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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1912
Page
6
An old newspaper fragment markets Garfield Tea as a natural laxative made from pure herbs and promotes Eldsvold Creamery Co. of Minneapolis with a cream product and sales guarantee. The text hints at courtship and politics themes and urges readers to inquire about cream prices and cans.
A discussion reveals a badge demanding women's suffrage, with one speaker admitting past opposition yet noting the badge has turned into a fashionable fad. The exchange hints at shifting public attitudes toward suffrage symbols and social acceptance.
Lambert Kaspers, Chicago attorney, recounts a joke at a YMCA banquet about a Danish farmer seeking naturalization. The judge asks if he is satisfied with general conditions. the Dane replies yes and adds he would like to see more rain, underscoring a light country humor about immigration and weather.
In London Tit-Bits an incident at a seashore riflerange describes an old farmer and his plowman struck by a stray bullet. The plowman fallen cry of I’m shot! prompts the farmer to climb the sand bank and plead to the volunteers to halt, noting it could have hit the horse.
A stern father who had warned a young suitor not to visit his daughter encounters the caller at dusk. The youth apologizes and explains he came on behalf of his firm about a small bill, prompting the father to awkwardly relent and invite him to return.
A physician reports switching to Grape-Nuts for breakfast last fall and eliminating meat, noting digestion improves, weight increases, and nourishment suffices. He prescribes Grape-Nuts to patients with indigestion or post illness recovery, though he requests anonymity.
Henry J Hecker a deaf mute pressman sues Nora Sullivan a deaf mute woman for insults and an umbrella attack in Center Street court. The trial features failed interpreters and a swoon by Sullivan as magistrate dismisses the case after a morning of dramatic signaling and comic confusion.
In Nova Scotia a mysterious mute man known as Gerome, found washed ashore with amputated legs in 1861, died recently after decades of silence. He lived with the Didier Comeau family, speaking only once of his origin as Trieste, while physicians debated his condition and potential causes for his lifelong muteness.
Chicago police chief John McWeeny plans to enlist 20 women to enforce an old hat pin ordinance. The beauty squad would stop fashionably dressed women with long hat pins on the street and warn them to follow the law. The scheme faces concerns about clashes and whether officers will risk fights over pin length.
Miss Annie Brown, Forest Park University junior class president, carried a life size effigy of herself along Market Street tracks to a nearby grocery to burn it. The juniors had earlier stolen a dress from her and hung the effigy on an oak for three days of class conflict. The discovery of the doll sparked questions about the plan and its disposal.
The piece describes Porto Rico as a historic yet developing colony of the United States. It recalls early Spanish colonization, Columbus contact, and Ponce de Leon naming San Juan. It then paints San Juan bay views of Morro fortress, Casa Blanca, Santa Catalina palace, Palo Seco, and Catano as the ship enters the harbor.
Mrs. Lawrence Clement fled into a barn when a bull moose charged from Becket yard. Constable husband Mr. Clement shot and killed the animal as it charged toward a thicket. The moose weighed about a thousand pounds and may have escaped from Octob er Mountain preserves.
A lawyer presses a witness about bearing testimony against a friend. The witness answers that he loves his friend but loves the truth more, and refuses to turn on a friend for someone who is a complete stranger.
Readers report scalp eczema and itching cured by Cuticura Soap and Ointment after failing to find relief from a family doctor. Testimonies from C D Tharrington and Samuel Stern claim complete disappearance of sores, crusts, and bald spots following use. Free samples offered by Cuticura with a 82 page book. Some philanthropist jokes about funding a college.
An anecdote at Sherry's in New York features Lady Duff Gordon joking about divorce. Two women discuss marriages, heaven or Reno as the path to unmake them, with one lighting a cigarette and the other laughing.
A floorwalker directs a customer to the drug department offering arnica and witch hazel. The text recalls Garfield Tea's long standing approval and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething with claims of easing gum pain and wind colic.
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