The Lowly Sheepherder and Open Range Days Tale
A reminiscence by R. H. Bemis on Montana open range life and the sheep business. It recalls wages, fencing costs, and the shift from hardy herders to hired hands, plus social stigma and a night in a sheep camp with Bob Toombs and Henry L. The piece blends humor with hardship and a portrait of sheepman life.
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Montana
R. H. Bemis
Sam Dickey
Sam
Avisaries
Bob Toombs
Boulder
Bob
Yellowstone
Phoey
Henry L
Henry
Dhterword
Bézeman
Red Rock
Stranahan
Quaker Oats Advantage Persuades Sugar Coated Flavor
Ad claims Quaker Oats offers richer flavor from 50 years milling experience. It asserts bulk, protein and vitamins provide balanced nutrition with less need for laxatives. Quick cooking time three to five minutes and availability from grocers.
First Train Into Montana Aboard Utah Northern 1880
The first train into Montana on April 29, 1880, ran from Beaver Canyon to Red Rock in a nine car freight train with a crowded caboose. Passengers endured heat, cold, derailments seven times, and night travel over rough track. Notable traveler Dad Pease, a Virginia City jeweler, and the stage final leg to Bozeman followed.
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Montana
Utah Northern
Idaho
Stage
Beaver Canyon
Red Rock
Stranahan
Beaver Rock
Horace Greely
Live coals found in ruins of 1917 Butte fire wreckage
Workmen clearing debris from the McKinley school building site in Butte uncover smouldering embers deep in the wreckage from the 1916 fire. An American flag atop the site emerged, soil-packed for a decade, its fabric undamaged save for soiled spots. Experts suggest non-conductive soil helped preserve the heat.
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McKinley
Butte
West Park Street
Farm Boys Earn Profits From Moccasin School Projects
The Moccasin high school completed the year in Smith-Hughes agricultural work. Boys averaged 283.97 dollars net profit on projects with a high of 768 and a low of 21.35. Farm shop students made 206.05 dollars of appliances and 58.10 dollars of repairs.
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Smith-Hughes
Montana
City to begin graveling Front Street and avenues
Malta city council orders immediate graveling of Front Street and Fifth and Sixth avenues under Norman Hicks. Plan covers center cap and storm drain placement. Also notes the vast linguistic diversity of Africa with hundreds of languages and dialects.
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Malta
Front Street
Fifth
Sixth Avenues
Norman Hicks
Canadian Customs House Moves to Boundary Line
The Sage Creek Alberta customs barracks near the Hill county border will be moved to the international line once the Havre Medicine Hat highway route is fixed. Two ports of entry exist north of Havre at Maple Creek and Sage Creek. The Wild Horse trail campaigning for the road will connect to the border, with about 10 miles graded and more work planned. Canadian plans on road work at the north end remain unclear.
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Canadian Customs Service
Sage Creek
Hill County
Havre Medicine
Herbert Legg
Calgary
Hill County Board of Commissioners
Havre
Maple Creek
Saskatchewan
Alta
St. Joe Road
Medicine Hat
George W. Bowery
Copper Market Sees Improvement After British Strike
Eng and Min Journal predicts end of the British general strike will lift copper and lead markets. Copper and lead have sold in satisfactory volume since the adjustment in England.
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Engineering and Mining Journal
England
Spitzbergen Trusted Cure Isolates Disease Germs
The article claims Spitzbergen offers comfort free from illness as arctic conditions prevent disease germs, asserting it is the sole place in the world with such a claim.
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Spitzbergen
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Helena
Col. Sanders
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Boundary Line
Velvet
Conoco
Continental Oil Company
Ene Estorade Radio
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota
Washington
Wyoming
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