Entries for Montana Interscholastic meet events increased
Missoula May 12 entries for the Montana Interscholastic meet were finalized, showing growth over last year and about 60 more students expected to participate. Delegates from Flathead and other counties arrived, with a long list of competitors named across multiple events including sprints, distance races, relays, and field events.
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Montana Field
Missoula
Montana
Dale
Clete
Pach
Rain Dampens Interscholastic Meet Delegation Day in Missoula
Mist and rain kept Assoula residents indoors and disrupted the Interscholastic meet events in Missoula. Delegations arrived to a dreary day that spoiled a Sunday concert by the Eagle band and several juvenile baseball games.
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Assoula
Garden City
Eagle Band
Dr George Craven Dead in Sassoula May 17
Dr George Craven is reported dead in Sassoula with details indicating a death occurred on May 17 and noting the physician’s prominence in the community. Further particulars on cause or funeral plans are not provided in the fragment.
Dr Craven Dies in Emmond After Ill Health
Toren, a physician from Northern Pacine, died this morning of pneumonia in Emmond after a period of ill health. Dr Craven was well known in Missoup and visited this city frequently. his death saddens many friends. Remains shipped this afternoon to James Daigle’s residence in South Misto, Mrs Craven, Daigle’s daughter, among those affected. Funeral arrangements not completed tonight.
Sancti Spiritus Opposes Railroad Line in Cuba
In Sancti Spiritus, residents urged by the Ayuntamento rejected an offer for a trunk line rail route between Havana and Santiago. They voted against railway access through their town, preferring saddle mules and carts. A new town, Zaza del Medio, would host a branch line, while the main path avoided the city.
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Chicago
Sancti Spiritua
Iglesia Dist
Ciba
Alle
Havana
Santiago
Zaza del Medio
Pearl hunting industry grows in northern Canada
An adventure traveler finds a valuable pearl and sparks talk of a new industry in the Ungava region. Indians Eskimos and whites dig mussel shells daily, hoping for rare pearls. Some fetch high prices, with a single pearl reported at 140 dollars in New York. The operation is romantic yet fragile, as most pearls are imperfect or scarce.
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Canada
Ixexes
Ameri Clites
Ungava
Madson Bay Company
New York
Ceylon
Mecca
Wits
Swiss militia system praised as model for Europe
The Swiss army is hailed as the ideal political institution that keeps taxation low while offering freedom from constant service. Recruits join schools, infantry for four days, cavalry for eighty, with regular days for reserves and annual rifle practice. Target shooting is a national sport with prizes. an army of 327,000 is ready at a moment’s notice.
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Tafter
Europe
Where the Pure Food Law Plays
Maurice Wells of Helena has completed a modern cafe in Montana offering pure foods and fine meals as states discuss pure food laws. The article highlights health benefits and a newly opened cafe catering to well-cooked and well-seasoned dishes.
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Maurice Wells
Helena
Montana
Cherry Brook replaces Skidoo as post office name
In Venango County Franklin PA May 12 patrons of the Skidoo post office protested a misspelled name and the post office department ordered discontinuing Skidoo. Cherry Brook was chosen as the new name amid local anger at the prior spelling and disputes over township naming and boundaries.
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Franklin
Skidoo
Venango County
Post Office
Cherry Brook
Grant
Indiana
Will Penn
Washington
Cherry
Rook
Ted
Old Sweetheart Returns He Weds Another's Bride
Harding county reports a young man named Bachelder, once missing from his parents home twelve years ago, returned to town with Miss Kate Claussen. He confronted her about an earlier engagement to Edward Pritchett and urged elopement. Miss Claussen agreed, and the wedding to Pritchett was called off as the couple planned to run away. Details about his disappearance remain unexplained, with family and friends left perplexed by his long absence.
