Buffalo Hunt and Plains Wedding Described in 1874 Memoir
An 1874 Buffalo hunt near Crow agency ends with an improvised wedding. Col. J H Allen and six companions witness Major Bowles and Miss Little Pony marry by a campfire on Duck Creek. They share meat, skins, and months of hunting before returning to the Crow agency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jirah H. Allen
Columbus
Crow Agency
Mission Creek
Major ,Reed
A. P. Fox
Yank Everetts
Mr. Bowles
Miss Little Pony
Duck Creek
Fox
Rey
Myr. Bowles
Little Pony
Bowles
Big Timber Creek
Buffalo
Sweet Grass Creek
Have you any references says maid joke
A comic exchange between a house mistress and a prospective maid. The servant boasts many references, but explains they are like her photographs none do her justice. The humor relies on self deprecation and social signifiers of employment.
State Shippers Urged to Quick Freight Movements
Montana shippers face possible penalties as L F Nichols of the Northwest Shippers advisory board warns that the government aims to cut waste in freight car time. He cites aim to unload even on Sundays and abolish practices like loading at mines and delaying cars for orders, urging full cooperation with the interstate commerce commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
L. F. Nichols
Northwest Shippers Advisory Board
Interstate Commerce Commission
Nichols
Sale notice and product ads from old Montana issue
Commerce notes advertise a 1941 rural directory for Valley county Montana priced at 50 cents per copy for distribution in the U S A. Other lines promote roofing netting fencing and steel posts from Alaska Junk Co Spokane and an exchange inquiry for standard oil pictures with contact in Hollywood California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley County
Montana
U. S
Glasgow Courier
Glasgow
Alaska Junk Co
Spokane
Wash
Meat prices rise in February for Montana farmers
Montana farmers received higher prices for meat products in February led by hogs on local markets. Beef cattle veal calves and lambs edged up, while grains and miscellaneous products fell. apples dropped while dairy stayed steady. The price index shows Montana lagging national declines, with hogs up 50 cents per 100 and calves and lambs rising modestly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Jay G. Diamond
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Diamond
Miles City Station Will Continue Under Fire Department Plan
The Miles City experiment station of the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Animal Industry will keep operating despite the discontinuation of cattle breeding experiments at another station. This was stated during House Appropriations Subcommittee hearings on the Agriculture Department appropriations bill for fiscal 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles City Experiment Station
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Animal Industry
House Appropriations
Land Bank Fears Speculation As Farm Prices Rise
C C Rowan of the Federal Land Bank of Spokane reports rising land prices and stronger farm demand in the northwest, noting a wartime parallel to 1917. He urges sound credit, warns against speculative pricing, and outlines cooperation with state land use groups to stabilize postwar farming in Montana Idaho Oregon and Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest
C. C. Rowan
Federal Land Bank of Spokane
Montana
Rowan
Kane Institution
Idaho
Oregon
Washington
Land Bank
State College
Half of State Wool Crop Now Contracted
Montana wool producers rushed to sell in late February after a price ceiling was set by Washington. The Montana Wool Growers News Letter reports 12 to 15 million pounds contracted in two weeks at 36 to 42 cents per pound, mostly 40. In subsequent sales a large southwestern pool sold at 403 cents and a northeastern clip at 414 cents per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Office of Price Administration
Washington, D. C
Montana Wool Growers News Letter
State Woolgrowers Association
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Coggeshall
Miles City
Montana Ry
Division Center
Montana Mining Center
Great Falls
Furniture Exchange
Hiway
Idaho Mining Center
P. O
Missoula
Grand Coulee Dam
Grand Coulee
Wyoming
Box
Mont
WiIl
F. Norby
Republic
Dorothy Brower
Harlem
Frank Carp
Altamont Blvd
Farm Machinery & Equipment
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen Milking Machine Manufacturing Co
Bloomington
Minneapolis
Minn
Mason Valley
Yerington Dairy
Yerington
Nev
Kalispell
Dickinson & Kao
Fairfield Paving
Russell Smith
Atty
Fairfield
Iowa
Arizona
Harry Palmer
Wigwam Club
Deckers
Colo
Taylor
L. M. Pfiffner
Lima
Florida
Wickard
McCaskill Co
Funiak Springs
Fla
Woodile Creek
Jordan Montana
John W. Aldrich
Snohomish, Wash
Bun River Valley
Frary & Burlingame, Inc
E. A. Schudelske
Oakland
Hot Springs
Paul Marsh
Billings
British Guiana
South America
Gem
Hansen
Chief
Latham
Newburg
St. Regis
Montana Apple Growers
Hamilton
Standard Oil Pictures
McAnally, P. O
Hollywood
Calif
Tualatin Valley
Bardin
W. E. King
Cove
Ark
Helena Stamp Works
Helena
Lewis & Walker
Butte
Carl Weissman & CO
Fourth St. So
Beauty
McCarroll Beauty School
E. Granite
Pippin
Fourth & Pike Bldg
Seattle
Benny Brae Farm
White Bluffs
Cut Bank
Anderson Jewelry Co
R. R
Ogden
Utah
MAN
International
Simpson
Denver
Colorado
Buchanan
N. Y
Sarah Bogle
Dubois
Narada
McMillan Fur & Wool, Inc
A. C
E. P. Reese
Salmon
Louis
Ziff
Colyton G&t
Los Angeles
Tillamook
Tilamook
Disney
Livingston
Philipsburg
Fred Lewis
Browning
Satan
Jenny
J. G. Diamond
Urinalysis
P. O. Box
Butte, Montana
Nystrand Poultry CO
Butte, Mont
Purlong & Newcomb Poultry Co
2Nd Ave. So
BABY
Gallatin Chick News
Gallatin Chick Hatchery
Bozeman
Montana Livestock Sanitary Board
Fred H. Cockell
Milwaukie
Burr's Husky
N. H
Giants
Burr Chick Company
Lewistown
Bolson
America
Oakview
Decorah
U. 8
Dawson Hatchery
Dawson, Minn
North Dakota
Ceteloe Tanger
Bismarck
N. D
Farmers Union Supply
Williston
Inman Hatcheries
Aberdeen
South Dakota
N. Dak
Pullorum
Severson Hatchery
Stanley
Drakes
Pekin Drakes
Heaton
McKenzie
North
Dakota
Federal Land Bank
Scientific American
California
Ban Francisco
Farmers of America
Anaconda Sales Co
Anaconda, Montana
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