Mother's Day Proclamation and Whistler Portrait
The piece notes Congress backed a fixed Mother’s Day date via President Wilson and honors Anna Jarvis’s 1908 origin. It discusses Whistler’s Portrait of the Mother, its history, Louvre reconsideration, and Whistler’s life, plus a pledge toward national home welfare and the May Day Child Health day.
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John Dickinson
Sherman
Congress
Anna Jarvis
Philadelphia
Woodrow Wilson
United States of America
United States
Wilson
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Mothers Deserve Monuments Beyond Marble and Bronze
A reflective column argues that cities honor sons with statues while overlooking mothers. The piece notes Priscilla and Sacajawea as exceptions and cites Herbert Quick on frontier mothers who foresaw a brighter day for their children, concluding that true tribute lies beyond material statues.
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Priscilla
Sacajawea
Lewis and Clark
Louisiana Purchase
Washington
Herbert Quick
Frontiers
Remembering Mothers Day Observance Flyers and Flags
The article urges all Americans to honor mothers with flag display and flowers. It emphasizes Mother's Day as a special observance honoring home and motherhood and recalls memories of departed mothers.
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Whistler
Potato Bug Travels Across Regions Through History
The potato bug spread from the Rocky mountains feeding on sand bar crops and soon attacked cultivated potatoes. By 1859 it reached 100 miles west of Omaha and by 1874 had moved to the Atlantic seaboard. Its southern expansion lagged behind the northern advance, with notable movement by 1871.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Mountain
Omaha
Atlantic Seaboard
The Spread of a Movement into Mississippi and Georgia
The text notes the movement did not reach the extreme southern counties of Missouri and only began establishing itself in portions of Mississippi and Georgia by 1897.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Mississippi
Georgia
Inherited Sins Theory by Prof Kammerer
Viennese biologist Kammerer argues sins are inherited and that conscious actions program offspring, a theory readers know as a scientific concept.
Government emphasizes home welfare through federal irrigation projects
The Bureau of Reclamation in the Interior Department has spent over 150 million dollars on more than twenty irrigation projects in the West, involving more than 150000 residents. Secretary Hubert Work describes this vast home-building effort as central to national welfare.
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United States
Executive Departments
Bureau of Reclamation
Interior Department
Hubert Work
Reclamation Goals Focus On Home Life And Mothers
A public address emphasizes government loans for development should be repaid, with reclamation aiming to provide comfortable homes for wholesome children. It argues electricity boosts irrigation and home life, urging priority for project mothers to uplift families, children, schools, and government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reclamation Service
Bureau of Reclamation
Transmission Theory Divides Biologists on Inheritance
Kammerer defends the idea of acquired characteristics arguing it explains why no two people are born alike. He concedes the theory is not proven but contends it is not disproved despite strong opposition from many biologists.
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Thedea
Kammerer
Silk Popularity Wanes Yet Silk Use Surges Worldwide
Silk's global demand fell in popularity last year while overall usage rose, troubling weavers as producers report more silk being worn and traded than ever before.
Montana Rancher Farm Acreage Gains Amid 1925 Census Shifts
The 1925 census shows Sweet Grass county farms shrinking slightly in number since 1920 but expanding farm acreage and grain, hay production. Dats harvester up nearly 300 percent, wheat up about 509 percent, barley up over 509 percent, hay almost 100 percent higher. Livestock except cattle remained near stationary with a small cattle increase.
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Sweet Grass
Farma
Purebred Stock Gains Interest in Rosebud County
Rosebud county farmers show rising demand for purebred stock with purchases of purebred cattle and hogs. Stockmen add registered sires to improve herd quality, with 22 breeders of purebred hogs and breeds including Hampshire, Durac Jersey, Ester White and Poland China. Registered cattle arrive in growing numbers, herds from three to twenty head.
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Hampshire
Durac
Jersey
Ester
Richland County Farmers Diversify Output in 1924
County records show Richland farmers sold one million pounds of butter fat in 1924 valued at 250000 dollars. Wheat, live stock, flax, sugar beets, and poultry shipments also rose, with hogs totaling 200000 head shipped in 1924 after 14 cars in 1922. County Agent H F P Deyue notes these figures reflect diversification trends.
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Richland County
H. F P. Deyue
Towan
Wile
Building boom lifts Northeastern Mon territory growth
Farmer leaders led ground breaking amid a surge in new homes and farm buildings. Townsend of Seobey cites rising construction and housing demand as refineries strain capacity, while wheat price gains boost farmer confidence and land seekers flood the state for low priced parcels.
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Cerop
Montone
Joseph Be Townsend
Seobey
Sas Mi Townsend
Largest Montana alfalfa acreages reported on single ranches
The Allen family near Coglwood south of Miles City is said to plant alfalfa on their entire ranch, with 8 acres noted as the largest single-plot. Last year they raised and sold 21,000 pounds of registered seed. George Daniels in Powder River county expands to 200 acres, while George Quebbeman along the Tongue river reports improved prospects for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
G. W. Allen and Sons
Coglwood
Miles City
Allens
George Daniels
Powder River County
George Quebbeman
Large Machinery Sales Boost Farm Equipment Demand in Montana
Miles City merchants report a surge in demand for tractors drills plows and cultivators as farmers embrace machine power over horses. Machinery sales reach 50000 to date with farms in southeastern Montana purchasing equipment to till larger acreages and plant alfalfa.
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Wis
Miles City
Montana
Dip for Sheep Ticks Introduced in Bitter Root Stock
An off emulsion dip developed by Dr Brad Starz of the state livestock sanitary board is applied to Bitter Root stock near Hamilton to control ticks. The new preparation lasts longer and is more effective than the previous sente preparation. Dipping is conducted from Tlandtten.
