Warrenton’s Rose Barrett Builds Oregon Port City Rise
Rose Barrett, a Montana-born woman now Warrenton Oregon city manager, is credited with shaping the growing port at the mouth of the Columbia. The story notes her early hardships in Portland and her rise via real estate to lead the river and harbor survey efforts for deeper Skipanon navigation.
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Rose Barrett
Montana
Montana Warrenton Company
Great Falls
Warrenton
Columbia River
Boster Post
Little Rose
Tyler
Rose Tyler
R. E. Barrett
Rose
Oregon
Astoria
Washington
Barrett
Portland
Pacific
France
Railroad
Jack Hall
Middle Western Farmers’ Co-Operative Organizations
McAdoo
Hoover
Minneapolis
Northwest
St. Lawrence Ship Canal
Great Western
Russell
When Fuel Famine and Flood Harassed Old Fort Benton
A historical account by Martha Edgerton Plassmann recounts Fort Benton Montana during the 1880 81 winter and spring. Severe cold froze rivers and cut off supplies driving fuel prices up and forcing wood rationing while a later chinook brought floods and near drowning danger before subsiding.
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Old Fort Benton
Martha Edgerton Plassmann
Montana
Fort Benton
Missouri
P. Wren
Murphy-Neal Co
Sun River
Helena
Reinecke
Reinecke’s
Moale
Gibbon
Washington
River Press
Benton
Teton
Marlas
James Stanford
Woman Raises 182 Mammoth Bronze Turkeys Near Fairfield
Mrs L G Baldwin of a farm four miles northeast of Fairfield in Teton county reports a profit of 500 from 182 turkeys raised from a trio purchased in the east for 45. Costs include 125 for feed and 30 incidental expenses. She sold the flock for 700 after reserving 13 hens for next year and plans a new purchase for 1924.
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L. G. Baldwin
Fairfield
Teton County
Baldwin
New York State
Catnip oil eyed to doom bobcats and mountain lions
Federal researchers say catnip oil distills in large quantities to lure wild cats. An Arlington Farm patch will supply oil for traps nationwide. Yearly counts show 2,282 bobcats and 169 mountain lions killed, but experts insist the oil can attract both wary predators over long distances.
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Bureau of Chemistry
The
Biologic Survey
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Department
Arlington Experimental Farm
United States
National Parks Ag
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City OF
E. M. Moran
Billings
Northern Hotel
Butte
New Finlen Hotel
Rainbow Hotel
Moran & Company Tailors
Eapolis
Montana Bobcats
Department of Agriculure
Polytechnic
Institute
the People's University
Lewis T
Eaton
Education Polytechnic
Mont
Delco System
Asa’n
Burroughs
Bankers’ Pub. Association
Glasgow
Glasgow, Mont
A. W. Mellon
Secretary of the Treasury
D. H. Blair
Internal Revenue
Charles M. Russell
Rawhide
Rawlins
Cheely-Raban Syndicate
Hin
Rawhide Rawlins
Nare
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