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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1919
Page
6
Montana audiences see Lewis J. Selznick in a comedic film about a young wife who buys what she thinks is the only slipper pattern. A second matching pair causes a mix up with her husband, but the misunderstanding is resolved and the Leffingwells remain happily mated.
In Tacoma on November 30 hunger strike by 22 Industrial Workers of the World inmates shows no signs of weakening after 96 hours. None of the men eat at Sunday dinner while one worker was taken to county hospital with high fever. Doctors attribute his condition to prior weakness, not the strike, as a prisoner declares willingness to die in jail.
Springfield IL November 30 Acting President John J Lewis of the United Mine Workers returns from Washington and declines to comment on the unsuccessful coal conference. He sees no possibility of settlement of the bituminous strike by secondary agreements.
A select picture presenting Constance Talmadge as Mrs Leffingwell in a comedic or romantic scene. The short summary notes her role and the film’s light tone in this newspaper notice.
James R. Goss of Billings sold the Living Spring ranch southwest of the city for $42,000, equity $12.50 to $175 per acre. Thomas McKittrick purchased the 240 acre tract, homesteaded in 1882 by a Northern Pacific railroad engineer, long noted as productive in the county.
Notice to hunters and trespassers that Jas Peebles & Son will prosecute on their lands or lands they lease.
H G Wells criticizes how history is taught in schools noting that Big events arrive as abrupt introductions on a door mat, with little context. Caesar, Saracens, Nor man kings, and empire shaping forces are left unexplained while broader causes and origins remain opaque.
The labor ministry's chims and record office at Kew uses electric accounting and tabulating machinery to process unemployment pay forms. Punched card data is sorted and printed while totals are accumulated, aided by an index of 10,000,000 names with many duplicates such as multiple John Smiths and William Browns.
The royal air force of England implemented an eye drill to balance vision among trainees. A specialist led twice daily exercises teaching pilots to use both eyes, transforming many men into competent airmen. The method reportedly raised success rates to 95 percent.
From 1790 to 1900 the data list immigrant numbers by decade alongside total population increases from other sources. Figures rise from 386,985 immigrants in early periods to 3,806,308 in 1900 while nonimmigrant growth is shown at 5,322,254 through 1830-40 and higher in later decades.
In a World’s Work anecdote, President Roosevelt meets Captain Pershing in Washington and recalls a Santiago Campaign moment shared under ladies present. Pershing recounts a muddy night aiding mules and a wagon convoy, prompting Roosevelt to note the impropriety of foul language then. The piece also mentions Jefferson Davis parish cattle drives with an own-a-cow program funded by bankers and supported by the agricultural agent, bank, school board, and boy calf club.
In Indianapolis a firm’s horse team moved without its driver. The traffic man gave stop and go signals, and the horses halted at each stop then advanced on go. He finally caught the driverless team after it resumed movement at the next corner.
The Dominion of Canada has had prime ministers including Sir John A Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie, Sir John Macdonald Ingva in, Sir J J Abbott, Sir John Thompson, Sir Mackenzie Powell, Sir Charles Tupper, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir Robert Borden. Governors general include Viscount Monck 1867 69 Lord Lis ter 1869 72 Earl of Dufferin 1872 78 Marquis of Lorne 1878 83 Marquis Lansdowne 1883 88 Earl of Derby 1888 93 Earl Aberdeen 1893 98 Earl Minto 1898 1904 Duke of Connaught 1911 16 and Duke of Devonshire.
A Guam News letter records court cross examination on coconut plantations. The expert states favorable winds are those not harming coconut trees and unfavorable winds hinder bearing and growth, noting what harms fruit production.
A Chicago Tribune anecdote narrates a visiting sergeant and a young woman in a small town inviting coffee at her house. The mother, noting her appearance, jokes she will fetch the percolator while the sergeant approves, remarking the woman already looks fine as is.
Assistant Secretary Post approved the immigration bureau recommendation to close Emma Goldman's case and deport her to Russia. The department is expected to approve the deportation plan.
Mary Pickford will star in Daddy Long Legs at the Royal theater on the 11th and 12th. The Mary Pickford Company presents its first film directed by Marshall Neilan. The screen rights were bought from Klaw and Erlanger for $40000.
Washington Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, denounces Congress for failing to enact the reconstruction program at the extraordinary session. He says the House frittered its time with futile investigations of war activities and the Senate's record is more discreditable, wasting six months in sterile debates.
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Mrs. Clay Fry of Ferguson Station Missouri praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy calling it splendid medicine. She says she uses it for her children at the first signs of croup and for herself when coughing or with chest cold, noting quick relief after a few doses and rapid recovery with continued use.
Hazel Knuttt says a strike by ministers seeking Sundays off would be terrible. The frost is on the pumpkin and fodder is in shock, but no sugar has the bumpkin and thought of ple but mock.
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