Three-In-One Plan Aims To Speed Legion Membership Growth
The American Legion leadership promotes a three-in-one drive with the Legion auxiliary and 40-and-8 working as a single unit to recruit members. National figures from Illinois and Michigan show rapid 1925 signups, with posts rushing to exceed 1924 totals.
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American Legion
Frank Samuel
National Headquarters of
the Legion
Samuel
Society of the Legion
Legion
Auxiliary
Jim Crain
Legionnnaire
O. D. Olphant
the Auxilary
George Dobson
Department of Illinois
Michigan
National Headquarters
Kansas Auxiliary Aids Hospitalized Nurses
The Kansas American Legion Auxiliary raised a Lace and Liberty fund to buy clothes for World War I ex service nurses hospitalized at Fort Bayard New Mexico. They collected through subscription and provided silks satins and other fineries to brighten their days.
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Fort Bayard
N. M
American Legion Auxiliary
Department of Kansas
Cumberland Post Seeks Navy Ship Named for City
The Cumberland Maryland post of the Legion expects the mayor and city council to urge the Navy to name a light cruiser or gunboat after Cumberland. The article notes no current ship bears the name and recalls the Civil War loss of the Cumberland to the Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Cumberland
the Legion
Cumberland
Navy Department
Hame
Jt 18
Virginia
Monitor
Merrimac
CROSSWORD PUZZLE LISTING WITH FEEBLE CLUES AND ERRORS
A crossword puzzle page lists horizontal and vertical clues with numerous typographical errors and unclear wording. The mixed entries include archaic terms and incomplete phrases, making solution difficult but promising a next issue reveal.
Fort Sumter and the Civil War’s Opening Act
Edmund Ruffin fired the first shot at Fort Sumter on April 12 1861, beginning the Civil War. The fort endured bombardments by Beauregard and Dahlgren, fell to the Confederacy in 1861, and was finally retaken when Major General Hancock raised the Union flag again on April 14 1865 after Robert Anderson led a boys in blue assault.
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Edmund Ruffin
Charleston Harbor
Fort Sumter
Thomas Sumter
Morris
Sullivan Islands
Charteston
S.C
Maj
Robert Anderson
Fort Moultrie
South Carolina
Star of the West
Anderson
P. T. Beauregard
Beauregard
Sumter
Confederacy
Admiral Dupont
Dahlgren
Charleston
Hennessey
Fort Allatoona Stand Inspires Civil War Hymn
A small fort at Allatoona Pass in northern Georgia held out against Hood in 1864 as Sherman approached. General Corse and about 1,500 Minnesota and Illinois troops repelled 6,000 Confederates until Sherman arrived. Philip Paul Bliss wrote Hold the Fort after the raising of the flag and the ensuing relief.
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Allatoona Pass
Georgia
Sherman
Hood
Corse
Illinois
French
Atlanta
Kenesaw Mountain
W. T. Sherman
Little Fort
Minnesota
Ilinois
Philip Paul Bliss
Dwight L. Moody
Animals of Never Were
A whimsical verse describing the Fire-Tailed Beaverboo a blue-eyed red-eared beasty with heliotrope hide and yellow rope whiskers. He toils in a woodland bungalow to raise a new addition while the Sharp-Toothed Kattayae lurks outside triggering a noisy standoff.
Youth May Become World's Strongest Man
A London youth demonstrated extraordinary strength in a display that included crushing a rosy apple between his fingers, driving a nail through two planks, breaking a chain with his teeth, and lifting five men and gear on his chest. He credits chest development for his power and also showed ear-weight lifting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Find Second Moon and Become Famous
An article in Popular Science Monthly suggests a suspected second moon orbiting Earth. A small ironstone body about four to five hundred feet across could be spotted with a three inch telescope as it crosses the solar or lunar disk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scriven Bolton
Popular Science Monthly
Great Falls Butter Exports Highlight Montana Dairy Growth
Montana dairy progress shown by Great Falls butter exports and creamery output. Great Walls imported butter to meet winter demand in 1922 23. Summer exports reached 32 carloads in 1922 and 14 in 1923. Montana milk products valued near 8.76 million in 1928 from a total livestock sales of about 50 million.
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Montana
Great Falls
Great Walls
Turkeys From Pondera County Sold For Christmas Market
Turkey growers in Pondera County sold four carloads to Northern Creamery Company of Great Falls for Christmas markets. The 110.00 pounds of dressed turkeys brought $31,000 with No. 1 birds at 60 cents and No. 2 birds at 22 cents. A writer credits County Agent Blaine Ferguson for the county’s growing turkey industry.
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Pondera County
Northern Creamery Company
Great Falls
Pontera County
Blaine Ferguson
Eight annual Montana seed show shifts to Bozeman
J A Ogaard secretary of the Montana Seed Growers association announces the eighth annual utility seed show will be held in Bozeman during Farm and Home Week at Montana State College from January 5 to 9. The event was moved from Miles City due to changes in plans for the State corn show.
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Montana Utility
Bozeman
Montana State College
J. A. Ogaard
Montana Seed Growers’ Association
Miles City
Buyer seeks 5000 head of range horses in eastern Montana
Christ L Jesperson of Baker a buyer for Chapel Brothers of Rockford seeks 5000 head of range horses over 900 pounds for his firm. Undesirable Cayuses are slaughtered by an Illinois firm for meat with hind quarters sent to Europe and fore quarters canned for dog meat. Delivered at Saugus Kinsey or Miles City, price five dollars per head in lots of 1000 or more.
