The Great Mail Robbery and the Marines Arm the Rails
Five bold mail train robberies across Montana Minnesota Oregon and North Dakota target mail cars and a transcontinental limited. A six figure loss, including gold and negotiable papers, triggers political conflict and a march 29 1927 order by Gen Smedley Butler to guard trains and shoot to kill if needed.
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K. Y
Montana
Tri-State Limited
Yorktown
Minn
Oregon
C L. P
Transcontinental Limited
Soccor
Washington
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Smedley Butler
Marines Detail Beats Between Duty and Despair
Lieutenant MacReady at San Diego Marine HQ is recalled to field duty guarding mail trains against a skilled gang. Colonel Fuller assigns him to lead Marine detachment from Yellow Canyon Junction, coordinating guard detail and intelligence work as the gang remains elusive.
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US Marine Headquarters
San Diego
Donald MacReady
St Mihiel
Argonne
Chateau- Thierry
MacReady
Leatherneck
Fuller
Maeck Reedy Sou
Verosu
Col Fuller
Division
Yellow Canyon Junction
Yellow Canyon
County pig feeding test begins Tuesday in Morried area
A county hog feeding contest started October 1 with five lots of thoroughbred Poland China pigs, six per lot. Each lot receives a different ration and will be kept on feed for 90 days, with monthly weighings. D A Sharp Fred Lindberg and M M Brandt supervise scales while C M Dove sponsors the effort to benefit county feeders.
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Poland
China
D A Sharp
Fred Lindberg
M M_ Brandt
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Peter Milne
Water Feberhard
FRO Pictures Corporation
Mail Robbi
Kern County
Yehlow Canyon
Sov Aly
W J Morse
United States Department of Agriculture
Illinois
Urbana
United States
Morse
Euroa
Chile
Manchuna
Altar Society
St. Patrick's Church
Morried
E.R. Tarry
Oe Peters Trust
Omalia, Neigh
Snyder
S. H. Snyder
Sidney
Omaha
Hotel Conant
Kretz Radio and Ignition Co
Tzgni
Sidney Negr
J. R. Taylor
M. D
Over Larsons Music Store
RES Phone
G. D. Webster
Lee
Cheyenne County
L. A. Donahoe
Roche
R. E. Roche, M. D
PHOND
Rec
Chas. H. Gardner County Surveyor
Joseph Oberfelder
Sidney Nebraska
Von
Witeh Sou
Ney
St. See
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Nia
AMD
Mlb
Cheyenne County Land CO
Gaus Vo Doran
Telegraph Building
The
Telegraph
Sam
the Telegraph
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