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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1904
Page
9
A miscellany of short items surveys jokes and curiosities from whisky wagers to talking fish. Notable lines reference a Cleveland man on a bet, Petropavlovsk disaster talk, Carnegie hero status, broken legs in New Jersey, camphor prices, and Charles M Schwab’s New York residence with champagne in buckets.
Prof EB Benjamin Andrews suggests limiting families to ten children, but the issue becomes complex when twins occur. The policy must account for multiple births and implications for family size calculations.
Dr George W Webster urges avoiding whisky to prevent typhoid fever in a witty newspaper aside. The columnist mocks the doctor as a spendthrift of words and questions the usefulness of the last seven.
A Washington girl recounts a trance visit to heaven and recalls seeing a large crowd there. The report requests a clearer account, asking if ex Congressmen were among the departed.
Presiding Elder Palmer delivered a spirited address in New York noting the challenge of supporting a sealskin wife on a muskrat salary. He framed the joke as a critique of costly living and wage gaps faced by ministers.
The speaker notes conservative estimates of winter cleanup in the Alaskan gold fields at about a million and a quarter, while their own effort is described as roughly a quarter of that amount.
A boastful schoolteacher, famed as the world champion speller, prepares to contest a set of tricky words that slip past the easier tests. The challenge highlights the gap between claimed prowess and real word skill.
A fragment notes that Tibetans who visited the British camp at Chumbi seized Maxim guns, calling them comical toys, and condemns any uncivilized race impeding John Bull’s designs.
A quote from John L. Sullivan shows his aim to enter politics to pass decent laws. The text also notes a potential focus on revising the Marquis of Queensberry code.
The text states happiness depends on good health financial independence and love as its core ingredients. It attributes this view to philosophy and religion noting their frequent debates but offering a concise summary of what happiness entails.
The article notes that Manager Conried contemplates presenting Parsifal in San Francisco and jokes that if Wagner’s widow survives long enough she might hear it staged in vaudeville.
A reader notes that the apparent mental disturbance after a brick strike in Connecticut is not isolated. He argues many men recover their senses only after a severe blow, suggesting a wider pattern of injury.
Charles M Pepper, appointed by the president as commissioner for the Pan American railway project, reports to Secretary Hay on a continuous line linking New York with Central and South America. He toured Mexico to Uruguay, noting Central American costs shaping interoceanic and transverse lines and the isthmian canal as a catalyst for north south feeder networks.
A Cheviot hills sheep farmer was advised that keeping a barometer at home could signal approaching weather changes. The suggestion framed weather awareness as a practical precaution for farm work and daily life.
J. W. Foley vents asides in a New York Times column. neighbors gossip about domestic troubles, marriages, finances, and social pretenses. Parish life, temptations, and a local death frame a portrait of small town intrigues and moral judgments.
A recent book describes the Indian storks or adjutants as a striking yet repelling combination of splendor and squalor. The wings impress with size and color while the head, skin, and eyes convey a lurid, disturbing appearance that distracts from any redeeming traits. The orange pouch adds to the striking, unsettling image.
W Austin Edwards of London offers a smuggler's chest dating 150 to 200 years old to world fair authorities. It originally contained twelve one-gallon Holland gin bottles. six remain intact while six are broken. The chest was found in a barn on England's southern coast.
A stormy winter night ends with Jerry Hagerty fleeing with stock and crops, honoring a pledge to warn his landlord Gumbleton before leaving. The tale depicts tenant distress during bad harvests and widespread land abandonment in a historic context.
A man recounts a casual office chat about Sarah from the Bible and motherhood age. An unfamiliar religious magazine lands on his desk, its title reading Motherhood and the Age of Sarah, prompting reflection on the topic.
John D. Crimmins argues that children should learn foreign languages thoroughly to avoid provincialism. He cites experiences in Europe and England showing language gaps, recounting a job seeker who bragged he could understand French, only to be met with the Frenchman’s retort that even his dog could do that.
A poem titled The King of the Century by Horace Seymour Keller portrays a universal monarch, the child, celebrated whether born on a spur of land or a rock-bound coast. It emphasizes birth and nurture as the royal power across eras and social conditions.
Dr Wamsley, an English expert, studied American technical schools and found 1 371 students in engineering courses at sixteen prominent institutions with over three years of attendance. He notes Britain’s comparable class has fifty six students.
John D. Strassburg began work in the Louisville postoffice in 1843 and remains the oldest postal employee in the United States. He has never been promoted.
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