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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1902
Page
8
An ad argues the price gap between alum baking powder and high quality cream of tartar powder costs less than a dollar yearly per family. Dr Price's cream of tartar baking powder is claimed to be standard, making food delicious and healthful, while alum-based powders are warned to spoil food and threaten health.
The article argues broiled bacon in a very hot oven yields crisp fatless slices, unlike greasy pan frying. Slice bacon thinly and rindless, broil in a fine wire broiler over a dripping pan, turn once, drain on brown paper, and use the drippings for fried potatoes. It praises serving crisp bacon with calf liver and notes broiled bacon is easier to digest and safer for a long life.
The article describes Navajo and Pueblo prayer sticks with feather adornments used in ceremonies and petitions, noting secrecy and ritual placement. It also mentions Amazon basin practices where infants rest in palm leaf cradles and wind-rocked cradles hang from trees.
The Washington Star quotes Miss Miami Brown claiming nature never falters with effort. Mr. Erastus Pink-Jey counters that many animals roam as if they could just as well be Possulos, highlighting a playful debate on effort and purpose.
Two voices in a Boston Transcript exchange lament the lack of money and the desire to avoid work. They joke that easy employment would solve their financial woes, reflecting urban attitudes toward labor and opportunity.
The St. Louis Special, the through express of the Northern Pacific and Burlington railroads, changes time on May 4. The service now offers morning connections from St Louis and Chicago to East and South routes and lists revised departure times for Portland Seattle Tacoma Spokane Helena Billings and more.
The report surveys varied curiosities from Valencia proposing a tax on church bells to the British Museum receiving over 15,000 birds eggs from the late Col Le ct or Philip Crowley. It notes a London grocer fined for mislabeling butter with cottonseed oil and a Prague tale of a cure for muteness via electricity and hypnotism. A Munich fancy dress ball depicted criminals, while future plans include a Russian journalism support home and a naval pay dispute over a heavy cap.
Franklin Agan trains again at 2 03 percent while W L Snow works Hal B and Cornelia Belle. John R Gentry will not start publicly again. Lord Derby at 2 00 percent shows excellent Memphis condition. Charmer dam of Shadow Chimes to foal in Austria. A C Davis sells pacing mare Mattie to J J Donald. George H Ketcham buys trotting gelding B K Walker. Lady Patch dies of lockjaw. John Shepard buys horse to race in Boston cup next fall.
The article notes moire band trimming on spring suits and homespun fabrics returning for the season. Short tan covert jackets and full length taffeta coats are in vogue with black and white motifs dominating millinery. Bruges guipure lace collars in white and ecru extend over the shoulders, while a white lace waist collar edged with black chiffon creates a bertha like effect.
A passerby recalls a tale where one lover asks how the other knew of their affection. The reply calls the confession foolish, while a historical note mentions early perfumery using fruit and flower scents in alcohol dating to the fourteenth century.
A ranch in Big Timber Montana reports four horses stolen. Descriptions include a sorrel mare with white face stripe 1500 lb, a black colt with star, a six week old foal with mare, an 11 year old mare 1400 lb heavy with foal, a buckskin horse 1300 lb, and a buckskin mare 1050 lb with branding notes. Reward offers total 900 plus 60 for arrest and conviction. L P Anderson and Barry Bros. signatories.
A notice from G. R. Witson warns the public not to buy horses bearing certain brands except from him. It offers a reward for information about horses with those brands.
United States Land Office Bozeman Montana June 21 1902 notice that William G Strong assignee of Thomas F Garrett of Melville Sweet Grass County Montana has filed to prove desert land claim No 1126 for Lot 2 3 4 SW4 Sec W Tp dN RGE M P M ore B M. Mijelde Clerk Big Timber Montana to be held Friday August 1 1902 witnesses Franklin Franklin Whalen Wells all Melville Montana First publication June 26 1902
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