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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
2
The Choteau Acantha recounts a railroad tale about a gale driven box car wedged across a main line, shocking an engine crew as the car perched atop the cab. It also covers a soothed misread car number error where a painter placed different numbers on each side, masking the missing car's identity.
Germany plans to reclaim the speed and prestige of ocean liners after British Cunard successes with Lusitania Mauretania Lucania models and tests at Bremen and Hamburg offices. Engineers run wax-wood models twenty feet long in tank tests to perfect future ships and beat Cunard, while observing and refining designs through iterative trials and miniature testing.
Official reports from U S and Canadian builders show 1907 output soaring after 1906. Total railroad cars built reached 289,645 a 19 percent rise with 984,388 for freight and 1 457 for passenger use domestic versus export totals. locomotives totaled 7,362 up six percent with 6 564 for domestic use and 789 export.
Greece faces urgent need to connect its rail network with Europe. The 1906 period shows some progress toward linking the Greek system with continental rail lines and improving transportation infrastructure.
Official prediction lists Warry Thaw tangled with lawyers, no senate resignations, Ananias club expansion, an unsatisfactory spring, and war cloud tensions in the Balkans for 1908.
A New Year philosopher muses that all things are comparative and notes some men would view $2,000 per year as ample money even for cigarette purchases.
A collage of quirky quotes from a Philadelphia Press feature includes hobos debating meals and a minister’s warning about dogs, a mock beefsteak price joke, a miner’s oil diet joke, a breakfast idea cue, and a Washington faux pas about inviting editors.
A man who fled prison after six months of confinement emerges north of the institution under cover of night. He endures hunger and peril to reach his home as bells toll the day, only to learn at last that the real culprit confessed and he was innocent all along. He reunites with his wife and child, overwhelmed by the revelation.
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