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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1898
Page
5
A garbled OCR snippet mentions Peete and Fersenesesese in an unspecified event. The readable words suggest a sports or meeting context but lack concrete dates places teams or results. Further readable details are required to produce a precise summary.
Local items report a string of visits and moves including Geo P Dier and family from Bozeman in Big Timber, Lottie Stubblefield taking a photo gallery job, C C Wylie of Equitable Life visiting, Geo W Shepherd soliciting for State Journal Nebraska, Rev A Wormser and wife returning to Wormser City, Mrs Doyle returning to Butte, Clarence Otis sightseeing in Helena, George and Mrs Munneaster welcoming a girl, lamb assessments rising to 250 per head boosting Honey county value by 37, A J Bryant moving from Columbus to Big Timber, J W Cory leaving Big Timber National Bank for Helena, and other social and business notes.
The article notes an estimated 173 million annual revenue from new war taxes. It reports Sheriff DeHart and Under-Sheriff Jackson shipping McFadden Bradley Darrison and Corbett to the penitentiary for a year. It covers sheep dip tax status, a cattle sale to the Custer Cattle Co, telegraph line assessments, optical exams by Tudor Co., a rail fare cut, storm damage, and local incidents including a fatal hay-wagon accident and a successful local advertisement aiding rescue efforts.
A collage of advertisements touts Perfect Baking Powder as chemically pure and healthful, urging use to avoid indigestion. Also promotes Billings to St Louis rail service via Burlington Route with time savings, and cheap rope, twine, boots, and shoes from regional merchants.
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