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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1907
Page
6
A detailed portrayal of Russian country life focusing on summer datchas near Moscow, grand manor houses from Catherine II era, and a marble church. The piece describes stage-like ceremonies for sacred images, countryside travel by troika, and the social support system that sustains elderly servitors within noble households.
A long procession of singers and peasants moves nearly a mile to an immense court and hall. Men women and children press forward to witness the sacred image as a Russian church service begins with the priest's benediction after the prayer.
In Shanghai there are five flour mills with up to 600 barrels daily, mostly Chinese owned, one run by Germans, sourcing wheat from Soochow creek and even Hankow about 600 miles away. A Hong Kong mill on Junk Bay is funded by a Canadian tied to Portland Milling, with partners including Hong Kong capitalists. investment about 500000 gold, two 600 barrel sections daily, and a piggery fed by flour offal.
A study of 1,500 children finds thunder storms the greatest terror, followed by snakes, strangers, darkness, fire, death, disease, and other fears. Girls fear rats and mice far more than boys, with ratios of 75 to 16, and boys’ fear declines after age fifteen while girls’ declines after age eighteen.
A Bacon quotation notes philosophy can incline the mind toward atheism yet philosophy also leads men back to religion by guiding reflection and inquiry.
President Kingsley of New York Life Insurance urges trustees to view life insurance as public service. He notes directors and officers bear heavy responsibilities, and pledges to uphold integrity, efficiency, and performance as proof of trust beyond words.
A New York bar legend, Daniel Lord Jr., once known as a bright court talent, was queried by a country lawyer about his name. Charles O Connors remark highlighted Lord’s habit of appending Junior to avoid being mistaken for the Almighty.
Thirty thousand metres of wire netting will be erected on the Kaiserpreis course at dangerous points and villages. The Kaiser and Prince Henry of Prussia inspected the route to review bridge construction for pedestrians. The course will be divided into twelve sections with a public safety commission for each, and it will close three days before the race for dust laying treatment.
At about 9 pm a large eight pound badger faced a Pacific Electric Car No 393 near Arcadia in Rancho Santa Anita. Motorman Shearer saw the animal between the rails and despite repeated whistle blows the badger stood its ground then was struck and killed. The animal weighed eighty pounds with a hide three and a half by two feet and four inch claws, the largest of its species ever killed in the area.
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as a ready to serve, pre-digested cereal made by the Postum Co. at Battle Creek Michigan. It claims instant serving with cream or milk and notes natural grape-sugar within the granules. It urges readers to read The Road to Wellville.
A method using a tapered deck fastened and planed to create a one sixteenth inch taper lets a reversed card be separated. The performer has the spectator pick a card, shuffles, then reverses the deck behind his back to reveal the chosen card while others see the rest.
A Glendine Montana jeweler invents a clock with reversed dial numbers and opposite-hand movement so the reflected time in a barber shop mirror is easy to read. The article explains how to hold the page to read the clock in the illustration.
A Cork correspondent reports an otter kept by a man in Cork learned to fish and escaped its tether during a river swim. After hours of attempting to coax it out, the man gave up and went home. Late at night the otter scratched at the cottage door and walked inside, then stayed nearby, despite living about a mile from the river in a row of cottages.
A thrush built a nest behind the neck of the sculpted angel on the William Thomes Kine memorial in St Margaret's churchyard, Keddington near Louth. The nest, protected by a wire cage, shelters the mother bird and five young thrushes, safe from boys who cannot reach it.
The Scotsman reports a shared nest where a blackbird lays four eggs and a thrush joins to lay four more. The birds hatch a double brood in a sheltered covert, noted as possibly the earliest maisonette in ornithology.
A Moorish wedding casket sold by an antiquary to a Parisian amateur contained a double bottom holding gold sequins worth about 160 pounds. The police commissary split the treasure equally between the antiquary, the buyer, and the honest workman, each gifting the rest to the others.
The Medical Times vignettes the anti patent medicine stance noting $62,000,000 spent yearly in the United States for patent medicines and arguing this is enough to pay each of 115,000 physicians about $2,000 annually. It contrasts with authorities claiming $40,000,000 and estimates doctor earnings around $230,000,000 total.
A mother scolds her daughter Fan ny for shouting while the child explains she is imitating her mother and her brother, who is pretending to be quiet as a man coming home late. Fan ny reveals she is playing you, the mother. The light dialogue captures a child’s playful mimicry and family dynamics.
A brief exchange between Gaylord and Brightman jokes about mothers in law. Gaylord dismisses the fuss while Brightman notes his mother in law died quietly, underscoring a sardonic tone in their chat.
Dacotah Mfg Co of St Paul offers pants shirts and Mackinaws that are guaranteed to wear and will be replaced if they wear out. Consumers urged to demand the guarantee from their local dealer.
A clergyman advises the hobo to seek work with a familiar line about Satan finding employment for idle hands. The hobo thanks the man and comments on the phrase being delivered in a formal diplomatic style.
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