Bulletin Fosters Farmers Support in Judith Basin
Louis Blodgett’s Farmers Exchange Bulletin serves Judith Basin farmers with crop data and barter news. The piece highlights a poem praising Blodgett and notes widespread farming expansion, tractor use, and rising acreages across Sheridan and neighboring counties as crops are poised for a record year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Blodgett
Lewistown
United States
The
Bulletin
George W. White
Pine Grove
Blodgett
Campaign Pair Preston Leslie and John Harlan in Kentucky Era
Preston H. Leslie once defeated John M. Harlan for Kentucky governor and later became Montana governor on Justice Harlan’s strong recommendation. The two old rivals remained friends, campaigning together and sharing hotel beds before both pursued public service anew. Judge Jere B. Leslie, son of the former governor, lives in Great Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preston H. Leslie
Territory
Montana
Kentucky
John M. Harlan
United States Supreme Court
Leslie
Harlan
Supreme Court
Cleveland
Justice Harlan
Senate
Jere B. Leslie
Great Falls
Bartender Becomes Town Founder After Land Draw
N F Clark of Havre won the Laredo townsite drawing on Fort Assiniboine reservation land opened to settlement. He platted lots, built a store post office lumber yards and an elevator, selling parcels as growth comes. He plans to move there when the state goes dry in about two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Grove
Mont
L. D. Blodgett
Farmers Exchange Bulletin
Lewistown
Montana
Mi Deer
Pete
Jim
Bob
Jerry
Oates
Jon Akrog
Fens
Galata
Plentywood
Sheridan County
John A. Davis
Fort Peck Reservation
C. J. Beiseker
Harry Martin
Bainville
Fort Peck Indian Reservation
Ceres
Thor
Isis
Sheridan
N. F. Clark
Havre
Clark
Laredo
Fort Assiniboine
Uncle Sam
Assiniboine Reservation
Hill County
Pay of Soldiers Almost Doubled Under New Law
Local recruiters report pay hikes under a new schedule making US soldiers the best paid in the world. Privates rise from 15 to 30 or 33 dollars, corporals from 21 to 36 or 39, sergeants from 30 to 38 or 40, higher ranks to 65 or 81, with a minimum 87.17 monthly including clothing and benefits. Aliens fluent in English may enlist regardless of citizenship, excluding Kaiser subjects and Austrians, opening the force to Greeks Italians Englishmen and Frenchmen seeking service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galata
H. QO. Weare
The
Galata Journal
Joplin
Axtel Olsson
Joplin Times
Rudyard
A. J. Danielson
Rudyard Dispatch
Hingham
Berkley Walker
Hingham Review
Guldford
J. T. Casey
Gildford Tribune
Kremlin
Matt Casey
Maore
F. F. Brown
Havre
Chinook
H. P. Brooks
Harlem
H. C. Anderson
Harlem Newa
Dodson
C. C. Milla
Montana
Malta
H. A. Johnson
Saco
W. D. Miller
Saco Independent
Hinsdale
Frank Tooke
Hinsdale Tribune
Glasgow
T. J. Hocking
Glasgow Courier
Opheim
Robert L. Tait
Opheim Observer
Gleontanna
Joseph A. Whetatone
Glontana Reporter
Scobey
George A. Cook
Scobey Citizen
Flaxvillea
P. A. Paulson
Flaxville
Dooley Sun
Burley Bower
Antelope Independent
Medicine Lake
Joseph Donlin
Medicine Lake Wave
A. J. Butler
Field Tribune
B. Wier
Bainville Tribune
Dale Curran
Brockton Bulletin
J. P. What
Wolf Point Herald
Noah Mann
Oswego Reporter
Roy Gordon
Nashua Independent
United States
Meyers Sold Cats In Montana In First Livestock Deal
Ira Meyers brought a mother cat and six kittens from Denver to Bannack in 1863. A neighbor offered $156 for a kitten, and Meyers collected $160 from selling all kittens at $20 each plus $30 for the mother cat, claiming it the best livestock deal he ever made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Ira Meyers
Territory of
Idaho
Meyers
Denver
Clear Creek
Bannack
Will Power Needs Exercise to Stay Sharp
A message notes that every man is born with willpower but must exercise it regularly or it becomes rusty and unusable. The idea emphasizes discipline and practice as the path to steady resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bankers’ Insurance Company of
Helena
Jigiftean Hundred
Hit and Miss Entanglement of Wealthy Fiancé
A rhapsodic note on engagement bliss to Britt in a wealthy match. The text frames marriage as a fortune driven choice and hints at feminine desire seeking something inexpensive through matrimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britt
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Judith Poet
Toole
California
Scobey West
Northland
Kanning Brothers
Bonanza
Fred Grassin
Albert Jallo
Modoc
Scobey Country
Paradise
LaPierre
Grover Cleveland
Tha le Epr
Assinniboine Reservation
B. Power
John Evans
Cascade
N. 5S
SUN River Stock & Land Company
King Cattle Company
South St. Paul, Minn
Ateck
Sproweecu
Montaka
Earth
Hereford
Duncan
McDonald
Mgr
Shirleys
Great” Parke
First National
First National Bank
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