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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1906
Page
2
A compilation of brief notes and quips from The Choteau Acantha. Items mention Santo Domingo surrender news, Venezuelan navy boiler checks, a joke about a New Yorker's money, a Chinese royal commission, and social gossip. Also reports on Kipling, an Irish editor becoming lord mayor, and a gag about the most useless word in English.
A brief note notes a shift as manners change in Samoa with more travelers adopting modern trousers and a general move toward civilization, reflecting broader global trends in travel experiences and dress.
A French inventor unveils a device allowing men to sign checks from afar, sparking curiosity about its use and practical impact on distant banking. The question arises what grudge he holds against husbands, hinting at social or domestic motives behind the invention.
Congressman Maynard proposes minting two dollar silver pieces to fund the Jamestown exposition. The coins would be acceptable for dropping into the contribution box.
The Moorish commissioner at Algeciras took all his wives along, suggesting possible trouble at the upcoming conference. The detail hints at internal tensions influencing the diplomatic scene surrounding the talks.
The Pipe of Desire is described as America’s first native grand opera, symbolizing the nation’s restlessness and dissatisfaction.
The Chicago Tribune notes the passing of Fighting Joe Wheeler, describing him as one of the world’s bravest and mightiest souls and the United States’ most patriotic citizen, mourning a revered military and civic figure.
A theatrical trust abandons Shakespeare for a period, raising questions about motives. The Bard remains a dominant dramatic influence, with an implied monopoly steady despite change.
Two descendants of Napoleon Bonaparte and Commodore Stephen Decatur become involved in a naval mix up in the United States. The unexpected clash of famed lineages intersects a contemporary maritime incident.
Reports claim Beerbohm Tree produced Stephen Phillips's Nero with lavishness that outdoes Nero. When staged in America the production may be murdered with equal thoroughness, surpassing the original in scale and extravagance.
Report describes popular ballooning outings in Paris where a car follows the balloon to pick up the party after landing. The sight is noted as a common, curious feature amid other unusual scenes in the city.
At a Princeton alumni dinner in New York President Woodrow Wilson recalled Johns Hopkins as a savvy financier. Hopkins offered a $3,000 note to aid the local Young Men’s Christian Association. He discounted his own note to four percent, despite lacking ready cash.
Boston betting waned with Patsey Sheppard noting small bets now. The piece recalls historic wagers from street parades in wheelbarrows to haircuts and sham weddings, including a $513,000 “nigger up” bet and other extravagant losses and victories by notable figures across cities and eras.
At a Second Vermont district Republican convention Col. lL M Read of Bellows Falls was praised as soldier and jurist. An admirer mocked the claim of a rebel bullet striking him in the mouth, asking how any wound could hit him elsewhere when Read delivered a speech.
A woman stood with one foot on the Main Street track as a downtown car approached. She held a closed umbrella and signaled the car to stop, causing a crowd to react and the motorman to rush the air brake.
Ethel, a New Hampshire child, asks God to smash her brother Willie’s bird traps during prayer. She confesses she already smashed them herself, explaining the act to her amused mother. Lipincott’s notes the humorous scene.
An oculist notes hazel eyes appear more often in a sample of 100 glass eyes. Forty seven are hazel while the rest show blue brown gray and black, four times as many hazel eyes as any other color, a deduction offered with a blend of whimsy and caution.
Mr Haddon of Notts England details an experiment in a roadside pond with fifty chub. A penny slot cheese feeder near the water makes noise when the drawer is pulled and excites the fish. When the drawer is silent the fish ignore it. When rattled the fish react with excitement.
Poem fragment contrasts changing times with old friends and winter. It speaks of beautiful dreams of life and love and ends with shadows of rest as bells ring goodnight in a somber mood.
A humorous column recounts Jimmie’s take on a Moon tour tale where a wealthy traveler’s wife is ungrateful. The piece lampoons social pretensions and class mismatch with light satire and witty phrasing characteristic of the period.
A vindictive foe taunts a rich man promising he will crawl. Two weeks later the revenge unfolds as the rich man buys a hill climbing automobile and must repeatedly crawl beneath it for repairs.
A brief dramatic exchange portrays a wife’s ruin and a widow’s plight as a tester confronts the truth of infidelity and independence leaving a man to lament loss and social judgment.
Up to Nature features a dialogue where the first artist asks for ideas and the second suggests using a bang-up sketch of a cyclone as hair for a new portrait. He plans to depict the American girl, Puck, in the piece with the dramatic cyclone as hair.
In a playful exchange aboard a Philadelphia Press blurb, Miss Nuritch asks if all Yellowstone Park geysers were seen and Mrs. Nurich confirms they saw everything. The daughter cites an opinion from Mr. Dinken about the so called Geyser Wilhelm being the greatest.
A belated pedestrian was startled by a thief who shouted hands up and fled after handing a dollar during a street hold up. The victim remarked the reference to hands was painful as he was returning from a poker party.
A humorous dispute with a clerk about license fees ends with a quip that marriage costs come as a salary-deducting lifelong installment. The exchange casts light on perceived expenses and practical snickering about bureaucratic rules.
A New York minister claims bad cooking drives men to drink and his remark that women also drink shows wives are driven to it by discussions of bread made by mothers, as reported in the Baltimore American.
A young practitioner questions a doctor about his habit of ordering champagne for every new patient. The doctor explains it gauges affordability, aiding in assessing charges when preparing the bill.
A brief dialogue fragment features a child asking why the moon isn’t visible in daytime and a parent answering that it is not lit until after dark. The exchange captures a small urban vignette and childlike curiosity.
The speaker recalls a long journey to Sing Sing and a drawn out return, noting an hour there felt like a year to come back. The lines imply distance and time distortions in the speaker’s travel memories.
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