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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
6
A collage of witty remarks and curiosities about public figures, publishers, and social trends. Topics include Russian students, New Orleans pauper questions, Osler on women, a German count with a shop girl, a French expert on laughter, Rockefeller’s planned mansion, servant girl strikes, Platt’s legal fate, Sullivan’s voice, heirs of a Brooklyn beggar, and London papers analyzing American scare-heads.
The piece notes the nitroglycerin trust organizing effectively yet at risk of collapse. It mentions Venezuela suspending bean duty and Boston backing broad reciprocity extension. It highlights Russell Sage claiming to save a quarter of his income and praises frugal living as keeping the wolf from his door.
The passage mentions Dr Keeley and a grip as a factual reference and notes an eccentric man. It muses on green carnation color and a horticulturist evolving a pink variant, without concrete events or dates.
A forger escaped detention after a clean shave while others are urged to wash. A French editor’s anger at U S actions over the French West Indies is criticized. Absinthe is not exported by the United States. The rise of women in traditionally male occupations grows. Prof Loeb is said to hatch sea urchins from unfertilized eggs but is advised to seek gold without a gold line.
Judge Andara asks the United States to ignore Venezuelan matters until a revolution starts and ends there. The request appears to involve no serious delay.
Henry Tollemache, M. P., has represented a Cheshire district for twenty four years and has never made a speech, a fact the piece commends to Members of Parliament and to Mr. Speaker in a light, satirical notice.
Mrs. Dwyer of Belvidere New Jersey died of shock after learning she had fallen to a fortune of 75000 dollars. The item notes such shocks are risky though many would take similar chances.
A cryptic verse notes Lliggins losing something and others taking or buying it. Biggins purchases another straight while a rogue schemes to hook it, and yet another meets a different fate.
In a Monterey foundry a young worker named Bud Ellis despite years of fear of explosions rushes to save a wet threshing shaft mold. He dives onto the mold as a kettle of molten iron tips toward it, bearing the heat and weight to avert disaster and earning lifelong scar and quiet pride.
Bud endures intense heat as molten metal pours from a kettle and breaches a window. A second explosion tears the wall, injuring several workers while Bud, exhausted and terrified, finds a new resolve and joy that he has proven brave and fearless for the future.
A Topeka Mail and Breeze contest prize goes to Mrs. Fanny R. Bevard for a western Kansas tale from Abilene. In a crowded single room a couple's proposal is overheard by a girl visiting with the sisters and echoes through the sleeping house as Jessie agrees to marry the anxious lover silently.
Harper's Weekly reports on preschool thoughts about life and death. A baby misbehaves then points to a Raphael Madonna and asks about the infant Jesus. A girl from G ponders heaven, souls, wings, and judgment in curious questions. She ends with a cheerful bath hop singing Dead dead.
Mrs Reginald de Koven recalls a remark on women’s cruelty told at a Washington dinner. She cites a vivid anecdote where a smile masks a social sting, illustrating how a compliment can wound when misapplied.
Poem fragment praising the great sculptor and divine guidance to reveal beauty and music within marble and human form. The speaker asks for God to complete, refine, and finish their fragile being, becoming a perfect image in His sight.
Kansas state printer Thomas A. McNeal calls Kansas the center of the universe and supports it with a claim that a journey east from Kansas and back equals the same distance as a journey west from Kansas and back, noting symmetry in travel.
A humorous tale from the Norway Maine Advertiser about a man who borrows his neighbor’s newspaper to read. His boy’s bee encounter, fence mishaps, a cow’s death, spilled cream drowning kittens, a crawling baby, a torn tapestry carpet, a broken henhouse, chewed shirts, and a maid eloping illustrate the costs of not subscribing to a home paper. The moral urges subscribing to local papers. The note says the kittens are worth from two to twenty five dollars each.
Glasgow operates a large municipal system including a 160000 volume public library, district libraries and model lodging houses housing 2480 nightly, 27 building blocks with 9000 occupants, public and kosher banks, wash houses, gas and electric works employing 3000, a street railway carrying over 170 million passengers and 3500 workers, nine markets, a telephone system with 15 percent return, a labor bureau and a home for inebriates.
Moody verse describes a voyage down a dim river with stars, sunset, mountains, and forests as the speaker seeks peace on the deep. It asks for breathless silence and for loved ones to be kept safe by divine tenderness while memories fade.
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