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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1912
Page
7
William A. Radford offers free advice on building topics to readers. The piece describes a house plan praised for abundant light and air, with a second story and a good cellar, noting it can be built for about 1600 dollars in favorable areas and materials conditions.
The Iron Pillar of Delhi dating to about 413 A D stands in the Quth mosque courtyard. Weighing over six tons and 16 inches at the base, it is solid welded wrought iron with remarkable purity. Analyses by Sir Robert Hadfield confirm iron 99.72 percent and carbon 0.08 percent.
The hand made lace industry, vital to Belgium, is hurt by machine lace. About 60,000 women in East and West Flanders and rural areas produce lace valued at roughly $4,835,000 annually. Wages are stated as only 30 to 30 cents per day.
Dr H Bolte of Sapulpa Oklahoma waits for a bank to clear a bad check after a wild scheme in a New York casino scene. Walter Slims calls himself a planter from Jackson Mississippi while J W Walsh a Buffalo grain speculator loses and rings up a large cash bet. The cashier halts a 20 000 check and the planters loan helps Bolte contemplate ventures in Europe as authorities investigate.
Chicago reports resistance as South Park officials enforce a rule forbidding high heels on the Jackson Park course. Hundreds of women protest while cobblers report brisk business trimming heels to the standard three quarters of an inch. An attendant notes about one third of would be players meet the heel requirement.
A passenger and her dog ride a Los Angeles streetcar, debating the rule that allows lap dogs free of charge if they can be held in the lap without annoying other riders. The dog Romeo sits on her lap as the conductor intervenes and explains the boundary of a lap dog. The scene underscored the old question when a dog qualifies as a lap dog.
In Minneapolis Rev. G. L. Morrill offered to pair bashful men with suitable women, provide courtship venues, fund marriage licenses, and supply wedding certificates. He defined a masher, urged action against persistent suitors, and asserted women are meant to marry unless biologically defective. After the sermon several men sought introductions and license help, which he arranged.
Prosecutors plan to present motion picture film of a Los Angeles riot at the Federal building as evidence. A moving picture operator filmed the disturbances, and the footage will be shown to jurors for the first time in jurisprudence.
Charles D. Hilles recalls a Cincinnati street ad found outside a grocer, claiming Twins are come to me for the third time a boy and a girl. He quotes the line urging friends and patrons to support him stoutly as printed in Popular Magazine.
Advertisements urge mothers to inspect Castoria bottles, claiming Evans signature and over 30 years of use. It stresses Castoria as a safe infant remedy and notes that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
A terse exchange shows Mrs Rooney denying trouble as her husband tries to provoke one. An old advertisement promotes Paxtine Antiseptic hot douches as a pelvic catarrh remedy, priced 25 cents, with postpaid delivery from The Paxton Toilet Co of Boston. A line remarks that a man resents being convinced he is wrong by a woman.
Purport describes Colea Carbolisalve as stopping itching and poling and curing piles with 25 and 60 cent prices. The text notes a birthday purchase as lemon and mentions family context without further details.
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