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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1905
Page
2
A collage of pithy observations and snappish anecdotes ranging from court quips about cudgels to royal family gossip, fashioning a humorous cross section of press opinions. It touches on Morocco, airship workers, romance, champagne lore, counterfeit fears, and Chilean riots with a wry tone.
The bishop of London calls race suicide a sin and remarks on aging and disinterest in fashionable society, suggesting a distance from social invitations.
A reader urges action by the national purity congress against those who spoil pumpkin pies by selling baker ground and colored horseradish or ginger, calling for swift enforcement against such adulteration.
A female college president asserts that educated women have ceased to be frumps, while clarifying she does not imply women are naturally man’s pet.
The record notes Sir Thomas Tipton earned distinction as a mariner and clarifies his recent experience before the king shows he was never connected with the horse marines.
The text contrasts prize fighting with football noting how football can cause instant severe harm with a blow to the stomach. It observes prize fighting is rarely fatal, implying a lower fatal risk in the sport compared to football.
Dr. Wiley brands most Scotch whisky sold in the country as Ameri can corn juice while golfers show no unanimous rising yet. The remarks contrast with a diverse golf scene where opinion remains divided.
The Hon Christy Mathewson may occupy elegant apartments on Easy street for a season or two yet and then follow the procession of Was Beens into the land of Oblivion.
A republican daily newspaper will be started in Birmingham Alabama by a gentleman who aligns with Mr Carnegie's view on the dishonor of dying rich as cited by the Washington Post.
A French man claims he has smoked 800000 cigarettes over thirty years and remains alive at age forty, a remarkable statistic cited in a local newspaper item.
A record shows 886 people killed and 15 783 injured in railroad accidents in the nation for the year ending June 30 1905. The note questions how many attempted to board moving trains.
A Detroit man sues for divorce claiming cruelty by his wife after she threw a seashell at him. Court records show the wife is deemed entitled to a divorce from him due to cruelty. The husband previously demanded she read aloud to him as part of their disputes.
Lord Charles Beresford takes a seat on the water wagon and praises total abstinence. If he maintains his jolly good fellowship, his achievement will rank with naval victories.
Blaze de Bury recounts a Paris-based duke Riario Sforza who allegedly possessed a centuries old poison formula called Cutarella. The duke discusses potential uses for revenge and justice, while noting he would never employ it and plans to die by pistol rather than reveal or use the secret. The tale ends with the duke’s suicide.
A plan shows a combined chimney serving an open fireplace in one room a kitchen stove in the next and two room heaters in the remaining rooms. The 8x8 inch flues join this single stack with a concrete cap to protect the top, about two thousand bricks required for construction.
Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia recalls a farmer who, after a morning knock for help, hosts his neighbor Jake with breakfast as a fire forces an early call for aid. The scene unfolds with cordial exchanges and a focus on neighborly aid amid an emergency.
A middle aged New England woman visiting Boston remarks at the Providence book stall that the city lives up to its nickname Hubbub of the Universe. She notes the crowds noise and confusion impressed her more than the sights after riding the electric cars.
Instructions describe grading earth to shape the floor with a raised edge, digging an eight inch deep gutter trench, mixing concrete in nine to one gravel Portland cement, laying a three inch base and a one inch top with proper compaction, forming a 14 inch wide gutter with timber moulds, and finishing with a float. One barrel of Portland cement will cover about eighty square feet at four inches thick.
The excerpt weighs whether a well beneath a house is problematic if vented from outside. It argues contamination risks mainly from surface runoff rather than ventilation, noting wells near homes usually pose little danger unless drainage favors soakage. Ventilation can keep water fresh and is advised.
The New York Sun recalls Cassius the lean critic who argues success comes through clever schemes as well as merit. He details three cases where employees rise to become rivals, from an oculist using client lists to a law student luring clients and a chemist building a private gold mine from waste paper.
A New York World writer recalls Jim Colby once a prominent lawyer now eking out a living with a dilapidated wagon a lame blind horse and heavy profanity to move furniture for a second hand dealer. On Elm Street a friend asks if he is moving and he answers barely moving.
William J. Lampton reflects on contrasting views between a joker who evokes smiles and a somber man who seeks lasting paradise. The joker argues tears belong to the other place not paradise, shaping a meditation on art, emotion, and afterlife.
An OAS traveler in Africa portrays Islam as an all-encompassing faith shaping daily life. He notes public prayer, beads marking daily vows, and rising devotion drawing pilgrims to Mecca despite hardship. He describes Jeddah as a melting pot of Muslims from Java to Morocco, bound for the pilgrimage.
A dainty six inch landscape in a shallow porcelain bowl offers a Japanese garden illusion for stay at homes. Priced from three dollars in terra cotta to six dollars and up in porcelain, these tiny scenes from Japan are built by local craftspeople and used on dining tables and at banquets. The intricate paths wind through dwarf shrubs, inviting close study rather than casual glance.
During Hayes era Vice President Wheeler visited the New England agricultural fair in Worcester. A Sutton farmer, drunk and eager to shake hands with Senator Hoar, mistook Judge Hoar for the senator and praised him as the ablest man in the nation before realizing the error and doubling down with a compliment to the judge.
A historical note recalls General Kuropatkin wounded during the 1877 Russo Turkish war while serving under Skobelev. A Turkish sharpshooter struck him on Lyssol Hill, leaving him unable to be carried and hauled by rope and soldiers to safety as his career paused.
A masseur returns from Nubia with two movements claimed to erase wrinkles and fat. He describes Nubian bathing substitutes, kneading rituals with fat and musk, and notes the locals’ lean, smooth skin credited to regular massage. He also recounts elephant hunting, hot-stone cooking, and Nubian people as handsome yet peculiar.
A poem reflects on a fallen horse crushed by a heavy cart tied to a weary teamster. The scene in the crowd, the toller dead in harness, prompts questions on death and meaning, invoking parables and the weariness of urban life.
The writer asks if elevating a 36 by 46 foot barn and adding three feet of stonework plus five feet of frame work for a cow stable could match the wind resistance of a full stone foundation. They compare a full height basement wall of stone or concrete to a mixed wood and stone approach for strength.
A girl and a young man flee a cow and joke about the animal chasing them. The girl cries mercy as the cow seems close, and George guesses the cow is after her calf. The exchange turns playful as they wonder what misled the cow.
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