Montana touted as top winter wheat region by Campbell and Holton
A Musselshell farming boost trends upward as Frank E. Holton cites Montana lands yielding higher returns than near Chicago markets due to productivity and variability. Thomas D. Campbell affirms Montana as the nation’s best winter wheat area, detailing Campbell Farming’s 30,000 acres on Crow reservation and near Hardin, with favorable Big Horn county rainfall and droughts deemed historical anomalies.
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Montana
Frank E. Holton
Minneapolis
Chicago
Musselshell Valley
Great Mid-West
Thomas D. Campbell
Campbell Farming Corporation
Crow Indian Reservation
United States
Red River
Minnesota
North Dakota
Holton
Red Lodge Picket- Journal
C. H. Draper
Mr. Holton
Union
Bram
Mississippi Valley
Iowa
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
Campbell
Billings
Campbell Corporation
Crow Reservation
Hardin
Big Horn County
Phillipsburg Swordsman Nicholas Ringeling World Champion
Nicholas Berthoud Ringeling, a Phillipsburg civil and mining engineer, is hailed as a world champion swordsman. The article details his fencing mastery, lessons in Stuttgart during the 1870s, and notable bouts in Butte and elsewhere, plus his plans to train local students. It also notes related frontier stories and a burial site near Miles City linked to Custer era events.
Ringeling the Miner Swordsman of Phillipsburg
In Phillipsburg the celebrated miner Ringeling is described as an athletic, quick, and decisive man with a storied past in fencing. A Missourian by birth and Montanan by choice, he trained internationally, defeated top swordsmen in Europe, and challenges any university or club to test its swordsmen against him. He remains a key mineral surveyor and a major silver producer in the Granite district. His hillside home, filled with period furnishings and martial trophies, reflects a life of adventure and sport.
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Phillipsburg High School
Ringeling
Stuttgart
Polytechnic
Wurtemberg
Germany
Herr Bauer
Calvelli Adorno
Calvelli
Young Stone
Stone
Missouri
Heidelberg
Butte
Athletic Club
Montana
West Point
Jack Waite
Waite
John F. Forbis
Walter Wynne
Dunc McDonald
Wynne
Dunee
Salt Lake
Agremonte
Lee Mantle
Jaspard
Ross
California
State University At
Missoula
Mr. Ringeling
Phillipsburg
Wurtemburg
Europe
Kings and Princes
State University
Death of John Nixon Augusta Montana Pioneer Driver
John Nixon of Augusta a famed western driver who piloted the ax wagon for J J Hill and Colonel Broadwater on the Great Northern route survey from Sun River to Helena He helped build Fort Macleod served in the Mounted Police and later ran a livery business Nixon credited Broadwater with securing the Montana Central railroad route reflecting a storied era of the early rail era in Montana.
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Montana
John Nixon
Augusta
J. J. Hill
Colonel Broadwater
Great Falls
Helena
Great Northern Railway
Chester
England
Nixon
Canada
Mounted Police
Far West
Fort Macleod
Sun River Crossing
Sun River
Montana Central Railroad
Oil wells planned on Devereaux dome near Cat Creek
Eight wells will be drilled immediately on the Devereaux dome a few miles west of the Cat Creek structure. Oil strikes have driven land inside the escarpment to prices as high as $500 per acre.
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Devereaux
Devereaux Dome
Cat Creek
Veterans Listed as Died in 1873 Sioux Skirmish Near Yellowstone
Col G R Norris of Great Falls reports two white men died in a 1873 engagement with Sioux along the Yellowstone river. One victim is named as Dr Halsinger a veterinary surgeon and sutler connected to Custer Stanley expedition.
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Patrick
James McEvoy
Calabar
McEvoys
Stanley
Mr. Norris
Yellowstone
Tongue River
Halsinger
Custer
Sutler
Charles Reynolds
Miles City
Night watchman at Rexford robbed again
The Rexford night agent, now desensitized to robberies, was held up at the station shortly after midnight for the fourth time in years. Robbers slipped $15 from his pockets while the railroad’s funds remained safe in the locked safe.
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Rexford
Imperial No 1 well sparks rush for Alberta acreage
Oil discovery west of Coutts triggers a border field scramble as Imperial Oil plans three more wells this season in the southern Alberta field. High grade crude flows from Imperial No 1, with 75 feet of oil on water and 17 feet thick sand. Rogers-Imperial drill faces gas pressure and caving but advances at 1 450 feet while McLean-Mitchell remains idle awaiting casing from Pittsburgh. Moody and Pat Burns of the Canadian packer are drilling the J F Moodie well at the Quarantine Station known as the McKellar.
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Imperial No. 1
Coutts
Border Field
Imperial Oil Company
Imperial
T. Draper
Imperial Company
Rogers-Imperial
Mark Rogers
McLean-Mitchell Company
Pittsburgh
J. F. Moodie
McKellar
Pat Burns
Moody
Great Falls bids for Dempsey Wills title fight
Great Falls enters the bidding for a Dempsey Wills championship match to be staged on Labor Day. Jack Kearns reports a large offer from Dan Tracy of Cascade Boxing Commission and mine owner Mike E Collins will handle arrangements.
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Great Falls
Jack Kiearns
Dan Tracy
Cascade Boxing Commission
Mike E. Collins
Kearns
Shelby
Tracy
Collins
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Lauzien-Walcott Company
Spokane
Anaconda
COMA
Arthur Berry
Ernst
Wyoming Street
Shambra Hot Springs
Sullivan
Alhambra Hot Springs
Weite
Flaherty Optical Parlor
Third St. N
ILVER
Great Falls Silver Black Fox Co
Rvine E. Stewart
Ford Bldg
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ARE
Homer
Retoro
Ds Bros. Dry Goods Co
Culder
Boulder
Philipsburg
Nicholas Berthoud Ringeling
Bill Norris
Slimain
Colonel Norris
Castoria
S. O. Huseth
Optcian Optometrist and
Optician
Hontans
Silver Black Fox Ranching
Montana Silver Black Fox CO
Missoula, Montana
Alberta
J. F. Moody Company
Dempsey -Wills Battle
Bayer
T. C. Power Motor Car Company
Studebaker
T. G. Power Motor Car Company
Jack Dempsey
Tommy Gibbons
Lou J. McLumby
Dempsey-Gibbons
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