire system for better health. It urges a course taken once or twice weekly for several weeks and offers a family package with directions for 36 cents, available at any drugstore.
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Angphyafelan
Youth Kills Self in Religion as Worry Source
Boulder, Sept. 2 A verdict of suicide was returned for Elmer Bruckner 23-year-old rancher. A blood stained note said religion bothered him too much fueling the act. He was found with a bullet wound beside a rifle after a daylong search near Wheatland district. His father Louis Bruckner of Three Forks identified the note and arranged for burial in Bozeman. No other relatives survive. The father doubted premeditation and suggested temporary insanity.
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Boulder
Elmer Bruckner
Mountjoy
Ned Paradis
Elmer
L. R. Hensley
Wheatland District
John van Distibe
Three Forks
Louis Bruckner
Auto Upsets on a Straight Road and Two Men Are Hurt
Livingston Sept. 2 An automobile accident near Electric five miles north of Gardiner injures Bert Vink and C. B. Thurber of Yellowstone National Park. They are hospitalized in Mammoth with a broken shoulder and possible internal injuries. Thurber works for the Transportation company and Vink is a National Park mechanic. both are well known among park employees.
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Livingston
Bert Vink
C. B. Thurber
Yellowstone National Park
Electric
Gardiner
Mammoth
Thurber
Ns the
Vink
National Park Service
National Park
Fossil Discoveries in Montana Uncover Ancient Life
Paleontologists Charles Mook and Coleman Williams of the American Museum of Natural History report fossils from Montana dating four to twelve million years, found near Pipestone and Divide Madison valley. They unearthed a three toed mesohippus skull and jaw, about dog size, plus rhinoceros fossils, noting the era as grassy plains with lakes and reporting earthquakes in the Gallatin valley on June 27.
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Montana
Charles Mook
Coleman Williams
American Muse of Natural History
Butte
New York
Pipestone
Divide
Madison Valley
Gallafin
Former Helena minister dies in California
Rev. J. G. Clark, longtime head of the Baptist Home Missionary society in Montana Wyoming and Idaho with headquarters in Helena, died in Monrovia California last Sunday after seven years of ill health. He is survived by his wife and daughter Mrs Wynton Ellis of Monrovia. Mrs Ellis was in Lewistown on a motor trip with her husband and son when news arrived. she then traveled through Butte to California.
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Butte
Sept
J. G. Clark
Baptist Home Missionary Society
Montana
Wyoming
Idaho
Helena
Monrovia
Calif
Boys Make Joker Pay for Skunks
Broadus report of three boys who tricked a local businessman who joked about paying 10 cent bounty on skunks. The youths brought two skunks to his shop on strings, claimed the bounty, and released the animals after collecting their payment.
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Broadus
Grouse Numbers Soar Around Miles City
Miles City hunters report an unprecedented grouse and sage chicken population as opening day season approaches on September 15. Birds are seen in new areas east of town and along the south side below Beebe, causing damage to crops after a favorable past winter and spring.
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Miles City
Beebe
Arrangements Made to Feed Jackson Hole Elk
In Cheyenne on September 2 preparations for feeding Wyoming's elk herds this winter are under way in the Jackson Hole region. State game and fish commissioner A A Sanders and federal biologist A E Goldman coordinate with the Biological Survey, which helps fund the feeding. The survey buys a ton of hay for every ton purchased by the state, with an expected 400,000 tons of hay available. Some hay has been donated by Tsaae Waltan Prague.
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Cheyenne
Woming
Jackson Hole
A. A. Sanders
Tsaae Waltan Prague
State Game and Fish Department
Belgrade News Highlights Local Visits and Socials
Belgrade updates show Mrs Waite of Elgin visiting daughter Mrs Parker Stone and family while Dr and Mrs Ray return to Great Falls after visiting Mrs Rays parents. Local residents Phelps, Stephen son brothers Edwin visit Butte. Mrs Barnes of Helena visits daughter Mrs Casper. Social events include M G R club gathering on Quan boulevard and a five hundred card party with high scores for Mrs Dewing and Mrs Stanton.
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Belgrade
Edwin and
Harley Stephenson
Butte
Barnes
Helena
William Casper
J. P. Diefenderfer
M. G. R. Club
Quan Boulevard
Bob Hampton
Here
Sidney
J. A. Bessette
Dewing
Stanton
Emma
Parkins
Billy
H. N. Marting
Dickenson
N. D
Ed. Stanton
An Boulevard
Casper
J. A. Pavey
Maudlow
Alf Goolsiy
Salt Lake
Walter Gunishecker
Ringling
Former Billings Woman Burned As She Saves Child
Edith Grimes formerly of Billings now in Detroit suffered severe burns while rescuing her five year old son Charles from a fire in an apartment building. Janitor Fred Peterson and partner M Snyder were also injured during the attempt. The blaze began in the basement and a ladder broke as Snyder carried the boy to ground, but Grimes saved the child despite injuries.
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Billings
Edith Grimes
Detroit
Mich
Charles
Fred Peterson
M. Snyder
Peterson
Grimes
Billings High School
Billings Mian Saves Woman Angler From Drowning
In Billings on September 2, W. E. Baker and companions saved a woman fisher from the Boulder River swift current. A nearby angler misjudged crossings, fell in, and Baker reached her just before she was pulled into a deep pool beneath a fallen tree. The rescued woman was shaken but unharmed beyond fright.
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Billings Mian
Angler
Billings
W. E. Baker
Boulder River
General Cruikshank Takes Command At Fort Tsten District
Brigadier General William M. Cruikshank, now at Camp Lewis Washington, was assigned to command the second coast artillery district at Fort Tusten New York. This reshuffle places Cruikshank in charge of coastal defenses overseeing artillery units and fort installations in the district. He previously served in a leadership role at Camp Lewis and now assumes broader regional responsibility.
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Washington
Associated Press
William M. Cruikshank
Camp Lewis
Wash
Second Coast Artillery District
Fort Tstten, N. Ve
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