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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
2
Letters describe life at Camp Lewis and Long Island camps with drills, passes, and daily routines. Soldiers discuss quarantines sickness, dining plans for Thanksgiving, and experiences in New York City, plus notes on aviation sights and western slang.
A letter from Camp Mills officer Nick Pambrum urges Montana farmers to winterize machinery. He stresses planning and organization, inspecting all equipment, oiling and tightening parts, replacing worn components, painting to prevent rust, and storing binder canvasses safely to avoid annual damage.
A Montana farm note urges fall and winter repair work to save time in spring. It extols assembling a small blacksmith shop with a south window and a bench, plus grease and paint, to gain free time when spring arrives. The piece also includes a land notice from the Interior Department dated 1917 and a report that Erie railroad shops in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, will hire women in mechanical roles for the first time.
The piece advises farmers to build a small indoor blacksmith shop to handle winter tasks. A modest 20 by 10 to 12 feet space with a two to three meter high ceiling is enough, plus a forge, bellows, hammers and an anvil.
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