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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1929
Page
7
Brock McCain and Gaspard Lecroix trudge through winter waters with Finah the puppy, battling storms and danger at a fork in the Yellow Leg. Brock is wounded portaging, Flash helps, and a wolf is slain in a desperate clash. Gaspard vows to learn who killed his father as trackers press toward their goal.
Brock awakens bound by Cree captors after a brutal ambush as the party moves through freezing conditions. He overhears an English Canadian bearded chief and his partners claim ownership of the land and warn Hudson’s Bay settlers to stay out, while Brock plots to feign ignorance to learn more.
Brock, captured by Cree camp, learns that Etienne Lecroix and Black Jack Desaulles, famed police figures, are in the Yellow Leg area seeking Pierre Lecroix. Gaspard, and Brock, bound and under watch, are aided by a silent rescue as they plan escape while a nighttime camp sleeps.
A garbled note discusses a man resisting changes in a room’s furniture arrangement. It suggests appealing to the economical angle about rag and furniture wear to help him see that changes benefit the housewife who is not at home.
Reflective prose notes the moonlit night feels peculiarly favorable for contemplation. The cool dewy air and darkness create a calm mood, while the day’s vaporous excess is imagined as tempered by the night. A northern whimsy hints at a restrained excitement in Surrey.
The notice touts Philips Milk of Magnesia as a quick remedy for sour stomach from overeating or rich diets. It claims the alkaline action sweetens the system and relieves distress, endorsed by physicians and suited for personal comfort and consideration of others.
The Mason and Dixon line marked the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland and was viewed as the divider of free and slave states before the Civil War. If extended west, it would separate Ohio Indiana and Illinois from southern states while Kansas would sit south of it. Cumberland Maryland lies south of the line, and Oklahoma was not a slave state. Slavery had ended in the northern states by then.
A quoted public aside muses on life prospects and a contract to pave It. The remark provokes a dismal universal hiss as public scorn echoes. The excerpt frames a social moment highlighting desire for a safer path versus harsh response.
In this ad the Bayer brand promises quick relief from headaches and minor pains caused by damp days or drafts. It claims effectiveness for neuralgia neuritis rheumatism and lumbago and says the medicine does not affect the heart with directions available from druggists.
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