Garage Worker Discovers First Comet of 1936 at Home Observatory
Leslie C. Peltier, a Delphos garage worker by day and amateur astronomer by night, reports the year’s first comet from his home made observatory. The unnamed ninth magnitude body, confirmed by Harvard and Yerkes Observatory staff, is too faint for unaided sight but photographable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert C. Nute
Central Press
Delphos
Ohio
Leslie C. Peltier
Peltier
Howard Shapley
Harvard Observatory
George van Zienhbroeck
Yerkes Observatory
Williams Bay
Wis
UMTC Missoula Camp Enrolment Boosted to 126
The War Department raised the Citizens Military Training camp at Fort Missoula for July 6 to August 4 from 112 to 126 attendees to broaden access for first year students. County applications, including Silver Bow, are still being accepted to fill quotas, with C M T C officers urging full county representation. Germany increases tobacco purchases in Cuba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens Military
Fort Missoula
War Department
Silver Bow County
Civil Service Openings Listed For Competitive Exams
The U S civil service commission announces openings in multiple positions open to competitive examination. Postings include assistant adviser in labor law administration, senior paper technologist, associate gas engineer, assistant petroleum engineer, Alaska community school teacher, statistical analyst, assistant superintendent and foreman at Fort Leavenworth brush factory, and several laundry department roles. Information available from P H Pohlman at the Butte post office or via civil service examiners in Seattle or Fort Peck Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Civil Service Commissioner
P. H. Pohlman
Board of Examiners
Butte Post Office
Labor Law Administration
Division of Labor Standards
Department of Labor
Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Mines
Department of Interior
Geological Survey
Alaska
Bureau of Statistics
Bureau of Motor Carriers
Interstate Commerce Commission
Brush
Federal Penitentiary
Fort Leavenworth
Board of
U. 8
Civil Service Examiners
Seattle
Board of Civil Service Examiners
Engineer Department
Fort Peck
Mont
Rodman
Old Mining Camp JO Again Active In Danielsville District
Old mining districts show activity as a dry land dredge and screening plant begin operation on a property once owned by Tom Daniels. Montana Gold Incorporated plans near term shipments from the district with ore sufficient for about 10 tons daily, led by H. S. Sackett of Seattle as president and supported by Major Robert Eskridge Pat Gleason and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danielsville
Frederickson
Alder Gulch
Prairie Gulch
T. V. Anreiter
Seattle
Montana
Tom Daniels
Anreiter
Montana Gold, Incorporated
H. S. Sackett
Robert Eskridge
Pat Gleason
Gleason Investment Company
Walter de Bealey
Federal Housing Administration
L. O. Thomas
George Fairweather
La Barba trains to write prize fight film at Fox
Fidel La Barba, former flyweight champion, is hired by Twentieth Century Fox to write a prize fight picture. He discusses realism in movies, his eye injury, and the challenge of a fighter writing fiction. The piece notes Ginger Rogers and Helen Broderick in Never Gonna Dance and mentions Tony Park Avenue and Hill Tillies ending Lyda Hill Tillies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Hollywood
Fidel la Barba
Twentieth Century Fox Story Department
la Barba
Goliath
Heroe
Ginger Rogers
Helen Broderick
Fred Astaire
New York
Tony Park Avenue
Fifty Fourth
General Construction Roles Mentioned In Job Listing
A brief notice notes positions for a tor on general construction an inspector on general construction and an electric welder. The listing emphasizes skilled tradesmen for site work and emphasizes adherence to safety standards and building codes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tor
Film World Snips: Roach Plans longer features
Roberts and Patsy Kelly tag along as Roach expands into feature-length productions while keeping Our Gang one reelers. Carole Lombard vows Alaska for Spawn of the North, Luise Rainer carpets her floors, Binnie Barnes seeks citizenship, Steffi Dunn to lead in Queen of the Jungle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carole Lombard
Alaska
Cuba
Luise Rainer
Binnie Barnes
Henry VIII
Steffi Dunn
de Femme
Paramount
Grand Opera Arias on Musical Program at Church
Grace M. E. church hosts a Monday night concert at 8 30 directed by Miss Phyllis Wolfe featuring grand opera arias ballads and duets. Accompanists are Miss Eleanore McTucker and Mrs Helen LaVelle with solo piano by Elizabeth Tretheway. The finale The Lost Chord is sung by the church choir with Phyllis Wolfe studio artists and a long list of musicians from Deer Lodge Missoula Dillon and other locales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phyllis Wolfe
Grace M. FE
Eleanore McTucker
Helen LaVelle
Elizabeth Tretheway
William Hoskins
Deer Lodge
Walton Cosgrove
Missoula
Ralph Smith
Dillon
Katherine MacPherson
Phyllis Peterson
Dorothy Lloyd
Louella Stover
Sylvia Canty
Louella
Marie LaVelle
Mary Cecelia Dubie
Azeal Craddock
Lucinda Fluent
Lois Thirloway
Virginia Haggerty
Margaret Lanter
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Princeton Observatory
American Association of Variable
Star Observers
Uim
Leslie C, Peltier
UMTC
Germany
California
R. D. Pomeroy
Salt Lake City
Lincoln
Zephyr
Detroit
Standard Motor Distributor
Butte, M
Beregson Motors, Inc
Civil Service
Henry Sutherland
Hal Road
Lyda
Hennessy’s
Hennessy's
Butte’s
Iununeacwaence
SORA
Butte
Rexall
United States
Canada
West Park St
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