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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1920
Page
3
Mr Travis of Helena Montana reports back pain and urinary distress improved after using Doans Kidney Pills. He credits three boxes with complete relief and urges others to ask for the doctors recommended remedy. Manufactured by Foster Milburn Buffalo New York.
Fire crews use wireless aerials on engines in Liverpool. The Pittsburgh cruiser and a destroyer head to the Baltic to protect U.S. interests. Ray Chapman dies after head injury in New York game. General Gorgas buried at Arlington with honors. Seamen push for 48 hour workweeks and a standard wage. Cork hunger strikers refuse food in barracks. Laura Bromwell sets world women’s aviation loop record. powderpuff joke follows. Bubonic plague cases rise in Paris. Pasteur Institute warns precautions suffice. Mrs. Almira Rockefeller’s will leaves fortune to William Rockefeller. Express rates up 12.5 percent, $35.5 million annual lift. Denver strike leaders jailed 90 days for contempt. Beebe reports a lizard-like extinct bird in Demerara. Canada’s 1920 wheat crop forecast at 262,238,999 bushels. oat crop 496,966,400. Chicago starts daily air mail Chicago to St. Louis. opening to Chicago-St Paul/Minnesota likely soon.
The American Forestry Association lists a Montana tree from the Custer battlefield on the Little Bighorn as a Hall of Fame nominee. Other candidates include the General Johnston Oak at Shiloh, the San Diego mission palm, the Blunston oak near Philadelphia, the old Harrisburg sassafras, the first elgaroba tree in Hawaii, and a Lincoln memorial tree planted in Decorah Iowa.
Postmaster general orders Grain Montana post office discontinuance after August 31 with mail to be routed through Nashua. In Billings Chinese men bound over for narcotics sales. Becket and Roundup report shootings and busy haying season. Whitehall buys time to rest the Jefferson Valley News. Spotted fever death toll rises to three this year.
Washington reports Lincoln County population rose from 3 638 in 1910 to 7 797 in 1920 with Libby at 1 522 and the city proper census up to 2 271. Nearby districts show varied counts and a 1920 census indicates declines in several districts.
A mash of early 20th century classified notices lists telegraphy training in Spokane Butte and Montana along with job ads and professional services. It also includes used car bargains from Fresno Montana and domestic wool processing from Fergus Falls Minnesota, plus marriage ads offering matches to lonely people across the United States. The notices mention bond adjustments in Helena Montana and assayers in Butte and Fort Wayne marriage boxes.
Labor shortages hinder highway construction in Montana, shifting focus to harvest fields. R S Zahniser, principal assistant engineer, notes July activity at about 300000 dollars instead of the planned million, with little improvement anticipated this month. The Helena Federal Reserve Bank branch directors plan September meetings with Ninth District leaders in Minneapolis after the December 1 1920 opening date.
The article describes dairying as well suited to timbered western Montana, with pasture conversion and winter feed from plowed acreage. It suggests hogs and poultry as important, and notes fruits berries garden crops grains and roots do well. It mentions buying land at appraised values without extra charges and offers help locating suitable land.
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