Young Man Grow Alfalfa Sees Rich West Prospects
Edmund Thickston argues in the Buffalo Gap Gazette that alfalfa can transform farming in the region. He cites rising Black Hills seed value, profitable long term crops, and a plan where landowners seed forty acre tracts to yield steady income through wet or dry years.
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Edmund Thickston
Buffalo Gap
Gazette
John Burke
Horace Greeley
Burke
Cheyenne Valley
Nebraska
Black Hills
John Moran
Homesteaders urged to hold fast and trust the land office
Judge Loomis delivers an 8 4th of July oration in Faith urging homesteaders to persevere as pioneers shaping the West. He hails settlers as a vanguard, encourages staying on land, not selling titles, and trusts the land office and commissioner Dennett to aid claimants.
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Loomis
Call
United States Land Office
Rapid City
Faith
North American
Atlantic Sea
Missouri River
Atlantic
South Dakota
Register
Land Department
General Land Office
Dennett
North Dakota
Land Office
Magnitude of the Boy Scout Movement
The Boy Scout movement is a large enterprise with a $60,000 yearly national headquarters budget. It prints hundreds of thousands of manuals and information pieces and employs a substantial staff led by a trained legal Philanthropic expert. The leadership includes Taft as Honorary President and Roosevelt as Honorary Vice-President with Colin H Livingstone chairing the executive board and Ernest Thompson Seton as Chief Scout. William Verbeck and Colonel Peter Bormus hold key roles. Georgia Pratt directs as treasurer.
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Boy Scout Movement
Boy Scouts of America
William H. Taft
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Colin H. Livingstone
Washington, D. C
Ernest Thompson Seton
Daniel Carter Beard
William Verbeck
New York State
Peter 8. Bormus
New York City
George D. Pratt
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn
Relief Bill for Homesteaders Passes Senate
The Senate approves a relief bill by Senator Warren allowing certain homesteaders in South Dakota Nebraska North Dakota Wyoming and Washington to be excused from residence on their lands until April 15 1912 with no deduction of absence time from required residence. The measure aims to aid winter relocation for dry farming pioneers amid ongoing land law tensions.
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Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Lemmon
Timber Lake
Rapid City
Chamberlain
Belle Fourche
Gregory
Pierre
South Dakota
Valentine
O’ Neill
Alliance
Nebraska
Dickinson
Minot
Williston
North Dakota
United States
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New Haven
Wyoming
A. B. Vecht
Prop
Boy Scouts
Aladdin, Wyoming
General Merchandise
A. B. Merrick
Connexion
Bush
Pearson
Inter Mountain Globe
Hulett, Wyoming
H. HK. Gunderson
A. C. Turneaure
Hulett
the Warren
Warren
Clark
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