Montana lands draw big investors from Omaha and Twin Cities
C B Witter reports Montana's spring settlement surge follows last year's record dry period. F J Farrington Co ties with John Deere to test and push a 5000 acre Smith River valley tract near Helena. Hall Co of Minneapolis weighs a tract purchase after Montana talks. experts to assess. Montana display at Omaha and St Paul boosts interest.
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Montana
West
Central West
C. B. Witter
Omaha
Twin Cities
Helena
F. J. Farrington & Co
Smith River Valley
Farrington & Co
John Deere Plow Company
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Hall & Co
Texas
Clawson
Witter
WOMANLY WISDOM INNA MAN ORR
A retro column offers advice and home hacks on thrift and cooking. It suggests appreciating thorns with roses, commanding the soul, boiling prunes, using turkey fat as butter substitute, and practical tips for cookies stockings and sweaters.
Bridger's Blackfoot Bride Story From Helena Lookout
A Helena Lookout article recounts James Bridger the trapper marrying a Blackfoot woman. After insult in a Blackfoot village he was captured but escaped with the help of a sentinel and the woman who led him away. They planned to meet after one hundred moons and later returned to the plains with Bridger’s Blackfoot wife.
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Heléna
Mont
Bridger
Stola
Mint Brideer
Equa
Saul
California’s $47,000,000 for Panama Exposition Push
The editor extols California’s $47 million plan for the Panama Pacific Exposition of 1915 and related highway and harbor bonds. It contrasts California’s robust funding with Louisiana’s modest $6.6 million state bonds and $1 million subscriptions, noting California will finance its scheme without federal aid while New Orleans struggles to attract buyers.
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California
Golden Gate
San Francisco
San Diego
Paniamia Canal
New York
United States
Golden State
San
Louisiana
America
Califonia
New Orleans
Practical homemaking tips from an old column
A collection of frugal craft and cooking hints. It advises unraveling two inches of woven carpet to prevent fraying and tying warp ends, suggests gifting canned fruit or jelly as Christmas presents, and notes the humor in doughnut holes to satisfy appetites. Also mentions venting cabbage odors and repurposing candle ends into new candles.
Food preservation and prep tips from old farm notes
The excerpts describe making fresh candles, preferred early morning foods like fried mush and corn griddle cakes, and advice on corn meal quality from a miller. It also covers preparing corn beef, salt rubbing, and storing meat in a cool place, plus cooking guidance for beef and Rock soup steps from Farm Journal.
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Farm Journal
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Big Land Companies of
Omaha and
Treas
Ure
John Deere
Inna Man
Tee
Santa Claus
Thermometer
Gratis
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