Excellent Crop Prospects Promise State Prosperity
A Billings reporter cites record sugar beet crops, rising bean yields, and strong wheat returns in the Yellowstone valley. Threshing is active, with wheat yields of 30 to 40 bushels per acre and sugar beets averaging about 12 tons per acre at $10 per ton, totaling near four million dollars. Livestock and dairy play a steady role while diversified farming expands, aided by favorable rains and improved market checks.
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Yellowstone Valley
Leon Shaw
Billings
Butte
Mr. Shaw
Yellowtstone Valley
Montana
Michigan
Overland Trek to the Far West Begins in 1863
The narrator recalls leaving Akron for Omaha in June 1863 to join an overland caravan. The party, including family, relatives, and two nonfamily travelers, travels by boat from Detroit to St. Joseph and then up the Missouri to Omaha, facing Civil War tensions, slave-state dangers, and frontier life. Music on deck, Confederate songs, and river voyage hardships color the journey toward outfitting for the plains.
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Far West
Akron
Ohio
Omaha
Panama
Idaho
Sidney Edgerton
Lewiston
New Territory
Isthmus
Benjamin Wright
Plains
California
Wilbur F. Sanders
Amoret Geer
Henry Tilden
Lucia Darling
Montana
Tallmadge
Cuyahoga Falls
Cleveland
Detroit
Lake Erie
Detroit River
Chicago
Hannibal and St. Joe
St. Joseph
Missouri
Robidoux
Somone
Lingo
Maryland
Confederacy
Gia
Texas
Poison weeds threaten cattle on Chateau county range
Reports indicate some livestock losses from poisonous weeds on the Chateau county range but the danger is receding for the year, with cattle owners watching conditions and awaiting recovery.
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Chateau County
Freckled Anaconda Youth Becomes Educational Film Leading Man
Jack McHugh an 11 year old from Anaconda earning lead roles in Educational Film Exchanges pictures. His latest film Dirty Hands is heading to Montana after filming with White Studios in California. Publicity notes his rise from juvenile comedies to feature parts and his first film Oh Teacher.
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James McHugh
Anaconda
Educational Film Exchanges, Inc
New York City
Jack
Hollywood
Monana
California
White
Educational
Jack McHugh
Robbins Hatch On Slow Moving Train Story
A Great Northern local between Great Falls and Penderoy stops at Chateau Montana where a mother robin nests under a baggage car. A drayman notices young robins and learns the parent fed them on the move. The brood will leave the nest along the route when ready to fly.
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Arkansas
Kenny
Great Northern Railway
Great Falls
Penderoy
Chateau
Montana
Robbins
Lincoln County Farmers Test Explosive Land Clearing
Farmers in Lincoln County report several successful experiments using explosives to clear land. The tests demonstrate potential for rapid soil and vegetation removal, with ongoing assessments of safety and environmental impact.
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Lincoln County
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United States
Lucia
Geor
A. C. M. Hardware House
Quarts, Butte, Mont
Robin
Hasy
Montana Electric Company
East Broadway
Butte, Mont
Goose Creek
O1l & Gan Journal
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Goose Creek Pool
Gulf Coast
The
Texas Co
West Columbia
John ‘Gilliard
Peres Junction
Newden ‘and
McSweeney
Landowners Royalties Company
P .O. Rox
Harar
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