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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1904
Page
2
A string of short observed lines from historical columns covers topics from King Edward and Russell Sage to Harper's Weekly, Mme Nordica and a Russian grand duke. The items mix social commentary, jokes, and quotes about wealth, longevity, cooking, and cotton scarcity.
A Victorian-era notice claims smallpox may spread via fish and urges households to buy only fish bearing a clear vaccinia mark. The advice emphasizes caution for the wise housewife in selecting seafood.
In Columbia Missouri researchers describe a new method for cultivating mushrooms claiming each mushroom may provide its own identification as a fungus. The quirky note suggests a self identifying approach to mushroom production.
W. K. Vanderbilt’s success in running his automobile a mile in thirty nine seconds suggests that a strong start in life may aid later achievements.
Advice on love and marriage urging restraint and acceptance when a woman chooses a partner you dislike. It notes that she may regret the choice long after you stop caring about the marriage.
If Dr Fielder is correct about money carrying germs the job of bank clerks would be added to the list of extra hazardous occupations.
A London lawyer left $60,000 in bank notes in an unlocked portmanteau in a hotel room while he went to shave. An editor notes that the press uses over a hundred million boxes of tooth picks annually, a claim that appears incredible given the gentleman’s occupation.
A hung jury in the Hamlet murder case before Yale Law School prompts talk of delay. The quip suggests a need for a hanging jury to deter those who harm Ham jet and notes a foreign suitor seeking a tall bride, while implying the suitor is short.
Dr. Bevan of Chicago suggests the drug treatment may be useless for pneumonia but the public will still call in the family physician upon recognizing symptoms.
The Chicago man seeks divorce citing his wife’s habit of moving more than six times annually. He quips that she may be running the breaking-home ties business into the ground.
The letter carries payment for Miss Agatha Stanley’s story The Price of Fame revealing a tale of a woman who sacrifices love for success. Reginald Lorimer, once her sweetheart, rises as Arcadian editor while Agatha’s career finally breaks through amid lingering heartache and questions of motive.
Agatha Stanley confronts a long-awaited visitor Reginald Lorimer who congratulates her on success and hints at a renewed confession. She muses on happiness and independence as he asks if barriers to their past relationship are gone and pursues a different answer to a shared question.
California now ranks second in lumber production among the states, reflecting a notable shift in regional output. Strong demand and expanding sawmills contribute to the rise, with industry officials citing steady growth and investment across key timber regions.
The Hoangho or Yellow River in China, 2,600 miles long and draining about 750,000 square miles, is noted as the world’s most irregular river. It twists from the Kuen Luen mountains northwest then northeast then east, with abrupt shifts south and east before reaching the Gulf of Pechili.
Explorer Harry de Windt recounts in Sredni-Kolmysk a desolate Siberian settlement of 300 with 14 political offenders. Officials and natives mingle in a mute, frozen world where years of isolation push residents toward insanity and even the strongest minds grow childish.
Brander Matthews discovers a tailor’s bill in the club mail by mistake. He returns the misaddressed envelope and later watches the actual recipient dismiss the notice with a taunting remark.
A doctor finds Mrs Herlihy in bed with plaster and bandages after a fall from stairs with a bucket of coal. Mr Herlihy laments the accident, noting he had insured against accidental injury four days earlier for five dollars, while the wife remains under care.
A Connecticut judge, Burr of New Haven, recently resigned from the bench over deafness. He warned a self-confident novelist visitor that his fame may be far off, quipping the man had spent his time "walking up his hands" while awaiting the world at his feet.
A New York Times piece follows a weather dampened day as a Mumbai street scene unfolds when a charitable woman pays two cents for spoiled papers. A passerby answers a stranger with a quar ter and a flash of generosity. A wealthy man then buys papers for the boy, gifting 75 cents, totaling 2.20 dollars for the boy’s haul.
A contractor seeking a drainage contract for a town brings his wealthy but poorly dressed guarantor. The chairman rejects the guarantor’s appearance, prompting the man to offer to buy the town and pay with a check. The scene exposes questions of influence and apparent corruption.
Sir Benjamin Baker reports on the Nile dam showing water supply for irrigation doubled during critical crop periods. Previously prohibited irrigation is now allowed and land conversion to irrigation adds an estimated value of over £6,600,000.
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