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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1913
Page
2
A miscellany from Choteau Montana notes spring fever easing, jokes about New York dance parleys, women’s voting in Alaska, and aging social quirks. It ponders actors, fashion, corset talk, and urban life with wry anecdotes about jobless men, a stolen house, and city folk’s rural longing.
A curio of compact jabs and social musings spanning swearing vocabularies hats and backs of vests to indigestible foods and fireproofed babies dresses. It notes a roof theft confirms burglar woes and jokes about phones nickels and electricity as a light editorial tapestry.
A young curate’s remark that Jonah stayed three days in the whale’s company united biblical imagery with anatomical curiosity, marking a new talking point among his congregation about bodily experiences and natural history.
The Harvard student who has become a doctor of philosophy at the age of eighteen demonstrates that youth will not be denied.
The article notes a missing tally on the year's sauerkraut production and questions where the output figures are recorded. It hints at a gap in the seasonal business data and seeks official data on production volumes.
Fifty thousand women in Greater New York support husbands or male relatives with more than half independent earners. If conditions don t change, 1.5 million New York women may be self supporting by 1923 and 300,000 husbands could join idle classes, prompting debate on gender roles and economic reform.
Sir Joseph Thomson described a curious savage practice of using compressed air to produce fire, suggesting blowpipes as a possible mechanism. He then detailed atom counting methods showing hydrogen contains vast numbers of atoms and a gas volume holds enormous corpuscles, estimating mercury molecules contain 400 to 600 corpuscles.
The London Chronicle reports a superstition near Essex blaming hair length for scarlet fever. Local belief holds that cropped heads resist the disease, a claim cited amid measles at Osborne and confusion over preventive measures.
William G. McAdoo, famed for New Jersey tunnel work, faced a compliment from a visitor who praised the tunnels as a monument. He replied that he did not want such a large monument. The exchange occurred as an office scene with an amused office boy.
Practical garden guidance urges growing from seeds to save money and enjoy soil contact. It covers seed prep, soil mix, seed depth, bottom heat, transplanting, repotting, egg shells as pots, tool upgrades, seed quality, frost protection with newspaper covers, and a 1913 copyright attribution.
The article advises vigilant pest control for window gardens focusing on aphids and red spider. It recommends tobacco extract spray for aphids, warns against tobacco smoke, urges a quality sprayer and weekly treatments, and notes plants can thrive in cans or improvised containers with proper drainage.
The writer explains that cutting flowers stops seed formation and stimulates repeat blooming. He shares experiences with columbine and hollyhock and advises removing seed pods from sweet peas pansies verbenas and similar plants. He warns not to let roses and geraniums finish blooming on the plant if continuous abundance is desired.
The passage notes prime bacon reflects credit to the producer and that good acon yields strong prices. It emphasizes lower costs to bring to market and potential for ample supply if efforts focus on quality and efficiency.
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