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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1906
Page
3
A study by Herr Tcugaeff reports 121 of 400 crystalline substances emit light revealing alkaloids as a highly active class. Inorganic bodies also show the effect with light colors varying by substance and intensity. Uranium nitrate, tar taric acid, and ammonium oxalate illustrate intensity classes.
An Ohio inventor patents a tension device attachable to scissors or shears. A pivotal screw links blades with a curved plate to press edges together, allowing adjustable tension for a uniform cut. A set screw tightens the plate, increasing blade pressure as needed.
Germany shifts from tin foil to aluminium paper for food wrapping. The paper is a non leaf aluminium coated material made by treating ordinary paper with sulphuric acid to form artificial parchment, then applying a resin layer and a powdered aluminium coat. The result resists air and fats and costs less than tin foil.
Experiments in Bristol England show electricity increases cucumber growth by 17 percent and strawberries by 36 to 80 percent, with broad beans maturing five days earlier and cabbages ten days earlier. Electrified plots yielded more runners, fewer diseases, and indications of pest resistance in tomatoes.
A Sullivan physician admired for hard work and modesty becomes the Thanksgiving guest of honor. He carves a twenty four pound turkey a leading citizen calls for and then mysteriously dresses the wound with absorbent cotton bandages and pins. He ends with a quip that recovery will follow with rest and care in a week.
An editorial argues that farm boys possessing intelligence energy and industrious habits will increasingly lead in state and national affairs. It contends professions mercantile pursuits and rapid modernization will demand rural bred youth with rugged constitution to manage great enterprises and professional matters in the future.
Rev F W Gunsaulus told of two blue sailor suit wearing children and their mother. The sexton demanded the hats be removed before a service but the children revealed they are girls, not boys, ending the incident with a note of humor.
A family dinner centers on a stained glass gift. The minister estimates a hefty value, while Harold, quoting scripture, reveals the window cost fourteen dollars and ten cents citing Job 14.10. The joke hinges on the Bible verse mistaken as a price tag.
A reflective observation on avoiding public display and hypocritical flattery. The verse extols sincerity, steady friendship, and the value of discretion over fame, urging one to live securely, love honestly, and endure praise or blame with equanimity, as quoted from the Washington Star.
A parallel is drawn between Maxim Gorky and Peter Rosegger as peasant writers raised by ignorant parents who achieved literary genius as an innate quality. Gorky depicts slum life and human vice while Rosegger seeks ideality and religious mysticism.
Mme Emma Eames argues against crushing female individuality citing Grover Cleveland on suffrage but asserts most women’ s lives center on home and children. She supports following one’s nature, tolerance of others’ views, and fate within life’s factors.
A Keo county traveler recalls southern hospitality during a wagon trip. A farmer offers dinner and repeatedly pushes fried potatoes toward him, urging the stranger to take more as the host insists on shared hospitality.
A Boston Herald writer recalls early Melrose housekeeping with a minister's wife seeking help. Bridget Rooney, hired from the steamer, fails in the kitchen and returns with a single spider after a long search in the cellar, claiming it is the only one found.
A poem by John M. Morse extols cheerful looks and kind words as uplift for grief and weary hearts. It urges lending a hand and a kind voice to lift spirits, promising comfort and eventual reward in a home above.
A Pennsylvania observer recalls K Sober guiding a group through his chestnut farm near Shamokin and jokes about farm profits. An insurance inspector scoffs at $100 per tree, while a Western saloon tale ends with a miner’s doubt about presence of mind and truthfulness.
The story, recounted by Rev. C G C Smith of Kansas City, recalls a marriage fee paid by a dyed in the wool negro groom in Walla Walla. The groom asked the preacher to name a price and, after a long silent appraisal of the bride, declared the preacher had ruined him for life with his value assessment.
Poem reflects on endings and beginnings as the year closes. It recalls weddings, joy, sorrow, and memories of friends, blessing the new year with hopeful sentiment. Attributed to Cilfford Kane Stout, the verse frames time as a ledger of gifts and costs.
Miss Anna Barrows of Columbia University recounts a domestic science class in Boston where a small, scrawny chicken sparked a student’s humorous mispronunciation about it being a future turkey. The anecdote highlights classroom challenges with limited materials.
Hetty Green the wealthiest woman in America plans to buy an auto and drive it herself. A New York writer notes her softened view of motorists and her aim to travel between banks by car. She sets three rules: best car for price, ability to go slow, and one she can operate without a chauffeur.
Bishop Brooks of Boston questions an intelligent man on a train about remarks. The man replies that he often feels compelled to speak but realizes after speaking that he should have remained silent, describing himself as deceptive in that way.
A New York office boy, son of a wealthy physician, earns $8 weekly yet spends twice that on lunches. He works faithfully, licks stamps, answers phones, and types letters while his blond colleagues envy his access to the wealthy daughter and luxury lunches. A later note recalls he dictated a letter asking a French automobile maker for a $4,200 car.
Poem fragment by A J Waterhouse urges companionship through hardship. The speaker asks for a partner to endure long paths and misty trials. Visions of doubt fade as shared love guides them toward a hoped relief and remembered bliss. The verse frames love as strength beyond fear and sorrow.
A visitor sympathizes with a venerable colored parson in the south recalling church plate gifts with buttons and nails. The parson jokes about using the items to build a corn house and craft fishing sinkers, his humor brightening the moment.
A wife witnesses her husband gazing at their newborn son and overhears him mutter about the cost of a crib toy. He wonders aloud how they can buy such a item for ninety nine cents, revealing a humorous misunderstanding.
A compact one and a half story house measuring 16 by 22 feet with a 16 by 16 foot kitchen is presented. The plan features four rooms with two on the ground floor and a large kitchen doubling as a dining area, designed to meet a second floor requirement and adaptable to local tastes. Estimated cost about $1000.
A homeowner plans to move a 28 by 22 foot main house with plaster walls and a 16 by 16 foot wing detached for separate relocation. The building is one and a half stories tall. Movement distance is about three quarters of a mile.
The text notes rollers require expert handling and a crew to move a large object a distance of three quarters of a mile. It estimates about five dollars per day for one man and the rollers, plus eight men for four days. With proper handling, little injury to the building is expected.
In his memoirs Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace recalls visiting a U S pork curing plant in the United States. He describes hogs driven up a chute and slaughtered then processed into bacon ham and sausages. He criticizes the blood and odor but notes the facility is regarded as a city sight and glory.
British consul at Niuchwang notes Chinese adoption of foreign stoves for heating may grow. A local native maker produced 50 to 70 pound stoves costing 5 to 7 dollars, with about 1,000 dollars annual sales previously. Demand has surged this year due to Japanese arrivals, with orders totaling around 5,000 dollars that the maker cannot fill. Stoves fashioned from imported old iron.
Posts decay where air and water meet with alternating soaking and drying. Surface decay is common and linked to soil moisture cycling. In water or dry conditions posts last indefinitely, but in loose moist soil decay accelerates. In humid regions loose soils under rainfall wear faster than heavy clay. Green posts should not be planted.
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