Northern Pacific offers land at ten to twenty dollars an acre
The Northern Pacific Railway plans a 63 mile branch from Glendive to open up million acres in the Red Water Valley of Southeast ern Montana selling direct to farmers at 10 to 20 dollars an acre with 20 years to pay. Taxes are low and neighborhoods can settle together. Mixed farming thrives with corn hogs dairy and livestock. Communities and schools exist and rapid growth is expected as markets come closer. The railroad will aid settlers and representatives will discuss options with interested individuals. Booklets prices and a payment plan are available free.
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Great Redwater Valley
Montana
Northern Pacific Railway
Glendive
Northern Pacific
Duke Converts Estates To Company To Dodge Taxes
The Duke of Devonshire has turned Chatsworth Estates into Chatsworth Estates Ltd to reduce tax on large personal holdings and to lower death duties. He becomes the seventh English duke to act amid steep rates on personal estates versus corporate land.
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Duke of Devonshire
England
Chatsworth Estates, Ltd
The Sea of Marmora and Its Shoreline Cities
Prepared by the National Geographic Society the article surveys the Sea of Marmora linking Dardanelles to Bosporus and its shores. It highlights Constantinople Panderma Smyrna Brusa Yalova and Cyzicus as ancient hubs with rich histories and quarries. notes strait questions dating to 5th century BCE and the rise and fall of Marmora cities through Byzantium and Ottoman times.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Champlain
Black Sea
Dardanelles
Bosporus
Marmora
Black Seas
Aegean
Ionian
Orient Express
Nicomedia
Mandania
Cyzicus
Kalolimnos
Gulf of Moudania
Princes Isles
Constantinople
Panderma
Smyrna
Asia Minor
Brusa
Mount Olympus
Hamburg
Levant
China
Justinian
Italy
France
Yalova
Gulf of Nicomedia
Constantine
Straits
B. C
Alcibiades
Athens
Chrysopolis
Scutari
Scythia
Greece
Nicaea
Bithynia
Rome
Nicomedes III
Isaik
Marmara
Hannibal
Prusias
Gulf of
Rodosto
Francis II Rakoczy
Les Silivri
Selymoria
Anastasius I
Thrace
Chatalia
Chalcedon
Byzantium
Megara
Les
Montana opens vast Redwater Valley for settlement and rail access
A new Northern Pacific branch line from Glendive to Brookway will open over 1,000,000 acres in Redwater Valley to settlement this year. The report highlights rich soil, diversified crops, rising wheat yields, and active community development as settlers prepare to move in with NP guidance and support.
The Elusive Vacuum in Mercury Barometers
The text argues that a perfect vacuum is unattainable above mercury in thermometers due to residual air and mercury vapor. It suggests any temporary vacuum would instantly be lost as air or vapor escapes, and that even if a vacuum formed, vessel walls would collapse inward.
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Wos
Slander as a True Adversary Quote by W. J. Murray
A quotation attributed to W. J. Murray states that the real enemy is not the person who defames you but the anger and hate such slander provokes. The text emphasizes inner foes rather than outward attackers and frames moral discipline as key.
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W. J. Murray
She Wanted a Change From Handkerchiefs
A young saleslady tells the floor walker she wishes to leave the handkerchief department. She complains that explaining they are not new skirts is too troublesome.
Strenuous Romancing Hotel Clerk at Summer Resort
In Capper's Weekly a playful vignette has a hotel clerk recounting summer resort romance while a guest asks why she wants last year’s register. The back and forth hints at remembered engagements and names, capturing lighthearted social gossip.
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Summer Resoart
Children cry for Castoria in long standing remedy ad
An old advertisement touts Fletcher's Castoria as a trusted remedy for babies and children. It claims to ease constipation flatulence wind colic and diarrhea while reducing feverishness and aiding digestion for natural sleep without opiates. The text highlights the products thirty plus years in use and the genuine product bears the signature.
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Fletcher
Offhand Quip Sparks Moral Debate Among Friends
A wry remark about how a man’s rare mistakes give his critics something to crow about, reflecting social dynamics and the humor in everyday faults. The line captures how friendly ridicule preserves social bonds and prompts self reflection.
Gave Word to Language Tontine and Tonti Family History
The term tontine links to an insurance based annuity named after Lorenzo Tonti an Italian banker who traded in Paris in the seventeenth century His son Henri Tonti served as a loyal lieutenant to La Salle and explored the lower Mississippi and adjacent lands.
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Lorenzo Tonti
Paris
France
Henri Tonti
la Salle
Mississippi River
Prehistoric Central American Oil Use Predates Wells
Archaeological notes indicate ancient Central American and Mexican communities utilized oil centuries before modern American wells were discovered and developed, suggesting early natural resource knowledge.
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Central America
Mexico
Youth Revolt of Teens Hard in West Africa Too
Capper's Weekly notes a rising youth flare in west Africa as evangelistic work by the Presbyterian board of foreign missions grows harder. In prior days youths stayed home and kept tribal laws but now many youths roam to other tribes, leaving elders unsure how to manage this teenage rebellion.
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Africa
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
West Africa
United States
To Reach the Higher Begin at the Towest
The fragment presents a mystic line by Syrus urging ascent and initiation toward a lower or reversed path, with no clear event or persons to anchor a factual news-style summary.
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Syrus
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Redwater Valley
J. M. Hughes
Northern Pacific Railway Co
St. Paul, Minn
Redwater
Beattle
Lincoln
Duke
BAYER
Saneeaw
Doc Fly
Peterman's
Peterman
Ogsinet
Tns
Fifth Ave
N. Y.C
Sea of Marmora
Brookway
Northwest
Ganel
P. Co., Inc
Postum Company, Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
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