Montana Potato Exhibit Promises Big Cash Prizes at State Fair
The Montana State Fair offers special cash prizes to potato growers highlighting Montana as a prime potato hub. Awards include 50 dollars for the largest smooth potato and 75 dollars for the best four-variety collection, with extra backing from Walter A. Pocock and Oliver Chilled Plow Works. This aims to boost Montana agriculture and attract top displays.
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Walter A. Pocock
Ryan
St. Paul
Montana
F. P
Lindsay
Helena
Oliver Chilled
Oliver
Fair Management
Commonwealth
Montana Wheat Seen As World’s Best and Future Breadbasket
Montana is touted as the world’s premier wheat belt with higher per acre yields and superior grain quality. The Montana Fair offers prizes and the $5,000 Northwestern Development League award for the best bushel at the Minneapolis expo, signaling wheat as the state’s future key industry.
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Montana
Association of Farmers
United States
State Agricultural College and Experiment Stations
Northwestern Development League
Minneapolis
Helena
Bishop Thirlwall Refuses to Answer Questions
An English prelate, Bishop Thirlwall, shows strong aversion to answering questions. A tailor, seeking orders, gets only the repeated phrase I want a suit of clothes. A gardener also asks about borders and is met with silence until the third request when the bishop blurts I am the bishop.
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Thirlwall
Garden hides churchyard beneath Bank of England site
The Bank of England gardens feature a central fountain and trees atop the former Church of St Christopher le Stock graveyard. The church was removed largely because its tower overlooked the damed Bank and raised concerns over sightlines.
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Christopher le Stock
City of London
London Spectator
Bank of England
St. Christopher le Stock
Meals In the old Days in Sixteenth Century England
The London Chronicle cites Harrison to describe meals in the 1500s. It notes that breakfast was rare and dining patterns varied by social group. Nobility and students ate at 11 for dinner and 6 for supper, while merchants often dined at 12 and supped at 6, and scholars at 10 in universities.
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Charles II
London
Birmingham
Exeter
England
Macaulay
Harrison
Britain
London Chronicle
The Old Dodge Refuses Extra Time on Bill
A Detroit Free Press excerpt shows Brown resisting extra time to settle a bill. The creditor proposes paying the full amount by mail today but insists on morning delivery signed, illustrating a long credit stretch and a dispute over payment timing.
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Dodge
The Judge's Advice
The prisoner lacked an advocate and faced a murder charge. A junior barrister was asked to defend him. At lunch the barrister asked if he should give a long or short speech. The judge replied that length is the prisoner's only chance to gain more life.
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London
Will You Love Me When I Mold
A lawyer asks grounds for divorce and a husband replies that his wife, a sculptress, tires him with repeated lines about molding. The exchange, cited as from the New York Times, presents a punny marital dispute.
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New York Times
Contro of Children Governing Divorce Proceedings
After separation a husband sends a legal document to his wife granting custody of their child. He sighs that a copy might help them both gain control. From Pearson's Weekly.
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Pearson
Flax competition grows at Montana State Fair
Flax has become a major Montana crop with state grower acres rising steeply. The Montana State Fair at Helena September 23 to 28 offers cash prizes plus a $150 seed drill from Thomas Manufacturing for the best flax seed sample and threshed bushel judged from the exhibit. J. J. Hindson of Helena helped mount the event to its current prominence.
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Montana
Helena
Thomas Manufacturing Company
J. J. Hindson
Montana State Fair Seeks Top Ear Corn Exhibit
The Montana State Fair offers a $110 prize from Deere & Webber for the best ear corn exhibit grown by one exhibitor. The display must include at least three varieties and be shown at the fair from September 23 to 28.
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Montana
Deere & Webber Company
James Russell Lowell Hall of Fame Profile
James Russell Lowell poet critic and diplomat born Cambridge Massachusetts February 22 1819 died Cambridge August 12 1891 Harvard graduate and Longfellow successor as professor of modern languages served twenty two years War editor at Atlantic Monthly and North American Review minister to Spain 1877 1880 and to England 1880 1885 noted for Commemoration Ode The Vision of Sir Launfal and The Biglow Papers as America s greatest patriotic poet and leading critic.
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James Russell Lowell
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Longfellow
Atlantic Monthly
The
North American Review
Spain
England
Unknown Graves and Nature’s Silent Memorial
A meditation on missing graves, contrasting human grief with nature’s unforgetting cycles. The speaker notes uncounted graves unknown to man and laments the absence of tender weeping, yet asserts that nature preserves every grave in her numbered ways and adorns them through endless decoration days.
The Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster Abbey
The Jerusalem chamber in Westminster abbey, built over five centuries ago, once an abbot's withdrawing room, was the scene of Henry IV's death fulfilling a prophecy about dying in Jerusalem. The chamber later housed the state funerals of Addison, Congreve, and Prior.
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Jerusalem
Westminster Abbey
Henry IV
Holy Land
Addison
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