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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1920
Page
6
The narrator visits Nassau where Saunders reveals a forged Henry Tobias document about two pirate gold caches. A voyage aboard the Maggie Darling leads to mutinous plots, encounters with Tobias, wrongful imprisonment, and a climactic chase amid pirates' ruins. Calypso and the narrator marry after Tobias is killed and the treasure is secured.
In Nassau Nassau Bahamas a secretary of the treasury and friends discuss a deathbed manuscript by a Texas pirate claiming two buried treasure hoards. One at Dead Men's Shoes near Nassau and another on Short Shrift island with maps and cross marks.
In a Cincinnati hotel, a bulletin misled guests when a waiter, seeking to identify badge wearers, read a notice about a medical convention. The joke arose as he misinterpreted the badges as belonging to dentists, illustrating how employees are kept informed of in-house happenings.
A Glasgow University experiment by T L MacDonald had six students copy Mars and lunar photos with no guidance. Each student favored a feature canals lakes or shading with the drawer strong in one area, suggesting planetary astronomers fall into canal spot or shade types and that drawings need class based corrections.
The article explains that the Archbishop of Canterbury is the primate of all England and holds the highest church office. The Archbishop of York is primate of England for the northern province, including ten dioceses and the Isle of Man. Canterbury has authority over the church nationwide, crowns the king, while York crowns the queen.
A 1891 English board at St Leonards in Sussex is described as the world’s most remarkable with a three foot thick concrete surface and 25 by 25 foot play area. A Bismarck era board, praised for beauty and cost, featured gold and silver squares on ebony, 24 pieces with rubies and diamonds, valued around 150000 dollars.
A London Mail Continental Edition piece argues social reformers bishops and physicians alarm over falling marriages. It advocates municipal run mixed clubs to foster male female social contact and suggests city marriage bureaux to provide introductions and match hopeful couples.
A Philadelphia writer notes the city as the birthplace of soda water and the ice cream soda. Eugene Roussel introduced soda water, while Robert M. Green popularized soda fountains and the ice cream soda at the centennial and Franklin Institute expo, marking a booming industry now near a billion dollars yearly.
The Indian government issued nickel S anna and 4 anna coins adding to a long series of circulating coins including the two anna and one anna pieces. The 4 anna coin marks the first nickel value equal to the higher metal base. The S anna coin is noted as the world’s highest valued base metal coin with a sterling exchange around 1 shilling 2 pence or 28 cents. The move, prompted by silver prices, may push silver coins out of circulation.
Coalite, a British smokeless fuel, is claimed to yield heat as effectively as coal through low temperature carbonization. One ton of bituminous coal supposedly produces 14 hundredweight of smokeless fuel, 7 000 cubic feet of gas, 16 gallons of oil equivalent, 3 gallons of refined motor spirit, and 20 pounds of fertilizer by by products.
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