Farming Methods to Beat Drought Says McGinnis Founder of Chinook
McGinnis, founder of Chinook, Montana, now in Oakland, argues crop failures east of the Rockies stem from poor farming. He urges deep plowing, straight-tooth harrows, and timely harrowing after rains to secure yields even in dry years, citing Flathead and prairie experiences.
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Drouth
McGinnis
Chinook
Montana
Rocky Mountains
David R. McGinnis
Oakland
California
Dryland farming in Montana stresses windbreaks and irrigation
The Great Falls Trib urges persistent windbreaks aligned north south to foil southwest winds, warns against using last year’s rye and sunflowers as they steal moisture, and promotes annual soil mixing to reduce drifting. It calls irrigation the essential future for eastern Montana’s prairies.
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Montana
Great Falls
Notice of Contest over Homestead Entry in Montana
Department of the Interior notice to Harry Perkins of Great Falls that Arthur L. Thompson has filed a contest to cancel Homestead Entry 041871 dated Dec 12 1916 for W4%4SW%4 Sec 17 and N4%4SE%4 Sec 18 T24N R6W Montana. Thompson alleges abandonment two years, fraudulently obtained leaves, lack of cultivation and fencing, not due to military service, with the entry to be canceled if Perkins fails to answer under oath within twenty days after the fourth publication.
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Department of the Interior
United States Land Office
Great Falls
Montana
Harry Perkins
Arthur L. Thompson
Township 24 North
Range 6
West
Meridian
U. S. Army
Navy
Alls Catarrh Medicine Promises Blood Purification
Claims Alls Catarrh Medicine acts as a tonic and blood purifier to restore normal conditions by cleansing the blood and building up the system. Encourages nature to do its work. Sold by all druggists with circulars free from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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Nature
All
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Stockholders Meeting Called for Eldorado Co-operative Canals
A special meeting of Eldorado Co operative Canals Company stockholders is set for Tuesday August 30 1921 at 2 PM at the First National Bank of Chateau. The session will consider increasing capital stock to acquire prior water rights and handle other business. Secretary Treasurer B E Hirshberg issued the notice dated July 29 1921 with publication Aug 4 and Aug 25.
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Eldorado Co-operative Canals Company
First National Bank of
Chateau
Board of Directors
BE. J. Hirshberg
Cause of Appendicitis Explained and Prevention
A medical explanation describes how constipation leads to fecal matter packing the large intestine and germs reaching the appendix causing appendicitis. It advises Chamberlain's Tablets to aid bowels and reduce risk.
Hoover orders aid to starving Russians from Riga mission
The American relief administration under Secretary Hoover will send Walter L Brown to Riga to negotiate food shipments to the Soviet Union after Moscow accepts aid. No public fund appeal is planned. costs projected at 1.25 to 1.5 million dollars monthly. State Department says relief is humanitarian and not a political move and no recognition of the Soviet government is implied.
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Washington
Hoover
American Relief Administration
Maxim Gorky
Russia
State Department
Petrograd
Appeal to Workers From Moscow Stir World Proletariat
The Third Internationale executive committee in Moscow radioed an appeal to the world proletariat amid Russia's hunger. It charged that governments of England and America seek to trade bread for chances to organize counter revolutions on Russian soil.
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Riga
Russia
The
Third Internationale
Moscow
World Proletariat
England
America
Student Pilots Killed in Aerial Crash Near Elgin
Captain John McCrae of Los Angeles and Lieutenant Francis Nunemacher of Berkeley, student officers at the Post Field aerial observation school, died Monday afternoon when their airplane crashed three miles west of Elgin. The cause is unknown and a board of investigators has been appointed.
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Lawton
Ohio
John McCrae
Los Angeles
Cal
Francis Nunemacher
Berkeley
Post Field
Elgin
McCrae
Seattle Urges Armament Conference Be Held Here
Seattle city council adopts memorial to the secretary of state urging the disarmament conference be held in Seattle and hopes it will not end until a definite satisfactory settlement is reached on Japanese immigration to the United States.
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Great Northern Railway
Leeds
Seattle
Wash
Elevator Strike Called Off After Week-Long Walkout
Chicago grain elevator workers represented by the Chicago Grain Elevator and Feed Mill Union ended a month-long strike that halted about 800 workers. The stoppage previously disrupted grain movement in and out of Chicago.
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Chicago
Chicago Grain Elevator and Feed Mill
Woman Fights Three Tigers At Aurora Circus Parade
A woman fought three wild tigers during a circus parade in Aurora Iowa behind the wagon bars before hundreds of spectators on Monday.
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Aurora
Note Exchange in Shipping War Between U S and Britain
Washington reports a diplomatic dispute over Egyptian cotton carriage between the Shipping Board and British ship owners. Communications were exchanged nearly a year ago and the possibility of invoking punitive sections of the merchant marine act against British vessels could widen the rift. Further correspondence is expected to avoid a breach.
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Washington
Shipping Board
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