Mail Plane Receives Big New Hornet Motor Upgrade
National Parks Airways at Butte shops installed a Pratt and Whitney Hornet 525 hp engine in the Boeing 40 C 4, replacing the 425 hp Wasp. The upgrade boosts cruising speed to 105 mph with reserves for night flying aided by landing lights flares and navigation lights. Stearman mail passenger ships on the Pocatello to Salt Lake City run gain added flares and lights, with new air mail and overhaul work on Fokker Super Universal planes. Passenger traffic in May rises with 542 travelers by month end, up from 258 last year, reflecting growing public confidence in air travel.
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National Parks Airways
Butte
Boeing
United States
Stearman
Pocatello
Salt Lake City
Great Falls
Butte Business College News Highlights Student Achievements
Catherine Vignaux Anthony Craig Mrs Opal Berry and Madeline Mul holland meet Dictation I requirements this week Marie Murphy a San Francisco visitor graduate of our combined course employed in California purchasing Two dozen students earn perfect 10 minute typing tests including two 15 minute tests for Robert Carter and May Tuesher High school enrollment adds May Hansen and Miss Marie Courdis joins Americanization department June Prom planned at Columbia Gardens with Mrs Nelson visiting from Lewistown.
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Catherine Vignaux
Anthony Craig
Opal Berry
Madeline Mulholland
Marie Murphy
San Francisco
Margaret Sullivan
Frances Flanig
Alberta Barton
Helen M. Isaacson
Irma Johnson
Anaconda
Frances Vlaing
Irene Evans
Ruth Sylvester
Alice Dysinger
Adolph Andre
Peter Seaman
Frances Frank
Elizabeth Webber
Joe Rosetti
Geraldine Sampson
West Yellowstone
Walton
Dancing Club
Columbia Gardens
Robert Carter
W. H. Nelson
Lewistown
Mr. Nelson
May Hansen
Alda Scalarone
Josephine Flanig
Amelia Merivot
Marie Courdis
Germany
Anna Rowan
Loretta Solomon
Helen Duncan
Vera Blaise
Ann Guidi
Doris Arel
Dorothy Moran
Phyllis Rundle
Margaret L. Bracco
Margaret Northam
Ethel Mills
Helen Struznik
Kathleen O'Neill
Irene Judson
Dorothy Dee
Lois Arkels
Helen Stenso
Leona Sullivan
Kathleen McBride
Robert Zeigler
Georgiana Curtin
Winning essay extols American Legion service and goals
Miss Jane Jaccard of Butte wins first in Silver Bow post No 1 contest with an essay arguing why every ex serviceman should belong to the American Legion. The piece details veterans’ advocacy, disability claims support, vocational funds, veteran homes, grave decorations, and organized voice shaping policy and peace.
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Silver Bow Post No. 1
American Legion
Jane Jaccard
Butte
France
United States Veteran’ Bureau
Congress
Legion
America
Rural pupils in Silver Bow pass state exams
Thirty four seventh and eighth graders from Silver Bow county rural schools passed state examinations per Helena state superintendent office. Named students include Paul Fidler Keith McCauley Frank Torney William Turner and many others. Also note England proceeds with five hundred thousand homes under construction.
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Silver Bow County
Helena
Agnes Meade Hanratty
Paul Fidler
Keith McCauley
Frank Torney
William Turner
Orine Gork
Dorothy Hoffman
Marie Jones
Wilma McLaughlin
Lilbern Tate
Monica Connor
Vesta Olson
Billie E. Norris
Lena Slater
Kenneth Day
Ann
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Montana
West Park Street
Western Union
Jordan
Liggett
Tae
Paxson and
Rockefeller
West Park
Kathleen cBride
Harry So Ralph Olsen
Lois Shoemaker
Butte Business College News
Schultz
West Broadway
England
Gamer’s
Standard
Howard Pierce, Inc
Franklin, Pierce-Arrow, Nash Dealers North Main AT
Granite
la Salle
Dodge
Howard Pierce
Franklin
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