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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1921
Page
8
A satirical verse exploring female attire and modesty, questioning why women wear underclothes and detailing imagined implications of nakedness. The speaker argues for coverage and laments social expectations while contrasting male restraint with female dress.
Popular Mechanics notes a large eastern machinery maker has revived a historic system by placing 27 apprentice employees in a homelike two story house. The setup provides sleeping rooms, showers, laundry, a housekeeper, and a living room for comfort, aiming to raise ambition and skill among young workers.
A political scene notes footwear costs easing as the Marching Multitude prepares for the upcoming inaugural procession. Senator Sorghum comments on the expected record crowd and the heavy wear on shoe leather.
The War Department announced tentative plans for nine corps area citizen training camps next summer under the army reorganization act. About 1,200 candidates per corps area will attend red, white, or blue camps, with red emphasized for ages 16 to 21 to show physical moral and mental development from military training. Camps run July 15 to August 1 with locations including Devens Massachusetts Dix New Jersey Plattsburg New York Mead Maryland Jackson South Carolina Knox Kentucky Sherman Ohio Grant Illinois Fort Sheridan Illinois Fort Snelling Minnesota Camp Pike Arkansas Fort Logan Colorado Fort Travis Texas Presidio San Francisco Camp Lewis Washington.
Secretary Weeks says steps will be taken to capture Grover C. Bergdoll in Germany and vows to pursue extradition if possible. He notes no respect for any statute of limitations and cites General Allen’s outreach to Germany for pardons of Carl Keuf and Frank Zimmer, who were jailed for attempting Bergdoll’s arrest.
The Prohibition Commissioner Kramer announced May 15 as the date for closing wholesale liquor establishments. He said Attorney General Palmer’s December opinion gave no continued right to operate, and no further time extensions would be allowed.
Government pressure helped seal a six month extension of the Alschuler arbitration with wage cuts eight cents an hour for hourly workers and 12 percent for piece workers. The agreement preserves the eight hour day and overtime rules while allowing further wage and condition adjustments to be ruled on by Judge Samuel Alschuler. Representatives from both sides, including packers James Condon and Carl Meyer, said the pact forestalls a strike and enables ongoing mutual adjustment plans. Secretary Davis invited both sides to meet President at the White House today.
Washington reports the Strawberry Growers Association of Louisiana received a permit from the Internal Revenue Bureau to manufacture wine from strawberries for non beverage purposes. The permit bans added sugar to raise alcohol content. The group plans a Tangipahoa parish plant to process surplus fruit for sacramental uses.
Classified note offers a small house for sale with inquiry directed to the Acantha office. No additional details or contact information provided.
Alice Lake, famed for Should a Woman Tell and Shore Acres, appears in a new role at the Royal Theatre. The Metro special The Misfit Wife opens Monday and runs Tuesday, starring Lake in a leading capacity.
Helena March 26 Governor Joseph M Dixon signed seven bills from the special session. Approved measures include H B 2 new inheritance tax law H B 1 4 cent per barrel cement and 20 cent per ton plaster tax H B 12 additional cement and plaster taxes H B 14 a 30000 capitol repairs H B 28 31694 board of equalization for 28 months H B 31 tax petition bonds signatures measure and HR 36 maintenance 10000 tuberculosis sanitarium at Galen four month addition funding
A boy's misbehavior led to the lamp chimney's modern design. Jules Argand devised the air chamber wick system after discovering a bright flame from a bottomless flask placed over a wick, inspired by his younger brother's accident.
Washington reports that American exports fell in February to 489 million dollars from 655 million in January while imports increased to 215 million dollars from 200 million in January. The figures were released by the department of commerce.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine is advertised as a liquid taken internally that cures catarrh or deafness caused by catarrh by acting through the blood on mucous surfaces. The notice states no other diseases are claimed to be cured and offers free circulars from F. P. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
In Middlefield Connecticut Mrs Annie H Cooley suffered a grippe with pneumonia risk but using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy she improved quickly. Chest pains eased the cough loosened and she recovered fully praising the remedy. The ad promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as ideal for constipation and suggests taking them after supper.
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