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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1913
Page
2
Philadelphia hunter recounts a Maine deer siting where after firing several shots he calls the woods to reveal his entire party has emerged. The incident ends with the hunter triumphantly declaring, I've shot a buck, amid the comic confusion.
Sam Marcus of 905 Lowell Place Chicago describes two years of persistent eczema on his hands with swelling cracking and oozing. He reports complete recovery after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for five to six months with warm water rinses. The notice promotes Cuticura soaps and ointments with a free sample offer and a 32 page Skin Book from Boston.
A playful dialogue explains a volcano as a fur nace filled with oman candles and a wide door open, illustrating a childlike, whimsical description rather than scientific detail.
Mrs Wayupp worries about social position as her husband has gone out in haste to pay a bill, while Mrs Blase reacts with shock and asks for his whereabouts, highlighting tensions in their social circle.
A wry exchange from the Boston Transcript recalls a worker named Miss Brady asking about relationships while Boomerang quips about a tumultuous year of employment across six or seven places. The back and forth carries a sharp social tone.
A terse exchange hints at a town or settlement where newcomers check in with minimal possessions and are accepted in advance, suggesting a frontier or transient community vibe. The dialogue implies ease of entry and communal acceptance despite being strangers.
Denver reports Captain Richmond Pierson Hobson, famed for his actions in the Spanish American War, was politely but abruptly dropped from a luncheon by the local chamber of commerce after hotel and cafe owners protested. Hobson questioned the lapse and attributed it to chamber policy on political topics, noting his planned talk on The Merchant Marine the Panama Canal and Coast Defenses.
Asa M. Wallace publishes a commemorative edition of the Fairfax Standard recounting the 1862 battle near New Ulm and Redwood Agency. The issue features illustrations and articles by veterans including Lieut John F. Bishop Captain Marsh and Col. G C F Mandrau with reports from Redwood, Fort Ridgely, and New Ulm. The clash, among Minnesota’s bloodiest, killed hundreds and helped quell Native resistance, shaping southwestern Minnesota’s settlement.
Amid swollen Susquehanna near Long Level a flock of swans totals seventy seven. Two swans were killed by the Lucas brothers, each weighing about twenty pounds. John Shank of Wild Cat Falls ferryboat shot three swans and crippled a fourth, with the three birds weighing forty pounds and the largest at seventeen pounds.
Christian Kledelin forty five a city fireman fell to death Sunday by leaping into the Niagara River near Prospect Point and going over the American falls in Niagara Falls New York.
In Muncie Indiana Judge Frank Ellis weighs a divorce suit by Sarah Williams against Charles Williams. She cared for fifteen boarders and their rooms and refused to cook for a sixteenth. He allegedly threatened violence as she rebelled. The woman sought no aid but cited the new boarder as the final straw.
Mrs. P. H. Thrash hires her husband from the board of county commissioners for one month at $500 in cash. He had been convicted of keeping liquor to sell to retailers in the prohibition section and sentenced by Judge Long to a fine of $2,000 costs of $400 and 30 days imprisonment, but the judge allowed hire by highest bidder or not less than $500. The board accepted the bid and the wife paid the amount.
James Fenton, a Greenock, Scotland native hired in Minneapolis as a delivery wagon driver at 12 dollars weekly, sues J. C. Wilson in federal court under the immigration act. He seeks deportation and a $1,000 judgment, claiming the agreement violated immigration law as only actors or artists may be admitted under such labor arrangements.
Eleven year old Robert E. B. Berg died at his parents home after tetanus followed a fall at the South Bethlehem brewery. He landed on a rusty nail that penetrated the hip, the wound had seemed to heal but tetanus developed days later.
Connersville clubwomen will reveal their exact ages at a colonial tea party hosted by Mrs. Essie Shively. Guests must bring pennies equal to their age plus one penny for each additional year they wish to live. Funds raised aid poor girls in Indiana.
In Bloomsburg Pennsylvania six boys aged young to mid teens fell ill after eating yellow duck roots they mistook for artichokes. Some mothers blamed smoking early on but doctors feared multiple deaths before identifying the plant as the toxin responsible. The affected were Raymond Fox Irwin Whennan Harry Whennan William Lachess George Follmer and Rutter Ohl.
Salida Colorado. W J Burrows a hotel clerk was trapped twenty four hours in a deserted mine pit twelve feet deep after falling in while walking in the mountains. He used lighted matches and cried out until three boys heard him and rescued him.
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