Dairy cow contest highlights at interstate fair and prize
The interstate fair featured a dairy cow contest by the Northern Pacific Railway with a $50 clock prize for the top milk producer. Eleven cows entered. Grace owned by Prof. R. C. Jones won first, followed by cows entered by E. H. Camerell and W. O. Bohart. Milkings over four sessions determined standings, with Grace producing 562 pounds of milk and 8.15 pounds of butter fat, valued at $1.54 based on current prices.
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Northern Pacific Railway Company
Bozeman Courier
Grace
R. C. Jones
State College
E. H. Camerell
W. O. Bohart
World’s youngest female air navigator to thrill Montana fair
Helena reports Katherine Stinson, age twenty, will fly daily in a $5,000 Wright bi-plane at the Montana state fair. She holds International Pilot license number 148 and will perform two flights daily over the fair ground track enclosure. Outdoor attractions include wild west features, seven vaudeville acts, and three Montana bands alongside Northwest horse races on the mile track.
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Helena
Montana
Katherine Stinson
Orpheum
Boston
Butte
Black Eagle Band
Lost silver watch between S. & Patterson's store and ball grounds
Found notice requests the return of a silver open face watch with a cracked crystal and Elgin movement lost Sunday between S. and Patterson's store and the ball grounds. Finder to leave at Patterson's.
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Patterson’s
Patterson's
State Fair Grain Prizes Total High
The Montana State Fair premium list lists over 5500 in cash and special prizes for farm products in 1913 double 1912. Wheat prizes total 650 with first second and third premiums. top ten winter wheat receive a 225 Hooper Gasoline Engine. Prizes also cover corn barley alfalfa rye flax and forage crops. non irrigated grain receives special attention. Louis W. Hill funds 1259 cash premiums. miner William Smigaj reports a gold bearing ore body found near the Whip-Poor-Will ridge between Gloster and Empire.
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Montana
International Harvester Company of America
Louis W. Hill
Great Northern Railway
William Smigaj
Entertainments at Helena Fair For County Contests
The county Boys and Girls Industrial Contests will be hosted in Helena with lodging at the Children's Home for girls under Mrs H M Jennison who commands respect. Boys stay in the school gym under Prof J H Holst with instruction from Atkinson Wilson Whipple Jones and Cooley. Girls receive lessons from Harkins Baldwin Ballinger. Prizes will be awarded by Gov S W Stewart at the state house after a morning judging session starting Tuesday.
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Helena
Helena Avenue
H. M. Jennison Af
Fair Grounds
Atkinson
Wilson
Whipple
Jones
Cooley
Harkins
Baldwin
Ballinger
State House
W. Stewart
F. 8
Bozeman
New Gold Strike In Marysville District Reported
A major gold strike in the Marysville district is reported as one of the largest since the discovery of the Drumsummon. The prospector's name is not yet provided in the accessible text.
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Marysville
Forest Service Timber Sales Report For Month
A Washington report to local headquarters details the first month of the new fiscal year for timber sales. It lists 87,825,000 feet of green timber and 5,829,009 feet of dead timber with values of 206,831.59 dollars for green and 4,436.68 dollars for dead. The distribution across national forests shows many named forests and totals to 211,268 dollars.
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Forest Service
Washington
Bee King Displays Apiary Treasures At Montana Fair
Eugene E K Peck of Park City Montana famed as the King Bee enters Montana state fair entries. He will present five pound alfalfa and clover honey lots a large bees and queens exhibit and a collection of honey plants. Dr Willian M Copenhaver will present innovative apiary schemes to intrigue visitors with bee crafted honey designs.
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Eugene EK. Peck
Park City
Montana
Montana Beemen
Helena Independent
Willian M. Copenhaver
Helena
Two Professors Resign from Montana State College
Bozeman September 2 Prof R W Clark heads animal industry at Montana State College resigns to take a post at Oklahoma Agricultural College. His successor not yet named. Prof Philip S Biegler resigns to join the University of Illinois engineering department. He follows Prof Frank G Wilson who left Bozeman for Wentworth Institute Boston.
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Bozeman
R. W. Clark
Montana State College
Oklahoma Agricultural College
Philip S. Biegler
The
State University At
Illinois
State College
Frank G. Wilson
Wentworth Institute
Boston
Helena
Real estate man Bucy lists ranches in Lakeview Montana
M W Bucy locates homesteads and desert land entries in the Centennial valley and offers free government land, water access, and buying selling of farms and ranches. List your ranch with Bucy, the Lakeview real estate man.
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Centennial Valley
M. W. Bucy
Lakeview
Mont
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