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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
6
A Choteau correspondent mocks the Senate reading clerk competition and a three member committee. An elevator episode shows bureaucratic power flouting ordinary riders as officials ride from floor to floor, then a few officers show courtesy while others rush past passengers.
The piece lists senators with humorous nicknames and quick portraits. Jeff Davis is praised for speech against corporate pay, Bob Taylor is described for musical fame, William James Bryan as the youngest, William Pinckney White as the oldest, Bankhead of Alabama via appointment after Morgan’s death, Gore of Oklahoma noted as the only blind senator, and Owen noted for Native American heritage.
Miss Sherife Mehmed Ali, daughter of the new Turkish minister to the United States, serves as interpreter for her father. At nine, she is the family's only fluent English speaker, learned in Constantinople high schools, and she impresses with a cherubic face and native-like fluency.
The Yale university musical clubs embark from New York on a road tour, mixing social events with concerts. Alumni entertain, upperclassmen control seating and private concerts, and the group endures long travel, late nights, and bustling schedules as they perform in towns along the route.
William Barringford Everston, president of the New Peerless Patagonian Mining Company, awakens to a burglar in his room. He disarms the intruder, questions him about honesty and cops, and after a scare releases the man with a warning as a second visitor arrives to help with the escape. The exchange ends with the burglar slipping away, leaving Everston reflective on the encounter.
A reader recalls attending an amateur grand opera show. The bass drummer led early, but the overall score remained uncertain as the event ended.
The article notes many Mexicans in professional life routinely carry large sums on their persons, with middle class individuals often holding 1000 to 2000 pesos. A recent example shows one man offering nearly 2000 pesos from a wallet when asked to change a 1000 bill, illustrating widespread cash familiarity.
A Sunday Magazine item recounts a tale about a famous authoress dining with a foreigner in Newport. She claims Russians are intense lovers with passion to surrender or death. The foreigner remarks that the departed Russian matches his countrymen, prompting a witty bow and a remark on resurrection.
A reader quotes a paper claiming doctors discovered a new disease named Hiram. The dialogue shows Hayrix expressing frustration at doctors chasing new diseases instead of curing rheumatism, in a folksy rural dialect.
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