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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1910
Page
2
A lengthy collection of absurd witticisms and jests from The Choteau Acantha’s page includes jokes about hats fashion prunes and bicycling, references to airports and planes, playful quips about bears and dvances in aviation laws, and a grim reminder from Toledo Blade about safe aeronautics.
Detail mentions aviators expected to drop dummy bombs on mock vessels off Garden City New Jersey as a publicity stunt or test possibly linked to promoting peace efforts and air power demonstrations.
A correspondent suggests discovery of a fleet of Japanese airships poised to unleash devastation over the shark infested Pacific waters, implying imminent aerial threat in wartime reporting.
A new report says a woman injured her leg after tripping on a hobble skirt. The incident sparks talk of possibly passing sump tuary laws to keep women dancing with partners.
The weather report notes July rainfall averaged 2.21 inches less than any July since 1879, marking an exceptionally dry month. This reading underscores unusually low precipitation levels for the period and highlights a persistent drought pattern in the area.
An Illinois inventor unveils a safety pin with two points while public curiosity grows over whether women will carry it in belts. A mix of age old health maxims and practical street safety advice rounds out the fragment.
At a Denver convention dentists argued that kissing should be abolished to save the human race. The speaker questioned whether a human race without kissing would be worth saving.
A Massachusetts preacher claims heaven will host baseball while some fans may be frustrated if throwing objects at the umpire is barred there. The remark blends religious imagery with sports culture in a light humorous note.
The season for fish and snake stories has been poor in quality and quantity. Some theorists argue the Ananias club's establishment has acted as an early frost to the area.
European physicians report using radium injections to treat lupus vulgaris of the neck and compare with radium application. In two months of injections, swelling and lesions diminished while one case showed partial healing and later recurrence. another side with injections showed gradual erythema reduction and disappearance.
Report describes injecting insoluble radium salts in an oil mixture beneath a cancer nodule to prolong contact with diseased tissue. The treatment diminished the nodule without ulceration and showed no recurrence, suggesting emanation from radium enhances therapeutic effect and future potential.
A Tangier report claiming American interests bought most of Angkora in southwest Africa proved false. The rumor began from a minor land purchase by Hasan Ben Ali, a Moor who is now a naturalized American citizen.
Professor Ernest J. Wilczynski of the University of Chicago argues in a Ryerson Laboratory talk that poetry and mathematics share language and form distinct from ordinary speech. He says poets and mathematicians think similarly, with rhythm and evolution as core elements and all subjects connected by ideas. Migration notes and comments on animals close the piece.
Central Park keeper predicts a long severe winter after observing birds including blackbirds chipping sparrows and bluebirds. He notes twenty five years of study pointing to an early approach of winter. The warning reflects migration and seasonal patterns observed at the New York zoo.
Lake Charles Louisiana faces a mosquito plague with thousands of cattle killed. Insects hover over fields and marshes forcing residents to live under nets and protective clothing. Nighttime activity makes outdoor life nearly unbearable along towns near the Southern Pacific railroad.
George Sifford a former Yale professor in Tacoma guards fifteen Karakul sheep on Hesper Island Puget Sound as the first pure bred sacred sheep in America. Sifford sought climate and forage similar to Bokhara and found it near Seattle with grasses matching those of Asia. The flock is expected to grow next summer and the wool quality shows improvement since arrival.
London tale echoes of elegance and a Hyde Park area mansion famed for a bath fit for royalty. A kingly guest admired the marble floors stone panels and a crystal balustrade stairs leading to the bath as the proud owner boasted of design mastery and plans for Saturday nights.
The article notes a strong American tourist season in London Paris and Berlin with well funded travelers patronizing newly built reasonably priced hotels in major capitals. It mentions Berlin and Paris in competition for tourists while London emphasizes its prestige and museums. Rain and cold dampen trade in London and Paris though American wealth boosts Parisian shops and restaurants.
Kansas City reports the refuge founded by Carry Nation for drunkards' wives, housed in a 40‑bed facility, likely to be returned to Nation as there are no wives to occupy it. Associated Charities considers the property sale to fund other work while debate over custody continues.
In New York four large banks run three eight hour shifts for mail and checks. Two shifts operate from five PM to nine AM, processing thousands of letters nightly. Banks handle 20 to 40 thousand checks daily and sometimes total up to 30 million dollars in night mail.
The Natural Ice Association of America and Philadelphia dealers campaign to assure the public that aged natural ice is free from bacteria. They argue frozen bacteria die rapidly and that ice aged four to five months, cut in winter and used by summer, becomes sterile. A trade paper urges buyers to seek old ice as pure and safe.
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