Annual Crop Tour Kicks Off Across Montana and Wyoming
A Montana farming caravan from Cascade Tejon Pondera and Chateau departs Great Falls for a multi county tour through central and southern Montana into Wyoming and visit to the Bozeman experiment station. About 100 people expected with 60 from Teton county. Stops include O Day farm at Fife and Bumgarner farm with poultry diversification and furrow drill practices highlighted. The tour emphasizes modern farming methods and farm diversification.
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Montana
Cascade
Tejon
Pondera
Chateau
Great Falls
Wyoming
Yellowstone National Park
State Experiment Station
Bozeman
Teton County
Teton
Garrett
Great Falls Fair Grounds
Ion
R. E. Clarkson
Peter Savik
Ed Savik
Louis Pearson
Ernest Arnsmeyer
Peter Otness
L. J. Otness
G. B. Ziegler
Luke Keogh
John Luinstra
Jacob Luinstra
J. C. Cutz
Joseph Lehnertz
Harry Lauback
Lester Cole
The
Montana Farmer
Morris Stewart
Carter
Floyd Cranston
Belt
William Hubber
Herman Wolf
Herman Dickman
Truly Beach
P. J. Murphy
E. M. Linn
Ira Keister
Power
O. M. Olson
Portage
John Cook
Cook
Cascade County
R. S. O’day
Fife
Mr. O'Day
Montana Extension Service
Tle
O’day
Clark Bumgarner
Bumgarner
Jude Hubber & Son
Poland
Stanford
Vinol Promises Sleep Help and Appetite Boost
An advertisement claims Vinol a tonic of iron phosphates and cod liver peptone will calm nervousness, improve sleep, and increase appetite. It asserts a first bottle brings quick energy and zest, noting Vinol tastes pleasant and targets nervous, easily tired people. The Choteau Drug Co. is named as distributor.
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Vnol
Fahy
Choteau Drug Co
Wells Under Way In Pondera Oil Field
Oil field activity in Pondera shows multiple wells drilling or fishing. Calpet-Kingsbury No 1 reports a tool in the hole at 1780 feet while Continental Development Co Giullin No 2 drills at 1450 feet. Other wells include Calpet-Copley No 1 at 910 feet and Ohio Hirshberg No 1 at 260 feet. Texas-Pacific Hirshberg No 2 reports drilling at 930 feet.
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Pondera
Calpet-Kingsbury
Continental Development Co
CSW
Calpet-Copley
McCracken-Kampf-Grullin
Iuon Sonntag
Ohio-Hirshberg No
Texas-Pacific Hirshberg No
A Message From Mars Comes to Fifth Night Chautauqua
Spectacular comedy drama from Richard Ganthony heads the big fifth night feature at the chautauqua season. Horace Parker, a selfish London man, is visited by a Mars envoy who asks him to abandon self for others in this entertaining thought provoking play led by Arthur MacMurray and a seasoned cast.
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Mars
Earth
Richard Ganthony
London
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Horace Parker
Maal Conquest
Arthur MacMurray
Wells rigging up in oil field promise future expansion
Montana Oil Journal reports Crocker-Lederer No. 1 and Texas Pacific Hirshberg No. 3 near 14-27-4W ready to spud as new wells. Two wells, Crocker-Lederer extended southeast of the 220-barrel Texas Pacific producer and the McCracken well north of Continental Development Wheeler No. 1, are seen as key to future field development.
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Crocker-Lederer
Texas-Pacific Hirshberg
Texas- Pacific-Hirshberg
Continental Development-Wheeler
CSE
Texas Pacilfic
McCracken
Continental Development Company
Montana Oil Journal
J C Penney Co Expands Employee Business Training
J C Penney Co offers a nationwide correspondence business training course for all employees. About 8 7 0 0 enrolled and 1 5 0 9 graduated, with three local staff now taking the course and one graduate. The program mirrors founder J C Penney’s belief in education as a constructive force improving judgment and cooperation across 1024 stores in 47 states.
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J. C. Penney Co
Condran
Mr. Concran
Concran
J. C. Penney
Penney
Treasury Redeems Fused Silver Coins After Fire
If a set of silver coins merges in four fires but remains identifiable the U S treasury will redeem them. The notice outlines that fused coins still retain value and will be exchanged by the treasury.
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United States
Second-hand President: Fillmore's witty coach tale
The Brooklyn Eagle notes Millard Fillmore’s humor after he became president in 1850. As he needed a new coach, White House servant Edward Moran found a suitable second-hand carriage. The president joked that a second-hand carriage suited a second-hand president, earning him the nickname.
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Washington
Millard Fillmore
Zachary Taylor
Fillmore
White House
Edward Moran
Moran
United States
Brooklyn Eagle
Good Friday Beliefs Across England and Europe
The piece surveys Good Friday naming across nations and folk beliefs. It notes Freya as a supposed origin for Friday, mentions France Passion Friday Germany Quiet Friday Italy Blessed Friday, and describes superstitions about eggs preventing fires, bread loaves protecting grain, and infants curing fevers. It also notes a West-country taboo against washing clothes on the day to avoid losses.
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Freya
Venus
France
Germany
Italy
London
First Wood Pulp Paper Made in Interlaken Mills
On March 5 1867 the mills at Interlaken Masa produced the first paper from wood pulp marking a milestone in local industry and papermaking history.
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Interlaken
Masa
Weems the First Itinerant Book Agent of America
The biography of Mason Locke Weems shows he roamed early America with a Life of Washington and morality tracts. He conducted house-to-house canvasses, distributing his works as the nation formed.
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Parson Mason Locke Weems
George Washington
America
Weems
Washington
Briquetting Methods for Charcoal Using Binders
The article explains briquetting charcoal with binders such as gums or starches and also describes using tar or pitch as binders followed by a low temperature distillation to remove volatile components.
Diamond testing and color in uncut stones
The text explains that a diamond can be any color before polishing and may show various hues in a fractured state, but these colors differ from those seen in cut stones. The United States Geological Survey notes that only an expert can test a diamond.
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United States Geological Survey
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Thrift News
J. C. Penney Company
Jaciel
Fez Tor
Thrift
Tan Oxfords
Fif
England
C. W. Wymer
Choteau
LEASZ
A. B. Andrews
Judith Gap
Mont
Phonograph
B. H. Fisher
Choteau, Mont
H. D. Robison
J. R. Perry
Farmington
Duroc
J. E. Hodgskiss
Citizens Bank
Chas. W. Gray
Second Ave. N
Detroit Vapor Oven
C. S. McDonald
Cowsgill
E. J. Crary
C. D. McDonald
Tony Stillman
McCormick
Deering
Teton Implement Co
Choteau Creamery
California
E. J. Hirshberg
Ars
Gay Franklin
Power-Morgan CO
Herman Bauma
Bole
Liberty
J. I. Burch
EF. W. Curtis
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