Letter From Fort Shaw Mont Pleases Emmett County Fans
An 1880s style letter from Mrs Estella Shaw to Grover Ladies Aid Society reports Emmett County families pleased with Montana settlement. She describes frostless weather, heavy grain, a horse powered threshing machine, a famed Lowery Ranch garden likely the finest in Montana with huge cabbage, a 150 man year round operation, crossing the Sun River, trips to Great Falls, observations of the copper smelter chimney, U.S. Regulars on leave, Blackfeet and Flathead reservations, local wildlife, and ongoing building work as new settlers arrive.
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Estella Shaw
Grover Ladies Aid Society
Ida Taylor
Shaw
Montana
Emmett County
Fort Shaw Mont
Friends and Aid Society
Sun River
Lowery Store
Awful
Ewift
Grant
Arthur Sare
Baby
Great Fall
Missouri
Wreck on Rock Island Train Near Greens Iowa
One killed and several injured when Rock Island passenger train No 22 derailed at Greene Iowa after a loose crossing plank caused the switch to fail. Engineer John Sauket and fireman Walter Erminger badly scalded. dead man Charles Ruge 25 rode on baggage car front. Seventy-two passengers escaped major harm. others shaken. cleanup and transport to Cedar Rapids. Congressman Charles Pickett aboard reports passengers threw from seats as brakes engaged.
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Waterloo
Rock Island
Greene
Charles Ruge
John Sauket
Cedar Rapids
Walter Erminger
D. C. Bartels
Uncia
Carbon City
Andpoint
Illinois Central
Anoon
Charles Pickett
Farewell Reception For Mr and Mrs Peterson
A large circle of friends gathered at the Peterson home on Tuesday evening for a surprise farewell. C B Murtagh presented a stag handle carving set as a remembrance. Guests enjoyed socializing and a luncheon before wishing the couple happiness in their Montana home. Ringsted Dispatch notes the event and farewell tone.
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Peterson
C. B. Murtagh
Montana
Curio Exhibit Shows Global Newspapers and Languages
An exhibit invites the public to view a diverse collection of newspapers from distant regions. The display, supplied by Chamberlain Medicine Company of Des Moines, features multilingual and vernacular presses, with notes on script direction and layout. It notes Shanghai’s Sin Wan Pao on tissue, Burmese, Ceylonese, Japanese, and Siamese scripts, plus colonial English papers, and comments on advertising layouts, editorial tone, and the Good Roads movement in the United States, highlighting B F Yoakum’s farmer railway partnership efforts and wagon road investments in the Southwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain Medicine Company
Des Moines
Towa
Chamberlain
Shanghai
Ceylon
Rome
Carrie Catt Endured South Dakota Hospitality Tale
Minnie J. Reynolds recounts Carrie Chapman Catt visiting a South Dakota family during a hot August, facing rustic poverty and indifference from rural hosts. The piece highlights pioneer women’s roles and notes two constitutional amendments that fall, allowing Indians and excluding women from voting.
Special Musical Service and Other Local Notices 1909
Grace Episcopal Church hosts a special musical service on Sunday evening October 17 1909 at 745 pm featuring processional hymn evening prayer anthem and offertory duets with Mrs Ladd and Mrs Hendershot plus a sermon. The Perrys present a five act melodrama held against will for Milton with a one night only showing at the opera house October 18 with tickets 60 85 25 cents. Foley’s Honey and Tar advertised for cough relief. A motor tour of good roads from Philadelphia to New England is planned for farmers from Texas Arkansas Louisiana and Oklahoma departing September 22 from the Bellevue Stratford Hotel and ending September 28 in Concord New Hampshire with dignitaries including Governor Fort and Governor Draper in attendance. The piece discusses road building and the benefits of better highways across several states.
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Grace Episcopal Church
Brom
Clarence
Ladd
Hendershot
Perrys
land-Frisco Lines
Farmers’ Unions
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
New Jersey
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New York
Bellevue-Stratford
Philadelphia
Frederick Gilkyson
New Jersey Highway Commission
Governor Fort
Providence
New Haven
Corps of Engineers
Yoakum
Draper
Good Roads Party
State Highway Commission
Boston
Austin
Variqua
Arkaness
Tulsa
M Brent Rail Me
Eyaiam Ie Eek, Ie
Miller Store Fire and Arrest Near Grover
Miller, the proprietor, was arrested on $2,000 bonds after a fire destroyed the Miller store and the Brownell Jacobson building. The incident follows two prior arson attempts. Miller waived examination and was released. The fire's cause remains circumstantial but strongly suggests arson. Nearby funeral details for Mrs. O. A. McKinney are also noted with several relatives listed.
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Brownell Jacobson
J. E Miller
Mr. Miller
Butler ‘Adgin
Grand
John Halverson
Halverson
Miller
Coon
Mr. Paulsen
Heen
Butler
Estherville
St. James
Modern Silo Construction Anticipates Demand Surge
A 1908 Iowa State College Engineering bulletin on silo construction sold out in three months. A reverse edition now reprints the core material with updates, including notes on new tile construction and the station's latest silo experience from the past year.
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Eee
Iowa
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Fort Shaw, Mont
Grover
Emmet
U. S
Flathead
Arthur
Estrhula Saaw
Greens
Mrs. J
Anders M. Mordt Land Co
Guyman
Ehloeman
Vindione
Odditias
United States
B. F. Yoakuin
Rook Island
South Dakota
Carrie Chapman Catt
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Minnie J. Reynolds
New Idea Womens Magazine
Foley
Grover Burns
A. McKinney
O. A
McKinney
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