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Newspaper

Big Timber Pioneer

Location

Big Timber, Montana, United States of America

Date

Aug 16, 1900

Page

8

Railroads Offer One Fifth Fare for State Convention

Secretary T B Miller of the Republican state committee says railroads will charge one fare and one fifth for attendees of the state convention on September 5. One way tickets may be bought three days before the meeting and returned at one fifth fare with a special receipt and certificate signed by the secretary. Certificates must show full fare paid and attendance at the meeting and are honored by agents in Helena up to one day after the convention.

T. B. Miller Republican State Committee Republican State Central Committee Helena Northern Pacific Railroad Montana Hunter’s Hot Springs Springdale Livingston Philipsburg Hamilton Norris Missoula Winston Marysville Townsend Deer Lodge Lombard Custer Forsythe Miles City Glendive Rate Butte Bridger Bozeman Red Lodge Big Timber Butte FEE St. Paul Minn

Wool Season Closes Amid Rumors and Market Hopes

The wool season ends with Big Timber selling about half of its usual volume and receipts totaling around 2,300,000 pounds. About 300,000 pounds remain in the warehouse, much held until after the election, as growers reconsider rail rates and market choices.

Montana N. PB Billings

Yankee Tourists Uncle Sam Colburn Arrives in Town

Frank S. Colburn, the Yankee Tourist in a full Uncle Sam costume, reached here Saturday on a world tour titled go as you please. He traveled from New York to San Francisco and plans impressions of people and cities for a forthcoming book. In towns he performs sleight of hand, gives lectures, and promotes manufacturers to earn a few dollars.

Frank S$. Colburn Sam Colburn New York City San Francisco

All Going to the Circus in Bozeman

Ringling Bros famous big circus to exhibit in Bozeman on Wednesday August 22. Excursions from the vicinity promise a huge crowd. A free street carnival starts daily at 10 o clock before the show. The parade features 30 sections across a two mile procession with wild animals horses elephants and hundreds of people. The later performance is billed as the most magnificent arena display yet seen in America.

Ringling Bros Bozeman Pagentary America

DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve Promises Relief for Skin Ailments

Advertises DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as instant and permanent relief for piles eczema and all skin diseases. Warns to beware of counterfeits with Budd Drug Co as the source.

DeWitt Budd Drug Co

Uncle Sam's Balance Sheet Poster Ad for Tariff Support

A notice promotes a large poster titled Uncle Sam's Balance Sheet showing benefits of protective tariff policy. It urges placement where voters can read and offers forwarding at four cents per address. Contact American Protective Tariff League in New York for posters. The Neclena Terald and Timber Pioneer publications advertise yearly rates.

American Protective Tarify League West 2Nd New York N.Y

One Minute Cough Cure Promises Wide Health Savings

The report claims over fifteen hundred lives saved using One Minute Cough Cure. It cites crippe and croup as well as asthma whooping cough bronchitis and pneumonia among conditions helped. Early use is said to prevent consumption according to The ProneER and the Semi-Weekly Helena Herald.

Croup Udd Drug Co

DeWitts Little Early Risers Liver Pills Ad Mention

An old Budd Drug Co. advertisement promotes DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as famous pills for liver and bowels. The copy frames a greeting question about health through liver activity and touts the product’s liver benefits.

DeWitt Budd Drug Co

Railway to Cooke City Promoter Plans Mine Rail Link

F A Hall promoter of a railroad to the New World mining district arrived this week. He aims to secure a large mine stake in return for building a railway into Cooke City. An engineering party led by P M Gallacher and George W T Lamport will survey the Clark Fork route, long advocated by Gallacher as perfectly practicable. Built the road could unlock one of Montana’s great mining camps and extend a Bridger branch.

Cooke City F. A. Hall New World Mining District Carbon County Democrat P. M. Gallacher George WT. Lamport Clark Fork Gallagher Bridger

Insurance Interests and Global Fire Safety Trends

The piece surveys fire losses in Haverhill Massachusetts and rising gasoline fire reports in Chicago. It notes Japan’s growing insurance company count from four in 1890 to 73 in 1898, cautions on gas stove risks and faulty chimneys in Indiana and Pennsylvania, and reports life insurers’ heavy spending to prevent fraud. It also mentions Finland’s press censorship and a proposed Finland Newspaper Press Censure Insurance company offering indemnity up to 60 percent with a 5 percent premium.

Haverhill Mass Chicago Japan Indiana Pennsylvania Finland Press Censure Insurance Company

European Art, Music Figures and a Child Prodigy

The article notes about 150000 Germans earn livings through music. It reports a Paris salon with four miles of space for French painters and a Sedelmeyer gallery showing 100 old masters with a top Watteau-like painting. Chartran’s “The Signing of the Protocol” may join the White House collection after exhibition in New York. Pepito Rodriguez Arriolo, a three year old Spanish pianist, astonishes Madrid audiences and may surpass Mozart as a prodigy. his father, a Spanish officer, was killed in Cuba last year.

Society of German Composers Germany Sedelmeyer Paris Watteau Chartran H. C. Frick Pittsburgh White House New York Pepito Rodriguez Arriolo Madrid Mozart Cuba

What Baby Can Do

A humorous reflection from the Chicago Times praising babies. The piece catalogs the amusing and chaotic effects of a baby on daily life, from wearing out shoes and filling beds to brightening homes and provoking colorful language, ending with a nod to the baby as a great institution.

Chicago Times

Teachers Examination Set For August at Court House

The regular quarterly teachers examination will be held at the court house on August 17 and 18 starting at 8 30 a m Eva L Dana County September 8 16 00

Court House Eva L. Dana County

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DR. Price Price Baking Powder CO Notr Uncle Sam Circus Neclena Terald Bia Timber Pioneer Proneer Ileléna Herald Peter Gustad Propr Insurance Interests ART and Music J G. McKay Medley Ross- Dier Tod J. H. Moore E M. Wagl Attorney AT Law Big Timber, Montana Bly Old Pioneer” Office Wiggenhorn Bros Watertown Milwaukee, Wis Department of the Interior O. M. Lanphear U. S Lauritz Andreas Nass H. E Ole Crest Martin Crest Tver Toyem Nels Hellern Howie A. L. Loon Register Department of the Interior, Land Osmund L. Mosse Theodore LT. Olson John P. Style Syvert Raisland Edward Arneson A. L. Love T. K. Tolhurst Solomon J. Craft George M. Marrs McLeod C. T. Busha E. O. Clark United States Land Office Dora Mos Sweet Grass County M. P. ML Navy C. N. Skillman Peter Wormser Klas Seholton Peter, Vander Vate Bert Plaggmeyer Wormer Bozeman Montana Marie Armstrong Sweet Grays County O.M. Lanphear P. Tessier H. J. Sandsness Melville Samuel Thurman William Budd Lewistown CG. N. Skillman Robert Widdecombe James Widdecombe Joseph Widdecombe Robert McClatchey Thomas G. Armstrong Foward Brassey, Register Mont E. C. Dewitt A Co Budd Drug Company
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