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Brad Starz
Stte Livestock Sanitary Board
Hamilton
Tlandtten
Interior classifies public lands for homesteads and power sites
Interior department releases show four thousand acres in Montana and Vinh listed as phosphate land. Geological survey flags nearly 100000 acres in Montana and Utah as non irrigable and under 820 acre homestead entry. Over 150000 acres in Colorado Montana and Florida designated under stock rising law for entry in 640 acre tracts. About 10000 acres in Utah marked power site areas.
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Montana
Vinh
Interior Department
Geological Survey
Not a Dry State Dry Farming in Montana
A. J. H. Bowman head of Montana agriculture warns against using the term dry in any Montana farming context. He notes rainfall is heavy like central states and urges cooperation of state publicity agencies to stop the term dry in references to Montana farming.
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Montana
Central States
A. J H. Bowman
Department of Agriculture
Heléna Valley Peas Distribution Planned by County Agent
A carload of seed peas will be distributed to farmers in the Helena valley. County agent TL G De Vore says unloading will be directed by a man from Bozeman. Seed will serve 35 acres contracted by the Gallatin company.
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Heléna Valley
Flelena Valley
TL. G. de Vore
Bozeman
Gallatin Company
Idaho firm buys timber in Coeur d Alene forest
The Russell Pugh Lumber Co of Springston Idaho has purchased about 15 800 000 feet of timber in the Coeur d Alene forest announced from district forest headquarters The price is 50 000 dollars
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Russell-Pugh Lumber Company
Springston
Idaho
Coeur d'Alene Forest
District Forest
Cattle Dipping Plan Aims to Fight Tick Fever in Montana
About 100000 cattle across the Crow Blackfeet Fort Peck reserves and Madison Prairie Valley counties will be dipped in emulsion this spring to prevent disease and control lice. State veterinarian Dr W J Butler says the program targets nearly all cattle on the Crow reservation and many on other reserves and counties.
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Montana
W. J. Butler
Crow Indian Reservation
Blackfeet
Fort Peck
Madison
Prairie
Valley
Promising Range Conditions Report From Lewistown Area
David Payne, head of the old N Bar ranch on Flatwillow near Lewistown, notes very promising agricultural prospects with good grass growth and stock in tiptop shape across the county.
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David Payne
Sugar beet acreage set for Simms area survey
George Wood district manager of the Utah Idaho Sugar company reports a survey showing eight hundred acres of sugar beets in the Simms Cas cade and Fort Shaw area requiring at least 55 field workers as a minimum.
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Simms
Cascade
Fort Shaw
George Wood
Utah- Idaho Sugar Company
Signatures Gathered for Sun River Irrigation District Bid
Signatures of 240 land owners on the Sun River project near Choteau exceed the required total by 30 and will be presented to Judge John J. Greene in Choteau. They seek authority to create an irrigation district under state law, backed by interior department funding of 500000 dollars for the Sun River storage dam project.
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Sun River
Choteau
John J. Greene
Interior Department
Montana lamb crop value seen near last year's total
A T Hibard, secretary of the Montana Live stock Finance corporation, predicts the state lamb crop value will reach as high a figure as last year or more. He notes last year’s lamb value in Montana approached $10,000,000.
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Montana
A .T. Hibbard
Montana Livestock Finance Corporation
Prairie Fire Rages North of Poplar Across Eight Mile Front
A strong wind fanned a prairie fire that swept north of Poplar burning most grass between Box Elder Creek and the north fork of Long Creek. The blaze stretched an eight mile front across the region.
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Poplar
Box Elder Creek
North Fork
Long Creek
Russian German farmers join Phillips Development near Dodson
Seventy workers from Russia and Germany join Phillips Development Company near Dodson in Phillips county. They arrived from Walla Walla via the Great Northern and were housed in an old school building. Additional families arrive to work in the sugar beet section.
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Phillips Development Company
Dodson
Phillips County
Walla Walla
Great Northern
Sioux City Stock Record reports hopeful Montana crops
Y A Hartman of the Sioux City Stock Record touring the eastern state says crops show wonderful promise and granaries still bulge with part of last year harvest, noting Montana needs more farmers who are farmers.
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Y. A. Hartman
Sioux City
New Fur Farm Opens at Fort Benton Draws Attention
The new fur farm founded by A L Mulkins L H Morrow and J L Goodhue at Fort Benton attracts interest. They received 20 female black skunks to start the foundation, with pens and houses built for 21 heads and plans to add other fur bearing animals over time.
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A. L. Mulkins
L. H Morrow
J. L. Goodhue
Fort Benton
Mulkins
Monkeys and Winch Speed Rapid Elm Fell in England
In Mordon England workers used a monkey winch to fell a 65 foot elm for the City and South London railway extension. Secured to a small tree, two men tightened the cable and brought the tree down in ten minutes. Roots were pulled out intact, a task that would have taken three men three days by old methods.
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Mordon
England
City
A Lady of Distinction Receives Delicate Perfume Influence
An advertisement extols a lady’s refined image through perfume and skincare. It recommends a Cuticura Soap bath followed by Cuticura Talcum powder to achieve clear, sweet, healthy skin and a delicate allure.
First Japanese Woman Physician Sets Practice in Tokyo
Mme Chikaké Kuroda becomes the first woman to earn a medical degree in Japan and has begun practicing in Tokyo, marking a historic milestone for women in the nation’s medical field.
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Mme, Chikaké Kuroda
Japan
Tokyo
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