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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1900
Page
3
A fragmentary note recalls the Pioneer Pusuisuine Co in Montana with J E Sheridan as manager, then pivots to curious facts: level earth would drown oceans at 600 feet, ancient Egypt used artificial limbs by priests, and in 70 years the first railway built has spanned 400000 miles. It ends with a quip about a “terrible interviewer” and the user’s news cycle.
The note describes a gesture of thumb to nose with extended fingers as a derisive sign in some cultures and mentions that certain Indian hill tribes show respect this way. It also notes Pekin China towers with a fifteenth century bell and a large drum in a separate tower meant to be beaten in danger, with entry prohibited to all.
The ecu mensical conference on foreign missions highlights how missionaries advance education, trade, and civilization alongside spreading Christian doctrine. The author notes progress often occurs beyond military means, challenging the notion that civilization travels only by force.
Porto Rico residents see their new American governor arrive in plain clothes with no pomp. They had suffered under prior bad government and hope the quiet, plainclothes official will provide good governance and stable administration.
A scrambled extract surveys global immigration trends citing ten thousand Chinese landings on the Pacific coast, later a hundred thousand per year, plus India’s vast population and food stress. It describes Siam’s Ayathia elephants trapped by a labyrinth, and Indian Territory protests over marriage law for white men and Chickasaw women. It ends with Paris snobbery and a Copenhagen magnetism note.
A Paris Exposition letter explains how congresses attract travelers with reduced fares and perks. It notes 200 plus congresses during the show, with cheap memberships and a cooperative Congress Palace built by workers, while warning of snobbery in hobbies like hypnotism and hygiene.
Denmark inventor Valdemar Paulson perfects the telegra phone a phonograph using a steel band instead of wax cylinders. Designed to work with telephone lines it records and retrieves messages for a subscriber away from the office. It operates with a small electromagnet and is already used in several Danish towns. An example details a subscriber A away from his office receiving notes via B who rings to inform. B, then rings off and the device becomes inactive until A returns to read the message.
A brief note records an early career episode of Lord Wolseley occurring in his twenties during active duty. The passage places the event within his formative military years and hints at a notable action or assignment that shaped his later reputation.
The Allegheny scene tells how Peter Donaldson’s two carat diamond stud was chewed by his pug. Jeweler August Lock reports a one fourth carat bite mark requiring recutting and setting. The tale prompts caution on pets and valuables amid local chatter that Allegheny leads in this season’s dog story.
Early November reports describe a dead four foot snake shorting telegraph lines north of Peterborough, delaying messages to the world. A Kansas City Denver link was broken by a young cow herd who nailed spikes and a board to a pole to watch cattle, causing rained short circuits on the lines.
A recent patent for a motor driven car for warfare describes it as a battleship on wheels, an armored automobile packed with guns and weapons, designed to be electrified to shock attackers attempting to board.
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