Beaverhead County Assessor Reports 1928 Valuation Rise
Beaverhead county assessor B W Emerick and deputies finished the 1928 assessment turning the books to the clerk showing an overall valuation of 18 016 251 up 176 832 from 1927. Cattle lead gains with about 70000 more value though numbers fell, sheep up in headcount with slight value drop, land improvements down 52319, and rail and telegraph property listed at 513 516 this year. Fur bearing animals appear as a new item valued at 9400 and none were listed last year.
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B. W. Emerick
Beaverhead
Emerick
Bruce Fusley
Farm and Range Lands in Increasing Demand
Northern Pacific land department reports first six months of 1928 sales doubling 1927 and value over four times higher. Private land sales rise as western farm and range lands attract buyers, with strong activity in eastern Montana farming lands sold to actual farmers on easy terms.
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Northern Pacific Land Department
J. M. Hughes
Hughes
Land Department of the
Northern Pacific
Land Department
Montana
Redwater
Northern Pacific Railway
Central
West
Real Estate Transfers Week Ending July 28 1928
Beaverhead Abstract Company records list property transfers for the week ending July 28 1928. Entries name grantees and grantors, with locations and parcel identifiers referenced in the Beaverhead county area. Jurisdiction and filing details accompany each transfer as recorded in the title books.
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Beaverhead Abstract Company
Bee
Real estate transfers and mining notices in Beaverhead County Montana
Public notices record several conveyances in Dillon areas including William Sweeney to Florence Farrand for cabin creek waters and multiple Dillon lots among Sweeney, Snyder to For rester, Le Clair to DiCino, Selway to Kenison, plus a Grant Deed from International Co to Sk Harvey. Also a Decree of Distribution for Martin Innes estate and annual representations for Vesuvius Pompeii mining claims. Notices of Location list Judah lode Lucy placer in French Creek district Beav erhead county.
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William Sweeney
Florence M. Farrand
Cabin Creek
Big Sheep Creek
Beaverhead
Montana
Chris Snyder
Mary J. Forrester
Dillon
Josephine le Clair
Luigi Dicino
Alice A. Selway
Grant Kenison
Grant Deed, International Co
St. Louis
Sk. H. Harvey
Vipond
Martin Innes
George B. Conway
Vesuvius
Pompeii
Bryant
A. H. French
Judah Lode
Lucy Placer
Irench Creek
Beaverhead County
Nez Perce Monument Erected at Gibbon Ranger Station
A brass plaque set into a synthetic granite column at the Gibbon ranger station commemorates Nez Perce War of 1877. The memorial honors warriors led by Chief Joseph and Gen. Gibbon with CCC and Chief Joseph Memorial Association backing, erected in 1928 with the column completed last week.
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Gibbon Ranger Station
Gibbon
Indian head sculpture added to battlefield memorials line
Alonzo V. Lewis oversees an Indian head sculpture south of the government monument honoring fallen officers and enlisted men. The work sits on a bluff facing east above the creek campsite where Nez Perce were surprised by Gibbon at dawn. L. V. Mc Whorter travels with Lewis to collect data for his Yakima publication, joined by Nez Perce figures Pee pee Thelek Black Eagle and Many Wounds, with a large tepee and historical paintings.
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Alonzo V. Lewis
Gibbon
Joseph
L. V. McWhorter
Yakima
Wash
Lewis
Peepee-Thelek
Black Eagle
Wisdom News
Beauty From the Beast
The piece discusses snakes and reptiles used in fashion, noting leather made from skins of water snakes of Java and Sumatra and python skins seen in Paris handbags. It highlights the tanning methods kept secret by manufacturers and mentions Dutch and Fyalish merchants first selling such goods.
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Java
Sumatra
Paris
Tin Plate Formation Defined by Standards Bureau
The bureau of standards explains that tin plate refers to sheet steel or iron coated with a thin tin layer for commercial use.
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The
Bureau of Standards
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Ban on actors in imperial civil service exams
Professor Edward Thomas Williams notes in China Yesterday and To day that actors formed a despised class under the old regime. They and their descendants were barred from civil service exams for three generations and grouped with beggars and butchers as unfit for office, though adoption by a disqualified official could remove the handicap.
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Edward Thomas Williams
China
Power From Volcano Lights Sonoma County Wells
Volcanic heat from Sonoma County geysers is used in a small scale to power lights and drill offshore wells. The process supports early energy use and underpins plans for larger developments.
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Sonoma County
Calif
British Golf Wives Mocked as Vegetarian Widows
Boston Transcript notes a British joke calling golfers' neglected spouses vegetarian widows as husbands spend long hours on golf greens. The quip reflects social humor about leisure and marriage.
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England
Boston Transcript
Talking Movies and Big Business In 1930s Opinion Mix
A column mixes political and social commentary on big business leaders like Raskob and Young, Dutch Calvinists and the Olympics, prison corruption, talking movies, aging population, and Peggy Joyce with her fifth marriage. It notes talkies and a booming film industry while commenting on society’s changing morals and public figures.
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Jeritza
Peggy Joyce
Miss Joyce
Gosta Moerner
Lord Northesk
Jessica Brown
Helen of Troy
Cleopatra
Joyce
Used to It Lunatic asylum chaplain handles hotel humor
A hotel frequented by commercial travelers proves a testing ground for a clergyman who, amid jokes at his table and in the lounge, calmly replies that he is chaplain at a lunatic asylum and thus used to such banter.
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William Jennings Bryan
Ira S. Wise
Passport Puzzle Highlights Vanity and Flaw
A French mayor prepares a passport for a wealthy, esteemed lady. He glosses her minor disfigurement with politeness, finally noting her description as dark and beautiful yet missing one trait. The irony lies in the missing attribute being her perceived perfection.
Mixed Metaphor Note Hits 19th Century Finance Paper
A historic Boston Transcript fragment notes market mood with mixed metaphors. It mentions bears with horns and a condition described as found when markets were in this state.
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Bears
Boston Transcript
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Beauty
Tin Plate
Jaye
Philo Gubb
Jack
Rucker
John Crane
Westcote
Simon Judd
Ellis Parker Butler
Swatty
Dillon Tribune
Nette —— By
Arthur Brisbane
ARE
Raskob
General Motors Company
Owen D. Young
General Electric Company
America
New York
Wilhelmina
Holland
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Sun‘yyo
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