Montana farmer prefers home state after Canada trip
Frank Riley returns from Winnipeg where a threshing crew harvested 32 bushels per acre with heavy straw and widespread thistles. He notes high weed pressure, summer fallow, and many farms for sale at 20 to 25 dollars per acre, while Alaska, Montana and Wyoming weather influence cattle and grain decisions. A. S. Smith recalls 1886 87 cattle losses and severe cold, but current mild weather suggests no repeat. Albert Henderson feeds frozen potatoes to hogs and plans a large cooker to process crop losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Riley
Winnipeg
Canada
Mr. Riley
Montana
Sherwood
N. D
Albert Tenderson
Henderson
Scissored Items and Musings on Roads and Women
A fragmented editorial fragment discusses wealth and editors joking about scaling a pile of million dollar bills, then pivots to the value of good roads, education, and churches for population and property value. It critiques luxury, praises practical middle class virtue, and ends with a blurred reflection on womanhood.
Wedding Bells at Whitney Creek Montana
Sunday morning November 19 a wedding united Mr William Lewis and Miss Blanche Mitchell at the bride’s parents home in Whitney Creek Cast e County Montana. Rev Williams performed the ceremony. The bride wore pink tara n trimmed with Irish point lace. The groom wore black and is known as a violinist and orchestra leader. Guests offered congratulations and enjoyed a generous dinner before departing with fond memories of the Mitchells.
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Whitney Creek
Caste County
Montana
Wm. Lewis
Blanche Mitchell
Rev. Williams
Eau Claire
Wis
Rai
Lev Snd
Billy
Carp flood drains Mud lake and swamps Bear River
Heber Q. Hale reports hundreds of tons of carp rolling down Bear river from Mud lake toward Great Salt Lake after the Telluride Power company drained Mud lake to straighten the river. The carp, a low grade fish, thrived in Mud lake’s mud bottom before the drainage.’
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Sear River
Idaho
Great Salt Lake
Mud Lake
Boise
Bear River
Heber Q. Hale
State Land Board
Mudlake
Bear Lake
Mr. Hale
Telluride Power Company
Water Girl In Now Feat Surprises With 22 Mile Swim
Adeline Trapp a 20 year old Brooklyn school teacher stunned readers after swimming 22 miles from North Beach to Robbins Reef near Livingston Staten Island in Bb hours 7 minutes 30 seconds following a previous Yonkers to Forty third street 17 mile feat.
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New York
Adeline Trapp
Brooklyn
Yonkers
Forty-third Street
North Beach
Robbins Reef
Livingston
Staten Island
Game Birds Plentiful in Grand Rapids Minnesota
Game Ward en Jesse Harry reports ducks partridges and deer are plentiful this fall. Ducks are more plentiful and partridges are in great numbers. On lesser roads travelers may see five or six deer per day. Also a notice about winter pasture rental with segregation under barbed wire fences.
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Grand Rapids
Minn
Jesse Harry
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A. S. Smith
Wyoming
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Great Northwest
Ata Wilwaukee
Tut Bylly
R. R. Thiele
Ismay,mont
Marcus P
Beebe
Sprothy
First National Bank
IS May, Montana
R. L. Anderson
David Bickle
E. J. Armstrong
James Hunter
Wm. Fulton
J. H. Price
W. G. Lang
Journal
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Ienbrnu
Company Crosse
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Chas. D’graffenreid
Ismay, Mont
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