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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1917
Page
4
Published every Wednesday at Cho teau Montana, where it is entered in the post-office as second-class matter. Subscription $2.00 per year or $1.75 in advance.
The Montana Weekly Industrial Review lists bills and measures advancing in the 1916 Legislature, including H B 49 extending the inkeep ers defrauding act to hotels and hospitals, S B 18 raising juror pay, S B 52 enabling four per cent state bonds, and House Joint Resolutions seeking major funding for Flathead irrigation, river coding, and hydro power sites. It notes senate and house actions on taxes, mortgage exemptions, gambling bans, interest rates, and railroad car repairs.
In Cairo's museum a mummified priest from the twenty second dynasty draws attention for extreme preservation. His face shows a fearful expression with lips parted and white teeth visible, while the body appears that of a man about thirty years old and six and a half feet tall. Surrounding inscriptions place him with events from ancient Egypt before the Roman era.
Dr. Charles K. Francis of Oklahoma A and M provides a method to silver mirrors. Clean surface with soap and warm water mixed with lye. Build a wall of putty to hold the silvering bath and avoid contact with the surface. Prepare a silver nitrate solution with ammonia until a brown sediment forms. Dissolve glucose in water, mix, and combine with the nitrate solution in a warm, dust-free place for 12 hours. Dry, remove residues, apply shellac to the full surface. Diluted nitric acid dissolves existing silvering.
A 236 year old petition to a royal governor signed by 12 men from Crewcorn near the Falls of Delaware denounces Indian drunkenness. They demand liquor sales to Indians be suppressed to protect homes lives and families. The note appears in the Philadelphia Ledger.
Mills replace 20 to 30 percent of rag stock with waste hemlock tan bark saving material costs. US roofing mills produce about 237000 tons yearly, roughly 11300000 squares of roofing, each square equals 100 square feet.
Employees at the S. D. Warren company in Portland Maine include seven with lengthiest service. Sewall S. Leighton exceeds fifty nine years, while Archelus H Levi and Edwin M Bachelor serve 49 48 and 42 years. The Watson brothers Thomas John and Henry surpass 40 years each with Thomas 47 and John and Henry around 45.
The Metropolitian Opera Co of New York and the Boston Opera Co present a proposed Edison Diamond Disc record release. The note invites listeners to a store exhibition showcasing the invention credited to Edison and featuring renowned stage talent from both companies.
John A Cook and family traveling from a Dupuyer ranch to Walier skidded on a curve near Dupuyer creek bridge. The car toppled over an embankment trapping the occupants. McLeod injured while the eldest child, Howard Arthur Cook born April 15 1915, died. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church.
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