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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1912
Page
2
A stream of lighthearted observations covers absurdities from love costs to age rules, air heroes to divorce pleas. It riffs on fashions, travel, food fads, math myths, and social quirks with playful jabs at editors, milliners, and poets amid a breezy satire of modern life.
Detroit faces a Detroit Rival To Reno debate as lawmakers and clergy react to rising divorce figures. The New York Press reports 1100 divorces in twelve months and a judge's record 233 decrees in eleven months. Clergy urge tougher Michigan laws to curb the trend and avert a Reno-like collapse of family bonds.
In a 150 mile pursuit from Cameron to Wheeling and then to Pittsburg, C Bilby Merckles of Cameron West Virginia stranded at Union station gates as Calvin Boecker and Miss Anna Merckles boarded the New York Night Express. The Catholic bride and Protestant groom could not marry without church documents.
Detec tives Litherland and Van Overn arrest M. B. Anderson and his wife at the Rowland hotel after they fled Cody Apartments with unpaid rent and a stolen gas meter coins. The couple, married a month ago in Santa Cruz, say they eloped from San Francisco and sought work in Portland.
In Hammond Indiana Joseph Tessa a Chicago Italian obtained an Illinois hunting license and used a razor on three coworkers. He argued he had a right to kill under the license but was convicted only of assault with a small fine after the judge noted the license did not grant such authority.
Indianapolis tale shows a head porter marking a traveling salesman’s trunk with blue chalk to indicate a cheap tipper. The mark serves as a quiet code among baggage handlers to reward or withhold service based on gratuities. The piece highlights hotel staff self protection using coded signals in the baggage room.
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