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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
6
An overheated Pullman on a Pennsylvania main line near Harrisburg pauses for hours after a freight wreck. A benevolent traveler offers drinks, aiding two women including a businesswoman who fears social bravado while a drummer declines. One woman accepts a shared flask, revealing quiet kindness amid a tense delay.
Sweden plans to abolish steam locomotives as it electrifies about 2 000 kilometers of railway using hydro electric power. The system will feature five central stations and secondary plants sending power to lines and factories, aiming for 60 kmh express and 45 kmh other trains. Officials estimate annual operating savings around 260 000 dollars by 1920.
Consul W D O Shaughnessy notes the Ebano oil process at the Mexican Central railroad plant near Aguascalientes yields 3400 ties a day. The process fills large cylinders with oil, heats and presses seven hours, and impregnates pine ties with about three gallons of oil, extending life 8 to 12 years at lower cost than zinc chloride.
The Dominion Railway Commission bans oil lamps on Canadian trains and orders future car lighting by compressed oil gas acetylene gas or electricity. Both the railroad company and its workers are liable for violations with fines imposed per offense.
The term City Father takes on new meaning as municipal leaders modernize duties toward children. Cities like Chicago spend millions on playgrounds and recreation centers, with 170 cities building programs before teens. The shift prioritizes healthy bodies and minds, viewing playgrounds as smart investments for future communities.
The article traces Froebel’s kindergarten ideas and the rise of municipal playgrounds. It notes Chicago, San Francisco, Cleveland, Detroit, Berkeley, and Portland investing heavily in playgrounds, with New York and Philadelphia expanding park systems. It highlights European adoption and the view that play supports health and future civic life.
The Neosho, Kansas southeast region’s largest stream, derives its name from a Choctaw phrase meaning water pocket. An Osage tale recalls a hot dry survey trip when a horse and rider fell into deep water, inspiring the term Wugh Neosho that stuck as the river’s name.
Mistress orders faster dinner as Mr Smith grows hungry. Cook explains chicken is tough and slows progress.
A historical account recalls how the Maori once formed a superb primitive race in New Zealand. Large in number, physically strong, skilled in farming and fishing, they declined after white contact. Fevers, consumption, and wars reduced survivors to about 47 000, many as physical wrecks.
The piece argues for drivers who pick up fares to wear uniforms of a chauffeursque style. It laments the seediness and dirt seen as a badge of the proud Englishman and calls for public service attire to promote dignity and cleanliness.
A humorous piece outlines a boy's plan to earn forty four shillings a week from every working male at home and to spend it on meat bread coal and clothing to keep the family fed well shod and housed while also noting a seaside holiday. It concludes with a comic Ready Made Verdict about a Fargo postmaster coroner mislabeling a death cause as “Opened by Mistake” after a botched appendectomy.
An old Chinese custom permits a widow to kill herself after her husband’s death, considered a virtuous act in some provinces. Law in those areas permits the act, and officials rarely intervene where it is officially banned or discouraged.
The article discusses the shift from horse drawn cabs to motor vehicles, noting how cabmen and coachmen gained new skills and responsibilities in operating mechanical cars, marking a cultural change in urban transport. The piece frames this transition as part of the broader modernization toward automobilism.
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