Ismay Club Notes and Local Ads Reflect Small Town Life
The Ismay issue lists regular meetings on the first and third Mondays, details church notices, and welcomes residents like Al Loveridge from Baker. It reports on merchants Lewis and Meyers and Prindle Leavitt selling tobacco, cigars, soaps, perfumes, and souvenirs, with several local social updates and a postponed service due to a funeral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prindle & Leavitt
CC. Heisel
Jordan
Bob
George Worden
Eyuteston Ranch
Johnson
Gras Gables
Hilarious Stock Train Incident Draws Crowd
A steer fell through a stock train car floor as it moved through town. Workers tied its legs to an engine and hauled it out with a loud clang. Bulgarians buried the carcass and cut off its legs with an ax to save digging time.
Paper Looked For in Vain in Ekalaka
Local paper the Ekalaka Enterprise appears canceled after postponed printing and repair delays. Subscriptions were collected in Falaka Boxelder and Camp Crook while I l Whitehouse visited by bicycle and later vanished. Reports of Whitehouse issuing bogus checks in Miles City surface along with a separate $100 note bounced by banks. L. E. Whitehouse, once of the village now in Ekalaka, Montana, says he plans a printing plant and visited Minneapolis to buy machinery while noting Ismay progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ekalaka News
Miles Citys Independent
Ekalaka Enterprise
Baker
Falaka
Boxelder
Camp Crook
I. l. Whitehouse
Uhis
Range Gazette
Exalaka
Ekalaka
Twin Cities
Whitehouse
Miles City
First National Bank
S. Whitehouse
Balsam Lake
Wis
L. E. Whitehouse
Montana
Minneapolis
Ismay
New Quickstep Marimarth Mail Fragment
A writer was laid up this week with illness. The paper notes an irregular schedule and a delayed issue, mentioning a so called Green Apple quickstep as a reason for the disruption and a mazurka time for publication.
The Peerless Brides of Texas
A Montana correspondent quotes the Houston Post praising Texas brides as practical, industrious and devoted to home duties. The piece lauds a Palestine Brides Club for stitching, darning, cooking and maintaining husbands, presenting Texas women as vigorous, cheerful and essential to domestic life.
Mixed cattle sale notice from Hurry Up Ranch
Box 65 announces a mixed cattle sale by Hurry Up Ranch on Little Missouri ten miles south of Marmarth. Stark and Co in Rhame provide the drop point and contact for the sale on the 14th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Missouri
Marmarth
Stark & Co
Rhame
Fragmented poem fragment about a mother’s guidance
The text presents a fragmented poem urging seeking maternal comfort during trials and temptations. It invokes listening, confiding, and cautioning against sharing embarrassing thoughts, with phrases suggesting hidden secrets and restrained speech.
Mother’s Love and Care Your Guiding Light
A maternal devotion exhorting readers to open their hearts to mothers, share care, and lessen burdens. It urges gentleness, kindness, and stronger affection, encouraging expressions of love toward mothers and acknowledging their unique role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother
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J.A. M'Kinley
L. A. Conser
Ismay Commercial Club
Joi. Prindle
Lewis & Meyers
al Loveridge
Lewis A Meyers
Miss Mittle Storkel
Hot Springs
Igott
Mrs. Chapin
Miss Lockwood
Miles
Earlingburt
Marmarth Mail
Bowman Pioneer
May, Mont
Conservatism
Texas
Tsmay
Houston
Palestine
Flora Bartholomew MceTreod
Brides’ Club
Grace Gould Wright
Tesas
C. W. McIntire
Gray Gables
Ismay, Mont
Particu
Larly
Poliar
Jom. Princile
Fred Holmes
Alwaya
R. VV
Lawrence
P. O
Knowlton, Mont
Locate and
Myers Creeks
Powder River
I Webster
Webster's Co
Baua
Stlon Abe Foot
Merriam CO
Springfield
Mave
Ith
Gray
Ismay, Montana
Ismay Meat Market
N. A. Eggleston, Prop
N. A. Eggleston’'S
Tiorses
Mont
Baker, Mons
E. Ellsworth Smith
Heniietta P. Bohr
Pastor In Charge
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