Wheat Growers Contract Questions Answered by Strawman
In a detailed letter C M Strawman answers farmers questions about the Wheat Growers contract now before them. He explains security for delivered wheat, how warehouse receipts function, and how the association plans to advance funds to growers. Strawman notes bonds and trust arrangements to finance early advances and emphasizes the farmer led nature of the association and its long standing international use. He advises reading the contract carefully and promises further clarification if needed.
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C. M. Strawman
Mr. Strawman
Mr. Jewett
Strawman
J. A. Baart
Teton
Statistical Department
Jewett
Washington-Idaho Association
New York
Washington
Idaho
California
Washington-Idaho Wheat Growers' Association
Denmark
Black Reef Oil Co Formed To Develop Gilman Field
Gilman area oil enthusiasm grows as Black Reef Oil Company forms with F M Mack A F Belzer C W Tewell Oscar M Seitz and Edwin A Jones as incorporators and directors Capital stock is 100000 The company plans deep wells to reach oil sands and has secured acreage on multiple structures The president Oscar M Seitz will travel east to meet with prominent investors.
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Times-Optimist
Gilman
Black Reef Oil Company
F. M. Mack
A. F. Belzer
C. W. Tewell
Oscar M. Seitz
Edwin A. Jones
Geological Survey
Liberty Center PTA Meeting Draws Crowd in Feb Night
The Liberty Center District 7 PTA held a February 11 meeting chaired by Mrs Averill. A county agent illustrated talk was planned, students performed, and a debate on Women in Politics favored the women. Next meeting set for February 25 led by Mrs Ida Waterman.
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Parent Teachers’ Association of District 7
Mrrs
Averill
Waterman
Abraham Lincoln
Three Leading Women in The Butterfly Man at Royal Theatre
Lew Cody stars in The Butterfly Man at the Royal Theatre with Louise Lovely Lilie Leslig and Rosemary Theby in supporting roles. The Robertson-Cole special plays Thursday and Friday.
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Lew Cody
Robertson-Cole
Royal Theater
Louise Lovely
Lilie Leslig
Rosemary Theby
Old Yankee farmer lever plan could raise pyramids
Architect Edwy E. Benedict of Waterbury Connecticut argues in a letter that pyramids could be built with simple levers and fulcrums using existing stone weight to lift itself. He offers to contract for such a project with help from reputed old time farmers as foremen.
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Edwy E. Benedict
Waterbury
Conn
Mr. Benedict
Literary Digest
Copy Mother Eve's Costume Among Juang Tribe in India
In central India the Juang or Ieaf wearers number about 11 000 and are said to retain unmixed blood from early ancestors. Juang women dress in two leaf bundles worn in front and back, tied with a string belt decorated with clay stems. Legends claim the Balurni goddess punished leafless dancing with a dire curse.
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Eve
India
Chinese Need Farming Tools
A U.S. consular report notes growing Chinese interest in improved farm implements suitable for small plots. Purchasers likely include educated farmers and landowners seeking light plows harrows cultivators small cotton gins wheel hoes and animal powered irrigation pumps.
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China
Northwest
United States
France Develops Oil Industry
France pushes to expand its oil sector after early refineries at Pechelbronn. Initial attempts began centuries ago with limited success, but a refinery reportedly operated there for about 180 years.
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France
Pechelbronn
Chamberlain's Tablets for Liver and Bowels
Advice touts Chamberlain's Tablets to tone the liver and gently move the bowels. It claims improved digestion and overall body function, targeting torpid liver and sluggish bowels with a simple remedy.
Bank cashier to leave for ranch ownership
H. M. Montgomery, longtime head of the First National Bank of Fairfield, has bought a ranch near Fairfield and will leave the bank to run the property. Frank Hirshberg, a bank director, will succeed him as cashier and has long been active in Fairfield’s mercantile trade with his brother Mort.
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H. M. Montgomery
First National Bank of Fairfield
Fairfield
Montgomery
Frank Hirshberg
Mort
House bill to annex Chouteau townships to Te Ton
A bill moving to annex seven townships from Chouteau county to Te Ton county passed the house and awaits senate committee action. Residents east of Dutton petitioned, citing the county seat distance and local inconvenience as key reasons for the change.
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HOUSE
Chouteau Townships
Teton
Teton County
Chouteau County
Senate
Helena
Dream of South Seas Revealed by Hall and Nordhoff
The article notes two American travelers challenge romantic South Sea legends. It cites Harper's on Tahitian women, who are barefoot and clothed, disputing the old view of the islands as primitive and sexually exotic.
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South Sea Islands
James Norman Hall
Charles Nordhoff
Harper's Declare
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promoted as Constitutional Cure
A vintage endorsement states catarrh is constitutional and benefits from internal treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is said to act through the blood on mucous surfaces, destroy the disease's foundation, and boost general health. Drugstores carry it, with circulars free from I J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
Nature
I. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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America
Chateau Hardware Co
Black Reef Oil Co
Liberty Center
Ida Waterman
Connecticut
Mary King
Chateau
W. J. Johnson
Bynum
Alfred Schibstead
Farmington
Acantha
T.A. Meagher
Mr. Morgan
Power Morgan
Deep Creek
Iowana Ranch
Montana
H. Bamberger
J. M. Zimmerman
K. Reinks
Bellevue Road
L. E. Taylor
Ford Car
L. Jones
Olney
Illinois
Cowgill
J. J. Daley
Dupuyer
Accantha
C. Bauma
Bole, Mont
Ford. Motor
Edison
Byron Corson
Fairfield Bank
Dutton
Rhode
Island Red Roosters
G. I. Tangen
Geo. Coffey, Jr
Glengarry
A. A. MicDonald
Glengarry Stock and Dairy
A. A. McDonald
Choteau, Montana
Army
City Tailors
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