Forest Fire Prevention As National Week Observed
Forester urges public action to prevent fires across fourteen states with vast timber lands. Education and citizen involvement are named as keys to halting forest devastation, during Forest Protection Week from April 16 to 22.
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Alabama
Arkansas
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Mississippi
Missouri
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Reverend Kvile Takes Montana Call After Farewell Sermon
In Farmington Rev. Kvile preached his farewell sermon after six years with the congregation. He resigns to accept a calling at Froid Montana and expects to begin work with a local church there.
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Kvile
Froid
Montana
Take Nature a Chance at Tan Lac Medicine
Choteai Drug Co promotes Tan lac as nature’s own medicine offering a natural remedy for health and wellness.
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Nature
Choteai Drug Co
Auction Sale by U S Reclamation Service at Fairfield
The United States Reclamation Service will sell at public auction in Fairfield Montana on April 22 1922 at 1 30 pm. The property includes 9 horses 33 mules and miscellaneous groceries. Cash is required.
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United States Reclamation Service
Fairfield
Montana
Corn Fields in the Alps Above Five Thousand Feet
M. J. Landa describes Europe's highest corn fields in the Grisons where Romansch survives among rugged Alpine scenery. A motor carriage climbs to the Oberalp pass venerable lake to glimpse a road worker and watch corn drying on rooftop frames as a new railway project promises to connect Engadine with the Bernese Oberland and Rhone valley.
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Europe
Grisons
M. J. Landa
Oberalp Pass
Inquisition
Mackintosh
Engadine
Bernese Oberland
Rhone Valley
Rhone
Rhine
Campaign Button Compared for Lincoln Hamlin and Douglas Johnson
Old Globe item shows a campaign button from 1860 for Lincoln and Hamlin. A. P. Curtis of Fitchburg sent a similar button used by Lincoln opponents Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V. Johnson. The brass buttons are identical except for tintypes and carry a ribbon indicating lapel suspension.
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Globe
Abraham Lincoln
Hannibal Hamlin
A. P. Curtis
Fitchburg
Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
Herschel VY. Johnson
Curtis
Douglas- Johnson
Boston Globe
Wave Motor Power Buoy Aims Self Lighting Ship Lamps
An experimental wave driven motor in England uses a vertical hollow spindle with a submerged platform and an annular float. The pump like action between the float and spindle drives a dynamo to power an electric lamp, creating a self supplying lighted buoy.
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England
Eyeglass Allows View In Front Behind With Safe Hearing Aid
Commandant Loulie de Cenne of the French Legion of Honor designed a pince-nez that uses reflections to let the wearer see in all directions including behind. The glasses correct myopia and other vision errors. Deaf users say it helps them sense approaching dangers for safety.
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Loulie de Cenne
French Legion of Honor
Joyful Reunion Over Long‑Overdue Loan
A veteran recalls loaning a friend 100 francs in service days. Meeting again during Christmas shopping, the friend returns 95 francs claiming interest owed. The writer had believed the pair would never meet again due to the loan and his comrade's hospital operation in Germany.
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Germany
Chicago Journal
Unique spiral stair in Southwest Museum tower Los Angeles
The Southwest Museum Los Angeles features a unique spiral concrete stair in its seven story tower. The caracole stair is 160 steps with 74 inch rise each, hollow center, built around a galvanized iron pipe form and enclosed by 8 inch walls.
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Tower of the Southwest Museum
Los Angeles
Cal
Tower of
St. Paul’s
Tower of the Cathedral
City
Mexico
Christopher Wren
Tower
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
America
Ignorance Wins Order From Skeptical Buyer
A shoe salesman feigned total ignorance of shoes to secure a buyer who believed he was being misled. The buyer, impressed by the seller’s admission of ignorance, wrote the order himself after testing the salesman’s claims. The episode highlights distrust between buyers and seemingly knowledgeable sellers.
Adam Receives Banquet Honoring Creation Scene
In Eden, on the sixth day, beasts and birds gathered for a grand feast in Adam's honor. A colossal master of ceremonies called for a speech, and Adam, surprised, confessed unpreparedness while thanking vertebrates and invertebrates.
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Garden of Eden
Adam
Storyteller Falls Behind Stage During Store Show
A storyteller for children and mothers in a department store stumbled backward into a temporary stage backdrop and nearly fell two feet. He recovered and continued his tale as the amused crowd paid little heed to the mishap.
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Eornes
Chicago Tribune
Trapped Rattlesnake Found Crushed in Cellar Trap
Amandus Creitz of Steinsville Pa set a steel trap for a farm animal but caught a rattlesnake with 11 rattles instead. The heavy spring crushed the snake, and afterward nothing was missing from the cellar though women in the household used the space daily.
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Amandus Creitz
Steinsville
Australians Made Famous in War Then and Now
A fragment discusses the word Aussie and its wartime fame beginning in 1914, noting Australians who fought and fell in global conflicts, alongside a reference to Scots ranks on Flodden and a silhouette of early war memory.
Potatoes for sale at Hodgskiss ranch near Chateau
Netted gem seed potatoes offered for sale at Hodgskiss ranch two miles south of Chateau. The note places the location and price reference in a brief listing style from a local section.
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Hodgskiss
Chateau
Advance Guard of Settlers Arrive for Chestnut Valley Farms
Great Falls report from April 16 states eight Idaho families are to locate on 80 acre irrigated farms in Chestnut valley with two families from Rigby joining a emigrant special train. G N Railway agent G W Lincoln notes irrigation know how and that ten new homes will be built by May 1 to house settlers, totaling 55 people arriving with the advance group.
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Great Falls
Idaho Falls
Chestnut Valley
Cascade
G. W. Lincoln
Great Northern Railway
Rigby
Idaho
Montana
E. C. Leedy
Great Northern
Lincoln
Tanlac Restores Natural Health Nerves and Appetite
Tanlac strengthens the nerves and brings back the normal state of health through its effect on appetite and nutrition of the body. Choteau Drug Co.
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Tanlac
Choteau Drug Co
Courtly Stare Turns into Hatmakers Receipts Gaffe
A street car scene ends with a sharp retort as a woman accused another of spying. The accused woman lists purchases from Jones’s, Smith’s, and Robinson’s and offers receipts to prove the hat, shoes, dress, and brooch are genuine.
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Jones’s
Smith’s
Robinson’s
For Sale Items From O R N Nelson
Furniture and tools offered at reduced prices by O R N Nelson. Items listed include an extension table, two iron beds with springs and mattresses, a large oak rocker, a sewing machine with motor, lawn mower, water power washer, crosscut saw, buck saw, long and short handled spades, and kitchen utensils. Prices range from 50 cents to 20 dollars.
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Evile
Farmington School
Luther League
Farmington
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Flint, Mich
Firestone
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Alps
Los Angeles Museum
American
New York
San’ Francisco
Pacific Ocean
K. Malone
Butte
Apex
P. O
T. A. Meagher
Citizens State Bank
Choteau
Ocear Piper
S. Macanny
Harold Fisher
Acantha
Duroc
H. M
Montgomery
Weill
Carl Hanson
Agawam
Bynum
Pendroy
Methodist Church
A. B. Andrews
Winder
Caifico
Charles Justice
P. T. Palmer
Monarch Range
H. D. Robison
Estray
H-bard
Mike Wolf
Ford
Fenders
Ford Sales
C. W. Scherrer
Abe
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