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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1906
Page
6
The 1902 Reclamation Act spurred thirteen irrigation projects across the West led by the North Platte and Belle Fourche plans. Water and land sales fund canals and reservoirs, with 160 acre limits per owner and 80 acre family units, aiming to cultivate arid regions and create new farms for settlers.
Six Washington newspaper men form a suburban trust to develop a 23 acre tract east of Chevy Chase Lake into a rustic, streetsless community with log bungalows and private roads. They plan to fence the area and limit entry to close friends, seeking a model of social harmony free of capital and labor conflicts. The piece then shifts to a meditation on machinery and progress, arguing that industrial advances benefit workers, citing sewing machines, printing, and paint industries, while noting painters resist change.
At Ponkapoag Pond Governor Russell and a group of fishermen were unaware a nearby boat watched their game of seven up. Willard G. Brown of Bandolph boasted after a lucky hand, claiming a full trumps trick and high winning hand.
A new law from the recont session creates a United States court in China reducing consular powers. The court will hear small civil and minor criminal cases with appeals to higher tribunals. Sessions set at Canton Tianjin and Haikou with annual visits.
The story recounts Sen Spooner discovering Tillman’s printed remarks on the rate bill in the cloak room. He notes a pastry shop line where a girl exits with two cherry pies wrapped in Tillman’s pamphlet, prompting a witty exchange about the pamphlet’s value.
In Washington during a heat wave Quartermaster General Humphrey devised a beverage dubbed the Humphrey soother. The method calls for squeezing a lime into a long glass, adding ice, a shot of rum, then topping with ginger ale to create a cooling, soothing drink.
A wry glance at a 2000 afternoon tea overhear reveals casual remarks about family deaths in subway crashes trolley accidents elevator incidents and a heart failure after a shopping trip. The exchange underscores modern pace and lingering life risks.
A witty exchange turns on boredom when one busy man admits weariness and other asks who bores him most. The reply reveals that those who ask about his boredom bore him most, delivering a concise humorous observation.
An Ohio man and a Kentucky colonel meet on the Seashore. They joke about avoiding a morning dip as the Kentuckian recalls swallowing a quart of water after a prior attempt, sparking playful banter between them.
A witty exchange reveals how Idloth judges a man’s routine by his stride. One character notes a man’s direction of travel marks his purpose, prompting a pause as another asks where he is headed.
A courtroom exchange centers on the defendant’s age in a neighbor assault case. The judge asks the age of the accused, who deflects by stating she is five years younger than the other woman, prompting further inquiry.
A humble shopkeeper in a quiet town envisions himself as a merchant prince, imagining grand plans and elevated status beyond his current storefront. His daydreams reveal pride in trade skill and a wish for wider recognition.
A man with facial neuralgia lost all feeling after a surgery that cured his tic. He described lingering danger from injuries he could not perceive and warned that many victims suffer either insanity or suicide without relief.
In the Channel Islands the annual seaweed harvest draws all villagers to gather about 100,000 tons. Seaweed is plowed into fields as fertilizer and dried for cottage fuel with ash used as cornfield dressing. Laborers—men women and children—work with sickles knives and forks to haul weed by cart and drag it from rocks at low tide.
Mrs. Remnethe Myers of Ironton Ohio describes years of kidney trouble and illness from exposure. After using four boxes of Dean Kidney Pills the pain bloating and weakness vanished and she regained good health. Sold by Wester Milburn Co Buffalo NY at 50 cents a box.
Folklore verse recalls Carrie Nation being aided by a stout officer who stopped her proscribed acts and escorted her to the station in a dramatic episode.
W M Chidester of Hutchinson Kansas recounts a lifelong battle with psoriasis in red circular patches turning into dry silvery scales. He details using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent with complete cure within thirty days, noting relief from itching and bleeding skin.
A fable excerpt contrasts prudence and risk in finances. The ant urges saving while the grasshopper muses on wealth acquisition and public judgment, highlighting world’s skepticism toward both frugality and sudden riches.
List of patents issued reported by Lothrop and Johnson patent lawyers in St Paul Minnesota. Names include Thorvald O Berg Little Falls Minn Francis J Britton Brainerd Minn John E Dowden Manchester SD George L Guyer A C Gamble Wessington SD Halvor G Homme Granite Falls Minn Clark E Twamley Alexandria SD Henry B Zimmerman Raymond Minn and a hay ricker seed corn tester incubator tooth bar scriber mail box.
A childhood anecdote about Benny, son of a Virginia judge, suggests he learned to dodge trouble. The father asks what was learned at school and Benny replies with a witty remark about confusing a mouse with a rat to avoid trouble.
A single woman protests higher water charges while the town clerk waits his turn. She laments paying for what nature provides, and the clerk humorously notes that nature does not supply the pipes. The exchange appears in a Youth's Companion item.
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