Tombstone for Pavement and a Lost Duke’s Epitaph
A London writer notes Shakespearean praise for Thomas Mowbray ancestor of the Duke of Norfolk banished by Richard II who died in Italy. Centuries later his exile bones were claimed from Venice and brought to England but the tombstone remained as a paving stone until discovered years ago.
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Duke of Norfolk
Richard II
Italy
Thomas Mowbry
Shakespeare
London
Venice
England
Remarkable Freak Newspapers From Madrid and Other Oddities
The Lu minara, printed in Madrid, used phosphorus ink to glow in the dark. The Regal was made on edible dough sheets, offering nourishment for body and mind. Le Bien-Etre promised pensioners forty years of tree burial.
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Luminara
Madrid
Regal
le Bien-Etre
World’s Greatest Cataract on Iguasu River
The greatest cataract in the world is on the Iguasu river border Brazil and Argentina. The precipice is 210 feet high, larger than Niagara at 167 feet. The falls span 19,123 feet, about 2.5 times Niagara’s width. Niagara handles about 100 million tons of water per hour. Iguasu estimates are 140 million tons.
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Iguasu
Brazil
Argentina
Niagara
Origin of the name Algernon in the Percy line
The name Algernon derives from als Gernon, first given to a crusading Percy named William. Fellow knights called him William als Gernon of Gernon, meaning William with the Whiskers. The nickname persisted, and the tenth duke of Northumberland, who died recently, bore Algernon.
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Algernon
Gernon
William
Duke of
Northumberland
Retention filed on Homestead entries in Grass Range
ADA McCRACKEN and JAMES E. McKENNA of Grass Range Mont seek to retain and perfect final three year proof for previously filed homestead entries Nos 0638 and 088874 in R 24 meridian. Hearing set before U.S. Commissioner R. W. Blake on April 16 1919 with witnesses Benjamin F. Moulton Allen R. ac e James E. McKenna Ada he here McCullom and others. First publication March 13.
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Department of the Interior
S. Land Office
Lewistown
James E. McKenna
Grass Range
Mont
Nei Nwi
Sec. R
Tana Meridian
Ada McCracken
Gibson
Benjamin F. Moulton
Allen R. Ace
Ada
McCullom
H. J. Kelly
Register
Three Year Proof Filed On Land In Montana
Clarence C. Taylor of Tyler Montana filed notice of intention to make three year proof to establish a claim to the land described before R W Blake at Grass Range Montana on April 15. The filing is made under the interior department U S office at Lewistown Montana dated March 5 1919. Present with Taylor are Charles W Tyler John C Hammond Carl Stuart William Allen all of Tyler Montana.
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Battrick
Montana
Montana Meridian
R. W. Blake
U.S. Com
Grass Range
Mont
William Duggan
Robert Turk
James Tood
Donald Michels
Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Office
Lewistown
John Ee Stanley
Becket, Montan
M. M
U. S. Com
Grass Raw Mont
Clarence E. Bates
A. Harvey
Dean W. Shaw
Becket
Edwin F. Finn
Forest Grove
H. J. Kelly
Register
United States Land Office
Swend J. Salte
Nw Sw
Meridian
Benjamin Hill
Ole Eike
Swend Holland
Carl Silveland
Interior
U. S
John E. Jeliner
Saj
Duncan A. Spink
Frank H. Bassett
Elliott G. DeLap
Olentine DeLap
W. Ye
Fred B. Ricks
Ontana
Ghana
Alfred H. “Kahry
France
Erly
Thomas H. Ward
Grass Ran
L 3
Swi
Ian
Ross B. Walker
Grass Mont
Ih. M
David Foreman
W. Kinnick
Roy Marks
U. S. Co
Samuel Peil
Roundup
Montana Principal Meridian
W. G. Jarrett
District Court
Routep. Mont
Fred Hart
William Braunin
Frank Peters
Gus A. Peters
Darrel
Charles W. Tyle Tyler
John C. Hammond
Carl Stuart
William Allen
Tyler
Land filing notice from Lewistown Montana case details
Harry Ward Rathbun of Grass Range Montana filed a notice of intention to make three year town site and water rights claims under sections 29 and 31 in township 16 N range M M. The filing was acknowledged before W. Blake United States Land Office Montana and witnesses James H. Charters and Allan R. Mackenzie on April 15.
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Pans of the Interior
U. S
Lewistown
Montana
Harry Warde Rathbun
Grass Mont
Ned
Lend
R. Sk M. M
Blake
Are
James H. Charters
Srp
Allan R. Mackenzie
Grass
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Claude Peterson
John Deere
McCormick
Deering
C. A. Rogers
W. H. Cullington
W. C. Weber
Judith Hardware
Auto and Tractor Supplies
Grain Growers Elevator
J. KB. Raugstad
Vise
Grain Growers Elevator Co
Richard. Vinger
H. M. Wetzig
Frank Wallace
Grass Range Review
Grass Bank
State of
Fergus
J. M. Vrooman
Grass Lines Review
J. M. Vrooman & Son
Arthur E. Trapp
Wellman
Drag Line No
G. B. Laird
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