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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1912
Page
2
William A Radford offers free home building advice and outlines a eighteen foot wide house plan for a thirty eight foot six inch long lot. The design places rooms in sequence with a back hall, connects kitchen to dining via a pantry, and adds dormer light for the bathroom. The plan demonstrates how to turn a small lot into a pleasing, ornamental dwelling.
The speaker argues for updated houses with modern improvements including hot and cold water, better bathrooms, and attractive design. He notes rent and sales rise for well built homes and urges avoiding bare yards, weathered fences, and boxy duplicates. Proper roof lines, window placement, and color schemes elevate curb appeal and living space.
Charles Johnson Post describes the old Caracas outskirts where tenement houses cling to defenses of the past. He paints battered walls, notched battlements, oil and lead traps, sunbaked mud, and crowded courtyards as buzzards perch high above.
A playful exchange centers on Mayme and her new admirer described with humorous, literary flair. The snappy dialogue highlights fascination and intrigue about the mysterious mustached suitor.
Thirteen sailors aboard the Italian bark Genee recount a pirate raid amid a fierce storm after leaving Inagua on May 16. More than 100 armed men boarded, forced surrender, and the crew attempted to scuttle the ship before a rescue by the Allemania. A British revenue cutter pursued the pirates as US and British authorities consider joint action in Bahama waters.
A three person melee in Lakeside Park Missouri ends with a mad bull goring a boy named Raymond Barnes and his father striking the animal with a club. The boy is described as in serious condition after the attack and escape to a physician.
Cape Charles Virginia Mr and Mrs Andrew Crothers a bridal couple were aboard the New York express en route to New York for their honeymoon. The bride aged sixty five and the groom sixty seven were sweethearts in Adamston Vermont forty years ago. He later made a fortune as a Nevada mine prospector. She never heard from him during the long separation. He returned to his hometown recently and proposed, leading to their marriage on the train.
Miss Edith K. Clotts of Philadelphia sues Frank I. Groman a member of a wealthy South Bethlehem family for 30000 damages claiming he failed to marry her after promising to wed on January 6 1912. She items losses as 29000 for mental suffering 500 for loss of position and 500 for wedding trousseau.
Mrs W P Sheesley of Jersey Shore rural route No 2 is a successful duck raiser. She keeps ducklings in an inclosure until honey bees finish work. The bees allegedly sting some ducklings to death, but many reach adult age.
London reports Professor A B Macallum suggests a future where a human being could be constructed to order in a chemical crucible. He notes past views of living matter as unique and proposes that micro chemistry and precise study of cellular constituents may reveal how life functions and how to influence it.
In Minneapolis thieves used strains from a phonograph to cover their entrance noises at a home belonging to P. H. Ware. Loot valued at nearly $100 was stolen while the Ware family was entertaining guests and a machine played in the house.
Eight year old James Gallagher of Olney was nailed to a plank in a Cedar Grove lane barn after sliding down an incline. A farmer freed him by sawing the plank, then he was taken to Friends asylum and finally Frankford hospital for treatment and antitoxin.
A house cat named Jis is famous for rearing eight orphaned rabbits with her own five kittens. Three years earlier the same cat stole a puppy and raised it with her litter, sparking local curiosity as she treats the rabbits as her own and the dogs’ victims are mourned.
A humorous anecdote from Youth's Companion features two African American men on Washington street. One tall and thin declares he is exactly six feet tall and has been lying down and getting up around Brother Smith's house to measure for new carpets. The setup delivers a light, folksy scene of neighborly mischief and wit.
A playful chat reveals a young doctor hoping for a proposal as the father interrupts with a medical excuse. The doctor pleads to see the eyes while the father unexpectedly asks for a tonsil examination, adding a humorous twist.
A brief, dramatic aphorism from the Philadelphia Bulletin notes the precariousness of human endeavor and the choice between resilience and failure amid the bulk of people afloat in life.
A proverb-like line notes that a person who is easily bribed is likely to be exploited by any buyer. It reflects caution about integrity and susceptibility to corruption in transactions.
Mrs Susie Templeton of Hooper Nebraska recounts five years of severe female troubles. After seven bottles her health returned and she could work again, even tending eighteen boarders for three weeks. The ad urges others to try the medicine for womanly ailments.
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