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Christ L. Jesperson
Baker
Chapel Brothers
Rockford
Lil
Montana
Poultry Show At Miles City Draws Large Exhibit
Nearly 500 birds were on display at the second annual Miles City exhibit under the Custer County Poultry Association. American English Mediterranean Asiatic and other classes were represented over a three day run with T N Moray of Spokane serving as judge.
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Custer County Poultry Association
Miles City
T. N. Moray
Spokane
Poultry Show Planned in Red Lodge January 14 15 16
Arrangements are practically completed for the poultry show to be held in Red Lodge January 14 15 and 16. John Sim secretary of the temporary Carbon County Poultry association says G H Ford of Bozeman will judge the event. A committee including John Sim F W Lyle Gus B Foltz and A H Croonquist is handling plans.
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Red Lodge
John Sim
Carbon County Poultry Association
G. HE H. Ford
Bozeman
F. W. Lyle
Gus B. Foltz
A. H. Croonquist
Richland County Produces 1924 Farm Wealth
Richland county with about 6000 residents produced agricultural products in 1924 valued at 6 625 000 dollars per H F DePue county agricultural agent This equals an average of 1104 dollars per person across the county.
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Richland County
H. F. DePue
Sugar beet acreage on Sun River project to rise next year
George O. Stanford project manager says Sun River project will increase beet acreage from 100 to 500 acres next year and a field man from Utah Idaho Sugar Co will be assigned to assist growers on the project.
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Sun River
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company
George O. Stanford
Fergus County Farm Bureau Sets January Meeting Date
The Fergus County Farm Bureau board designated the annual meeting for January 28. The same date marks the opening of the Lewis Town farmers short course, scheduled January 28 29 and 30.
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County Farm Bureau
Fergus County Farm Bureau Board
Lewistown
Montana irrigation meeting to discuss land settlement at Farm and Home Week
The Montana Irrigation and Drainage Institute will focus on colonization and settlement of irrigated lands during Farm and Home Week at Montana State College January 5 9. President B C Lillis says settling land is crucial as Montana promotes resources to attract settlers. George G Ross of Ross Ranch Co Alberta has bought hay on Hould ranch and feeds 1200 cattle brought from Canada, testing feeding methods in the Milk River valley and seeking grain feeds, especially ripe corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewistown
Great Northern
Denton
Roy
I. L. Dana
Montana
Wyoming
Montana Irrigation and Drainage Institute
Montana State College
B. C. Lillis
Billings
Malta
Canada
George G. Ross
Ross Ranch Company
Lethbridge
Alberta
Hould
Milk River
Campbell Farming Chief Heads South for Winter
Thomas DPD. Campbell, president of the Campbell Farming corporation, leaves for California to spend the winter after directing a successful year. The firm reports more than 25.04 acres of winter wheat sown and 8,000 acres plowed for spring wheat. Preparation continues to seed at least 12,000 acres to flax and aims to have 50,000 acres planted for the 1925 harvest.
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Thomas Dpd. Campbell
Campbell Farming Corporation
California
Campbell
Beet Pulp Feed Trial Moves Cattle to Billings
Melville stockman W. H. Donald conducts beet pulp trial feeding cattle. He shipped 94 head of two year olds to Billings to feed and sell, and previously tested a carload of baby beef. Current experiments feed on Sunflower silage, alfalfa, and ground barley. He plans shipments in early spring.
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W. H. Donald
Melville
Kansas Leader to Speak at Farm and Home Week
F. 1D. Farrell, director of the Kansas Experiment Station and dean of the Kansas agricultural college, will be a chief speaker at Farm and Home Week at Montana State College from January 5 to 9. He will discuss Irrigated Lands and Their Geographic Wandscape and Maintaining a satisfactory Field Crop Seed Supply and other topics. Farrell is regarded as a leading authority on irrigation and dry farming in the western states and knows Montana's production problems well.
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Farrell
Kansas Experiment Station
Kansas Agricultural College
Montana State College
Montana
Hogs in Transit: Missing Pig Among Powder River Loads
FP W Trautman hauling hogs to the railroad at Miles City passed six loads in transit from Powder River. His consignment included three spring pigs worth 52 dollars. A 160 pound red pig with a nose ring toppled from the crowded crate and remains unrecovered at Miles City.
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Miles City
W. Trautman
Powder River Points
Trautman
Carbon County Creamery Ships 1200 Turkeys to Spokane Market
The Carbon County Creamery shipped about 1200 turkeys worth $8000 to Spokane after stopping at Billings for loading. The carload poultry plan is proving successful and will be expanded next year to other markets.
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Carbon County Creamery Company
Spokane
Billings
Poultry Show Showcases 440 Birds Across Montana Towns
Four hundred forty birds were exhibited by the Custer County Poultry association at its annual show held at Miles City this week. Birds from Helena Bozeman Huntley Forsyth and Glendive were shown as well as Miles City. Miss Adee of the state extension service attended the show. She was accompanied by the Rosebud team which gave a demonstration on marketing.
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Custer County Poultry Association
Miles City
Helena
Bozeman
Huntley
Forsyth
Glendive
Adee
State Extension Service
Rosebud
Northern Montana grain surgePORTED for 8 million bushels
The monthly grain report for the Great Northern line notes that northern Montana territory, using the Butte division and the Western Montana line as outlets, raised over eight million bushels of wheat this year, with more than half already shipped to market.
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Great Northern Railway
Northern
Montana
Butte
Great Northern and
Western Montana Railway
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Kansas
Cumberland Post
Iraq
Mahama Medan
Western Newspaper Union
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