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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1900
Page
7
A dialogue pair features an Old Gentleman and a boy named Bobby. Bobby corrects the adult with a playful take on family fractions, saying he has one sister and one and a half brothers, then clarifies as two half sisters and three half brothers in a comic exchange.
The piece notes the uncertain outcome of foreign powers dividing China and observes the race breaking apart. It warns that many people suffer from dyspepsia constipation and stomach diseases and promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for good health.
Quote snapshot shows a tense exchange about mistaken identity between two men. A caller challenges a speaker as a thief while clarifying that one man is a scholar and a gentleman, and the other insists he is not his brother.
Detective questions Mrs Blank about a buggy sighting an hour earlier. She recalls a fast coach, a turquoise blue jacket with circular flounce, a satin straw hat trimmed with hydrangeas and pale blue accents, and a pompadour hairstyle.
A Detroit Journal excerpt shows Pro Bono Publico declaring racial destiny writ while an editor counters that fate serves base ends. The scene unfolds amid a press of advertising as discussion hints at creed becoming a club and the harm in such transformation.
At Buffalo next year the Pan American Exposition will feature a government display with a 130 by 600 foot main building and two 150 foot square pavilions connected by colonnades. James Knox Taylor directs treasury design with staff construction in a Spanish Renaissance style of vivid color and gilding.
A San Francisco girl recounts London street omnibuses with humorous detail. She notes the conductor’s boosts onto the spiral stairs, winds catching hats, long skirts, and the difficulty of discerning routes amid crowded ads and dark streets at night.
Ruth Cordis Long niece of Secretary of the Navy John D. Long pursues gospel singing. Two years ago she sang aboard the Monterey in San Diego County inspiring a sailor to reform. She later sang in Worcester and Boston church missions. The smokeless cigarette would be an improvement.
A wife holds a letter addressed to John and stamped Supreme Potentate. She wonders if she is justified in opening it and reasons that only one supreme potentate exists in the family, prompting her to break the seal. The Chicago Post notes the curious motive behind the act.
Free postpaid copy of Know Thyself for men is offered by The Peabody Medical Institute. The ad promotes The Science of Life and Self Preservation with 870 pages, engravings and prescriptions, priced 25 cents for paper covers. full gift library edition is one dollar. Address No 4 Bulfinch Street Boston Mass for this medical gift and health keys.
The Baltimore American notes a joke that a verse writer gets paid while a poet often does not. The quip plays on the distinction between craft and compensation in literary work.
Mrs Annie Thompson of South Hot Springs Arkansas testifies that ten bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and seven packs of Sonative Wash cured her severe uterine and ovarian troubles. She reports improved health weight sleep appetite and daily function and says she would not be without the remedy.
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to relieve swollen burning sweating feet corns and bunions. Available at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with a free sample mailed from Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy NY. A separate ad line adds a proverb about men fighting for creed yet forgetting their wives umbrella.
A satirical line promotes Coke Dandruff Cure as the best way to travent baldness. The ad claims druggists sell it for $1.00 and hints at family conflict over a match making scheme that may upset a papa who flares up.
A Philadelphia advertisement claims permanent relief from fits and nervousness using Dr Kiine’s Great Nerve Restorer. It offers a free treatise and bottle for 3.00 with address 981 Arch St Philadelphia Pa for more details.
An 1900 era line of patent medicines includes Hall's Catarrh Cure priced 75c and Piso's Cure for Consumption praised for coughs and colds. Also advertised are Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain 2c bottle, Panzen's Hair Dye claiming restoration of original color, and Hindercorns for corns.
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