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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1916
Page
8
Farmington community activities thrive with auxilliary meetings, temperance talks, and new members. Churches host services with visitors from Conrad and Spokane. Local farming scenes show large Marquis wheat and 50 bushel yields forecast. schools plan openings and teachers assign roles for September.
The Community club met at Bole last Thursday. Reports on celebration finances were heard. Lunches and fancy articles brought in 90 dollars, with about 50 dollars designated for prizes at children’s school work garden produce and sewing exhibits.
A series of social notes from Bole recount visits and returns across nearby towns. Mr and Mrs Fred Dutro shopped in Great Falls. Mrs Herman Stoffler returned from Michigan. Roy Franklin and J W Chapel of Chateau were visitors. The Dutros and Powell family and others greeted relatives, teachers, and residents in Bole and surrounding communities.
Agawam residents attend a Great Falls circus. Milton Traddick on sick list. Mrs Valentine Kirsch guests of Mrs Suiste. Equity meeting at Farmington. hail damaged crops of several locals. Mrs Angell injured in fall. George Schaefer guests of Otto Schaefer. Grant hurt from saddle accident. families fishing on Sheep creek. Miss Lovern Pierce visiting sister Ira Yule.
Scientist Mme Victor Henry exposed anthrax germs to mercury vapor lamp rays. Many died but survivors became spherical cocci and formed a new bacterial type that did not revert on cultivation and caused a new disease in animals. She posits sunlight may similarly drive radical germ transformations.
The article likens a Roman broadsword to a contemporary trench weapon. It notes a shortened blade of 15 inches with a keen edge and plain hilt, urging thrusts to the face. Caius of the Tenth legion would be a formidable foe on the Champagne chalk knolls using this revived blade.
A Pacific coast representative introduces a bill to replace Fahrenheit with Centigrade in government publications. The piece notes Fahrenheit zero at 32 and centigrade’s 0 to 100 scale, urging alignment with metric standards and decimal coinage harmonization worldwide.
George Lawson defies alimony by claiming daily barbering and nightly movie outings drain his finances. Detective Earnshaw arrests him on a bench warrant from Vice Chancellor Learing for contempt. The divorce action earlier saw Lawson contest the alimony, urged by his need for barber services to soothe nerves after work.
Foreign nations grant numerous feminine decorations with Spain noted as a pioneer in including women in orders of chivalry. The Legion of Honor the Russian Order of St Catherine and the Austrian Star Cross are among the larger recognitions. While women do not receive titles as knights, several awards confer status akin to military rank.
At Fort Myer near Arlington National Cemetery a brigadier general is laid to rest with full military honors. Cavalry and artillery escort, a grand dirge, and a volley salute accompany the flag draped coffin as troops, bands, and sabers create a glittering, patriotic scene.
A compact reflection on dust, arguing it shapes blue skies and sunsets, diffuses daylight, and colorizes deserts and mountains. Without dust, light would be harsh, sunsets and dawns unknown, and life and perception would differ dramatically.
Adele Schreiber argues in Health Culture that women in the working class owe no extra war service beyond household duties. She contends motherhood already compensates, noting the burden of maternal labor and the personal grief felt when sons go to war.
A mounted albatross in a museum carried a vial and note from 1847. The paper, attached by a whaling captain, says the bird was captured off Chile on December 20 1847 after the bottle was affixed December 12 1847 about eight hundred miles off New Zealand. The bird traveled roughly 2100 miles in eight days.
Federal jury in Seattle failed to agree in a case heard by Judge E E Cashman after a long session. Ten jurors built a deck from luncheon boxes and others improvised dice and a checker board from a blotter and a dance program while the rest slept, leading to discharge at dawn.
A writer notes a shift in hat fashion as men ditch utilitarian headwear. Doctors cited warn that tight hats may cause baldness and urge abandoning hats for comfort and forward looking style.
The Philadelphia Record notes that Missouri Supreme Court set aside Hammurabi’s precept denying an adopted son's child from inheriting when the adoptive parent dies before the adoptive parent’s parents. It contrasts with modern law where legacy passes to surviving heirs unless specific descendants exist.
Dr Juichi Soyeda has become president of the Imperial Railway bureau. He is a noted Japanese official known for courtesy and wit and has served as vice minister of finance and governor of the Industrial Bank of Japan. He is linked with the French Japanese bank and has represented Japan in America during the California land dispute era.
The German emperor's palace at Corfu is described as a magnificent white marble building with over one hundred rooms. It is surrounded by extensive gardens and was once owned by Empress Elizabeth of Austria who spent vast sums on its embellishment.
A fragment notes a lumber company in St Anthony dealing with a large coal lump at Owl Creek. Details are sparse but indicate a potential logging and coal handling matter involving local business.
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