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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1925
Page
3
Ed Hedlund, a sheepherder near Billings, dreamed of fabulous wealth counting a suitcase full of money in isolation. A policeman roused him before he could finish as he stood to claim the imagined fortune.
Classified notice seeks a barber shop rental in Anaconda Montana. Address Box 164 invites responses for available shop space in the town.
A bay foaled on Irish Ike Ridge in 1887 grows into Chromo a fearless outcast turned cavalry mount. He outpaces cowboys, wins races at Fort Meade, survives a four mile chase from pursuing Sioux, and dies in Montana after a bold final sprint to camp.
Ed awoke from a cloud dream to find a $5,000 cash windfall at a billings bank. Ben Grossman vouched for him, the cashier counted stacks of hundreds and fifties, and Ed hid the money in a suitcase before returning to the scene. He boasted of the dream and the police warning but kept the money.
Will Thompson of Wigwam Creek, Montana, and his brother Harry hunted in Morgan Gulch around 1895. Thompson shot and killed four mountain lions at a cliff, then tracked and slain two cubs, and later helped kill four deer from a single hunt. The six lions were dragged home and skinned, with hides displayed all winter. The pelts were later sent to Chicago, but express charges consumed any potential profit.
David Snyder of Thompson Falls says his hen lays two eggs per session, one inside the other with a soft shell yet separate from the real egg. He believes this oddity will boost egg sales, hoping to fetch a dollar or more per dozen as market prices run 50 to 60 cents a dozen.
A nursery ad promotes California Fig Syrup for children and babies stressing its pleasant taste and gentle laxative effect. It urges parents to ask a druggist for the genuine product with bottle directions and to say California to avoid imitations.
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