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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1898
Page
3
A children story fragment describes a sad boy being cheered by a growing pine outside his nursery. The pine speaks nightly through the window, promising safety and companionship as the child watches and waves good night. The scene blends bedtime ritual with nature’s watching presence.
Dora Mansfield wins ten dollars for an essay prize and decides to gift it to her mother for a visit to Aunt Ellen. She also plans to buy a winter cloak for herself, while ensuring her hardworking parents enjoy a rest and the siblings help with chores.
Mrs Mansfield returns from Aunt Ellen’s, bright and chatty about travels and good times with her sister. She credits Dora with lifting her spirits, saying she could not endure the days of toil before the visit and now feels reborn and grateful for a thoughtful daughter.
In Canton during the 1896 election period a ragged boy sought entry to Mrs. McKinley at the Market Street home. The president elect dashed out hatless in the rain to bring the child inside, where Mrs. McKinley offered kindness and ice cream. Habitat memories note the unusual chase by a president.
A drunken tale in a saloon ends with a vow not to drink his wife's tears again. The speaker Speeler recounts a fishing trip where his friends drank all the whisky and left him asleep beneath a tree. He wakes to find his wife crying as she gives him water to drink, and he pledges to quit drinking. The crowd recognizes the group's complicity in the prank.
A heartfelt letter to the New York Herald from the mother of a Maine sailor urges forgiveness over vengeance. She urges fellow mothers not to seek cruel retribution, invoking biblical words and the pain of war to argue against bloodshed and further deaths.
Dr. William M. Taylor told his congregation at a prayer meeting that he is tired and asks the members to carry on the work. The Observer reporter records the preacher's appeal for persistent effort and faith.
During a recent church service, participants offered testimonials about acts of encouragement and aid from the pastor and fellow congregants. The minister, visibly moved, spoke of how these memories reflected back as blessings to all. Tears appeared as the service closed, signaling mutual gratitude and communal support.
A parent writes to a soldier, insisting on immediate discharge upon death and planning an elaborate war funeral with expected newspaper photos. The letter notes two uncles who died in battle and their fine funerals, claiming the son deserves the same.
A plain recipe instructs to mix sugar butter and flour with baking powder and eggs then form dough into spoonfuls for baking. Each portion is dropped onto a buttered tin and finished with a sugar sprinkle in a hot oven for about five minutes.
Prepared rennet can be bought at any grocer with directions on the bottle. Mix rennet with warm milk to form curd, then cool and top with nutmeg and sugar and cream. If cream is unavailable, beat an egg with a little sugar for a satisfactory dish.
The U S fur seal commission uses an electric cauterizing wire to brand female seals. A gasoline driven dynamo supplies current to heat a platinum wire, removing hair and fur and destroying surface cells to prevent regrowth, reducing the value of the pest and protecting seals at sea.
The Badenian aniline and soda works of Ludwig's Haven Germany have produced a substitute for indigo from bituminous coal tar. The product is said to match genuine indigo in every respect. The works employ over 100 chemists in their scientific department and more than 9,000 workers.
A Sri Lankan railway near Colombo shows engineering skill yet faces heavy rain hazards. In December 1896 eleven and a half inches of rain fell in 24 hours as a tunnel blockage and rock slide endangered a train. passengers fled as a dammed cutting flooded to their chests.
The text notes the human body can tolerate heat of 212 degrees due to skin as a poor conductor and perspiration cooling. It adds that men endured 300 degrees for several minutes without injury, illustrating extreme thermal tolerance.
Barry Pain recounts the sensational death of J. P. Vincent Pyrwhit at Ellerdon House Buckinghamshire. The narrative centers on his calm demeanor after his wife’s death and a telephonic haunting before Williams, the servant, shoots Pyrwhit in his room, a case linked to homicidal mania in texts.
An Exeter English Journal recounts a youthful correspondence with Longfellow and warns aspiring authors against seeking gatekeeper help. It stresses editors judge manuscripts by merit and fit, not by patronage, and urges writers to submit from publisher to publisher until a door opens.
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