12 Sep 1948
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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1948
Page
1
An early overview outlines plans for an Autumn Fashion Show as part of the Magicland festival and exposition. The event promises attractions for all ages, with visitors learning about retail wholesale jobbing and industrial opportunities during the week.
The article notes that ruminants such as cattle sheep goats deer and antelope always rise on their hind legs first, while other large quadrupeds use the forelegs to lift themselves. The observation presents a distinctive locomotion pattern across grazing species.
A new booklet highlights Butte as a major distribution hub with rail and road links to Butte serving Powell, Broadwater and Gallatin counties. It notes Butte’s four transcontinental railroads, two airlines, interstate buses, and state carloading offices. The report cites sales, payroll figures, and Butte as Montana’s top wholesale market with livestock capacity and substantial 1947 cattle sales, alongside the Greater Bath Project by Anaconda Copper.
A downtown festival week organized by Butte firms and the nearby committee features a Masonic temple exposition hall, waves showroom, bands in the business district, a waves clinic at Finlen hotel, a window unveiling on Sept 29, and a style show at Fox theater. The 4-H show and sale at Montana Livestock Auction yards closes Oct 2 with finance officials reporting rapidly coming checks to defray expenses.
Mr and Mrs Ray O Donnell and their child arrived from Mammoth Yellowstone Park and have rented an apartment with Mrs O Donnell s parents Mrs and Mrs David Robertson. Mrs O Donnell joins the grade school faculty this year and Mr O Donnell will finish work at Mammoth September 18 then join his family in Manhattan. He plans to attend Montana State College at Bozeman this year.
Joyful society announces meetings across Grace Silver Bow churches and clubs from WSCS groups to garden clubs and Rebekah lodge. Members urged to attend September sessions, plan fall activities, and share hospitality at church parlors and hall events.
In a normal year New York state dresses coats blouses and furs for produces more than 1.5 billion dollars worth of clothing almost half the nation’s output. Seventy percent of the nation’s women’s garments are made in New York state.
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