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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1910
Page
2
A collage of witty sayings and observations from Choteau Montana touches on winter, science, antique curiosities, social mores, and daily life. It riffes on bread trusts, moon debates, airships, auto records, and the economy, with quips about farmers and debutantes amid a general newsy mood.
A Kansas publisher declares a $100 prize for the best prose and verse on the subject of Father. The note hints at expected strong entries and playful interpretations, including a nod to titles like When Father Carves the Duck.
Millions of dollars are being raised in China for a great university at Hongkong. It is unclear whether arrangements are under way for a football team to accompany the venture.
The report notes Latham reaching 1345 feet and Panthan 1181 feet during flight tests. It states a mishap at such altitudes would be no more serious than at 300 feet, highlighting height and distance records.
A London dress reformer advocates that women should dress according to their temperament and moods. The proposal questions whether reform means constant time in dressing rooms.
A New Jersey scientist claims houseflies cost the nation billions and should be exterminated. He cautions that concrete methods are being postponed until fly time ends.
The Smith College Observatory in Northampton Massachusetts reports sighting Halley's comet with a three inch telescope the other day. The famed periodic visitor appears to be following its expected schedule.
Officers from the department of agriculture seized 48000 eggs at the Fall River line pier in New York. The eggs were booked for destruction as ancient hen fruit in a Naquid state and intended for use in bakeries. The notice hints at pastry implications and recalls a liquid eye sold in angel's food.
These titled and indebted foreigners find it an extremely easy matter to fall in love with an American for tune. After the marriage their treatment of the bride suggests that to them the girl is a necessary evil.
A city official in New York requests a salary reduction saying he is earning too much. The issue raises questions about whether reforms reflect a broader trend toward austerity or signs of broader discontent in governance.
A literary comparison links The Gilded Age by Clemens and Warner to the life of the Wardlaw and Snead families. It traces poverty and speculation in Tennessee and New York, the rise of Laura Van Brunt, Ocey Snead, and Caroline Wardlaw, and parallels with a murder and a tombs imprisonment, ending with a failed university scheme and a sale of lands.
A Rudyard Kipling inspired tale recounts a village descent into sickness and death after floods and poor sanitation. Bodies and diseases spread from Ram Buksh to Imam Din and beyond, ending with Eshmith Sahib’s death as smallpox and typhus move through the zenana and neighborhood.
The article notes a sharp rise in crime across India with violence against persons and property. It cites a montgomery district case where nine people were killed over a woman’s claim to status in her community, plus five other mass killings, and a surge in dacoities and burglaries despite police efforts.
A summary of an amused conversation about a gray headed man who buys pawned items to help others. He attends pawnshop auctions, often buys trinkets for the desperate bidders and gives or resells them at low cost, influenced by past hardship and a quiet charitable impulse. The New York Sun notes his compassionate acts amid the sale culture.
Excavations on Bahrein reveal long underground galleries with two story sections and chambers containing bones of animals and humans. Niches resemble early Christian tomb imagery, suggesting Phoenician burial sites dating about 4200 years ago before their Mediterranean migration.
Justice Truax orders distribution of a $2,000,000 estate left by Daniel C. Kingsland to nephews and nieces after amicable settlement. About forty-one lawyers attend the motion to determine share, with more expected when they gather in force.
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