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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1923
Page
6
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a premier kidney liver and bladder remedy. It promotes its gentle healing vegetable formula and quick effects and offers a sample for ten cents from Dr Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York.
A Boston Transcript quip notes Maud places her heart into cooking and jokes she may have been heavy-hearted when baking this cake. The remark frames a light humorous image of culinary effort and mood.
Fresh, sweet white clothes for baby. Red Cross Ball Blue leaves no streaks or damage and is sold by all good grocers.
A man discovers a thing he should not possess and initially despises it. The item brings misery and exhilaration in a boundless loop, leaving him wishing he had never acquired it while lingering in a strange joy and remorse.
The quote notes that deceit often hides in unspoken beliefs rather than spoken phrases, warning against judging a person solely by what they say. It highlights how internal falsehoods can inflict greater damage than outward statements.
A late era steamboat on the Mississippi hosts revelry and danger. Virgil Drace pursues ex guerrilla Stepho la Vitte to avenge his father while entangled with Nadine la Vitte. Drace rises through carpetbagger strife in New Orleans then searches Farnum's Landing and Periwinkle House, pursued by rivals who trap him in a burning cabin.
In a perilous escape Draco frees Nadine from a burning danger and flees through the trees toward the river. Nadine guides him along a crooked path, warns of risk, and insists he leave quickly to keep their plan intact for Thursday.
In a swamp house a Creole girl confides loneliness to her aging father Stepho who plans to buy cattle in the hills and marry her to a chosen suitor. Tonez visits with warning as tension rises over loyalty, love, and hidden business involving a carpetbagger spy. The narrative shifts to the General’s Mississippi journey with Drace, visiting Tobe’s tavern, and a lively reunion with old musician Slithers.
Drace delays sleep at Bethpage as he crosses the river by boat and hides in the summer house. He reflects on death as a red presence and later joins the General for a planned address to Natchez teachers, seeking companionship for the journey back this evening.
A Washington man reportedly owns the oldest electric hotplate, used about 10,000 hours in 20 years with roughly $165 spent on electricity. The piece also includes a Cuticura soap ad and a cautionary note on potassium chlorate in safety matches, plus a brief primer on the term boycott and its origin with Captain Boycott in 1880.
An old man seeks a long distance call in a drug store booth and is told to deposit 7.65 dollars to connect to San Francisco. The operator’s insistence on payment and the man’s confusion underscore the era’s telephone charges and miscommunications. The fragment comments on fortune tellers and the dentist’s vigorous business.
In a Cornell Widow quip, Leonore asks the cause of many divorces and Elizabeth replies marriages, reflecting a witty marital observation from the period.
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