New Red Cross Effort Seen to Ease China Famine
Reports from China to the American Red Cross warn famine is at its peak as relief workers employ about 90,000 on public works, saving some 500,000 from starvation while 2,000,000 others may die without extended aid. a call is issued for at least 200,000 more dollars to sustain relief until the harvest.
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China
Red Cross
Charles W. Harvey
Tientsin
United States
Calhoun
Peking
State Department
Ching Kiangpu
Essuliae
Central China Famine Relief Committee
You Kou
Sun Chia
New York
Genuine Colorado Lump Coal in City Demand
Semi anthracite coal offered by C W Scott for furnaces. Local buyer interest noted with the phrase no other in the city has it. Feed recommendation for voids furnace referenced.
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Colorado
C.W. Scott
Sethe
Norris to Head Montana Livestock and Casualty Co
Governor Edwin L. Norris will retire from office and become president and active manager of the Montana Livestock and Casualty Insurance Company. The firm, formed months ago, aims to build a strong Northwest insurer with H. C. Naylor named underwriter and key directors including H. B. Palmer, A. C. Johnson, and Jacob Mills.
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Montana Livestock and Casualty Insurance Company
Helena
Edwin L. Norris
Montana Livestock & Casualty Insurance Company
Montana
D. Cook
H. C. Naylor
United States
Northwest
U. S
Norris
H. B. Palmer
A. C. Johnson
Jacob Mills
S. D. Cook
Local Notes From Dillon and Basin Ranch Life
Absences noted in Dillon with Will Armitage aiding Sunny Slope Breezes. E N Jones praises a fine mahogany bay Belgian mare from Sunny Slope. Beef trade light. Frank Frazier and H M Schneider buy cattle from multiple owners. J A LaMarsh resigns as Battle Ground forester. Arthur Kees to assume duties with Lester Barry assisting. Miss Gwendoline Rees hired to supervise eighth grade exams. Ray Shaw and family arrive from Washington. plans to settle Trail Creek with 640 acres to plow. Oklahoma teacher starts tornado drill for students to reach cyclone cellar in four minutes.
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Mr. Williams
Dillon
Will Armitage
Sunny Slope
Gus. Swanson
E. N. Jones
Washington
Frank Frazier
Frye & Co
Seattle
McCaffrey
Lawrence
Shaw
H. M. Schneider
Stanton
Spokane
E.N. Jones
Anton Christianson
Charley Francis
George Stewart
J. A. LaMarsh
Battle Ground
Glacier Park
Jim
Sam
Arthur Kees
Kees
Lester A. Barry
Gwendoline Rees
Ray Shaw
Babe
Mr. Shaw
Toomey Ranch
Francis Crane
Bob Jones
Butte
Shaw Brothers
Ray
Jay
Trail Creek
Land Transfers Change Montana National Forest Boundaries
Washington May 9 1912 presidential proclamation trims Bitterroot Cabinet and Lolo National Forest land in Montana. Acres removed include 690 from Bitterroot 13710 from Cabinet and 3490 from Lolo with further interforest boundary shifts among the three forests plus transfers totaling thousands of acres placing boundaries along the Clark Fork St Regis watershed and the divide near the Lolo Bitterroot rivers.
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Washington, D. C
Montana
Cabinet
Clark Fork
Columbia River
St. Regis River
Old Fashioned Ones and their simple country moments
A Montgomery Advertiser fragment recalls rural life legends and characters. The “old fashioned” figures include a cautious church marcher with squeaky shoes, a man who hears a distant cowbell to judge cattle, a bonneted girl awaiting Sunday guests, a slate carrying schoolboy, a housewife tallying quilting holes, a man setting a steel trap, a girl milking on the right side, a boy carving initials on a tree, a youth bowing to elders, and a boy going possum hunting with a Black companion near a cane patch after dusk.
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Montgomery Advertiser
Duel Story Turns Friendly After Wounding Pact
Brantome recounts two French captains once friends who fought and later faked wounds to avoid disgrace. One was injured, the other feigned injury to prevent lingering resentment. The vanquished recovered and they remained friends after the episode.
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Brantome
University Doctors Offer Free Medical Services nationwide advert
The University Doctors association offers free medical services by a full staff of specialists in Minneapolis Minnesota. They claim to treat diseases without surgery and publish a central office at 324 Century Building offering treatment by correspondence or in person with costs only for medicines. Applicants are urged to write promptly with symptoms.
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America
Northwest
Century Building
Minneapolis
Minn
Morse Sells Big Herd From Dillon In $100000 Sale
The Butte Inter Mountain reports J E Morse of Dillon sold a 1000 head herd from the Big Hole valley to a St Paul firm for about 100000 dollars. Cattle averaged 1350 pounds and brought roughly seven cents a pound. The sale follows months of heavy buying and ends the valley’s fattening herd.
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Butte Inter Mountain
J. E. Morse
Dillon
St. Paul
Butte
Morse
Big Hole
William Montgomery
The
Electric Bitters touted as malaria cure in 19th century ad
An 1800s advertisement claims mosquitos spread malaria and typhoid, then promotes Electric Bitters as a remedy that purges malaria from blood. A testimonial from Wh. Fretwell of Lucama describes three bottles curing malaria and restoring health, with a dealer listing Potts the Duggist selling the product for stomach, liver, and kidney ailments at 50 cents.
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Wh. Fretwell
Lucama
N. C
English Prison Pits
English prison pits were night vaults for criminals. Bristol held nine to seventeen men nightly until 1815 in a 17 by 9 foot chamber. Warwick fall pit housed 42 men with a central cesspool and water stream for drinking until 1797.
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England
Bristol
Warwick Fall
Cesspool
Devil's Tower rises above Black Hills in geology bulletin
In a government bulletin on Black Hills geology, N H Darton describes Devil's Tower as a 600 foot mass of igneous rock with nearly vertical, fluted sides. The shaft stands on the Belle Fourche river west bank near Hulette Wyoming and marks an eroded butte complex in the northern Black Hills.
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Black Hills
South Dakota
Wyoming
N. H. Darton
Belle Fourche River
Hulett
Wyo
Devil’s Tower
A teacher asks class about a while versus a time
A Cleveland teacher prompts students to explain the difference between the phrases a while and a time. A boy lights up and answers eagerly that when papa goes out for a while mamma knows he is going out for a time, ending with a humorous local caption.
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Cleveland
Papa
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Spoiled Appetite Tale From Baron Graham
A famed epicure asked how many oysters create appetite. Baron Graham, told to eat until hungry, ate ten dozen. He later lamented that he was not as hungry as at the start and declared the meal spoiled.
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Graham
Epicure
Only First Class Hat and Shoe Store in the Village
A dialogue fragment shows a long hatred passenger asking a young man about his life’s purpose. The reply claims two aims, ending with the boast that he owns the village’s only first class hat and shoe shop.
One Day Quote Warns Against Wasting Time
The message emphasizes daily life as a small life and repeats a caution that losing a day is prodigal and missingpend it leads to desperation, attributed to Bishop Hall.
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Bishop Hall
Savage Threats Reported in Variety Life Note
A Variety Life item describes a man as a perfect savage and cites him threatening his wife with a club during a quarrel, illustrating domestic abuse bravely reported in entertainment notes.
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G. T. Paul
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