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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1919
Page
21
Canada presents vast farm land opportunities for returning soldiers and other settlers. Farms from 160 to 640 acres offer low prices, good climate, schools, and strong government support. The article urges veterans to choose farming, noting Canada and the United States will feed the world and highlighting postwar cooperation and friendship.
Hundreds trusted Kilmer Swamp Root for kidney liver and bladder complaints says a prominent druggist. Swamp Root claims to correct urinary troubles neutralize uric acid and ease rheumatism. Sample bottle offered by mail with ten cent request. available in larger bottles at drug stores.
Thrift Magazine argues many Americans stay poor by neglecting little expenses. It cites Sunnywoman as an example of wealth from valuing small things and urges wartime readers to prize small daily purchases to secure success and happiness.
An old advertisement offers $100 for an incurable catarrh case. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as an internal remedy that works through the blood on mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists for over forty years with testimonials free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
June Addams quotes 1918 fashion trends at Hull House Tea recounting a poor man who invents a depth bomb and receives government payment. His wife reacts by insisting she will wear the same styles as other women, resisting new clothing for herself.
A sharp line notes that only lawyers may be truly interested in a man’s troubles suggesting skepticism about legal assistance as a motivating factor. The remark mirrors a common legal profession stereotype without naming individuals or events.
Montana officials reject a federal plan to fix a minimum 50 000 pound carload standard for grain doors and door boards. The Montana Railroad Commission cites statutes mandating railroads provide grain doors. Also covered are soldiers returnees seeking fair treatment, new federal livestock district centered in Helena, and concerns over state guard funding, with remarks on moral conditions and the pay of Montana teachers.
Helena reports the legislature failed to fund a reserve for bad years, limiting hail insurance payouts. Losers will receive about 6 per acre on a 12 per acre policy. Five thousand five hundred twenty two farmers insured. 2,200 loss claims filed. Total grain insured 668,620 acres. hay 4,403 acres. Total collectable about 402,279 dollars plus last year surplus, projected 405k to 410k for distribution. Maximum collection 60 cents per acre equals five percent of 12 dollar policy.
Hill county tops oversubscription in the Fourth Liberty Loan drive with 881 percent oversubscription and 645 percent distribution, while Blaine trails at 614 with 251 oversubscription. Wheatland, Deer Lodge, and Lincoln counties also surpassed 200 percent oversubscription, earning honors such as named battleship and army tanks for Wheatland, Deer Lodge, and Lincoln.
In Great Falls, GC W. Warburton of the U S department of agriculture reports 100 seed loan applications approved, covering about 7000 acres and 35000 dollars. He expects another hundred loans this week averaging 70 acres each, adding another 35000 dollars for distribution next spring.
The Montana notes report a Rockefeller Institute agreement to send a Japanese bacteriologist to the state lab to aid in spotted fever work. It notes 12 percent of Rocky Mountain division trains were late in December and 88 percent on time. The piece covers state fuel efforts, a Miles City boy returning to reform school, tax office business, senate seat recounts, a Workers’ Council ad, a salesmanship address, a Brady ranch accident, an Alhambra orange grove purchase, 1919 Montana State Fair plans, workmen with a wooden leg and compensation limits, a $10 000 donation to a girls dormitory, Helena school closures easing, and a report on feeble minded persons in Montana.
Montana Attorney General files suit in the supreme court against Western Loan and Building Association organized in Utah. Allegations cite illegal withdrawal charges from at least 412 stockholders between 1916 and 1918, fees paid from stock payments, and violations of Montana law. Court grants permission to file and issues summons. defendant has 20 days to answer.
Lieutenant Governor W. W. McDowell returned from Washington where he advocated issuing government script equal to 40 acres of public land to each discharged soldier. The negotiable script could be sold by soldiers not wishing to settle, opening millions of acres for settlement.
Capt Edward Beck of South Bend Indiana, now serving in France with the black Senegalese troops, praises them as fearless fighters akin to American colored troops. He recalls a mortar test on a laborer where a brick failed to provoke a reaction until it landed, prompting a wry remark about dropping mortar.
The dialogue describes Jinks raising hundreds of dogs with Binks noting Jinks runs an elevator in a dog hospital as part of the conversation.
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