Sheridan News notes local property sale and community events
June 17 report highlights Jack Speedy purchasing the Thurgood property on Ruby Street and plans improvements. EpISCopal services by Rev. Hooker and Rev. Gibson’s reassignment are noted, along with social visits, school honors for Leonard Schulz, wool shipping by Foster Bros, and various regional travels and gatherings among Sheridan residents.
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Sheridan
Jack Speedy
Thurgood
Ruby Street
Speedy
Hooker
Mrs. Hooker
Episcopal Church
Twin Bridges
Franklin Gibson
Virginia City
Tennessee
Gibson
Deer Jirdlee
Kilvanic
Butte
Harry Foster
O O. F. Samaritan Lodge
Ruby Rebekah Lodge
Mr. Maiden
Leonard Schulz
St. Johns Military Academy
Delfield
Wisconsin
Leonard
O. F. Schoenfeld
Old Noble
Schoenfeld
Otto Schoenfeld Jr
Missoula
Dorothy Ellinghouse
Medicine Lodge News Box Visit Highlights
In Medicine Lodge on June 18 Mr. Glen Decker and his son visited the lodge. Miss Lois Scollard and Alvin Owens drove to Dillon on Saturday. Ike Rife went on a business trip to Armstead Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Craver
Mr.Craver
Virgil C. Givens
Armstead
John Flildreth
Dillon
P. W. Armstrong
Butte
Ethel
Silver Star
Richard Freeman
Mary
Ede
Margarite
Medicine Lodge
Glen Decker and Son
Lois Scollard
Alvin Owens
Ike Rife
Water as Cure All in Gypsy Beliefs
Konrad Bercovici describes Gypsy use of water as preventive medicine and remedy. He notes immersion at birth, drinking cold and hot water for illnesses, and water as key in incantations and love or hate potions. They rely on water, fat, grease, and sunshine, with prayer to Tehluma.
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Konrad Bercovici
Ifygeia
Tehluma
Great Falls Tax Payments Reach May Total
Great Falls Cascade County reports tax receipts for May totaling 524,436 dollars. The figure reflects collected payments across local districts and supports county operations and services.
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Great Falls
Cascade County
Ryegate Franklin irrigation district to sell bonds
The Ryegate Franklin irrigation district plans to issue and sell 850000 construction bonds to raise funds for district improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ryegate
Franklin Irrigation District
Livingston Yellowstone Trail Association Seeks $56 000 Budget
The Livingston Yellowstone Trail Association plans to raise $56 000 to fund its annual budget for the year. The group intends to cover maintenance, trail projects, and outreach through donations and community events.
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Livingston
Yellowstone Trail Association
Malta Phillips County Wheat and Corn Prosper
Malta Phillips County reports 75,000 acres of wheat and 45,000 acres of corn doing well this season, with strong yields and steady growth across the grains.
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Malta
Phillips County
Currency elasticity proves Fed notes adapt to demand
W Randolph Burgess of the New York Fed argues in the American Bankers Association Journal that Federal Reserve notes drive currency elasticity. He notes notes rose to nearly half of money in circulation and explains mechanism as banks withdraw and return notes, with gold reserves shaping expansion capacity and wartime spikes illustrating secondary elasticity.
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New York
United States
Federal Reserve System
American Bankers Association Journal
W. Randolph Burgess
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve
Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Banks
Supplying the Nation with Change in 1924 25
The United States mints produced large quantities of small change in 1924 and 1925. In 1924 the mint struck 89,394,000 one cent pieces and 28,315,000 nickels, plus 37,940,000 dimes and 16,892,000 quarters. Only 13,539,000 silver dollars were coined while half-dollars were scarce at 142,080, all commemoratives. In 1925 the mint produced 10,300,500 double eagles.
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United States
National parks and monuments list with diverse sites
The text catalogs 19 national parks including Hot Springs Arkansas with 46 springs Yellowstone Wyoming Sequoia California General Grant California Mount Rainier Washington Crater Lake Oregon Wind Cave South Dakota Platt Oklahoma Sully Hill North Dakota Mesa Verde Colorado Glacier Montana Rocky Mountain Colorado Hawaii Lassen Mount McKinley Alaska Grand Canyon Arizona Lafayette Island Maine Zion Utah plus several dozen smaller monuments of caves bridges battlefields and historic places distinct as national monuments.
