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Newspaper
Grass Range Review
Location
Grass Range, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1917
Page
4
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station recommends keeping summer fallowed fields free of volunteer grain and blue joint grass to prevent wheat aphis spread. Discusses plowing timing, disking, double plowing, and grazing to reduce infestation and notes oats as a safe crop on infested land.
Nail is named president of the Lumberman’s Insurance Company based in Mansfield Ohio, reflecting a leadership transition at the firm.
A brief quoted remark from Bill Jones describes the Palmotor administrator’s stance, noting that Forci and silver fail to appeal to him as precious tones. The line hints at an ongoing dispute or policy viewpoint without providing further context or names.
The nation’s food supply hinges on Montana farmers joining a wartime mobilization. Secretary Houston calls for patriotic farming, urging seed, feed, and machinery financing at fair rates, garden planting, and full community effort to grow crops. Farmers are told they are on the firing line, essential to feeding the army and allies.
Montana’s W. R. Joseph of the Agricultural Experiment Station urges swine and sheep growers to protect the coming lambing and farrowing seasons. He lists nine practical steps to prevent dead young, ensure warmth, proper nursing, and milk supply, and avoid shortages of meat, wool, and fats for allies overseas.
A humorous verse rails at a farmer’s plight with values for rye at a dollar ten, eggs sixty cents, hogs ten cents a pound, hay twenty dollars a ton, and wheat and hens priced to evoke sympathy. The speaker mocks urban frivolity while praising the farmer’s autonomy and simple life.
Neighbors dub two elderly women Mrs Time for Time will tell and Mrs Money for money talks. Loquacious Mrs Dorr stays quiet at exercise, a contrast in local character and habit.
Seventy eight associations for national farm loans have organized in Montana as part of the Twelfth District plan. Each will handle at least 20000 dollars, totaling 1560000 dollars for farming development. Initial district credit totals almost 8000000 dollars, with applications from 395 associations across Montana Idaho Oregon and Washington.
A column urges Montanans to learn the national hymn and buy a Star Spangled Banner record so every household knows the air. It compares American and English patriotic customs, outlines the flag’s 13 stripes and 48 stars, and presents the full lyrics with chorus.
Montana business men rec eived chain letters asking 25 cents for hospitals and allied causes. Tom Marlow of Helena calculated the growth of letters by serial number, showing a theoretical payout of sixty four thousand billion dollars by series 24, then halted at number 164 to avoid futility.
A cryptic note suggests a lat individual habitually fabricates while asleep, yet is truthful when talking in slumber. The odd phrasing hints at a paradoxical character or riddle-like statement about honesty and deception.
Obituary notes the death of a leading Montana dry cleaning and hatter business figure. The firm was known as Send Great Ie Dye House and was recognized for careful attention to dry cleaning and hat cleaning needs in the community.
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