17 Aug 1899
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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
1
A Bozeman facility promotes a quiet home for invalids and patients seeking operations. It highlights separate surgical cases, advantages not found in general hospitals, trained nurses, and a resident physician.
The Pioneer will charge five cents per line for church festivals fairs dances concerts sociables suppers and similar fundraisers with profit from fancy article sales. Cards of thanks cost five cents per line and obituaries poetry cost one dollar per line. An advertisement quotes a Newark druggist praising Chamberlains cough remedy, with Budd Drug Co selling it locally.
Chicago artist EH. Betts offers to turn over his patent for a cyclone annihilator to the US government. The device uses a two inch cannon with a weather vane trigger to target funnel shaped clouds, firing a rubber explosive projectile when wind pressure triggers it. Betts seeks no compensation and proposes cost pricing for the public, with profits for other republics and higher charges for monarchies. He cites humane aims and recalls a prairie tornado anecdote to justify his invention.
A report on the fighting fish Betta species from Cochin China and Siam. Males fight to the death in water globes for sport, with Parisian collectors and rising demand noted alongside their striking red and blue spots.
A parade of quotes and trivia covers Gen Miles hours spent on horseback Lord Glenesk as England's lone newspaper peer and proprietor of the Morning Post the sultan of Turkey's clipping bureau habit a Luther quote on aging and wealth and Henry Clewes advice to youth on wealth by doing all with might drawn from a range of public figures and ideas.
The piece explores how if delegates diverted a single year's army and navy budget to peace building many social institutions could expand vastly. It imagines funding 1,000 missionaries for 25 years, new hospital capacity, and hundreds of colleges, potentially transforming the world.
In Pelle Ville Walnut Hill cemetery Volrath Moehle a village blacksmith rests under an enamel coated anvil with a horseshoe atop a granite base. The monument recalls his life as a toiler beside the same anvil for more than 30 years and was unveiled with a eulogy by Hon. J Nick Perrin.
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