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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1905
Page
6
An old Black man explains to St. Peter at the pearly gates that his earthly job was as a body servant to Gen. Washington. St. Peter replies that body servants of Washington filled a large section, and directs him to a suitable area at the gate. The man departs in a thoughtful mood.
The six year period 1897 to 1903 saw breadstuffs up 5 percent, meats 23.1 percent, dairy and garden products 50.1 percent, and clothing 24.1 percent. Farmers and stockmen benefited most, while miners gained 42.1 percent from metal prices. Freight rates fell 4.4 percent, railroads paid workers about 8.5 percent more.
Dialogue piece from Ally Sloper shows Mrs Stuckup and a friend discussing exchanging visiting cards as Zoe collects duplicates of titles like a lord and two baronets and seeks a countess or bishop. The quip plays on social pretension and wit in drawing room chatter.
A Yorkshire gentleman debates removing ivy with his wife. The gardener offers four reasons including a hazard to sparrows and a prior cutting last night. The discussion ends with the gardener’s preference being accepted.
A Kansas City mother describes quitting coffee after dizziness, stomach issues, and her baby’s sour stomach improved when she switched to Postum Coffee. She reports increased milk flow and relief for her husband, with the family continuing to drink Postum for better health. The advertisement promotes Postum by the Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan.
A vivid verse describing the April mail rush in the Pouch Room highlighting clerks like Randy and Jiggers, the constant dispatching of mail, and the postal spirit. It portrays the postal staff as busy, unified, and vital to commerce, ending with the signature James J. Kinsella.
The article describes a tornado as a funnel shaped tube half a mile high with a top diameter around 6 000 feet and a bottom diameter near 100 feet It travels 15 to 60 miles per hour with top edge rotating about seven miles per hour and lower rim up to 200 miles per hour The lower tube creates centrifugal force a vacuum and cold that form a visible cloud and lightning like discharges Velocity can reach 600 miles per hour in the lower tube and notable tornado events such as the 1896 Vineyard Sound waterspout are detailed with dimensions and rotation rates
The Philadelphia journalist L. Clarke Davis recalls Edwin Booth sharing a tale from the old Arch Street theater. Booth plays Maltravers, grieving his ill wife, and resists sustenance until a gallery-loft Irishman quips about being a mutton chop.
Dr. Von Koveslighethy of Buda Pesth estimates the earth’s energy use in earthquakes over eight years at 70 billion horsepower per second. He links the planet’s wobbling pole to earthquake activity and calculates the power needed from the earth’s mass.
In a northern New Hampshire divorce trial a rival lawyer hid an onion in his opponent's coat pocket. The onion caused tears as the eloquent speaker used his handkerchief, the onion revealed and explained by the opposing counsel to the jury.
In a testimonial style appeal Lydia E Pinkham promises confidential guidance from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts to women suffering female weakness. Letters from readers Mary Dimmick and others are cited as proof of herbal remedy success with Vegetable Compound.
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