This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1916
Page
8
Farmington events include visitors from Great Falls and Indiana for health and social visits, several residents taking up teaching positions in nearby towns, and local students moving to Chateau schools. Agricultural notes mention skunk farming, sugar beets, and local rainfall comparisons, with community services, club meetings, and a threshing visit by S. P. Cornish.
Jos Armburger started the season with a large threshing outfit at O P McElmeels this Saturday as wheat promises a fine yield. Dist 17 schools reopen with Miss Davidson at Bole and Mrs Armstrong at Johnson. North Dakota’s Miss Torgeson will teach White School Dist 20. Johnson School trustee Alvin Holm pushes to secure a standard name plate as playground equipment materials are purchased and new year supplies ordered.
Agawam items note Mrs C J Doyle and children of Minot visiting Mr and Mrs Billy ONeill. The Te ton river bridge on the Milwaukee line near Agawam is the last remaining. Mrs George Brown moves to Great Falls. Mrs W P Grooms and Mrs Billy ONeill take Ruth Hale June ONeill and Blanche White to Great Falls for school. Myra Pierce votes in the primaries. Flying U ranch ships 200 short horn heifers. Ard Moore and children visit Chateau relatives. Mr and Mrs Bill Breeding welcome a baby girl. Mrs Gus Breeding ill. Bernard Nelson recovering from horse kick injuries.
Belleview reports start of school in district No. 87 with Rupert Ward teaching 15 pupils. Mrs. Tobin teaches at Belleview. local dances drew crowds, minor mishaps with a lamp chimney, and residents joining haying and harvesting. Notable moves include Mr. Sack in Great Falls overseeing new property and families relocating toward Choteau.
Bole items note the school started on Tuesday with 27 pupils enrolled. Leslie Ames attended high school in Chateau Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. E R Williams left Saturday in their Ford for Wisconsin to visit Mrs Williams's relatives. John Bjork appeared as a business visitor.
Many residents counted busy with harvest and town business. Visitors include Bertha Davidson teaching school and Louise Zimmerman visiting, while new ventures come from Fred Dutro’s restaurant and a planned bank and meat market in Bob.
The article advises rural women to transform porches with one or two cans of paint and a bolt of chintz. It favors green-painted wicker or reed furniture on white or gray houses with red-accented chintz, or brown furniture for nonwhite exteriors, plus slip covers for easy washing.
Dorothy Dare, a twenty year old woman with knee length black hair, bargains with a pawn broker on Eighth and Main in Kansas City as her luxurious hair is weighed against an eight dollar price. A barber is called to witness the sale in a scene from the Kansas City Star.
Bohemian actress Blanch Yurka contributes to Actors' Cookeries with a Hungarian goulash recipe. She notes that restaurant versions often lack authenticity and presents her own housewife useful method.
A First Christian church program in Alexandrian featured children performing music. A girl near halfway through forgot part of her piano number and, noticing the music sheet was upside down on the rack, turned the sheet to correct it as the audience waited.
The article describes poppies blooming on northern French battlefields during the early war phases. Peasants link the red fields to bloodshed, while the true cause is the poppy’s role alongside wheat and its occupying space once occupied by crop fields and seed beds.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.