Modern harvest scene shows steamless threshing with caterpillar power
In Fort Benton area near Schoonover farm four miles west, a modern combined harvester and thresher operates with a caterpillar engine, auxiliary gas power, and a grain wagon, cutting a wide swath with four men and one horse team idle. Trucks carry grain to the railroad, replacing the old multi-team crews and transforming farm routines near Kershaw.
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Schoonover
Fort Benton
Kershaw
Chicago
Tank tractor by Edison era inventor boosts farming power
The article profiles Cleveland motor truck engineer Thomas White and his small light tractor described as a miniature tank. It promises wide work range, all-terrain plowing, and high efficiency to address farm labor shortages, claiming eight to ten acres plowed daily and cost within reach for average farmers.
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Rollin H. White
Cleveland
Mr. White
White
Paris American troops in France face no new danger
A digest of dispatches reports New York fatalities from July auto accidents tally 54 dead and 1656 injured. Other items note measures against dogs tax, hotel manager OBrien critically ill, and various war related arrests and incidents across Boston Chicago Spokane and Milwaukee with geopolitical notes from Moscow and Petrograd.
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Paris
France
Hame
Sammy
New York
New York City
Chinator Weeks
Massachusetts
Federal Senate
Chicago
Michael O’brien
Sherman Hotel
Earl Spencer
Red Cross
Spokane
Mexico City
Friends of
Germany
United States
Frances Willard Hospital
Kansas City
Karl Graves
Secret Service
Long Beach
Petrograd
Nicholas
Tsarskoe- Selo
Siberia
Milwaukee
Ottawa
Canadian Imperial Munition Board
Canada
Madrid
Spain
Buffalo
Charles A. Wall, Jr
Richard Mead
Wall
Mead
Washington
America
County to Exterminate Gophers At Estimated Cost
Cascades county will pay about 3000 dollars to exterminate gophers based on an estimate by County Agriculturist Emerson. The commissioners will likely order the expenditure as pests are believed to destroy thousands of dollars worth of grain each season.
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Cascades County
Emerson
Montana Professor Atkinson Heads to Washington Food Control Meet
Professor Atkinson, a Montana agricultural economics expert, is en route to Washington for a national food control meeting. He will join food commissioners from states across the union to discuss policies and actions affecting foodstuffs during wine season.
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States
Montana
Atkinson
Washington
Food Control
Union
Girl 7 Gives Pig Drive to Red Cross Aid
Verneil Koch of Muczelshell Montana at age seven raised a pig for the Red Cross. She cared for the pig until sale and sent $5 plus 25 cents to James T. Gerould, president of the Minnesota Red Cross, hoping the pig would bring $10 but needing to move for a better school.
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Verneil Koch
Muczelshell
Montana
Verneil
James T. Gerould
Minnesota Red Cross
Eli
Red Cross
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