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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1911
Page
7
A meditation on friendship as the key to self discovery and social success, with a quip about a railway station cab driver who asks questions for a friend outside. A testimonial extols Grape Nuts as a life changing nourishment yielding improved health and spirit, ending with a promotional nudge for The Road to Wellville.
A Graham & Morton dock report describes dock workers who vanish and reappear, with three men washed from the river and four linked to prominent locals. The piece portrays a hard, indifferent city routine at the Chicago river docks where 25 cent laborers drift from shift to shadowy fate.
Richard Pacharz a self confessed embezzler who stole six thousand dollars. He donated most to his lodge and its charities rather than himself. Judge Swann suspended sentence after witnesses described his charitable acts and employers offered his old job.
William Morton, 75, bet $500 in a staged poker game with three men at a vacant lot outside Onkers New York. He won nothing as the trio claimed an I O U and cash, then disappeared with his stake after a staged show of cash and a brick hidden in a valise.
In a breach of promise case in Alma Kansas Miss Alice Bowes, a former Topeka hotel waitress, won a $10,000 verdict against N W Sly a former Union Pacific conductor now claim agent for the railroad Sly admitted giving good service but denied romance Bowes testified of letters and trips Sly denied writing any letters and said the dispute arose from hunger and heartache.
A granite monument honors Jesse Walker known as the Daniel Boone of Methodism and founder of Chicago’s first Methodist church. Erected at Plainfield by the Methodist Episcopal church and its southern branch, it was unveiled by Master Irverett Davis Weese with remarks by Bishop J. H. Hamilton and Bishop I. R. Hendrix. Walker born 1766 in Virginia organized churches in Missouri Illinois and Chicago died 1835 in Plainfield.
A quip by Thomas Fuller posits that the creaking spoke of a wheel does not carry the heaviest load, suggesting weakness lies not in the obvious burden but in quieter flaws within a system.
Andrew Lendey, a young farmer near St Joseph Missouri, died in a gruesome accident with a fast revolving ensilage cutter. His arm was severed at the shoulder and his left side torn away as the machine neared completion of fodder for the silo. He was married less than a year.
In Kansas City Missouri juvenile court Judge Porterfield rules no child under one and one half years should be spanked. Paul Wilson and his wife faced charges for spanking a child just under the limit and the judge warned penalties for future offenses.
The head of the house should know what to do in minor emergencies as serious illness requires a doctor. Most pediatric issues are intestinal, typically constipation, and should not be treated with opiates or harsh bowel flushing. A mild laxative like Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin may be advised for relief.
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