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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1906
Page
6
A compilation of wry quips and witticisms from a London physician to a Washington editor. The snippets joke about deluges misers football riots royalty and trivial curiosities. The piece ends with a sly mock quotation about desiring a capable woman and a call for addresses.
Report notes St. Petersburg diners face no tipping while waiters strike. Despite labor action, patrons are urged to maintain courtesy and enjoy service.
The report notes a woman who burned fifteen thousand dollars in a domestic dispute. Kingdon Gould faced hazing within a college society but remains alive, described as a compensation in the piece.
Japan will issue a bill for wartime services against the enemy in Manchuria and call for enough yen to offset any damages claims by China. The move signals Tokyo's intent to secure compensation through currency value rather than direct reparations.
Residents face a one month bath ban in a Delaware town as a publicity stunt prompts quirky civic action. The odd restriction follows a local effort to draw attention to the community.
The centenary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth is urged for special celebration in Franklin New Hampshire and other places named for him across the nation.
A Pennsylvania town suffered a blaze that ruined four million dollars in whisky. Officials say the loss significantly impacts the visible whiskey supply, though the exact market effect is minor in scope.
A distant observer imagines how descendants will view a forty ton steel ingot buried with funeral rites in Pennsylvania and what meaning future generations assign to this act and artifact.
Two preachers who met in Richmond Virginia embraced passionately causing one to suffer a broken rib. The incident illustrates how brotherly love can go too far and local report notes the unusual outcome.
The text likens King Alfonso's outreach to marry a European princess to Dr. Syntax's famed tour in pursuit of a wife, highlighting a grand search for suitable matches across courts.
A Chicago woman divorces after her husband demanded she play the piano. The case echoes earlier when another woman, separated weeks ago, faced similar pressure from her husband to perform on the piano.
Old Man Giddles claims he can hold attention by hour when he speaks ill of someone. He cannot sustain interest beyond ten minutes praising others unless the praise is directed at the person themselves.
Report says a Brooklyn woman risks her home on a so called sure thing in the recent election. The piece suggests organizing a subscription to help her and recommends arranging a guardian for her protection.
The Ultima designed by Anson Phelps Stokes is described as a glob woid naval battery with 2600 tons coal capacity to run eleven days at full power, and thirty days with full space. It would carry submarines and torpedo tubes, Krupp armor up to 13.5 inches, and accommodations for 1500 plus officers and crew.
At Burl Booth’s home four miles south of the city a dozen neighbors gathered as his fourteen month old child worsened. A sneezing fit among all present filled the room with air charged by pepper fumes from a lamp’s red pepper bouquet, reviving the infant before Dr Ferguson arrived. The investigation traced the cause to the lamp igniting the peppers.
A Boston Herald writer recalls Mr. Bagley in Lebanon New Hampshire who liked grand words and twisted remarks. After a Hanover farmers meeting, a neighbor asked about the hay crop and Bagley quipped that his hay would be short but his cows would endure winter with two solos full of mucilage.
Caspar Whitney notes year by year destruction of humans and cattle by wild beasts and snakes in British India. He cites 24 576 human deaths and 96 226 cattle killed last year, with snakes responsible for 21 827 human deaths and 16 000 cattle deaths. Tigers, panthers, leopards and bears also killed in notable numbers, while the tiger panther and leopard are described as a de facto policing force for cultivated areas, despite overestimation of tiger depredations.
A pigeon from the Memphis to Louisville 400 mile race flew back to Charles Wirth’s yard last Friday nearly two weeks late. The bird’s battered wings and tail indicate captivity after being blown off course by a storm. It likely was held captive for days before being released, the captors hoping it would stay.
The municipality of Orbe in Vaud canton installed artificial nests in trees to protect insect eating birds. Branches are studded with nails to deter predators, with blackbirds and thrushes among the first to use the nesting sites. A Swiss naturalist runs the operation, which is led by women.
The labor government of South Australia has A. H. Peake as attorney general, yet he is said to be not legally qualified. In Adelaide Criminal Court a defense objection claimed testimony sworn by the attorney general was invalid, but the judge did not sustain the challenge.
A Augusta Chronicle report describes a dog dressed like a man by George Bailey a blacksmith helper. The canine wears a coat vest collar and cravat and becomes distressed when not dressed. He greets attention with wagging tail and barking and scorns naked dogs, proudly strutting in latest style.
Fraulein Komerthal, sister of Romerthal, protected a snowbound pass, holding a pistol to deter two Austrian smugglers from Switzerland into Tyrol. The women’s defense halted their crossing as one thief was knocked unconscious and the second captured after a struggle.
The article describes a modern adaptation called marine torches as direct descendants of ancient Greek fire. An aluminum cylinder acts as a projectile that ignites upon contact with seawater, using calcium phosphide and calcium carbide to generate phosphoretted hydrogen and acetylene. The device lasts about ten hours, allowing defenders to obscure their position without revealing the fleet to attackers.
Mrs. Penhecker rebukes Henry for ingratitude as she recalls accepting his marriage proposal. He jokes about reciprocation versus retaliation, prompting a light dispute and a winter hat consequence.
Wallace Dunbar Vincant presents a verse in Leslie's Magazine where a speaker pledges to choose one girl from a crowd and love her faithfully for life. A maiden fair questions the vow, offering to help him keep his resolutions while noting she has none to share.
An Italian laborer digging near Ardmore unearthed a bushel of counterfeit half dollars dated 1846 and 1851. Officials say the coins were specimens of the Saunders counterfeiting operation, with inspectors from Philadelphia handling recovery of looted pieces.
An official from the government printing office notes civil service rules, in effect for ten years, have improved the quality of women workers. He says those in folding rooms bindery and press room are educated, with many former teachers stenographers and more earning promotions through competitive exams in other departments.
Two oil men, Smith and Jones, head to Kane Pennsylvania after a striking well near Warren prompts a night ride. The sleigh horses bolt. both men consider buying a team from the liveryman, with Smith hoping to gift the so called night horse to his wife. The anecdote plays on domestic trouble and luck in a remote field.
The Kaiser earns 3 925 000 yearly as king of Prussia while nothing as German emperor. He also has vast private wealth from mines fisheries and estates, surpassing all others in Prussia. Bavaria Saxony Baden and Russia pay large official salaries with private incomes from royalties and perquisites adding to the totals.
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