Vast Ft Peck land draw opens to settlers next year
The Interior Department plans a large land opening at Ft. Peck Reservation in Montana. About 1.845 million acres may be available for white settlement with a drawing to assign 160 acre tracts. Open filings run Sept 1 to Sept 20. 1914 settlement begins May 2 with payments of 1.5 dollars to seven dollars per acre.
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Monana
United States
Interior Department
Glasgow
Havre
Great Falls
Mont
Thenasmuch
Coeur Id’ Alene
Flathead
Spokane
Ft. Peck Reservation
St. Peck
Farmers cited for overflowing roads in irrigation ditches
County authorities act on complaints from motorists and road advocates to stop irrigation or drain ditches from overflowing roads. The law imposes a ten dollar daily fine for each day of overflow, with road supervisors and deputies ordered to collect the fines.
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Billings
Immigration agents foresee big Montana settlement influx
General Immigration Agent Bricker of the Northern Pacific Railroad, visiting Billings with a party of agents, predicts an unprecedented influx of settlers into Montana this fall and next spring due to widespread drought conditions in eastern and southern states.
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Billings
Drouth
Bricker
Northern Pacific Railroad
Montana
Glidden Tour 1913 From Minneapolis to Glacier Park
The 1913 Glidden Tour began July 1 in a drenching rain with thirty cars, finishing at Glacier Park hotel after 1255 miles across Minnesota North Dakota and Montana. The event boosted road building. nearly $1,000,000 in repairs funded the national effort. The Metz trio won the Glidden Trophy in a Tavamobile, while Louis W. Hall oversaw the log hotel opening and highway links Glacier Park Station to St. Mary Montana.
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Minneapolis
Glacier National Park
Glacier Park
Minnesota
Northe Dakota
Mortum
Twin Cities
Seattle
Metz
TL. A. Park
Louis W. Hal
Great Northern Ralley
Glacier Parts
Mont
St. Mary
Glacier National Quark
Aterien
Senate race on segregation bills stalls as Cabinet push grows
The article notes a failed U S Senate effort to fasten a charge on segregation in federal departments while southern cabinet officials quietly push whites and blacks into opposite corners. Key lawmakers Owen and Glass lead currency reform talks, with the House aiming to pass its bill soon after months of debate. The tariff bill lingers in the Senate after House passage.
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United States Senate
Owen
Representative Glass
Congress
House
Senate
Billings Field OnceBloodies Battlefield Now Wheat Field
The Cus ter Battle Field in Billings, once a site of brutal Indian battles and massacres, has become a waving wheat field. This year it yielded about 30 bushels of winter wheat per acre. A portion serves as cemetery and park. most of the field remains outside the reserve.
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Billings
Custer Battle
West
Acre
Ind Park
State Fair Contest Rules and Exhibits Guide
The document outlines entries for the Howard Elliott medals at the State Fair, emphasizing potatoes with uniform size and appearance, smooth skin, shallow eyes, and minimal defects. It also covers corset covers sewing standards, urging hand sewing, appropriate thread, neat straight stitches, unlaundered but clean and pressed garments, and avoidance of colored ribbing and light exposure.
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Howard Elliott
Sith
Saco Gun Club August 17 Report Highlights Leaders
The August 17 report from Saco Gun Club shows standings with Richardson 16, Broadbrooks 15, Steele 13, Blue 135, Vago 3, Harris 7. In the Dupont Trophy contest Blue leads by 3 points.
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Saco Gun Club
Richardson
Line
Broadbrooks
Steele
Blue
Vago
Harris
Kansas Faces Severe Drought Across State
The report notes the worst drought in years with Springfield area highlighted as most serious. Rivers run dry prompting prayers for rain while fish are killed in the Republican river and trees show stress across districts in Kansas.
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Kansas
Springfield
Republican River
Candia
Court Terms for 1913 in County Seats Listed
Terms of court set for 1913 in multiple counties with dates for Chouteau Hill Blaine Valley and Valley counties. Each county lists a Tuesday or Thursday session with specified dates.
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Blaine County
Valley County
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Virgin
Sam
Penrose
Johnson
California
la Follette
Wisconsin
Danine Ettitianscalinastje Doitys
Bob
Shadghat Oh
Mn Giedierss
Glacier Park Hotel
Chouteag County
Hill County
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