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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1905
Page
6
The passage describes two events where a stalled vehicle led to crowds urging alternatives. In the first scene an automobile broke down and the occupants had to walk while spectators shouted Get a horse. In the second scene a horse balked and the driver could not start it, prompting the crowd to chant Get an automobile.
A Chicago Tribune item reports a confrontation over a milk truck suspected of contamination. The driver refuses to acknowledge the issue as authorities demand cleaning after seventeen customers report family illnesses.
An article argues that self abuse through alcohol tobacco coffee and other stimulants dull the body and hinder achievement. It urges quitting habits, heeding nature, and choosing Postum over coffee, promising health, success, and fame with Nature’s guidance. The piece cites The Road to Wellville and stresses discipline and renewal.
Edwin Entwistle, once a 16 year old apprentice, rode the Rocket on its historic Manchester to Liverpool run in 1831 and later settled in East Des Moines. He recalls the voyage, the fatal Huskinson accident, and his long memory of the event while living in a cottage near the exposition.
A customs official struggles to classify a three legged stool. He recalls labeling frogs legs as dressed poultry and a Canadian colt as household furniture, then confesses being worried to death over the stool that is neither bipede nor quadruped.
Ex governor F S Black cites a boy in Limington who claimed he was hypnotized by Joe Mullen to justify truancy and a fishing trip. The anecdote mocks evasive pleas seen in criminal court records.
In the exchange from the Chicago Journal a friend remarks on an epic poem and the poet explains that two years of labor led to its creation, while most of the time was spent selling it rather than writing.
An old advertisement endorses Hall's Catarrh Cure and offers a 100 dollar reward for an incurable case. It fronts F J Cheney Co Toledo and Waxpina Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists. The notice asserts the product acts on blood and mucous surfaces and promotes testimonials and 75 cent bottles. It also promotes Hall's family pills for constipation.
A Chicago clergyman and widower sent a telegram to his two daughters claiming he had married a widow with six children and would be home the next day. He returned alone, and his daughters cried asking where the widow was. He explained with a twinkle that he had married her to another man.
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