Sheridan News Briefs Highlight Local Travel and Mining Plans
Local residents report frequent weekend trips to Armstead Dillon and Grant with visits from Boise and Great Falls. The Vigilante Mining Company seeks a charter and plans to revive Brandon’s Buckeye mine, Toledo mill, and new road work. Dillon Boy Scouts visit Sheridan before heading to Yellowstone Park. Newell C. Knight, Chicago, enjoys his annual 22 year summer stay.
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Bozeman
Sheridan
Mississippi
Agricultural and Mechanical Arts College of Mississippi
Murray E. Stebbins
Montana Woollgrowers’ Association
Schulz and Son
Schultz
Salt Lake City
Montana
Vigilante Mining Company
Secretary of State
Madison County
FE. T. Williams
Casper
Wyo
John,w. McGee
Amarillo
Texas
A. H. Hahle
Yellowstone Park
Newell C. Knight
Chicago
Mr. Knight
Community Mourns Willis Wright Death in Dillon
Willis Wright, longtime local carpenter and road worker, died in Dillon last week. Funeral arrangements were noted as J R Campbell traveled to Anaconda for the service. Various local residents hosted dinners and visits, including the Hartwig and Tadovich families, with Rainbow Girls plans mentioned for Irene Bryan and Ivie Wentworth.
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Willis Wright
Dillon
Fred Oliver
Delos Oliver
Julius Hartwig
John Hand
Ann
Katherine
Rose
Tadovich
Great Falls
Roscoe Tadovich
Irene Bryan
Otto Boetticher
Melrose
J. R. Campbell
Anaconda
Ivie Wentworth
Miss Bryan
Rainbow Girls
Grand Assembly
Jay Hancock
T. E. Hancock
Neal Cummings
Wolf Point
Cummings
Wayne Cummings
Butte
Sheridan visitors from Dillon on wool buying mission
Mrs. E. D. Selway and Mrs. Harriet Waldorf Tooley of Dillon were Sheridan visitors Monday. Tooley came on a wool buying mission. Ross Hutchins, a Madison county youth and Sheridan high school graduate, was en route to pursue a four year course at the state college.
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E. D. Selway
Harriet Waldorf Tooley
Dillon
Sheridan
Tooley
Ross "Hutchins
Madison ‘County
Sheridan High School
wiig_ hia
Feallege
Real Estate Transfers in Beaverhead for Week ending August 10 1929
Transfers include Elmer F Grant to William Stewart for 640 acres near Lima and W R Price to J Oscar Grawley for 640 acres near Lima. Deals cover 1280 acres near Dillon, a Dillon townsite lot, quitclaim to William Stewart, 200 acres near Lima, and 80 acres near Bond. Mining claims and road right of way deeds also appear in the Beaverhead abstracts.
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Books of the Beaverhead’ Abstract Company
William Stewart
Lima
W. R. Price
J. Oscar Grawley
B. L. Hoffman
Gotham Apartment Company
Dillon
Frank A. Hazelbaker
B. A. Smith
Beaverhead County
Julia A. Peat
William M. Stewart
Beaverhead Ranch Company
Julia Knutsen
Bond
George B. Conway
Defender
Petrel
Pompeii
Vesuvius
Bryant
Adolph. Pahnish
S.m.starr
J. Wenger
J. Cartney
Blue Bell
Camp Bird Lode
Wenger
Dark Horse
Big Hole Basin
Montana
P. J. Petersen
George Rebich
Josef Butala
Willis Chandler
O. J. Christensen
T. H. Dubois
Olga Giudici
James Giudici
Philip Giudici
Amanda Giudici
Fall on pitchfork fatal to hay hand
J. A. Howard, 23, likely of Greeley Colorado, died Monday morning at Murray hospital from injuries after slipping from a haystack on the Tom Pendergast ranch near Wise River. He fell on a pitchfork as he left the haystack Friday. An operation was performed, but he died around 9 am. The Beaverhead county coroner may hold an inquest. The body rests at Sherman Reed parlors in Butte awaiting relatives.
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J. A. Howard
Greeley
Colo
Murray Hospital
Tom Pendergast
Wise River
Howard
Beaverhead County
Sherman & Reed
Butte
Man and boy drown in Henry's Lake
Lakeview August 13 Special Billy Bowers of the Bowers club Lake Idaho and a young nephew of Senator Smoot Utah were drowned in Henrys lake at 130 today. Five guests of Senator Smoot went out in an old boat which capsized. The three others in the boat a man wife and daughter were rescued.
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Lakeview
Billy Bowers
Bowers
Progress and extravagance in rural life
A reflective piece on modern progress, rural extravagance, and the gap between aspiration and means. It discusses farmer spending, bank borrowing, hours spent in town, and the social costs of status goods, warning that happiness comes from sensible use of opportunities and individual responsibility. It includes observations on whiskey, discretion in marriage, and educating young women about marriage risks.
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Seevell
Golf Course Looks Like Church at Tombstone Tournament
The seventh to ninth fairways at Dillon Country Club resembled a church yard as Tombstone Tournament began. Each tombstone marks the spot where a golfer with a given handicap used up his strokes. All players have yet to finish. cards must be turned in by Friday afternoon to determine the winner.
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Dillon Country Club
Runaway Epidemic Hits Grasshopper Ranch
Ross Nay of Nay Bros. reports a season of runaways after a grassland storm. A thunderbolt startled teams causing a mass dash for safety, but drivers held their posts and no injuries occurred. Hay stacks are growing, though the season may be short of the usual crop. Nay Bros. carries over a surplus to guard against winter hunger.
