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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1905
Page
4
A traveler recalls how domestic trees grow rapidly from cuttings and branches. Poplars sprout roots in months forming young groves after windbreaks. catalpa stalks can re root when repeatedly cut. A landowner explains using catalpa fence stakes grown from eight foot cuttings to form a living barb wire fence.
In early California days at James C. Flood's Menlo home a gardener Hank misinterpreted a tip about Consolidated Virginia stock and lost his land and stock. Flood learns Hank’s error was a joke about a pig named Con and buys back the ranch, restoring Hank's losses.
The account describes Prof. Sommerville of the University of Pennsylvania pursuing rare curio talismans during travels in India. He recounts hiring jinrikshas to speed a journey to the Dilwarra temples and offers double pay to the rickshaw captain, who proclaims the narrator a prince. The episode ends with locals bowing and presenting inscribed talismans for the collection.
The pine tar industry near the head of Lake Superior proves stumps from cut pines can be converted into useful products. The Weyerhaeuser syndicate has bought established plants and plans more. Farmers can earn 38 dollars per cord for stump removal, opening vast lands for farming as stumps are cleared for distillation into turpentine lubricating oil tar and charcoal.
The article notes Winston Churchill the novelist avoids starting titles with D K or W, linking a supposed superstition to charted success for titles beginning with C. It claims all his stories start with C words such as Celebrity Crisis Caravel Crossing and that he believes a D K or W title would fail.
A St Louis Globe Democrat article advises setting a clock to the desired wake time and gazing at it before sleep. The brain will awaken near that hour with minimal disturbance if no other thoughts intrude, avoiding repetitive mental focus that disrupts rest.
New York inventor E Salvator proposes a life preserver belt that inflates on contact with water. The rubber belt, eight inches wide, uses a water activated acid mix and a small cylinder to generate buoyancy in under three seconds. It remains uninflated and light until water exposure.
A poem by J. W. Foley in the New York Times envisions Night as a soothing veil over the speaker's day worn by conflict. Night arrives on raven wings with dream filled imagery and a cup of dreams.
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune snippet recalls a family scene at table. Bobby critiques a guest’s elbow while the guest asserts no issue, prompting a light, affectionate exchange about manners and perception. The guest responds that the elbow looks fine.
A secretly circulated caricature confiscated by police shows Admiral Makaroff in the land of the shades. He is pictured telephoning the czar with the message that many sailors have died and that no enemy has yet dared to intrude.
Capt. Wise arrived at Mar eate aboard Tillikum a two and a half ton dugout canoe after a three year three month twelve day voyage from British Columbia. The remarkable trek covered 40 090 miles as the crew navigated treacherous seas and remote coastlines seeking new horizons.
Rediscovered claim of unique endorsement for Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Paragraphs tout cures for female troubles, ovarian issues, womb displacement, menstrual irregularities, and related symptoms with universal praise and calls to buy from druggists everywhere.
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