farmer's plow uncovers age old fort union relics near Mondak
A farmer's plow unearthed an Indian grave near the old Fort Union stockade on the Montana Dakota line. A 1864 dated medal suggests the grave dates between 1864 and 1868, when Fort Union was destroyed. The find at the Missouri river site prompts preservation at the state historical library.
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Fort Union
Montana
Dakota
Missouri River
State Historical Library
Roosevelt Highway
North Dakota
Old Fort
Mondak
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois
Andrew Jackson
Tennessee
Baltimore
George B. McClellan
New Jersey
George H. Pendleton
Ohio
Lincoln
McClellan
F. A. Weinrich
Old Fort Union
Weinrich
Montana-Dakota
Grave finds from Fort Union reveal Civil War era relics
Archaeologists uncover trinkets near old stockade site including a 1864 presidential campaign brass medal and bone bead. The site near Fort Union shows a palisade fort with cannon, muskets, and a detailed fort layout as remains were torn down after 1868.
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Kenneth McKenzie
Fort Union
Fort Buford
Missouri River
Fox film unit eyed Vigilante era for Montana romance
Harold J. Binney faces arrest in Santa Rosa on a telegraphic warrant from Butte over promoting a fake Montana film company. Fox co writes that a Vigilante Days drama may be produced, with scenario writers to visit Montana and study Helena archives for a film in California studios. Washington Mellon's income tax bill advances in the house offering 25 percent relief for earned incomes up to five thousand dollars.
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Harold J. Binney
Santa Rosa
Calif
Butte
Montana
Ux Film Corporation
Hamilton Thompson
Fox Scenario Department
Fox Company
State Historical Library
Helena
Mr. Thompson
Thompson
Fox
California
Washington—Mellon
House
Beet Growers to Get Better Prices under 1924 Contract
The Great Western Sugar company announces a 1924 beet contract offering the best sliding scale yet for beet growers in the Billings and Lowell district. Payments could rise from 60 cents to 1.75 dollars per ton compared with 1923, based on the net sugar price received by Billings Lowell factories. The plan aims to attract more acreage, building on the larger contracts signed last year.
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Great Western Sugar Company
Billings
Lowell
Billings-Lowell
Valley County Seed Growers complete 1923 crop sale
Valley County Seed Growers association reports near completion of its 1923 crop sale at Glasgow cleaning and grading plant. About $20,000 worth of seed shipped nationwide this season. Durell Brothers sold 6,400 pounds Grimm alfalfa seed to Barkemeyer Grain & Seed Co. for $2,100 from 40 acres dryland. Seed shipped to Indiana.
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Valley County
Valley County Seed Growers’ Association
Glasgow
Durell Brothers
Barkemeyer Grain & Seed Company
Indiana
Dictograph Products offers free ten day deafness trial
The Dictograph Products Corporation announces a device claimed to restore hearing for most forms of deafness. Tested by long term sufferers, results are described as greatly improving natural hearing. They offer a ten day free trial by parcel post with no deposit or COD, at their expense, with no obligation. Send name and address for literature and trial request.
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Dictograph Products Corporation
Sharp
Kansas City
Montana corn variety tests planned in Custer county
C M Yerrington of the local farm bureau announced extensive corn experiments selecting from Minnesota 13 23 Rustlers White Silver King Minnesota King and Northwestern Dent in at least two communities in Custer county. Locations to be chosen later. Tests will be detailed with records and a memorandum of agreement between demonstrator and county extension. In a separate case a district court jury ruled Harold Park had sufficient faculties to marry Agnes Stark, denying annulment.
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Minnesota
Minnesota King
Northwestern Dent
Custer County
C. M. Yerrington
Farm Bureau Organization
Yerrington
Billings
Harold
Park
Agnes Stark
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Polytechnic
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Chesterfield
OLD Mill
Lucky Strike
A. Tally
Helena, Montana
F. A. Ironside
N. Main Street
Montana Oil Edition
Great Falls
Great Falls, Montana
United States
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Rawhide Rawlins Stories
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Great Western
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