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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1941
Page
6
A man consults a fortune teller who sees a travel line on his palm and predicts a trip to Chicago. He heads to the railway station and asks the clerk for a ticket, unsure if it will be a single or return journey.
A suburban wife pursues an illicit affair, provoking gossip and resentment among friends while facing social reprisals. The column recounts how the other woman pays with humiliation and loss of respect, and advises ending the affair to save the marriage.
Farm notes from Illinois Agricultural Station warn hybrid corn yields depend on soil fertility and management. Hybrids may be more responsive to good soil and practices, risking faster nutrient depletion on poor soils unless accompanied by proper soil enrichment and testing. Farmers using soil tests and lime, phosphate, and potash programs can profit from hybrid seed corn.
An article tracing sweet potato starch from a Mississippi cooperative plant to new Texas facilities. It notes 20 percent starch in varieties, uses in textile sizing, pulp for cattle feed, potential cellophane-like sheets, and wartime flour use. Carver’s work highlighted. main cultivation in Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee, New Jersey. oversize varieties cause culls and waste.
A set of nine quiz questions covers topics from naval history to literature demographics and geography. Questions ask about a Russian rear admiral, McGuffey's field, Native American population, a spider lesson in a king's country, the function of a prestidigitator, Gettysburg dedication speaker, the author of a famous youth quote, the habitat of the deodar, and trends in American height and weight.
A list of trivia items mentions John Paul Jones, Education, an estimated 350000 Indians, Scotland’s Robert Bruce, sleight of hand, Edward Everett, Benjamin Disraeli, an East Indian cedar forest setting, and anthropometric trends showing American men growing taller and heavier while women grow lighter in weight over the past century.
A nervous traveler asks for a ticket in a rapid exchange with a booking clerk. The man hesitates over single or return, telling the clerk to check the options before deciding.
The value of a New York Stock Exchange seat dropped to its lowest since 1915 on May 28, 1940, selling for 42000 dollars. The peak price on record remained 70000 dollars in 1939.
The article portrays Westminster Abbey as the crowning place of kings and a repository for the bones of renowned men. It notes nine centuries of England's past reflected in the abbey begun by Edward the Confessor and mentions a picture of Abraham Lincoln at the abbey's right side.
A $20 000 laboratory for atom smashing is being built at the University of Iowa. The apparatus generating the required force will be housed in a steel cylinder.
The bitter cassava root is naturally poisonous but South American Indians devised processing to remove toxins. Cassava bread has long served as staple food in Brazilian jungles, and modern tapioca is produced from this root.
Rural Briefs discusses roughage as essential in dairy cow diets and hedge or Osage orange as good fence posts. It notes fumigation with carbon disulphide to combat corn weevils, compares beef from grass and grain diets, and lists main causes of electric motor failures on farms. It warns that over 5 percent cottonseed meal in hen rations can redden yolks and slightly pink the whites.
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