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Ross Nay
Nay Bros
Spokane Wool Buyer J. E. Hample Visits City
J. E. Hample, veteran Spokane wool buyer, is in the city checking the wool situation. He has long been active in the trade and is known for his sharp understanding of the business.
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J. E. Hample
Spokane
The Rio Grande Border River Length and Course
The Rio Grande is about 1 000 miles long. It rises in southwest Colorado and runs south forming a border between the United States and Mexico. It then flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Colorado
United States
Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
Notable Americans Address Graduates With Honor
Akron Beacon Journal notes that while knighthood and related honors are British, receiving an invitation to address a graduating class carries similar esteem in the United States.
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America
Akron Beacon Journal
U S Copper Output Surpasses Half of World Demand
The United States now supplies more than half of the world’s copper needs, reaching 52 percent, as domestic production continues to rise after a period of growth.
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U. S
United States
Noted thinkers face social wary in Ohio State Journal quote
The Ohio State Journal notes that thinkers are seen as deep in thought and less talkative while the Newark Advocate adds that people may doubt you are actually thinking.
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Ohio State Journal
Newark
First great anatomist Vesalius and early medical milestones
Medical lore notes Andreas Vesalius as a prodigy at Padua who dissected bodies at twenty three and drew key conclusions. Howard W. Haggard recalls aims from Devils, Drugs and Doctors including Cotton Mather backing vaccination and Dettingen era wartime medical accord, with Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes linking puerperal fever to infection.
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Andreas Vesatius
Padua
Howard W. Haggard
Yale
University
Cotton Mather
Red Cross
Dettingen
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Puritan Picnic on First Day in New England
Governor Winthrop recalls greetings with Resident Governor Endicott and a first day in Nahumkeak Cape Ann. They dined on venison pasty and beer aboard, while many settlers went ashore to pick straw berries near the ship, as reported by the Boston Post.
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Massachusetts Bay
New England
Endicott
Salem
Winthrop
Nahumkeak
Cape Ann
Boston Post
Fate of American Films in Frenchtinerant Caravan Scene
A brief note describes old American films reused in Frenchtinerant caravans and British taverns as low cost or free entertainment. The piece highlights how these films find new life outside the original industry.
Berries for Sale from Frank Gribnall in Idaho
Raspberry and Loganberry sale advertised by Frank Gribnall of Post Falls Idaho. Prices set at two dollars and fifty cents per order with money order accepted. Route 3 listed for delivery or pickup.
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Frank Gribnall
Post Falls
Idaho
Card of Thanks for Lois Rose Medsker
The Medsker family expresses heartfelt thanks for sympathy shown during the sickness and death of their daughter and sister Lois Rose Medsker. They especially thank those who assisted and sent floral offerings. Mr and Mrs C E Medsker and Family.
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Lois Rose Medsker
C. E. Medsker
Active living with Foley Pills diuretic promoted locally
Hudson resident S. D. McMillan shares relief from back pain and sleepless nights after using Foley Pills diuretic. He urges others, both men and women, to try the remedy as offered by Geo. M. Gosman successor to Potts in the local ad.
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S. D. McMillan
Hudson, N. Y
Geo. M. Gosman
Potts
Philco executives tout 1929 radio demand and balanced units
J M Skinner of the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company notes a record demand for balanced-unit Philco radios after a nationwide tour. Production quotas for 1929 have been raised to over 500000 sets as dealers struggle to meet orders. The piece also covers rising use of Cypress wood in colonial style homes and the Hollywood diet shift to canned grapefruit juice as a diet staple.
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J. M. Skinner
Philadelphia Storage Battery ‘Company
Philco
Skinner
United States
Canada
Sayre Ramsdell
Harry" Boyd Brown
Robert Herr
Hollywood
Florida Gold Grapefruit Company
Inside cabinet antenna uses chicken wire for long range radio
McMurdo Silver unveils a novel inside cabinet antenna made from tin coated chicken fence mesh. The setup connects via a lead wire to the chassis binding post and plugs into the outlet like a lamp, reducing static and outside antenna needs for signals potentially reaching a thousand miles.
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McMurdo Silver
Miss’ Ardette Cadwallader
Radio “Men
Chicago
Silver
Silver Major ‘Inc
Energy Wisdom in Quiet Thorough Work T
A reflection on energy as not the sole path to success. It warns against wasteful diffusion or exhausting intensity. The preferred approach values calm, steady, and thorough effort over hustle.
The Cause Since my husband took to golf he has become very irritable
The correspondent asks what about golf makes her husband irritable, noting a change in mood since he began playing. The question frames golf as the possible cause and seeks guidance on managing irritability linked to the hobby.
Monastery Foundation Found Near Kirby Stephen
Archaeologists uncover the foundation of a thirteenth century monastery in Ravenstondaye churchyard near Kirby Stephen England. The discovery adds insight into medieval religious sites and local history.
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Ravenstondaye Churchyard
Kirby Stephen
England
Biblical Women and the Elusive Chapter in Proverbs 31
The text notes that no full Bible chapter is written by a woman about women and that Proverbs 31 is often claimed as such a chapter. It argues it mainly contains teachings from King Lemuel's mother and emphasizes women's virtues.
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Lemuel
Wilted Peanty Complains of Queen Title in Agute Blossom Feud
A somewhat wilted Peanty complains she has not been made queen of a certain agute blossom festival. Rival Prune counters calmly, leaving the dispute to stand between them.
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Peanty
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