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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1913
Page
3
An ad recommends two ounces glycerine and half an ounce Globe Pine Compound mixed into a half pint good whiskey. Take one to two teaspoons after meals and at night, with smaller doses for children. Claims quick cough and cold relief and urges consumers to buy genuine Globe Pine Compound from Globe Pharmaceutical Laboratories of Chicago.
A Scots coast native at a shipyard where the first three steamers with electric lights were built tells a wire man a joke about how to get the light to travel along the wires. The exchange ends with the pun about not knowing how the ile travels along the wires.
A humor piece notes chickens are stubborn and clever in a comic riff. It jokes that all sizes of chickens know nothing, and that they will stumble through a wire partition rather than use an open door, highlighting farmyard mischief.
The first fire within memory broke out in the Bank of England in the southeastern section. Flooring and joisting suffered serious damage. Bank authorities detected and suppressed the blaze in 30 minutes with their own appliances. A lieutenant and twelve Irish Guards on duty, guarding with fixed bayonets, helped police keep onlookers back from the building.
The dialogue recalls a perceived betrayal as one character questions the nature of a scheme or conspiracy. Tensions rise amid accusations of unfair handling and deception within a community story.
A 1912 DIY target plan using a box and tomato cans to simulate a home plate for baseball pitching practice and archery. Includes step by step cutting, can mounting, mud filling, and pocket flaps to reveal score, with two post support options and a note on construction details.
In an Olympus scene the bees buzz and maidens march in stone buildings as youths in black gowns recite a satire about gods retarding civilization. Jupiter’s thunderbolts are summoned to quell the disturbance, then the earthworms scatter and the maidens are soaked before calm returns.
The Kansas senator Bristow is joked about as so tall that his golf clubs are a foot longer than standard and his ball travels far. A tale from his early days quotes an instructor and a sharp miscue, ending with Bristow lamenting a close miss at a distant hole.
A keen admirer uncovers new and important Robert Louis Stevenson manuscripts in Samoa and Honolulu. Discoveries include a poetical essay inspired by a volcano, fiction on South Sea life, several shorter verses, and a long unfinished blank verse retelling Maui legends.
Mrs. W. J. Cleland of Kingsley Michigan reports a thirteend month old with a sore on the cheek that spread to the eye and nostrils. After applying Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment the sores healed within days and no return occurred.
A light exchange shifts from Christmas shopping to a more agreeable topic as discussion turns away from paid quizzes and gifts toward easier conversation.
A quirky note claims a candlemaker blends extremes in craft. It jokes the business is both cereous and high, hinting at a punny riddle about wax and glow. The item reads like a whimsical aside from a bygone page.
A dialogue notes that firearms perform their function passively, with one speaker remarking guns have an easy job and are merely used to be fired, prompting a brief exchange about purpose and action.
An assortment of ads pitches Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for constipation and other remedies. There is a tea ad for alfalfa Timothy Clover feed, a crop payments listing, a remark about matrimony via solitaire, and Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children priced at 25 cents. The page notes women marrying for a home paying high rent.
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