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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1922
Page
2
A farm advisory urges farmers to house all unused implements to extend life up to 10 to 15 years. It notes rust shortens machine life, warns seven binders left outside near a 50 mile radius would last only three years, and stresses greasing moldboards and keeping discs harrows protected.
Montana growers swept prizes at the International Hay and Grain Show in Chicago with top awards in dent corn and multiple divisions. Montana state teams led by Park City and Columbus youth clubs won several firsts while entrants from Great Falls and Bozeman earned high placements in durum, oats, and white spring wheat categories.
Eight year old Sylvia Reeves of near Gardiner may receive a Carnegie Hero Fund award for saving her baby brother when a fire destroyed the Reeves family home. The incident occurred recently at the family residence, prompting praise for the young savior.
Richard Davey of Sunburst cashed the first royalty check from the Kevin Sunburst field. The June 1922 production on his land earned $445 at about 15 dollars daily, with a 5 percent royalty. Six wells have since been completed on the Davey tract, maintaining similar daily output. Davey was returning from England to be married when the well came in.
Sylvia remained inside with four younger children as a blaze spread rapidly. After guiding three children to safety, she reentered the burning house and rescued her 15 month old brother. Her bravery is to be attested to the Carnegie commission.
Snow slows logging near Libby while Red Lodge forms a 40 piece boys band. In Glendive Edward Baldwin a long time stockman dies. Harlowton Dick Fleming pleads self defense in murder trial at Winnecook ranch. Butte and other towns report high school football loss, elections, acquittals, deaths, a moonshine operation discovered near Butte, and a tragic double suicide near Havre. Whitehall barn fire causes 20000 loss. Great Falls backers inspect Genoa field well. Billings to host Japanese migrant farming on Charles Bair land in Martinsdale Meagher county.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura for pimply faces. It instructs applying Cuticura Ointment and washing with Cuticura Soap, then using daily for clear skin. London reports The Duke of Abercorn named governor of Northern Ireland by King George.
A collage of brief items: New York bars indecent dancing. Mary Miles Minter leaves film for stage. Cascades snow disrupts Seattle rail traffic. two more farm credit bills in Senate. New York attorney general deems wireless marriages illegal. France’s Clemenceau tours US. Paris debate over Siki Carpentier fight framed. Chaplin and Negri married rumored. Obregon marks two-year presidency in Mexico with improved conditions. A murder verdict in Colorado. a murder plot in Philadelphia near insurance. Klan incident at Brooklyn church. Spokane veteran Benjamin Frank Martin dies. Joy Christians sect faces federal admonition. Prohibition agent impacts San Francisco wine orders.
Four gunmen robbed a Piru bank in Ventura county of about 6000 dollars and forced president C B Spencer and his young daughter to ride with them to Los Angeles. Spencer reported the event to police. Later items note Hoover praising American initiative and the Kiao-Chow restoration in China.
A historic structure once used by German forces and later seized by Japan during World War I I is being repurposed by current administration. The project aims to preserve the site while adapting it for government use, highlighting its wartime heritage and renewed civic role.
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