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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1927
Page
6
A petition with many signatures requests a new telephone exchange for Opheim. The effort, ongoing for six months, seeks Mountain States Telephone to install farm lines and launch work in early spring if approved. Farmers largely back the town’s drive for the exchange and country lines.
Sixteen buffalo of W. S. Hollingsworth were butchered at Beach slaughtering pens south of Rowan and shipped to eastern cities for the Christmas trade as a western delicacy. The animals were from the Allard herd, core of the national bison reserve near Ravish. Hollingsworth expects a neat sum from the sale, with hides valued at about $100 each.
A large fish culture pond on the United States range livestock experiment station at Miles City will cover 78 acres and open in spring. The project, arranged between state and federal officials, aims to stock bass crapple pike and perch to supply streams in Montana and neighboring states with young fry.
Classified items include misck listings for lentils from Farmington Washington and nuts from Eidson Nut Farm Missouri plus embroidery offers from Mrs Arthur Mann Montana and rice and honey ads with prices. Ending with a line inviting readers to write N A Box 01 Great Falls Montana to connect buyers and sellers.
Assayers and chemists in Butte advertise services and free circulars. Auto equipment parts from Billings Wrecking Co. claim half repair bills. Female help wanted with home setup offered. Personal ads promise letters and money offers. Coyotes bait and trapper ads from Idaho. Hot springs health resort near Pipestone, Montana. Shorthand courses advertised by A B College Anacortes. Extension courses offer degrees and democracy info from Central Scientific College.
Carolyn Hancock attends an Allardyce birthday masked ball at Bennett & Davies social club. She wins best costume as a colonial lady, while David Lansing assists and Lauren Bennett flirts, revealing rivalry and Carolyn’s cool, poised resolve.
The piece notes McCone county has 1.7 million acres suitable for farming or grazing, with 35 percent in 1,000 farms and only 10 percent cropped in 1925. It compares potential from anticipated transportation improvements to Richland county's railroad experience, urging diversified irrigated farming and increased beet seed bean and vegetable production north of Shelby.
In a clipped dialogue from a 1925 piece by Margaret Culkin Banning a young woman asserts selfhood against social scrutiny amid ballroom antics. Lorrie contemplates love and marriage as she resists being labeled a wallflower while a French doll persona flirts with independence.
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