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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
3
Mrs J H Bennett of Gardiner Maine says severe back pain dizziness headaches and bladder inflammation forced months in bed. After three months on Doan's Kidney Pills her condition fully improved and never returned. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
F A Rising of Winona Minnesota banker and treasurer of Winona Savings Bank visited Bismarck and North Dakota areas. He reports strong loan activity totaling nearly a million with no foreclosures and no bank land holdings in the state. Rising praises Bismarck and North Dakota thrift as the Soo line extends loans to McLean and Ward counties.
A professor urges young men to mature by learning from nature while a wary student jokes that the rattlesnake grows more dangerous with age, contrasting restraint with risk and humor about aging.
A cynical quip attributed to Senator Platt surfaces after a hotel visit in Manhattan Beach. He allegedly answered a Western millionaire’s daughter asking about political economy with a sly definition about not buying more votes than needed.
Wisconsin woman writes she used Postum for eight years and drinks it thrice daily to relieve dyspepsia and related symptoms after quitting coffee. She reports family improvements, credits coffee cessation, and notes she is not a gusher, only stating plain facts.
A steerage voyage from Cape Town to London follows Healy the boastful storyteller whose lurid tales unsettled fellow passengers. His nightmarish yarns of Gerlatz and moonlit firings culminate in a deserting Healy who wounds at Santa Cruz before vanishing overboard during a tense final chase.
Senator Tillman lampoons Bill Higgins with a Charleston anecdote in which Higgins is praised for supporting his wife and extended family. The quip calls Higgins a “god working minority” as the crowd laughs.
J F Hennen of Milan Missouri reports twelve to fifteen years of itching and a breaking-out cured by Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent after three doctors failed. He adds a leg infection from la grippe and pneumonia was healed by the same remedies. May 13 1907.
Dialogue contrasts parental objections with a hopeful romance. A youth asks Pimmie about her mother’s stance on their courting. Pimmie reveals her mother would cut her off if they marry, prompting a reassessment of their youth and plans.
An advertisement asserts Castoria as a safe remedy for infants and children, urging careful examination of each bottle to ensure it bears the signature of gyve iMiteé vl and notes its use for over 30 years as the kind you have always bought.
A fragment notes Archimedes declaring a lever to move the world and contrasts it with Theodore Roosevelt wielding a so called Big Stick. The exchange is wrapped in an old newspaper tone with a sharp political edge.
Harry leaves the breakfast table with a dramatic limp. His mother asks why he limps and the little brother humorously explains he has more flapjacks on one side than the other.
The text recounts Xerxes joking that a modern primary election would have given him the throne as well as his father, while noting that the Greeks later defeated him at Plataea. It frames his reflection on luck and legitimacy versus historical outcome.
List of patents issued last week to Northwestern inventors reported by patent lawyers Lothrop and Johnson. Names include T. M. Crepar for wood preservation, J. Erickson for car wheel, E. Fournier for engine, L. S. Hackney for rotary engine, J. Holmwood for track or roadway, S. L. Isham for saw guard, and others from St. Paul Minneapolis Fargo Duluth and Fargo.
A description of how plants like the sensitive plant react to irritants such as sand by closing their leaflets. It explains that both human behavior and plant responses develop from experience and the instinct to protect or avoid harm.
A foreign visitor asks whether a widow may marry her deceased husband's brother in this country. Mrs Vidders answers that she can if she chooses, but she seldom does, noting the woman often knows him too well.
Save your money buy Gold Seal overshoes and rubber boots cheapest because wear longest. Ask your dealer. Not sold by mail order houses. Goodyear Rubber Co. St. Paul makers.
The piece warns that enormous women’s hats, while potentially artistic, are unhygienic and contribute to hair damage and baldness due to their weight and pressure.
Beware of ointments for catarrh that contain mercury. Such articles damage smell and the body when absorbed. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo claims no mercury and works internally on blood and mucous surfaces. Ensure you get the genuine product sold by druggists at 75 cents per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A lawyer offers a divorce on incompatibility grounds while a client cites clashing loyalties in sports with Cubs versus Sox as a pivotal, irreconcilable difference. The exchange highlights personal rifts tied to shared life decisions and fandom.
Farm rental and crop payment sale notice listed under J M Stall Sioux City Iowa. Also a caution about tips on races and a Milton Dairy Co price inquiry from St Paul Minnesota. Miscellaneous proverbs and a teething syrup ad for Mrs Winston with a 25 cent bottle.
Distemper pink eye and heaves treated with Spohn’s medicines sold by druggists and harness makers. Bottles priced at fifty cents and one dollar. Agents wanted and a free book offered. Send for details to Spohn Medical Co Goshen Indiana.
A dialogue recalls why a believer backslid in faith. The man blames the preacher for painting worldly pleasures so vividly that it stirred homesickness and led him astray.
A historical advertisement claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures female ailments including backache nervousness headaches and uterine issues. Personal testimonials from Mrs Will Young and Mrs Augustus Lyon praise relief after using the remedy. The copy cites thirty years of use and lists conditions it allegedly treats such as displacements inflammation fibroid tumors irregularities and bearing down and lists related symptoms.
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