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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1904
Page
12
Declamation event at Teton County Free High School selects a delegate for the State Interscholastic meet at Missoula. Contestants Alma Dailey Edith Luther Peggy Taylor Archie Leech Albert Crone. Admission 25 cents adults 15 cents children. University of Montana will host athletic and declamatory contests May 19 20 21 with bona fide high school students.
Tokyo reports General Kuroki's supplement on Sunday’s fighting states Russians staged two stands with diverse forces including the Third and Sixth divisions and a cavalry brigade. About twenty eight quick firing guns and numerous rifles captured. over twenty officers and many non commissioned officers taken prisoner. Wounded include Major General Kashtaliosky and Lieutenant General Zassalitch. Casualties around seven hundred, losses over eight hundred men.
Tokyo reports Sunday action on the Yalu with about seven hundred Japanese killed or wounded and over eight hundred Russians. Japanese capture include twenty eight quick firing guns twenty officers and many men. Russians made two stands.
On May 2 at 11 a.m. Tokio reports Russian forces abandoned An Tung yesterday after burning the town. They retreated to Feng Huan Cheng while the Japanese now control the Yalu estuary.
The piece warns readers about graft schemes tied to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It notes letters offering lodging, tours, and other schemes, and states the Avantha will not help grafters. It urges readers to avoid arranging ahead and to seek official guides for information.
Rev Pankratz and Peter G Schmidt representing Oklahoma and Kansas Mennonites completed land agreements with W G Conrad and immigration agent Kleese to establish a large colony near Conrad north of Great Falls Montana after a week of inspecting land around Conrad and Augusta.
Frank Pike, Teton county oil prospector, leaves Monday to buy two drilling outfits in Aurora and Pennsylvania. One outfit funds St. Mary's Lubricating Oil near Swift Current. the other for Two Medicine Oil near Midvale Browning. Wells expected to show oil by August with funds on hand. An oil products exhibit for Collector Webster shows six bottles of components from Swift Current oil. Tokio reports capture of Chiu Tien Cheng near An Amy, Russians may retreat toward Feng Huen Chang on the Liao Yang road.
In Great Falls during April, 77 new homestead tilings covered 11,664.46 acres, the most entries since October. Land-office receipts reached 86,434.59, up 600 from the previous month, with 16,167.23 acres taken in both homestead and desert entries and 6,136.86 acres proved up.
The piece argues that publicity schemes fail without newspaper presence and that elaborate ad mailers and booklets lack impact. It notes a whisky company' s advertising sheet only paid off after purchasing newspaper space, highlighting the newspaper’s pivotal role in reaching readers.
Chicago May 2 cattle receipts 25 000 with prices from five dollars to five seventy for good to prime steers and related classes. Sheep receipts 14 000 with steady lambs and wether prices from four seventy five to five fifty, native and western lambs noted.
Sealed proposals for a jail building in Conrad Montana will be received by 10 am Tuesday June 7 1904 at the county clerk's office Choteau. Contractors must furnish all materials and bond in double the contract amount for proper performance. The Board of County Commissioners reserves the right to reject any or all bids. May 5 1904 A O Warner County Clerk.
United States Land Office Great Falls Montana issues notice in 1904 that Charles E Moore of Choteau Montana will prove up desert land claim No 5714 in section 18 township 24N range 14W before U S commissioner W Mathews at Chateau Montana on June 4 1904. Witnesses Joseph A Perman Frank E Moore Levert Otness Nicholas Snell all of Chateau Montana. J M Burlingame Register. First publication April 28 1904.
Mall administrators address customer requests quickly in catalog notices detailing order status and delivery timelines. Vendors promote featured items and reassure shoppers of efficient service amid busy shopping seasons.
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