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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1905
Page
3
The article outlines economical and upscale Thanksgiving decor ideas from centerpieces to place cards. It highlights football themed novelties, Wedgewood turkey sets, cut glass horns of plenty, and linen and silver finishing touches. It suggests personalizing place cards with initials and verses, plus festive color schemes of yellow and red with chrysanthemums.
A long, lurid tale traces Vera Sassulitch as a key government spy who infiltrates Nihilists in St Petersburg then reveals secrets to the czar. It recounts Trepoff’s staged assassination and Emma Bellomo’s rise, with dramatic court intrigue and a Siberian exile.
A visitor reports Highland Scots shifting from whisky to beer this season. He notes beer replaces asquebaugh in many meridian ceremonies and becomes the common drink among Highlanders. Claret was once widespread, smuggled from France, then whisky prevailed, and now beer follows.
Mme. Marconda the oratorio singer recalls being billed as a coloratura soprano at the Maine Musical Festival last year. Citizens were puzzled and some protested to manager Mr Chapman against a negro vocalist appearing among the audience. On another occasion while on a
A valet recounts a manager urging him to double a rich client Mr Henry's laundry bill by roughing clothes with a stick to force higher charges. The valet admits he has not used the ploy and doubts it will work. The tale reflects service industry temptations and moral tension.
An English physician named Scholes writes a 400 page book arguing that colored races are not inherently inferior claiming ancient Egyptians were black and that European civilization grew slowly while Egyptians Mexicans Peruvians Chinese and other races achieved high culture long before European ancestors left barbarism.
A Detroit News item describes a young girl visiting a matinee with a friend, thanked “Mr. Jones” for a pleasant afternoon, then settled into her seat to enjoy the show. The name Jones is not the man’s real name.
Thousands gathered at Dunkirk to witness the public executions of Jean Bogaert and Charles Swartwaeger for the December murder of a woman named Knockaert. Spectators filled streets and windows, with jubilant cheers and music as Bogaert mocked authorities and then faced the guillotine. Swartwaeger met his end with little emotion amid the crowd.
A Portsmouth correspondent relays Mr Sato of the Japanese peace commission praising the pleasant coolness of the American summer in New England. He contrasts hot summers in Japan with local scenes and shares a Philadelphia Bulletin joke about a beggar and a doll baby to illustrate cultural humor.
Farmer Cornhusk laments his daughter Sal and what he calls the ruinous effect of golf girl notions. He complains Sal rises late, neglects milking and chores, and resists morning tasks and stable cleaning, fearing she will raise more trouble if not kept to sundown hours.
A Washington Star poem reflecting on unreality and doubt. The speaker questions whether anything truly exists and calls life a sequence of dreams and fading pleasures and misfortunes. Despite gloom the poem imagines waking someday with a smile at the notion of dreams.
An unnamed millionaire boasts his country place transformation from a sandy common into a self contained nature retreat. He describes an artificial lake, imported trees, a ten foot breakwater, sodded dunes, electric lights, gas lamps, awnings, hedges, heated water tanks, and climate controlled summer houses to create ultimate comfort away from city life. He invites a friend to visit and learn the benefits of nature.
The New York Sun reports inclined elevators or moving stairs are used in a Dover England freight elevator for trunks mail bags and boxes between steamers and wharves. Four such elevators exist worldwide and are eyed for use at New York ports and in stores from basement to sidewalk. They also serve seaside resorts where beach access requires descent from high bluffs.
Judge Thompson who sat on the state’s superior court for years before his death was a sharp wit despite a severe stutter. A Fitchburg ses sion opened with the plaintiff’s attorney asking “May it please the court” and stuttering as he tried to “make your motion.” On Boston streets another lawyer quipped about “Thompson’s overruled cases” as the judge carried a copy of the latest supreme court reports.
A debutante, shy and self conscious during her first Washington season, learns to converse by listening. At a reception she asks Secretary Hay for guidance and mimics standard courtesies, gradually gaining ease and praise as she engages guests.
Drake Wilson claims bees rest in winter as bricklayers do and that larger and smaller bees may be found drunk on vineyard juice. They supposedly drink until drunk, then sleep on the ground, ending any romance once tied to beehives.
A Sullivan County outdoor tuberculosis station houses hundreds of patients in tents. A famed racing writer describes the camp as the most hilarious community, where death is treated with dark humor. A grave incident ends with a man dying in his tent after attendants mix up bodies.
A London Telegraph passage notes London as a trade hub with dense crowds and foggy skies. It contrasts private New York living as a luxury for the multimillionaire, while American girls visiting modest homes witness large rear gardens and front lawns kept for show, sparking homesick reflections.
In a village, neighbors probe Mary Ellen’s life after rumors of domestic troubles. Mrs. Austin notes she has a solid home with a garden a cow some pigs and likely kin while dodging questions about her husband’s occasional temper.
Poem fragment by Thomas Nelson in a Scribner page explores love as youth’s realm not age’s crown. It contrasts peace with war and notes love pierces hearts through gentle acts, even amid danger and loneliness.
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