Montana Grains Shine At Chicago Exhibition
A Bozeman dispatch cites Montana growers winning about one quarter of premium money at the Chicago Hay and Grain show for five years run. Montana plans to expand exhibitor cooperation in 1924 including land settlement plans to attract farmers. No other state matched Montana’s spring wheat quality with 74.4 percent graded No 1 and 33.3 percent weighing 62 pounds per bushel.
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Montana
Chicago
Bozeman
Montana Seedgrowers’ Association
Helena
McAfee Promoted to Vice President of Mountain States Co
Harry E. McAfee rises from assistant vice president to vice president and operating head for seven states of Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph. Ben S. Read announced the change, noting McAfee’s rapid rise from a Greeley messenger boy to district manager in Butte and Helena, and his popularity with users. Burgess will remain vice president as he retires from daily duties.
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Harry E. McAfee
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Ben S. Read
E. M. Burgess
Burgess
Intermountain
Mr. McAfee
Greeley
Colo
Montana
Butte
Helena
Colorado
McAfee
Reorganized Land Bank Regains Operation in Helena
The Montana Joint Stock Land Bank of Helena, once part of The Banking Corporation of Montana, re organized at a Felena meeting after buying capital stock from the federal farm loan board. Claude C. Gray, receiver, surrendered the stock under a September settlement.
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Montana Joint Stock Land Bank of
Helena
The
Banking Corporation of Montana
Felena
Federal Farm Loan Board of
Washington, D. C
Claude C. Gray
Banking Corporation
Grain Fed Stock Tops Chicago Market Price
A grass fed range cow owned by Matt Richardson of Armington topped the Chicago market. The 1 560 pound animal sold for 8 50 per hundred netting 4132 60, the highest price for a cow, per a circular mailed to farmers nationwide by the commission house handling Richardson's stock.
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Matt Richardson
Armington
Chicago
Commission House
Richardson
One Civil War Veteran Passes in Musselshell County
Jerry Brayman has died leaving one of Musselshell County’s two surviving Civil War veterans. A former teamster for 21 months under General Custer and later cavalry, his regiment saw 56 engagements including Gettysburg the Wilderness and Cold Harbor. He also served with General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. Brayman moved to Musselshell County in 1909 and is survived by a son and a daughter.
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Jerry Brayman
Musselshell County
General Custer
Cavalry
Gettysburg
the Wilderness
Cold Harbor
General Sheridan
Shenandoah Valley
Brayman
Ten year old girl owns violin believed to be genuine Stradivarius
Mary Virginia Owens age 10 a Ursuline Academy student at Great Falls owns an old violin inscribed Faciebat Anno 1716 Antonius Stradivarius. The instrument bought for 100 in a Kansas City pawnshop in 1908 by an old family friend may be a Cremonese masterpiece.
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Stradivarius
Antonius Stradivarius
Mary Virginia Owens
Ursuline Academy
Great Falls
Mary Virginia
Cremona
America
Kansas City
Italy
Nicola Amati
Guarneri
Antoni Stradivari
Mary Virginia Owen
Troy Owens
Taft
Calif
Owens
Kevin-Sunburst
Forces abandon Puebla after Chignahuapan defeat
Vera Cruz reports federal troops left Puebla city in the wake of a defeat at Chignahuapan Puebla state. The withdrawal marks a setback for government forces in the region with Puebla under changed control.
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Vera Cruz
Mexico
Puebla
Chignahuapan
State of
New Oil Lamp Free Burns 94 Percent Air Offer
E. P. Johnson of 609 W Lake St Chicago Illinois offers a free oil lamp that claims to burn 4 percent air and surpasses gas or electricity. He will give one free lamp to the first user in each locality who helps introduce it and is seeking agents.
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E. P. Johnson
W. Lake
Chicago
Five Generations Meet in Butte Family Reunion
An unusual Christmas gathering at 2405 Harrison Avenue Butte brings five generations of the Cote-Guay family together. Cynthia Guay age two shares her second Christmas with great great grandmother Mrs R Theobald great grandmother Mrs O Cote grandparents Mr and Mrs Louis Guay and parents Mr and Mrs Frederick Guay.
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Louis Guay
Harrison Avenue
Butte
Cote-Guay
Cynthia Guay
R. Theobald
Dr. Cote
O. Cote
Louis Gu
Cynthia
Montana
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Yankee Flat
Grasshopper Creek
Judge Thompson
Old South Church
Boston
Colonel Seller
James Stuart
Salt Lake City
M’afee
Telephone CO
Harry E. McApee
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co
Reorganized Land Bank
Martha Edgerton Plassmann
Free Radio Catalog
Lend Uic
van Blaricom Co
Helena Mons
O. Huseth
Optometriat
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