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May
Johnson
Harding County
Tong Bell
Kate Claussen
Edward Pritchett
Mise Claussen
Pritchett
Bachelder
Miss Clausen
Tachelder
Rich close the doors to stranded stranger in Wilkinsburg
Pittsburg May 12 Charles Bach years old refined and religious was put off train in Wilkinsburg for lost ticket and left stranded in the wealthy suburb without friends. Taken in by W G Ewing who notified the police. Bach collected for at the First Methodist Episcopal church. He started for home this evening reading his Bible.
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Pittsburg
Charles Bach
Wickinsburg
Ralston
Bach
W. G. Ewing
Balston
Maniac Attacks Women by Cheek Biting in Maine
Auburn Maine May 12 Heaven is being made throughout the Pine Tree state for a maniacal assailant who bites the cheeks of women. Mrs Robert Haskell was struck in the head and prostrated at home after a dark attack by a short stout man with a heavy mask. City Marshal Tome searches for the suspect. A similar assault occurred on Mr Mottram in Lewiston and other reports come from other points in Maine.
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Auburn
Pine Tree
Robert Haskell
Mr Mottram
Lewiston
Maine
Cleveland Cat Club to open pet nail parlor
May 12 Cleveland Cat club members, known for city society ties, vote to establish a manicuring parlor for pets. Dr W C Fur of Cashegie Avenue to oversee. Mrs Stephen Buhrer explains aim to prevent disease and protect healthy claws. Members are prominent society leaders whose cats have won prizes.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Cat Club
de. W.C. Fur
Cashegie Avenue
Stephen Buhrer
Safe-cracker seeks bank watching job in Pittsburg
"Snakes" Wilson a notorious safe-cracker nearing release after an 11 year penitentiary term asked state charities head Francia Torrance for a bank watchman job. Torrance doubted the plea noting Wilson’s long prison record and expertise with banks. Wilson replied he knows all about banks and insisted on reform.
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Pittsburg
Snakes
Name Bank
Mr. Torrance
Board of Charities
Mrr
Torrance
Not Afraid of Ghosts They Buy Haunted House in Washington
In Cecil township near Washington Pennsylvania following a murder of four family members the former house and acres were sold to the Cassaday family from Arizona. Local rumors tell of a headless woman and ghostly children, but the Cassadays moved in undeterred, claiming they are not frightened by the tales.
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Washington
Samuel Pearce
Cecil Township
Cassaday
Arizona
Cecil
Cassadays
Girls of Nebraska form an anti whiskers club
Hemingford Nebraska society women form an anti whiskers society in response to a pro whiskers group in Har. Members vow not to receive attention from beard wearers including young or old men and men with beards. Heavy penalties are imposed for violations.
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Girls OF Nebraska
Omaha
Hemingford
Neb
Har
Nebraska
Suth Dakota
Hemingford Society
Whistle Loosed From Stomach After Twenty Two Years
Ephraim Je Pome of Pomfret revealed a nickel plated whistle swallowed at age nine after a long hiccough fit. The whistle, about the size of a cent, had lodged between the lips and throat, causing shrill noises when air was drawn. A prank by Uncle Amos ended with the whistle's disappearance, then reappeared during a recent bout of hiccups.
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Ephraim Je- Pome
New York Herald
Ephraim
Rutland
Amos Parson
Eephraim
Jerome
PHE WOOD IN OLD VIOLINS
The Circle Magazine notes woods favored for violin making include pine pear lemon ash maple and sycamore with apple used by some later makers. Boxwood was common for bridges. Howell remarks on the rare harmony between violins and their bridges and distrusts replacing old bridges, urging patching to extend the old instrument’s life.
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Circle Magazine
Howels
Home Made Weather Glass Demonstrated
A simple weather glass can be made from an empty salad oil bottle or a fruit jar. Fill with water to cover the mouth, invert the bottle, water rises to the top in dry weather and falls in wet weather. The method, though old, is reliable according to the account.
Twenty Four Babies For A Young Mother
Rev and Mrs George W H Ross of Oak Mill near Louisville Ky welcomed their twenty fourth child on May 12. The mother at 38 appears much younger and the family includes several sets of twins with oldest near 21. Mr Ross, a Roosevelt supporter, began rearing a family before his stance on race was noted. The Rosses are well known and their children are described as bright and lively.
