Whetstone Relates Canada Liquor Scene and Alberta Wheat Belt
Northern neighbor nears liquor solution and Alberta's wheat belts shine as crops reach shock stages. The narrator tours Calgary and Banff, notes summer fallow policy, irrigation failures, and counts Calgary as the Los Angeles of the north with polite, modern amenities.
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Dan Whetstone
Canada
Dominion
King George
Coutts
Lethbridge
Lethpridge
McLeod
Calgary
Alberta
States
Los Angeles
Mecca
Banff
Candian Rockies
Alexander Toponce’s Early Freighter Adventures
A digest of Alexander Toponce’s memoirs recounts his freight driving in Montana and the West. Tales include building a toll road only to be charged on it, testing sugar sacks found overweights, crossings with Hall of fame figures like X. Beidler, and perilous encounters with Blackfeet. He recalls Banff and Lake Louise tourism, a blizzard that killed cattle, stockades held against flood, and a remarkable courtly bishop in a stagecoach tale with dancers from mining camps.
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M. E. Plassmann
Alexander Toponce
Montana
Ed. Maclay
Maclean
King
Gillette
Helena
Virginia City
King and Gillette
Marias River
Fort Benton
Whetstone
Ome
Charing Cross
Bowbells
Canada
Banff
Lake Louise
Don Quixote
Dulcinea del Toboso
Indiana
Texas
California
Vermont
Toponce
Slade
Top
X. Beidler
Beidler
Salt Lake
Missouri
Fort Union
Diamond R
Wyatt
Broadwater
Coulee
J. P. Newman
Methodist Church
Orson Pratt
Newman
Tuttle
Montana Now Healthiest State in Union with 790 Deaths per 100000
Montana tops national health rankings per a US government vital statistics bulletin. The 1924 death rate fell to 790 per 100000, down from 801 in 1928, praised for fewer influenza and pneumonia deaths, but rises noted in heart disease and tuberculosis. Auto accidents surpassed mine incidents, totaling 69 fatalities, with other causes including measles, homicides, suicides, and drownings.
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Union
Montana
Vital Statistics Bureau
Department of Commerce
United States
Traveling preacher earns praise from Salt Lake travelers
While visiting Salt Lake, a group of ladies hoped to hear the bishop preach and one vowed to crawl on hands and knees to attend. Dr. Thomas Corwin Iliff of the Methodist church of Utah Idaho and Montana is praised as a fine traveling companion who always spoke worthwhile.
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Salt Lake
Thomas Corwin Iliff
Methodist Church of
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Toponce
Cuticura Talcum Ad Claim in Print
An advertisement extols Cuticura Talcum as a scented powder for face skin baby and dusting use. The copy promotes the Cuticure Trio Soap Ointment and Talcum at 25 cents each and claims it replaces other perfumes.
Oak church pillars said to be Armada ship masts
In Poplar a suburb of London an old church features oak pillars that are claimed to be from wrecked or captured ships of the Spanish Armada. Local lore ties the timber to the great maritime battle and colonial exploits of the 16th century.
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Poplar
London
Mineral Land Revenue Drops From Montana Leases
Receipts from Montana public domain mineral leases for the fiscal year ending June 30 totalled 172 684 dollars, down 53 000 from the prior year. Nationally royalties bonuses and rentals from oil gas coal oil shale and other minerals fell to 8 278 708 dollars, down over 5 million. Montana ranked third among states behind Wyoming and California as oil prices declined from 2 dollars to 1 25 dollars per barrel, causing wells to close or store output.
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Montana
California
Wyoming
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Sirocco
Radium Remedie
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Midland Grain Co
Williston N. D
Minn
Rex
Royal Milling Company
Pauls, Mont
REX Flour
Zoe
Champion Spark Plug Co
Toledo, Ohio
Windsor, Ont
Paris
McCarthy Bros. Company
Grain Commission
Chicago
Duluth
Milwaukee
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