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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1907
Page
7
Bud the bootblack recalls a star customer who bought shoes for his wife and later his family, showing how shines and generosity changed a life. The story traces love duty and class, ending with the couple's quiet happiness and a final image of tiny shoes.
A review of fine cushions features hand painted floral fantasies on pale cream and black backgrounds. Elaborate embroideries include Watteau scenes, gilt-edged medallions, bees on honeysuckle motifs, and luxurious brocades in satin velvet with gold and silver thread.
Magazine notes leather cushions in vogue with beaded and jeweled circles, cross diameters, and rich colors. Stenciled designs appear in contrasting shades, fleur de lis motifs, monograms, and bold cut-out patterns on various suedes and leathers. Subtle borders and ear-tied corners are popular finishing touches.
White Bull, head of the Sioux on the Cheyenne reservation in Wyoming, is a prominent living Indian with influence beyond his tribe. He is a nephew of Sitting Bull, stands six feet tall and well built, and at 56 years old cannot speak English or ride a railroad until recently.
A portion of notes describes an Indian meal event with booths, beadwork, and attired attendants, plus Indian post cards as souvenirs. It suggests menu items such as cornmeal mush, fish, bean soup, corn bread, and Indian meal pudding. The text includes a fortune tea cup rhyme attributed to Madame Merri and notes on tea leaf readings for guests.
A club of young men and women presented An Evening with Christy to friends with tableaux of about 12 pictures including The American Girl and The Night Mare of a Young Man Who Dreams He Is Marrying for Money. Invitations went out and expenses were minimal with costumes by participants and light refreshments sold for charity, raising a good sum.
Guests were told to find their places by photographs at each place setting. Images revealed children in role like a lad in knickerbockers a wee girl with a doll and a baby in a perambulator. The red framed photos completed the playful color theme.
A simple useful egg-cosy idea. It covers the egg and cup, stands to the right height, has a twisted ribbon loop and bows to lift it, a ruffled edge, and can feature floral design in colored appliqué on either side.
A longtime columnist urges balanced study of railroads public role urging fair, two sided view. J J Hill President of Great Northern warns track and terminal needs and money for extensions to ease car shortages, urging cooperation to move lumber and lower freight costs.
An advertisement touts Peruna as a household friend in over a million homes and growing. It claims Peruna cures catarrhal diseases of the head throat lungs stomach kidneys bladder and female organs and urges readers to ask their druggist for the free 1907 Peruna Almanac.
A hotel porter in Baltimore offers the last room to a Modesto man, claiming any floor is available. The clerk assigns a cot in a cage at midnight and instructs staff to keep the elevator at the top floor until morning, as plans unfold for a night's stay.
Advertisers report thousands of misaddressed letters with missing state towns counties or signatures. The article urges careful handwriting and complete return addresses for shipments and receipts, noting hundreds of unclaimed hides and furs from Minneapolis firm Northwestern Hida and Fur Company.
The Greater Voice reports a fierce storm last night described as the worst of the year, while a women’s suffrage meeting in the town hall proceeded quietly with no sound from the storm. Local residents note the contrast between the weather and the meeting’s calm.
A report by Lothrop and Johnson lists patents issued to Northwestern inventors. Named recipients include George E. Barrett Duluth Ira F. Wallace Minneapolis Albert E Frommel Groton Erik Rasmussen Hot Springs Ingebright Ullensaker Hatton Fremont Harris Kenmare and others for items such as eye glasses air filter incubator alarm railway tie and a steam boiler.
A pithy remark notes that an umbrella mender cannot recover a lost umbrella and compares people praying as if they advise the Lord, highlighting humorous humility and human folly.
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