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Newspaper
Saco Independent
Location
Saco, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1914
Page
3
Advertisement touts Cascarets as a nightly laxative that cleanses the stomach and removes bile, gas and waste. It claims no griping and a 10 cent price, urging readers to use Cascarets to avoid headaches and indigestion and to feel better by morning.
Parks describes gaining a great deal of respect for Brown's business ability after a cash purchase.
Mrs Church notes new German rules cap local calls at six minutes and long distance at nine. Mrs Gotham remarks it is time for women to insist on rights over there.
A promotional notice describes a nightly scalp treatment using Cuticura Ointment and frequent Cuticura Soap washes. It advises parting the hair, applying ointment to the scalp skin, covering the head, and washing with soap the next morning, with monthly intensive care optional and worldwide sales noted.
The passage urges enjoying good times by earning them and sharing joy with others. It notes the peak is the moment of anticipation meeting memory and argues personal participation creates the best recollections. It emphasizes bringing happiness to the event and being “the life of the party” rather than waiting to be entertained.
An English experimenter finds algin, a product derived from seaweed, can be used to manufacture non inflammable films and treat paper to render it waterproof flame proof and germ proof. Neptune as god of seas lends the mythic aid to this discovery.
A New York reader describes relief from indigestion after trying Grape-Nuts with cream and Postum. He reports improved appetite and health within two weeks, noting breakfast changes and noon meals becoming enjoyable. The notice cites Postum Co. and references The Road to Wellville.
Rumors in Helena say the Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound railway has secured options on about $100,000 in Helena real estate to build tracks and a depot if exercised. Milwaukee officials were to visit around April 12, with surveys reportedly extending toward Helena and western Montana beyond Great Falls.
T M Swindlehurst, chairman of the Democratic state central committee, is expected to call the body together in Helena in early April to publish a platform and prepare for the fall campaign. The new primary law replaces caucus and conventions with a hybrid statewide gathering. Progressives already held a state committee meeting and Republicans tried to patch a platform to win electors. Democats urged Swindlehurst to convene promptly.
Andrew Lee a Northern Pacific porter removed a colored friend's wooden legs while the man slept and hid them in the station to force him to sign a pledge. Lee says he bought the artificial legs and may dispose of them as he pleases. The legless man shows no sign of repentance.
In Butte a choice wool clip brought 21 cents per pound, while Oregon reports 22 cents refused. Buyers expect 24 cents, the highest Northwest level in years.
Businessmen of Miles City and Basin Wyoming have incorporated a granite quarry company at West Quincy a new Milwaukee road station on the Great Falls Lewis town line. The charter is for $60 and 120 acres have been bought. Machinery will be installed immediately to prepare granite for wholesale markets.
Butte reports C A Goodnow of the Milwaukee railroad met with R Beeuwkes who will oversee electrical construction between Three Forks and Deer Lodge and J C Mills the road's signal engineer along with A C Adams. The first electrified stretch is 115 miles long and Goodnow will stay in Butte several days.
State Land Register Sidney Miller estimates available funds for state institutions this year total 886 610 including 331 948 in interest due this year and 268 209 principal due next fiscal year plus farm leases 281 633 and bond interest 222 933. Outstanding deferred payments total 6 688 963 29 bearing 5 percent interest over 20 years.
The U S weather bureau reports February 1914 in Montana was generally wetter than the past two decades with only two months higher in precipitation. The month favored agriculture, with high winds after cold snow events driving snow into drifts and making ranges accessible for stock, reducing feeding needs.
Sixteen Montana high schools have been accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Graduates from these schools will be admitted to universities and colleges without examinations. Listed district high schools include Anaconda Butte Great Falls Hamilton Havre Helena and county high schools at Beaverhead Custer Dawson Fergus Gallatin Missoula Powell and Sweet Grass.
Henry Stevens a dry land farmer was found wandering near his Malta Montana home badly burned and nude after starting a fire with kerosene. Neighbors tied to a passing auto and three men ferried him to Malta hospital where he died.
Fred S. Sanden president of the Retail Merchants' association of Montana plans to mail over 2000 letters to retail merchants. The aim is to stress the importance of cooperation between manufacturers wholesalers and retailers and to outline what merchants can achieve by joining efforts.
W G Conrad a noted Montana banker died at White Post Virginia and left his entire wealth to his four children George Hatfield Arthur F Conrad Mrs Josephine Twigs of Washington DC and Miss Minnie Conrad of Helena and White Post share and share alike The will designates equal shares among the siblings with no remaining bequest.
New plat of the Sumatra town site has been filed with the Rosebud county clerk. Miles City and Butte businessmen show interest in the growing Milwaukee Road town about eighty miles west of Miles City.
Mrs. Lottie Nelson sues Ernest S. Nelson for divorce on cruelty grounds. The couple, formerly of Willmar Minnesota, where they were married, reside in Butte.
Helena Shriners predict at least 200 Montanans will attend the imperial council of the Mystic Shrine in Atlanta from May 12 to 14. The Great Northern railway has donated Glacier Park Indians to lead and escort the Montana Shriners with a special train expected to impress attendees.
The late King Edward favored daylight saving and applied an 80 minute summer adjustment at Sandringham for years and later at Windsor and Balmoral. He indicated support for the daylight saving parliamentary bill.
A playful exchange on eye distance unfolds as a sweet young woman on a sofa asks to move closer, and a gentleman nearby first suggests closing in. The dialogue hints at intimate social dynamics and subtle humor within a domestic scene.
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