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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1912
Page
2
Dr Caldwell promotes regular bowels to reduce illness and endorses Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin a laxative herbal blend with pepsin sold for 50 cents a bottle. A free trial offer via mail to Dr W B Caldwell 203 West St Monticello Indiana.
A speaker asserts temporary possession of a mud puddle, claiming it for a person who does not own the area while addressing a grandparent. The remark frames ownership as a casual, temporary stewardship in a rural setting.
Gray County Probate Judge Pinlip Miller reports relief from kidney trouble after six boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills. He describes prior dizziness eye swelling breath shortage chills and back ache and says palpitations have not returned for about a year. He weighs about 200 pounds and serves his third term. Advertises pills at 50 cents per box and offers free household hints music and recipes.
A letter from Port Stanley Falkland Islands recounts a week at sea in an open boat after the Criccieth Castle disaster off Cape Horn. Seventeen men perished including the captain's wife and child and several nationalities died before landfall in the Falklands. The second voyage of Captain Thomas and crew to Liverpool followed.
In Irwin Pennsylvania fifteen year old Joseph Nellis supports two younger sisters and a brother from a rented shanty after his father disappeared and his mother died. He works hard in a local mine and refuses to quit despite hardship.
Magistrate Boyle fined John Palasis after arresting him and his thirteen year old wife Annie for violating the compulsory education law. Annie Palasis testified she had no time for school and stayed home to prepare meals and care for the household duties.
Mrs. K. W. Shepp and her husband, both over sixty and former missionaries, were discovered in a Northern Pacific box car in Jamestown North Dakota. They had fled from South Dakota towards Idaho, enduring exposure and privation in the cold while traveling with scant shelter and few belongings.
Ogdensburg New York state convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union forwarded a resolution to the secretary of the navy asking that the new battleship New York be christened with water from Niagara Falls. If granted the union will supply the water and the receptacle.
Tacoma captain recounts old whaler stories of blond Eskimos in Bankland seen with red hair. Captain Bert Williams aboard the Bear learned coal from natives who claimed a coal mountain had burned for 200 years. Tuttle links Williams to Stefansson's legend after thirty years of coast service.
Eva Rioux a French Canadian girl who faced a theft charge in Bridgeport court is to wed within a week. A Connecticut theater owner, aged forty five and a bachelor, paid her fine and proposed marriage after listening to all the evidence. The suitor plans to reopen the case to clear her reputation.
Mrs Delia Monica Black seeks a divorce from Charles B Black citing daily police escorts from 1422 Semple Avenue to streetcar lines and back after work at a downtown millinery shop. Black's only stated action is hiring a lawyer and he has not commented on the case.
The letter profile highlights successful settlers in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. It notes skilled farming methods climate soil and market conditions driving prosperity. A Day ton Ohio convert recounts moving with $(money) and land gains, detailing crops and holdings and urging others to consider Western Canada via the Immigration office in Ottawa.
A local schoolteacher teaches quartet voice parts to young students at the council school. She asks what to name a bass and tenor singing together, and Jimmy, son of the milk man, replies that it would be a pintette.
A humorous exchange notes belief in carrots as beauty boosters, while another character dismisses the claim as a pale yellow journalistic claim. The line reflects light satire on medical or cosmetic journalism in the era.
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