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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1904
Page
6
Ex Puerto Rico education official Brumbaugh recalls a New York Times anecdote about royal palms along a San Juan interior road. He notes the trees are tall slender stalks with flowering heads and deemed useless besides looking pretty.
A fragmentary satirical column by C. E. Trescott and Bro from Choutau Montana mocks sensational headlines. It riffs on earthquakes in Peru, Chaplain Hale’s pay, Korea’s name, pigeon-toed women, Mme Patti and a far flung correspondent claiming Gen Ma as father of the Chinese army.
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt claims her memoirs could outshine Herbert Spencer while noting cities can become beautiful with a bold start as seen in Baltimore. New York dressmakers clash with tailor-made girls, facing stiff defense. A Russian judge of wartime documents debates if a paper from Japan is a war note or horse equipment receipt.
The excerpt questions belief that Schwab stayed in Monte Carlo and broke the bank only once. It remarks that life without regret is scarce and that happiness comes from having weather as the only worry.
A quote from the New York Press notes a girl’s belief she would become a successful actress, but provides no reasons or context for the assertion.
A Maine crowd becomes agitated by religious passions in a tense scene. The piece notes mobs can be driven by various motives, or even by nothing specific, highlighting the volatile nature of crowd behavior.
The article hints at a romance between M. Santos-Dumont and Miss Spreckels, noting her wealth and a name that rhymes with freckles, implying she lacks financial need.
A thoughtful reflection notes that a man measures himself by what he believes he can do while others judge him by his actions, and both views are colored by perspective. The piece suggests perception affects esteem and reputation more than objective fact.
A notable bankruptcy petition was filed recently. The petitioner confessed to possessing only a small amount of nonexempt funds and did not claim exemption on those dollars.
Rents rise amid ongoing cost of living pressures in New York, while tenants show caution amid higher expenses and uncertain housing costs.
The invention of the lino type has prevented publishers from needing an additional supply of k, x and z sorts due to wartime shortages, keeping print production steadier amid the conflict.
A flashlight photographer set fire to the Strollers clubhouse in New York. The team retreated down the stairs seven steps apart as the blaze spread.
The inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell is noted as born 57 years ago. The piece humorously suggests that if he tried to call today the line would likely be busy.
A reflective note suggests an Eastern figure, awake fifteen years, may endure five more to reach a stage. It frames a world ready for a new variation of the Rip Van Winkle narrative.
The notion that sleeping out by a hay stack in the dewy night is equivalent to a bath shocks members of the Wandering Willie group. The fiery claim suggests unusual standards for rest and cleanliness among the fraternity.
The text contrasts a global claim about Tadium’s discovery as the year’s key event with a personal moment of welcoming a first baby in 1903, underscoring differing perspectives on importance between scientific breakthroughs and family life.
A couple debates love and fault in a tense exchange. The husband claims his bank, lodge, and chamber of commerce duties justify his absence, while the wife seeks affection and proof of love, leading to a surprising turn of emotion and reconciliation.
The joke centers on Jonah claiming a whale swallowed him for three days and nights. His wife demands truth and jokes about X rays. He hints at a fishy prison and only stops when she won’t believe the Bible story.
Congressman John Sharp Williams recalls a wealthy friend who bought loud checked trousers and asked his negro valet Charley to clean a grease spot. Charley tried everything and returned the trousers saying the grease would not come out, insisting they would fit him anyway.
In Carpinteria Valley twelve miles east of Santa Barbara California the La Para Grande vine covers about a third of an acre on a trellis with sixty posts. Originating sixty one years ago from a cutting by Dona Ayala it reaches eight feet four inches in girth and its branches measure up to three feet in circumference. The vine yields up to five thousand bunches per year and in good years twelve to fifteen inch clusters weigh six to eight pounds. The owner estimates ten tons of grapes harvested in 1895.
The article lists active ships over 1000 tons by nation, noting Britain with 201 ships totaling 1 516 000 tons, France 96 at 676 000, Germany 78 at 388 000, United States 35 at 295 000, Italy 38 at 295 000, Japan 31 at 206 000. It posits that if ships under construction were completed, U S tonnage would double and rank would rise to third, with France second and England three times as strong as the United States.
The czar is described as a gifted composer who has lately set his own religious verses to music. The verses praise the Orthodox church and its saints and urge Christian self denial and renunciation of worldly wealth and prosperity.
Dialogue excerpt features Miss Bitter and Mr. Selph debating perception and self focus in a Philadelphia Ledger piece about personality and social conduct.
A trance medium concedes no message from the late husband. The widow notes John typically arrived around 2 AM, and expresses resignation at the absent communication during an unusually early session.
A brief exchange reveals a man keeps a knot in his handkerchief to remind him of his wife who has gone to her mother's for a few days. The line plays on memory and absence as a quiet domestic moment.
Mr Nervey asks Miss Roxley to marry him and she rebukes the proposal with disdain saying he should know better in their station. He concedes the point but quips that he knows better yet and is not richer.
In a New York Weekly item a border quips about a 4 am breakfast bell. The cook reveals the mistress heard the alarm and ordered early service to beat the mill’s souring note.
In a whispered exchange the Brownovich Enpeck marriage reveals tension as his wife’s feelings seem cooler. Smithinski jokes about a turning point while Prownovich cites a throat trouble that silenced her voice.
In a dialogic excerpt a typewriter boarder argues that Adam needed a wife while the old bachelor counters that at that stage he knew nothing of good or evil. The exchange contrasts desire and virtue via a pointed rhetorical back and forth.
A dialogue contrasts imagination with arithmetic. Bowne argues that imagination can sharpen mental math while a person with a strong imagination appears to lack head for figures. The exchange highlights a playful clash between wit and numbers.
A humorously staged exchange has a hypnotist claiming he can erase marriage from memory with simple eye passes. The willing subject jokes he has spent ten years trying to forget it.
A humorous household exchange centers on the Subbubs family and their tiny baby. The joke notes the infant’s small size and hints at its early six months spent in a city flat, delivering a light domestic punchline.
Dialogue fragment shows Parks asking about the minister and Lane replying with a nodding acquaintance. The exchange reflects casual church scene chatter.
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