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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1910
Page
6
Choteau Acantha notes a mix of humorous vignettes and sharp quips from A B Guthrie era. Items touch on hogs crossing records, fearsome garter snakes, long hatpins, air travel fantasies, social mores, and a Wisconsin style jab at fashions. Various lines lampoon society and current events with a light, satirical tone.
A sick woman and her children arriving in steerage were ordered deported on grounds they would become public charges. Authorities believed the head of the family, a cabin passenger husband, would shift support burdens to others if allowed to stay.
The department of agriculture promotes eating vegetables for traits. Beans claim brains, peas spark passion, potatoes sharpen reasoning. Boston claims intellectual edge over sister cities and links peas to passion and potatoes to wise sight.
A short item notes a witty fashion cue about women donning the chantecler hat and the playful idea they should master a bold crow. The remark reflects social humor rather than a formal event or directive.
Maine, famed for farming and forestry, shows strong highway improvement energy. The movement spreads across the state from coast to coast, signaling rapid adoption and likely nationwide expansion.
In Sing Sing the Little Mother helps Bowery delinquent Jumbo seek reform through Hope Hall. Jumbo accepts help, becomes a diligent worker, and eventually marries, building a steady life after years of crime and evading work. The tale ends with decades of faithful service and a past prison shadow fading away.
William Marconi distributed the forfeited lives of 47 men to their families with support and protection. His gifts are noted for aiding the physically able rather than the sick or aged, bringing him immense satisfaction with each granting. The author imagines a monument to wireless telegraphy as a Hall of Joy for great gatherings.
A Boston Transcript correspondent in England describes extreme urban poverty in London Manchester Newcastle and Liverpool. He cites the London Lancet noting the dirt and depravity of the poorer British working class and argues conditions are radically wrong.
The Lewiston Journal notes that in 1793 a man was hired to carry letters from Castine to Wiscasset on a fortnightly pace, walking the entire route. In 1794 postmasters were named and mail moved weekly by horseback riders. Rufus Crane became Warren's first postmaster and earned 20 cents for his first three months.
The piece lists 1,250 street and interurban railway companies in America with 35 000 miles of single track and 75 000 passenger cars. It notes 10 000 000 000 yearly passengers and a gross annual income of 440 000 000 dollars.
The item records a brief humor exchange: Hank Stubbs dismisses the phrase Six of one and half a dozen of the other while Rige Miller prompts a joke answer Six of each in a Boston Herald remark.
The piece reviews French and American street hats, noting a Parisian hen pheasant model priced at 200 francs and two American designs in royal blue and white braid. It praises craftsmanship, delicate decorations, and the practicality of wearable, unpretentious styles.
The dress shown emphasizes simple elegance in white material. It features a center front plastron, a wrapped seam connecting bodice and skirt, silk edging along the skirt and over-sleeves, a silk plastron on the lace yoke, and lace under-sleeves to match the yoke. Materials specified include six yards of 44 inch fabric, twelve buttons, two yards of lace, and two yards of silk.
Beaded nets are widely used for yokes sleeves and sashes with outer fabric like chiffon or mousseline de soie. A fondation of bead ed net veiled by mull tulle or similar fabric produces a soft effect, puff skirts gain elegance and reduce glare from metallic beads.
The article explains methods to join lace with minimal visibility. It covers appliquing irregular cuts, buttonholing edges with fine thread, joining under sides with small right side stitches, and lapping edges to reduce bulk. It warns against French seams and single seams due to bulk and curling.
A yard of pompadour Dresden or sash ribbon makes three small bags hung beside a dressing table. Each bag uses equal third segments folded into a bag shape with color matched beads, long ribbon hangers, and a rosette or cabochon top. The design can store papers as a desk accessory with initials on each compartment.
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