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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1924
Page
5
The Montreal Family Herald argues that urban living offers health advantages over country life. It notes purer city water, sanitation, public baths, and a health department capable of handling outbreaks, while countryside life provides purer air and less nervous strain.
A Moscow theater rehearses a Sovietized Hamlet produced by the State Institute of Theatrical Art under education commissariat orders. The play reworks Hamlet as a communist leader and rewrites speeches in revolutionary terms, with Polonius mirroring Lloyd George and biting Shavian influences.
A Baltimore woman visits New York and attends a burlesque show. Inspired by cigars and blue smoke she lights a cigarette during intermission. The manager rebukes her for breaking house rules insisting the venue is respectable.
The Detroit News reports that 4000 years ago Egyptians valued folding beds as luxury items. A folding bed and a Nile boat bunk were recovered by a Metropolitan Museum of Art expedition and shown to resemble modern stateroom berths.
The death centenary of Sir William Herschel was marked in Slough. He conducted many observations there with his sister Caroline. The event highlights one of astronomy’s romantic chapters as the large reflector and other relics are preserved in the old barn where his work was done.
The plan proposes wind driven electricity plants for rural areas. Towers on hilltops would house machinery with large horizontal wings spinning near ground level. If successful, several generating stations would be built in remote districts.
R J Minney reports from the London Mail that in parts of the East criminals dodge arrest as villagers fear reprisal and refuse to aid police. Notices fail because readers cannot read vernaculars, drum signals arouse mobs, and fugitives move toward frontiers among brigand bands from Wasnomir to Chinese Turkestan.
Stockholders of the Santa Barbara Fellowship Colony petitioned for dissolution in Superior Court in Santa Barbara. Founded June 9, 1921 as a nonprofit cooperative, the group aimed to buy land and provide homes while fostering goodwill. They state goals unmet, debts require liquidation, and only a few houses exist on land at Lamesa.
Dr. Fred H. Albee of New York argues machine driven surgical tools reduce operation shock through speed. He cites bullet wounds versus soft nosed projectiles and says rapid cutters yield bones cut to true size with precise fitting.
The near Mars opposition in August 1924 will bring the planet within about 34.63 million miles of Earth just before it lines up with the Sun. Mars then lies nearer to Earth than in the last close approach in 1909 by roughly 1.5 million miles.
Fishing banks off Kagoshima Kumimate and Kyushu will be exploited by airplanes. Aerial surveys will spot shoals not visible from shore and wireless reports of finds could start a new era in the industry.
Justice of Peace John E. DeHaas wed Gus H. McDonald’s residence to J B Willis of Stanford and Miss Caroline Roberts of Chateau on May 15. Glenn Burch ill with quinsey. Mrs R D Anderson of Dujour in Chateau for Teton high school graduation. Mesdames Reiken and Harris brought Mrs Reiken’s baby to hospital from Bynum. Teton high school graduates Fern Alta Stone Henrietta Spoelder Anna Elene Olson Helen Hurley Innes Uriel Beatrice Andrews Laura May Swenson Gideon Udin.
Miss Hazel Trescott who has been teaching the Bull Head school near Walier came home today and will spend the summer with her parents Mr. and Mrs. B G Trescott.
Little Joan Greene daughter of Judge John Greene and Elizabeth Green daughter of Mrs Jennie M Green and George Sulgrove son of Atty James Sulgrove gave a party in the park this Friday afternoon.
The Clerk of the Court Blanche M. Jacobson issued a marriage license this week to Clarence E. Stenson of Farmington and C Beatrice Davis of Burton Kansas.
Wm. Burns, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Burns, is confined to his home due to an attack of scarlet fever.
Frank Oulton left a short time ago for Vancouver British Columbia and will probably locate there according to brief remarks.
Teachers and pupils enjoyed a Thursday picnic in the grove north of town. Games were played by all and a fine lunch was served.
The public school will close for the summer vacation next Friday. The notice mentions a suburb location and school calendar.
Henry Hagen longtime head of Hobson telephone exchange shot himself three times at his home on Thursday. He was son of former Teton County sheriff William Hagen. The Browning Review notes the tragedy.
Funeral services were held at the C F H Cirvy undertakers on Tuesday for Mrs Mary Hankinson who died in Whitetch last Friday from paralysis. She leaves two sons Joseph and Thomas and one daughter Mrs T O Kleiv.
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