Farming in Argentina Report by American Consul Mayer
A detailed field report from American Consul D Mayer at Buenos Aires outlines Argentina’s farming regions, crops, wages, land values, labor costs, and logistics. It notes grain and cattle dynamics, land prices from frontier to markets, labor pay, import reliance for tools, climate diversity, and the growing iron for export markets. It also touches on population origins, land titles, and rainfall patterns affecting crop prospects.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
D. Mayer
Buenow Ayers
Argentina
Republic
United States
Texas
Oklahoma
Kanean
Nebraska
Cate
Buenos Aires
Coraul General
Rich vein uncovered at Golconda mine runs from 349 to S612
Roy Norton of the Golconda mine toured the city to Portland with Engineer D. M. Watters of Sumpter praising recent developments at the property. Management has not yet secured a full underground workforce this spring, though McCarthy continues exploratory work to determine the development plan.
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Roy Norton
Golconda
Portland
D. M. Watters
Sumpter
Mir
Norton
McCarthy
Perma
Morrow County Prospects Report From Oregon
D C Corpe of Livingston Montana returns from Morrow County Oregon praising good wheat prospects. The county sees similar acreage to last year with spring wheat delaying harvest slightly. Western Gooseberry Elghat districts report better grain due to more rain. Lone area drier. June rainfall unusually high, sod plowing still common around Heppner. Heavy rains last week left ground six to eight inches wet. Harvest usually starts late July. Wages for harvest hands near typical: box drivers 829 day, stackers and readers 2.26 2.50, hauler 3. Hands must provide beds blankets and a canvas for bunking.
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Heppner
Gambling Dens Raid Leads to 13 Indictments in Portland
Portland June 28 13 gamblers captured by Sheriff Word face indictment in state circuit court. Six men were nabbed at Richardson's cigar store on Washington street during a poker game. A. C. Farmer T. L. Brant C. G. Barand Ole Oleson George Raynold Joe Johnson identified. Store proprietor posted 1600 bond and released. Earlier raid on 63 North Second street Chinese fantan detained seven men awaiting bail.
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Portland
Word
Richardson
Washington Street
A. C. Farmer
T. L. Brant
C. G. Barand
Ole Oleson
George Raynold
Joe Johnson
First to See the Rockies Pangman Tree Landmark
Peter Pangman a Canadian is reputed to be the first white man to sight the Rocky Mountains in 1780 while with fur traders. He left his mark on a pine now known as Pangman's tree, a landmark near the Saskatchewan junction and the Northwest Fur Company post three miles below it.
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Golconda
MacCarthy
Peter Pangman
Great Range
Rocky Mountains
Eet
Saskatchewan
Qlettwater
Pangman
Great
North Country
Northwest Fur Company
Rocky Mountain House
Measles Not Spreading At Agency School
No new cases of meningitis have appeared at the agency school and precautions are in place to prevent spread. The school remains open until July 21, with the sole patient a girl who recently ran away and was exposed while away.
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Agency
LED DOUBLE LIFE He led two families for over 20 years
John Keating, son-in-law of Deacon's first wife, uncovered the two reinsurance policies and the divergence between Deacon’s western business trips and his eastern family. Deacon, a Milwaukee resident, maintained two households, one in Somerville and one in Chicago, with a son and two daughters in the East and a second wife in the West. He died April 13 in Chicago. investigators note his double life spanned more than two decades and altered his family’s financial support for the past decade.
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Peter H. Deacon
Chicago
Deacon
Summerville
Mase
West
Milwaukee
Somerville
Armand Plaut
Wisconsin
Henry G. Mills
Wisconsin Street
Fannie Adeline Wilcox
St. James Episcopal Church
John Keating
Keating
Wellington
North West Wheat King Aims For Big Harvest
Walla Walla Statesman reports W H Babcock, who arrived from Douglas county with 7500 acres, expects a large wheat crop this year. He praises Eureka Flat wheat and says northern lands have never had better prospects, with potential record yields across the region.
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Eureka Flat
W. H. Babcock
Northwest
West
Walla Walla
Babcock
Douglas County
Statesman
RAISE EXPRESS RATES HURT ALASKA GOLD SHIPMENT
Seattle faces a shift in gold flow as steamship and express firms raise charges to one quarter of one percent per hundred on gold shipments from Nome and Alaska camps. The increase sparks outrage among mining companies, threatening Seattle’s status as the gold center and reducing Alaska’s output routed through the local assay office. Nome’s annual production surges, with most gold likely moving to San Francisco if the rates persist.
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Seattle
Alaska
Steamship
Expres
Nome
San Francisco
United States Assay
S S S Rheumatism Cure Ad from The Swift Specific Co
An old advertisement argues rheumatism stems from polluted blood and touts S S S as a definitive internal remedy. It claims purification and tonic effects relieve pains, restore nervous tone, improve digestion, and prevent future attacks, with testimonials from J E Reeder of Oxkolooa Mississippi and a note from Atlanta Georgia company.
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S S. S
Swift Specific Company
Atlanta, GA
Industrial Harvesting Gear and Wagons Prominently Sold
Weber offers Racine buggies and hacks praised for serviceability. Bain and Cooper wagons, Hodge and Keystone harvesting machinery cited as climate suited. Not made by the trust. A wide range of extras available including belting oil axle grease lace leather and various harvesting supplies.
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Bain and Cooper
Hodge and
Keystone
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Argentine
United
Bracer & Mans
Goloonda
Morrow County
Rockies
Chicago Man
Northwest Wheat King
Eureka Plat
Mnacnhaes
Oxkoloua
J. E. Reeder
Oregon
Malheur
Klamath
Montana
Milk River
Montana—Huntley
North Dakota
Buford
Bramarck
Washington—Palouse
Wyoming—Shoshone
Idaho
Payette-Bolne
Arisona
Salt River
Sematerete
California
Yuma
Secretary of the Interior
Warnell’s
Corner Court
Thompson Streets
Ieee Lee
Weber
Fred Weber
Court St
Corner Thompson
W. C. Minnis
Henning
Olgar
The
Columbia
Malin Street
Alta and
Webb Stretta
F. X. Schempp
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