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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
6
The Mexican mining town Guanajuato known as The Hill of the Frog yields gold from old adobe houses. A railroad project required demolishing 300 structures, revealing gold content from $3 to $24 per ton, averaging about $8 per ton, totaling roughly 80,060 Mexican pesos in gold.
Police disclosed a bomb hidden in a law book sent to Mr. Kingsford, chief presidency magistrate, in Calcutta. The tin case held picric acid with pages removed to fit it. Kingsford avoided injury by not opening the parcel.
European cities increasingly use high pressure gas lamps to supplement or replace electricity in streets. Berlin systems sap gas through Mannesheim pipes with inverted mantle burners. Some networks compress air or supply pure oxygen. London uses self intensifying lamps powered by heat driven engines. Vienna lights both park canopies and street lamps beneath trees, with automated ignition and extinguishing devices shaping their supports.
A 200-pound amethyst, touted as the largest in the United States, was sold by pioneer prospector Alexander Mends of Marquette to Fr. R. Vigeant of Sault Ste. Marie. Found on Lake Superior north shore cave 55 years ago, it was long in Mead's possession. The stone features notable conical projections coated with iron ore. The next largest amethyst on record weighs 130 pounds in New York City's Central Park Museum.
The German military authorities test witless telegraphy on balloons carrying self registering gear. A receiver tied to a valve mechanism enables the balloon to descend on wireless signal receipt, allowing descent at a pre selected moment.
The Ohio basin reservoir system is estimated at 125000000 dollars based on 100 reservoirs at about 125000 each. A Mississippi Valley system in the same manner would cost around 500000000 dollars.
A humorous tale recounts Napoleon rushing toward Paris after war at Water loo and quipping that temperance is proper, noting it was a hard ride and that no one can claim it was his whiskey loo.
The article chronicles the decline of the American cowboy as modern progress reduces grazing lands and changes work, citing the abandoned Seymour Texas cowboys reunion, the 1897 mass gathering in Seymour, and the rise of farming, rail, and auto transport that erode the Western lifestyle. It notes Capt W J L Sullivan as Seymour's diplomat marshal, and contrasts past roving life with new urbanized methods.
The Berlin hotel proprietor Louis Adlon visits the United States to study hotel management. The article notes the United States dominates hotel luxury and guest comforts, with Europe and England now acknowledging the American model. American hotels offer unprecedented conveniences and attract wealthy patrons seeking the best. European hotels are urged to emulate these standards.
The piece explains that Seymour Texas cancelled its planned cowboy reunion as few plainsmen remain. It notes changes in land use and technology, including grazing land turning into crops and autos aiding ranch work, reducing cowboy roles. It describes Texas shifting from cattlemen to farmers and cowboys moving further west.
The article explains a distance sense in some blind people enabling safe navigation without sight. It discusses experiments with bats and humans, noting the forehead location of the sense, its partial independence from hearing, and possible nerve fiber bases. It emphasizes value of further study for safer, more independent blind lives.
A man contemplates a self denying act to spare an innocent woman from suffering and avert disgrace. He wrestles with conscience and pride as fate presses him to decide immediately while she silently pleads with him through her searching eyes. He rises to act, yet his inner struggle shows on his face.
A whimsical dialogue unfolds as a young man praises the balmy breeze and moonlit lake setting while a neighbor Mr. Sirius Barker expresses kindness toward the man who rocks the boat, reflecting gentle humanity.
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