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Hot Springs
Walddie
Arkansas
Yellowstone
Wyoming
Sequoia
California
General Grant
Mount Rainier
Washington
Crater Lake
Oregon
Wind Cave
South Dakota
Platt
Oklahoma
Sully Hill
North Dakota
Mesa Verde
Colorado
Glacier
Montana
Rocky Mountain
Hawaii
Mauna Loa
Lassen Volcano
Mount McKinley
Alaska
North America
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Lafayette
Desert I Island
Maine
Zion
Utah
Scientific Basis for Chances of Greatness
An old heredity argument links parental age to offspring greatness. The text claims older parents boost Eminence odds, with birth order, number of siblings, and parental occupation affecting fame. It cites ages 31 40 for soldiers and artists, 41 50 for statesmen, 51+ for philosophers, and notes most criminals come from younger parents. It oddly suggests youngest child with very old father becomes famous.
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Tke Confucius
Bacon
Franklin
Sisty
A Doctor's Life and a Clever Billing Dispute
A Boston Globe item tells of a doctor billing Mr. Bangs ten dollars for two visits and again ten dollars for the long early morning emergency. Bangs objects as a robber but the doctor rewrites the bill with details of the wakeful night and offers a fair compromise. Bangs pays the bill after the final offer.
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Mr. Bangs
Bargain Letter Postage Joke From R F D Carrier
A rural mail carrier recalls a humorous episode with a foreign woman who received a letter from the old country marked 20 cents due. After he asked for payment and she refused, he realized the charge was actually 15 cents. Hearing 15 cents, she smiled and paid, thinking she had a bargain.
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G. Edward Snyder
American Magazine
Poor Advertisement Warns of Higher Rates After Marriage
A humorous note cites a painter who claims lower prices because he is a bachelor but warns the advantage will end when he marries. The piece quotes his public notice urging customers to place orders at the old rate now.
Making Him Useful The Plumber and His Helper
A novice helper asks if he is paid for his time on his first day. The plumber answers he charges, even for unseen work, then uses a lit candle and a two inch unburned piece to illustrate the lesson urging him to blow it out.
Association Test Endorsed by Continental Congress in 1776
The Association Test was resolved by the Continental Congress on March 4, 1776 and approved by the Exeter Committee of Safety on April 12. It urged all males over twenty one to sign the pledge to oppose British hostile actions to the United States colonies, with certain disqualifications.
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Continental Congress
Committee of Safety
Exeter
United States
Eye Appeal and the Dual Reach of Verse
Lascelles Abercrombie contrasts Isomer with Dante and Milton, noting Homeric verse favors ear appeal while Dante and Milton use eye appeal without sacrificing ear appeal. He asserts their art has finer modulations of significance, bridging oral and visual reception.
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Homer
Dante
Milton
Isomer
Lascelles Abercrombie
Far East merchants depend on discarded American newspapers
Merchants in the Far East rely on wrappers from American newspapers, with hundreds of tons shipped monthly from Atlantic ports. The trade shifted from Pacific coast dealers to eastern firms after World War I, as junkmen supplied papers for foreign shipment.
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Far East
Atlantic Coast
Strength of Beetles Demonstrates Incredible Power
Scientific observations show a beetle exerting power far beyond its body weight. A captive beetle moved a heavy glass milk bottle, while another beetle toiled up a 5 degree incline dragging 125 grains by silk thread.
North and Central Montana Crop Conditions Improve
General crop conditions across northern and central Montana are unusually good this season. Reports indicate robust yields potential and favorable moisture levels boosting prospects for farmers.
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Norther
Central
Montana
Dandelion Grows On High Mountain Slopes
The persistent dandelion grows on mountains that rise to a height of 14 500 feet. The note describes high altitude flora enduring in rugged terrain and highlights the plant’s resilience amid harsh alpine conditions.
Foley Pills touted to aid inactive kidneys in Ad
An advertisement quotes J. D. Stephens of Samson Alabama praising Foley Pills for kidney relief. Druggist Potts endorses the remedy in an early 20th century ad.
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J. D. Stephens
Samson
Ala
Potts
Reformers: youth seek world change but lack knowhow
The quote contrasts the young who crave reform with the world’s old who know how yet stay indifferent, underscoring a generational gap in action versus insight.
Devil's door in Mullion Town church reportedly hides escape passage
A medieval ecclesiastic in Mullion Town Cornwall created a devil door near the church nave. The door is said to allow the devil to escape when sponsors renounce him and all his works.
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Mullion Town
Cornwall
England
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Sheridan News
Medicine Lodge News
Bond Grocery Co
Standard Lumber & Coal Co
FIT Business
Bangs
Baby
Boston Globe
Sam
Scott Coal & Transfer
Pioneer Coal Dealer
Door
The
Devil
Tribune Pub. Co
Dillon, Montana
Ben Babcock
C. A. Smith, Auctioneer
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