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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1933
Page
2
Frank A. Hazelbaker, first large operator in the Big Hole basin to finish, stacked the last wild hay. His C Bar D ranch fields yielded 2,400 tons with high quality grasses matching last year’s world championship show levels in Chicago. Other basin ranchers report average to above yields and consistently high quality.
A historical note estimates lightning strikes affect only six or seven people in a million. The figure reflects rare but real risk across populations, illustrating how meteorological hazards vary with exposure and reporting.
Prescription free relief claim for menstrual discomfort. Advertises Lydia E Pinkham's Tablets as easing periodic pains with no narcotics or dizziness and urges daily use for permanent relief. Sold by all druggists with small and larger sizes offered.
A Loud Thunder Chippewa chief near Great Falls displays a hand sewn flag over 100 years old said to have been given to his great great grandfather at a U S treaty. The banner features 13 stars in a semicircle and 16 states indicated by stars, with 13 red and white stripes. Generals Scott and Leavitt are cited as early observers of the Crow hair relic, not the flag.
Governor Frank H. Cooney returns to Helena from the California governors conference with Mrs. Cooney and children Rod and Virginia. The group discussed re employment federal relief and kidnapping and urged capital punishment for kidnappers. Cooney plans to attend the Roosevelt hinted Washington conference next winter for state condition details. In Los Angeles Will Rogers hosted a barbecue for the visiting governors and families.
Wyoming historian Mrs. Cyrus Beard recalls traders profits against Indian barter and the fur market era. She notes Captain Bonneville’s 1832 post, Fort Laramie, Fort Bridger, and Jim Bridger’s 1843 letter from the emigrant road.
A Seattle area indictment accuses William McCollum 29 of defrauding Portland mother Mrs. Cleveland Lesley of about 150 dollars by posing as her long lost son Louis H. Forrest after arriving from a Montana prison. He allegedly used the mail to facilitate the fraud. He had been in McNeil Island and Deer Lodge jails for a Dyer act violation and auto theft.
An albino calf was born seven months ago at the National Bison Range near Molese. The white animal with brown patches is the first albino born on the range, with only two prior white buffalo records in history.
Fort Bridger in Utah Territory grew into a notable fort and treaty site with General Sherman and Chief Washakie among signers in 1868. The Wyoming Historic Landmark Commission now preserves the fort as a reminder of trappers traders and westward emigration. Four Coates brothers from Missouri pioneered in Montana driving freight wagons and guiding Yellowstone pathfinding during the 1870s Indian wars, with Taft Coates among eight freighters guarding cantonment supply lines.
Pondera county filed its tentative budget with the state board of equalization showing expenditures of 165817 last year and a requested 183829 for 1933 34. The rise is partly to pay 13000 more in bonds and 3000 more for damages and judgments, with funds sought for possible court needs and emergencies.
Postmaster Kirby Hoon reports Helena postoffice total receipts for the first seven months of this year at 99,577.86, an increase of 7,810.59 over the 91,767.27 earned by July 31, 1932. The year to date shows improved revenues despite a difficult period.
Michael O Leary, once a lance corporal and first Irish winner of the Victoria Cross in the World War, rose to lieutenant and now serves as a carriage attendant at a London hotel.
Development of a method for packing fresh fruits in sulphuric acid broadens the markets accessible to California exporters across Europe and Asia. The article notes Mars experiences temperatures of 90 degrees below zero at night.
Boys and girls urged to join the Post Junior Detective Corps by sending their name and address with two Post Toasties box-tops to Inspector Post, General Foods, Battle Creek Michigan. The offer runs through October fifteenth, 1933.
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