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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1907
Page
3
Revival of the Yule log and wassail bowl with safety candles and carols for country homes. at home New Year celebrations suggest quiet gatherings, story telling, and music. Old games like blind man’s buff and charades return. festive decor features bells, leaves, holly, mistletoe, and a Virginia reel led by a suited host.
Maj. Theodore Schiermier claims he has proven water not necessary for life by years without drinking water or bread, subsisting on raw meat and eggs. He reports no thirst in heat, occasional beer, and notes Texas frontier veterans also trained to avoid water, linking health to low water intake.
The piece reports Thomas F. Ryan of New York leading a syndicate to obtain concessions from King Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo. It argues American involvement could curb brutal rubber extraction, noting long abuses by Leopold, mission reports of mutilations and killings, and prior European power struggles over Congo control.
A Maryland inventor designs a rectangular lifeboat raft with air tight compartments and a central net. The raft sits in the boat and, when the boat capsizes, floats away as a stand‑alone rescue platform with rope handles and cork floats. It provides support for drowning persons until crew rescue.
A speaker in a church pew notices a maiden wearing a brown hat with a blue wing. The stained glass light stirs shadows as an anthem plays. The verse laments the broken pride in mercy and the longing for a simple, spent song.
The anecdote shows Mme Duse at a supper where a guest claims women cannot have equal rights. She replies that while flowers grow from stems it does not prove inferiority, illustrating her wit on the suffrage discussion.
A veteran sailor recalls the 1871 wreck of the Maria Art in the South Seas. Seven castaways, including the narrator and his wife, used a crimson flag from a bleeding dress to signal passing ships, saving them after seven days with scant food and water. The narrator, now a Warren Street bookkeeper, wears no medal.
A gold watch once owned by Dr. William J. Polk, uncle of former president James K. Polk, was found in Springfield Missouri. A local jeweler bought it from a stranger after the war with the engraving inside the case. The jeweler valued the gold at thirty five dollars.
A compact genealogical note traces a lineage from Mrs. Sarah J. Polk gifting a legacy to Dr. William J. Poll in 1843, followed by a transfer from Dr. Polk to Allen J. Polk in 1860, outlining intergenerational bequests.
A long lost watch repaired by Thomas Gowdy of Nashville in December 1852 resurfaces. Major Dorsey Berry contacts Marshall Mayes who learns from a Polk descendant about the discovery and sends the jeweler’s payment to a granddaughter of Dr William J Polk.
An illustration shows a tree with an odd trunk shape near Ridge town Ontario. The sapling appears damaged, causing the strange growth pattern visible in the image.
Mulhall Enterprise reports Col. W. B. Wicker suffered a sore throat after a calf kicked him in the neck while loading a calf into a wagon. The force nearly knocked him out, but a celluloid collar absorbed much of the impact, tearing off at the buttons.
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