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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1910
Page
6
William A Radford offers free home building guidance to readers and outlines the trend toward individualized, artistically planned small houses. He emphasizes a house reflecting owner taste, family needs, and a wife and mother as final decision maker within architectural limits, noting site influence on design.
The article outlines space use and materials for a 30 by 34 foot cement stucco house. It emphasizes hardwood floors, oak or maple preferred, wide front porch with heavy pillars, and an exterior chimney. Interior plans include a large living room, dining room with window seat, accessible kitchen, four second floor bedrooms with closets and baths, and thoughtful window placement for ventilation and eastern light.
The albatross spends most of its life at sea, rarely flapping and soaring with minimal effort. It nests on isolated islands such as the Crozet Islands and Tristan da Cunha, building moundlike nests and laying a single large egg. Disturbance on the nest triggers loud clattering of the bills, amplified when thousands are present.
A terse exchange shows a character admitting plans to sell stock as over optimistic. The dialogue reflects doubt about future value and price expectations.
A young man brings his future wife to meet his parents. The father, a cautious Scot, surveys the blushing bride and finally remarks that the son has chosen better tastes than the bride. The line delivers a dry, humorous verdict on suitability and taste.
An elderly father tests his daughter Alice by arranging a plan with two possible outcomes. If Blinkers proposes, she is to say he must see her father. If he does not propose, she is to tell Blinkers the father wishes to see him.
Judy notes a missing invitation as a personal matter keeps a man from the West End reception. He asks for secrecy and hints at a private reason behind his absence.
Mrs Northside asks if her boy has lost his voice since illness. Mrs Crosstown says not entirely but voice is reduced considerably. In conversation with other boys, his voice cannot be heard more than five blocks away.
A humorous dialogue asks how to distinguish intelligence, noting the fool is defined by constant self praise and boasting about one’s own brilliance. The exchange highlights self aggrandizement as a telltale trait of foolishness.
Swipsey-Say explains missing school due to a headache while Jimpsey-Cos questions how his mother was convinced. The dialogue shows a back and forth about truancy and parental trust in a humorous tone.
Poem fragment by G. H. from The Academy contemplates facing death with fear and faith. The speaker asks how to endure the recording of life’s deeds, seeks cleansing and forgiveness symbolized by hyssop, and envisions a future meadow and river for rest and renewal.
Miss Hector the drawing professor told her class she was 22 years old in a playful exchange. The history professor noted her answer conflicted with a past remark about recalling the year America was discovered.
Mrs Torker remarks on her husband generosity as she recalls a birthday gift of cigars. Mrs Noowedd confirms he never smoked any, distributing them to friends instead.
An ostrich capture becomes a comic mishap with Tio lamenting a loss that may earn a feather in a woman's cap as the situation unfolds.
A humorous exchange from Harper's Weekly features a diner nicknamed the Idiot who complains a breakfast fish ball tasted fishy. The landlady apologizes and defends the kitchen, noting pride in their fishballs.
A short verse laments rising costs with the speaker noting affection grows as prices double. The poem frames economic strain through a tender personal sentiment.
Dialogue reveals a wife accusing her husband of growing his business while she insists he is losing money daily. She questions his finances as he allegedly tells her he is in continual losses.
A stage dialogue features a heroine in dire straits cooking a canary to survive. The plot thickens as she must burn fuel from a rubber plant to light the fire, highlighting the harsh trials she endures.
A man on a reception committee asks if the silk is the latest style. The salesman says yes, but the man replies he wants something new yet not worn, avoiding shabby or obviously used garments.
Quote rich exchange shows Wedderly confessing both men in love with the same woman. He reveals that he married her, while the other man also envied him. The dialogue hints at a complex romantic triangle and the mystery of motive.
A dialogue shows a bookkeeper threatening a large bill to Mr. Fix emup while the dentist notes the man fixed plumbing in his house. It marks a comic exchange over who owes whom for repairs.
A hobo asks a front door lady for a copper and, after she calls for a policeman, he darts away through a kitchen alley. The scene unfolds with a quick call for help and a swift escape.
Mrs Stubb remarks on a millinery shop fire that destroyed the fall hat display. Mr Stubb confirms the storefront is reduced to ashes and vendors announce bargains on remaining goods.
A poetic fragment notes a man valued for deeds yet a woman loves him not a chap arrives with a deed for a byuse and lot suggesting change in desire and fortune
A discussion on how English words shift meaning over time. It notes examples from panic in 1857 to terms like propriety property and frontispiece. The piece traces Latin and French roots and clarifies historic senses of words such as mountebank, paradise, astonished, and beldam.
Col Max Fleischmann of Cincinnati recalls a hunting trip on a continent no longer dark and claims Africa teems with sportsmen. European and American hunters follow big game, elephants fear gunfire, and lions are shot from halted trains.
A Washington diplomat recalls the late Hon Auberon Herbert son of the Earl of Carnarvon. He criticizes modern greed and the United States as a city of hard hearts. Herbert, once linked to the British embassy, was an original speaker who mocked materialism and urban decay in a Mephisto like quip about muddy pavements.
The guide urges careful planning of nursery meals. Do not serve hot stewed fruit. serve stewed or baked apples cooled from the day before. Nursery potatoes should be baked or boiled in their jackets to preserve potash and nutrients.
The Welsh Congregational Union disclosed at its annual conference that many ministers in Wales earn as little as 3.75 and 1.75 dollars per week. Across Wales one in three ministers subsists on under 400 dollars yearly, and 12 percent earn between 350 and 400 dollars.
The ad touts Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a thorough cure for constipation and claims it prevents serious diseases. It promotes the product as the favorite family laxative and includes a jab about firemen in a separate line.
Dr J H Rindlaub, specialist in eye ear nose and throat practice in Fargo North Dakota, offers observation of current age scandals with a light touch.
An old ad promotes Marine Eye Salve from Eye Remedy Co. Chicago. It touts benefits for red itchy eyelids styes and falling eyelashes and invites trial or purchase of 25 cent trial tubes and full size units.
An old Irish peasant sits outside his cottage smoking a pipe and lights many matches. His wife calls him to dinner while he jokes that if he smoked a glass he could see shoots on the sun, wondering if a neighbor has fooled him or if he has the wrong kind of glass.
An old advertising column extols Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic foot powder as a trusted, advertised remedy with sixteen years of sustained sales. It warns against imitation powders and urges buyers to seek the advertised product from trusted dealers, noting the enduring reputation built by persistent newspaper promotion.
The assessor questions acreage with Reuben replying about 20 acres, the farmer retorts you can't stretch land like a rubber plantation. The exchange mocks the stretching of numbers in a rural context.
An American in England recounts a cockney asking for a dog with unusual traits. The dealer replies that they do not keep such dogs and drown them.
Paddy Blake of Ballygheen Kilnasoolagh County Clare died in Corofin Union hospital aged 119. He recalled events a century ago and was among those who saw Daniel O Connell pass through Bunratty Pike to Ennis for the 1828 election.
A mythic vignette features Charon ferrying a passenger across the Styx. The shade quips about scenery for a toothpowder ad, underscoring the persistence of a ruling passion even in the afterlife.
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