26 Sep 1913
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Newspaper
Saco Independent
Location
Saco, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1913
Page
1
Great Falls led the registration list by several thousand. midnight Sept 20 ended registration with about half the expected turnout. The main cause was Uncle Sam's locating fee and the 160 acre homestead limit. cities advertised 820 acre free homesteads to attract land seekers.
The piece recalls H C Adams on the dairy cow as a symbol of American life and wholesome memory. It praises the cow for teaching practical skills at business college, supporting children, and embodying simple family happiness across breeds from Jersey to Shorthorn.
A discussion on rural progress argues that farming and the home are the two core factors in country life. It asserts women share equal influence with men in guiding rural society and can drive improvements in farm practices and home making, stressing primary versus secondary duties. The views cite L. H. Bailey on nature’s law guiding women’s roles.
Fourfold seed selection principles for corn emphasize testing germination, sizing seeds evenly, and planting from the best ears for next year’s seed. It advocates selecting seeds from harvest, extending the method to other crops, and prefers home grown seed over imports except rarely. F. S. Cooley notes hill selections outperform bin selections for potatoes and stresses cautious seed choice in agriculture.
The text presents a fragmentary verse about a girl in skirts and allure, referencing vaudeville stage imagery and a sun resistant dress. It reads as a stray excerpt with ambiguous context and no clear event or attribution.
The Glasgow land office announces filings accepted for four townships about 35 miles southwest of Glasgow with plats approved in Township 22N Range 38H M M Township 23N Range 38E M M Township 22N Range 37E and Township 22N Range 36E. Some filings were mistakenly accepted at Miles City, but others are referred to Glasgow. Thirty days notice is required, so October 16 is the first filing day.
The Great Falls Meat Company plans a new pork packing department with a capacity of one hundred hogs per hour at a cost of $200,000. The move is praised as a forward step for Sun River Valley, reducing shipping costs and boosting local hog and alfalfa farming synergy.
A fragment mentions Lyman Barnes as cashier of the First National Bank of Malta Montana, with notes about cash on hand and loan matters in a short era.
A discussion on how small town merchants must adapt to changing consumer habits led by educated rural housewives and mail order competition. It argues that patrons increasingly favor catalogs and modern ranges while local shops fall behind in assortments, display, and advertising, urging merchants to align with customers' desires.
A Puck Quarterly quip complains of phone directory chaos as a caller seeks the wrong Mrs. Smith Smith near M Street. The letter notes many people share the name and pleads for a precise number amid garbled digits and roaming travellers.
Re E Devney dentist Malta will be in Saco every five weeks with the next trip on October 1 and 2. Office over First National Bank.
Samuel A. Crowe of Hammond Indiana drew ticket No 1 in Glasgow on Thursday afternoon earning first choice among 8000 Fort Peck reservation farms valued around ten thousand dollars. Reese Gray Mary Easton and Tee Minnick also drew numbers in the 11 18 and 28 hundred series.
Washington and eastern cities see beef imports from Argentina and Australia rising. Porterhouse prices rival landmark heights as imported beef costs run about seven to ten cents per pound plus a tariff of one and a half cents and transport. Between 2 and 3 million pounds of fresh beef entered the United States from the South temperate zone in the last three months.
At the South Dakota Experiment Station hogs fed shelled corn with water reached 11.9 pounds per bushel while corn plus 153 pounds of skimmilk yielded 17.7 pounds of pork per bushel. The skimmilk contribution equals a 5.8 pound gain or about 27 cents per hundred, based on $7 alive weight.
During the past year thirty states passed laws on tuberculosis with thirty four considering bills for its prevention. Legislatures appropriated over 5 million dollars for treatment and prevention of tuberculosis in their year sessions.
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