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Louisville
George W. H. Ross
Oak Mill
Ross
United States
Rosa
Roosevelt
Rose
Horse Flesh for Food Traced in European Trade
The article notes Britain as a major importer of cattle and sheep but an unexpected exporter of horses for meat. It cites profits from breeding exports, rising horse meat trade since 1901 18, with low prices per head and meat sold at 10 to 12 cents a pound for good cuts, cheaper portions for 4 to 7 cents, and describes uses in Sunigestome products. The Netherlands imports British horse meat, reflecting continental demand driven by meat shortages and high prices.
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Great Britain
Nem
Incfease Ince
Continental
Pope
Tieislum
Netherlands
Adrenalin Heralded As Rare Expensive Drug
The article explains adrenalin as among the newest costly medicines, valued at seven thousand dollars per pound. It describes its powerful astringent and hemostatic effects, closing arteries to stop hemorrhage, and its use as a heart stimulant to revive hearts damaged by chloroform. Experiments reportedly confirm its superiority in preventing heart failure during anesthesia.
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Ned" Kreicher
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Elmer
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Stacy
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Dan Crowley
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Teere
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Will
Tucker
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Prank
Leonart
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Songbush
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Eavar Smith
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Hen Willard
Tom Barker
Platt
Belden
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Archie Kennedy
Barry Beard
Fred
Ann Faward Bsartlett
George Sala
Frank Stanley Woolcox
Archie Spraine
Arnold Seaxbush
James Crumle
Falla
Edgar Smith
Ben. Willard
Archie McCormick
Willie Ragen
Raymond Wine
Jerome Merritt
Sohn Cotter
Broadwater County
Ben. Shecks
Nick Roberts
John Brittan
Oscar Vaughn
Gallatin
Earl Schoonover
Barry’ Beard
Fred Angevine
Ray Smith
Parks County
Frank Jefferson
Earl’ Halladay
Met Ryan
Anaconna
Award Bartlett
Roy’ van Houten
Fred Grandpre
Dailey
James Drusville
Leslie Sultrove
Erdeal
Broadwater
Don Anderson
Fereus
Lioyd Denney
William McBride
Fred” Angevine
Roy Hamilton
Park Eaward Hodgskins
Earl Hallamet Ryan
Broad jump—Horn
Kern
Fred Brook
Irwin Evans
Frank Leonard
Boward McChale
Pail Williams
Archie Splaine
Great ‘Falls
Tara Wilson
Glenn Srane
George Bush
John Britton
Ames McLean
Will I. Gallatin
Ravre
New
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Max Kenck
Frank’ Leonard
Edward
Mac Butte
Oscer Voge
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Arthur Helena
Carbton
Earl Lovett
Piatt’ Belden
Ray Johnson
Sam. Dinsmore
Major Skinner
Hens Himmel Ryan
Teton
Pere
Horss
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Henry
Cos Park
Burr Robinson
Smart
Barton
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Onda
Frank ‘Leonard
Butte W Nold
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Richard Cram
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Jack’ Slayer
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Bo Jobson
Tom Baker
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George
Reilly Sells
Akes
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Philadelphia
Ameri
ARMY
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Rich
Bion
Liang Tung
Yen
Phe
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Lydia B. Pinklham
Lydia E. Pinkham
State St
Schenectady
Rene
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Big Blackfoot Milling Co
Bonner, Mont
Bonner Yards
Ya Toole Avenue
Missouri
Mont
New Wash
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Mercantile Department
Hamilton, Montana
First National Bank OF
Savings Department
A.B. Mammona
Keith
F. P. Keith
WH McLeod
A. H Beckwith
George Bricks
England
Estern Montana National Bank
C. A. Wolf
C. Lehlough
T. Ryman
Casses
DesCashier
M. le Gulden
Alb
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