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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1913
Page
5
A Jefferson City gathering of Missouri merchants sees Folk denouncing mail order plans while urging support for local stores and balanced growth. The remarks touch on country towns, wealth, and trade as concerns rise over national shopping practices.
A tall New York boy on the road meets a veteran drummer with 30 years of travel. The drummer urges the youth to quit dreaming and pursue a real path, reflecting on his lost home, long separation from family, and the contrast between a life on the road and stability at home.
Department allows pets for a single year only. If kept shorter than a year a $400 yearly fee applies. Brands are marked on animals: cattle branded bar N on the left side with a slant bar under the left hip bone. horses branded circle with a slant bar on the left thigh. cattle ear marked with left ear cut off close. Range extends from Big Piney north to Twin Creeks.
Sealed proposals due by 6 PM August 9, 1913, to Al Osterhout Clerk of School District No 8 Big Piney Wyoming. Plans at State Bank Big Piney and D D Spann Rock Springs Architect. Five percent certified check with bid. bond for half bid amount upon contract. Board may reject all proposals.
An advertisement from H. Rowan Drug Co Chicago promises a strictly harmless cure for bed wetting and urinary control issues. The offer includes a free 500 package prepaid and mailed to readers of the Examiner, claimed to help both old and young with nighttime and daytime urination problems.
A Quall's nest was found on W. L. Riley's farm near Woodland containing a hen laid egg and the usual quall eggs. The hen hatched by week’s end and left her nest with the chick, abandoning her own eggs which would have hatched in another week. Some quall eggs were broken.
From the state department comes word of a Turkish invention to curb dishonest milkmen. A can with valves allows pouring without watering the milk. After filling, inspectors test and pronounce the contents unadulterated and pure, ready for the consumer.
A collage of social vignettes and club chatter shows women in gowns discussing husbands poker wins and expenses while a child named Rebecka jokes about a bearded neighbor. A Senate exchange chides lawmakers over patriotism and rebates, highlighting satirical soundings of public life.
Miss Cayenne opines that only those with a truly sensitive ear could endure the terror of constant practice, suggesting ear training comes with harsh discipline. The remark frames a debate on natural talent versus rigorous drill in music.
The article traces bed origins from skin piles to rush and straw beds, notes Romans and Heliogabalus using feather cushions, and claims beds were common in the sixteenth century with feather beds popular in Henry VIII's era.
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