Falls Author Publishes First Short Story in American
Mrs. F R Schemm of Great Falls, author of Fireweed and Hopwood prize novel of 1933, has a short story in the August American magazine titled Comfort Me With Apples. Written under her pen name Mildred Walker, she and her husband Dr Schemm of the Great Falls clinic, with their children, moved to Great Falls last October.
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F. R. Schemm
Great Falls
Helena Moves Ahead With New High School Construction
Helena school officials led by Chairman E. M. Hall plan to continue building the $500,000 high school despite a federal injunction. The case centers on wage claims reviewed by the National Labor Board. bids exceeded the limit, later reduced to create funds for an athletic site.
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Charles N. Pray
M. Bourquin
E. M. Hall
Helena
Bourquin
State Federation of Labor
National Board of Labor
National Board
National Labor Board
Labor Federation
Pray
Hall
Old Horse Sale Yards Largest in World in Miles City
Miles City hosts the A B Clark Horse Sale Yards once a national slaughter point. The yards drew buyers from ranches across the range with pens, chutes, and a grandstand. World War I boosted volumes as English French and Italian officers bought thousands of horses shipped by train to Miles City for military use.
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Miles City
Kenneth McLean
Garland
Montana
A. B. Clark
Tongue River Bridge
Fort Keogh
United States
Percy Goslett
States
Canada
Browning
St. Louis
Clark
Mexico
C. B. Ingham
Ed Love
Sherman Hunt
Miles City Horse Sales
Ernest Snelling
Miles City Company
Haygate
England
Montreal
Avaline
Col
C. N. Moore
Billings
Col. Browning
Pioneer Hank Loranger Remembered In Shelby Yarn
A Shelby legend recalls Hank Loranger once a Hill County sheriff and Ches ter saloon owner who allegedly served a drink to a man who died from exposure. The tale says the killer stood with a knife before Loranger struck and the man froze to death, with no trial ensuing.
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Ank Loranger
Shelby
Aldtimers
Hill County
Chester
California
Hank
Loranger
Fort Peck Worker Dies in Conveyor Belt Accident
Oliver Spracklin 31, Mason and Walsh Co. tunnel contractor, was killed at Fort Peck when caught in a conveyor belt near the downstream portal. No witnesses. body freed by cutting the belt, died of injuries. Born in Iowa, married with one daughter. funeral in Jordan.
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Oliver Spracklin
Mason & Walsh Co
Fort Peck
Glasgow
C. L. Powers
Jordan
Jordan Cemetery
Spracklin
Iowa
Man Barricades Cabin Fends Off Deputies Officers
Deputy sheriffs from Pondora and Teton counties retrieved Christens from a cabin in Little Badger county after he barricaded himself armed with a rifle. He attacked rangers over cigarette safety. He was transported to Choiseau for investigation.
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Pondora
Teton
Badger Country
Christens
Little Badger
Choiseau
Darfur Natives Store Water in Hollow Trees
Reports note how people in Darfur, west of Sudan, store water in hollow trees to endure drought conditions.
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Darfur
Sudan
Chinook Area Reports 25 Bushel Winter Wheat Yield
Winter wheat on farms of W F Vogt and D W Vogt south of Chinook yielded about 25 bushels an acre and graded No 1 dark hard winter. Grain was brought to Chinook elevators and samples sent to the Great Falls lab for protein. prices at Chinook ranged 75 to 79 cents per bushel. The Vogt brothers, long-time growers, find the crop satisfactory as it matures before mid-summer drought risks.
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W. F. Vogt
D. W. Vogt
Chinook
Great Falls
Vogt Brothers
Drouth
Early Day Cattle Shipment From Montana Rail Yard
The Flat Willow lower Judith and Armell's creek roundups completed. Beef cattle will be shipped at once by rail from Billings as reported by Livingston Enterprise in November 1884.
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Livingston
Mont.) Enterprise
Flat Willow
Lower Judith
Armell’s Creek
Billings
First Treatise On Color Blindness Published in 1794
In 1794 a work regarded as the earliest treatise on color blindness appeared, marking a milestone in vision science. The document argued for understanding color perception differences and influenced later studies in ophthalmology and color theory.
Population growth: US nearly quadruples from 1860 to 1980
The population of the United States in 1980 was nearly four times that of 1860, reflecting dramatic demographic expansion across the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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United States
Some Counties Will Not Have Pheasants in Montana
Five southern Montana counties Yellowstone Stillwater Carbon Rosebud and Big Horn will be excluded from the pheasant distribution to protect grain fields. About 3,000 birds have already been released and the remainder will go to sportsmen as fast as possible. Glasgow Scotland to build 20008 municipal houses.
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Montana
J. W. Carney
Yellowstone
Stillwater
Carbon
Rosebud
Big Horn
Carney
Cath cura Talcum Powder Advertises Fresh Skin
An advertisement touts Cath cura Talcum Powder as an antiseptic and scented economical powder for face skin baby and dusting. It claims it renders other perfumes superfluous and promotes Cathcura Toilet Trio including Soap Ointment and Talcum.
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