Printing in the Middle Ages Seen as Genteel Trade
Apprentices paid master printers for training rather than earning wages, reflecting the era's view of printing as a refined craft and the apprenticeship system's payment structure.
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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1964
Page
3
Apprentices paid master printers for training rather than earning wages, reflecting the era's view of printing as a refined craft and the apprenticeship system's payment structure.
Reed Point Supt B Z Burton announces school opens Monday August 31 with 10 a m pupil registration and a driver training course taught by Burton. Circle R 4H club held a livestock tour visiting Goddard Booth Langford Goddard Musse ranch and Berry home with refreshments. Several families and residents from Reed Point and nearby towns hosted and visited others at picnics trips and weekend gatherings at multiple farms, lakes, and homes including Clifford Booth and Holmgren properties. Canton Ohio Lovers Lane address name change noted as Stark County votes to revert from Lovers Street to Lovers Lane.
A resident in Heart Butte used a wash tub to gauge rainfall during Montana's flood. Researchers later compiled data from tubs cans and buckets, with Glacier National Park reporting 16 inches in 32 hours and officials noting the record flood in the northwest and central regions.
The article discusses rainfall measurements near East Glacier with 14.5 inches from a 50-gallon drum and 12.5 inches from Thompson's tub, adjusted to 11.5 inches for angled sides. Federal survey workers gathered data via postcards and field reports to verify these readings.
The note warns to read medicine labels to avoid taking the wrong drug. It also cites a grim statistic that an accident kills a farm resident every hour and a farmer is injured every forty seconds, disabling him.
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