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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1904
Page
3
John Mitchell, ex sergeant and Indian fighter, recounts a 1867 Wyoming patrol near Cedar Creek. Fifteen men, led by Sergeant Brannigan, share scarce food with 150 Rappahoe warriors who demand supper then and watch as the party endures a cold night.
St. Louis grocery interest C T Hilliglass asserts genuine Mocha coffee is extremely limited and rarely reaches this continent. He notes true Mocha is finer than any other coffee, but demand far outstrips supply, with only traces of lower grades reaching Constantinople and little to nowhere west of it.
The piece notes famous figures across arts and sport who rely on personal talismans. Sarasate carries a silver Guarnerius replica, Paderewski wears a ring from his first wife, and jockey Sam Loates keeps a pearl button believed to bring luck. Actresses Violet Vanbrugh and Langtry also rely on distinctive mascots, including turquoise necklaces and a turquoise with a Persian love letter.
A Grif Alexander poem from the Pittsburg Dispatch extols Peggy as a bright, healthy, and mischievous child. The verse chants her laughter energy and sunny spirit, imagining angels taking her and a daughter missed by a grieving voice. Peggy is portrayed as priceless and charming.
The report notes the total number of immatriculated students for the current winter course. It lists figures and mentions institutions involved, highlighting enrollment trends and academic participation among German students.
The university system reports 37,854 students with 3,093 foreigners, the highest numbers on record. The foreign cohort marks a new peak, reflecting growing international participation in German higher education.
General Frederick D Grant known for calm leadership tells a temper tale about a valet. The valet explains that a quick tempered boss is angered and pleased rapidly, while the owner admits anger starts and stops quickly. The valet adds the temper flips on as soon as it goes off.
A widow explains she wears three wedding bands welded into one to honor three deceased husbands. She says wearing any single ring felt disloyal to the others, and the combined circlet makes her feel constant to all three. The anecdote ends with her showing the broad ring.
Dr. E F Hodges recalls a dusty country road auto run to Martinsville in which his son served as chauffeur and many hens were struck without stopping to count. The Indianapolis News attributes the mishap to hens underestimating modern speed and the absence of a horse to aid escape.
The verse argues love is not gold or beauty nor poetry’s sunrise. It says Love’s true god is a trinity of Space Time and Opportunity, the force that truly moves hearts beyond fleshly charms. The reflection attributes this idea to E. Neabit in London Outlook.
Washington bureau of ordnance drafts plans to resight every gun in the United States Navy. The project, though costly, is deemed essential and already ordered by the president. An improved telescopic sight will be used for rapid fire guns to allow continuous aim. Most main guns require resighting.
The Tillicum tug capt. Charles Worth towed what is described as the largest cedar log boom ever moved on Puget Sound into Ballard. It carried thirty eight sections with sixty to a hundred logs each, totaling about 1 330 000 feet, per those aboard the tug.
A speaker argues prison stripes derive from biblical punishment in Deuteronomy, citing a verse that prescribes beating offenders with forty stripes. He notes modern practice uses striped uniforms instead of physical marks and suggests historical custom included various forms of physical mutilation.
Col Lovell Jerome spoke of an unpublished incident from the Archbishop of Canterbury arrival. A young reporter, assigned to meet the primate, stayed up all night but failed to find him. He then phoned Archbishop Farley to arrange a meeting, only to be told all archbishops do not belong to the same church.
A playful poem where a child asks flowers in a garden what time it is and a blossom hints at four o'clock by listening to the rock and whispering to sleep. The scene blends curiosity with gentle nature imagery and a quiet mystery about time.
The Rev Leighton Parks formerly of Emmanuel Boston becomes rector of St Bartholomew’s in New York. He is famed for his love of children, and his letters to former Boston friends reveal homesickness with a boy’s witty reply: Come home.
A Chicago Record Herald vignette tells of a woman who searches high and low for two small charms given by God and a good man. After weary efforts in parlor, ballroom, theater, and city streets, she returns home to the kitchen and nursery where she discovers two white stones labeled happiness and love.
The Duke of Fife is among the few British landowners who refuse large estates. He has steadily parted with land as opportunities arise, arguing one man cannot manage vast territories for the public good. He is likely the only total abstainer among the dukes in the House of Lords.
An American heiress jokes in a conversation about a Russian princess, noting she has “the whole alphabet” of names. The quip highlights fascination with lengthy aristocratic titles and the vanity of naming traditions.
Frank J. Cheney a senior partner of F J Cheney Co assures a Toledo firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notarized oath dated Spec A.D. 1 A. W. Gleason witnesses. Product claims direct action on blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists. Also Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
St. Nicholas notes moon governs tides and minor magnetism changes but finds no weather impact. It dismisses popular beliefs about gardening and fishing timings as superstition stemming from past ignorance.
Dr. Giuseppe Lapponi of the Vatican confirms using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People in four cases of simple anemia of development and neurasthenia. He endorses the remedy's effectiveness and plans wider use, citing improvement in blood and nerve strength under papal authority.
A brief note reflects on child discipline and parenting norms, contrasting harsh methods with more lenient approaches to guidance and behavior shaping within families.
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