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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1894
Page
7
Health concerns rise over indiscriminate baking powder use as many powders contain caustic chemicals. Dr Edson of New York touts Royal Baking Powder as pure and safe, made from cream of tartar and soda, and warns against cheap blends with harmful additives despite profit motives.
The unicycle may cover a mile in twenty seconds. The bicycle gains favor among cowboys as horse replacement. A safety envelope patent foresees easy tearing and packing. A new nosom shirt opens in front like a coat. A Broadway window display drew attention. Caskets for sudden shipboard deaths are carried on many transatlantic lines for hermetically sealed remains.
The North-Western Line promotes a October 9 event at the fair with excursion fares from St Paul Minneapolis Duluth and Superior to Chicago and return at about ten to eleven dollars. Sleeping car rates apply, with special per berth prices for two. Past fair days list high attendance figures across events in Chicago.
Dr. Pierre Emile Mignault and his wife of Actonvale Ont celebrated their golden wedding with guests from fifty years ago. Edith Carrington author of Workers Without Wage is invited by the English Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to write another volume. Santiago Imabell, born in the Philippine islands, married in Coat zacoalcos Mexico to a sixteen year old heiress. he was baptized before the wedding. Gov. William J Russell received a sixteen inch long cigar from Costa Rica. The sultan of Dioclokata, Hamankoewonseno, is noted as a probable fair visitor. Sir Samuel Lewis, recently knighted, is a Sierra Leonean with a London degree and a member of its legislative council. Augustine Braham recalls a rival remark on creation and Mme Allen. Eva Canel, notable Chicago attendee, Cuba chamber report author, and world’s fair correspondent, edits La Cotorra in Havana and later Chicago.
A collage of humorous lines and light exchanges from early 20th century papers. Jokes about summer, engagements, burglars, fashion, ballooning, liars, divorces, and shopkeeping charm readers with witty one liners and social observations. Notable quips include misunderstandings about engagement phrasing and a balloon ascent joke.
Brooks portrays Benares as sacred yet brutal with cremations along the Ganges. He notes funeral piles for both adults and children, a widower guiding his son in the fire, and crowds observing amid prayers and commerce. A fakir with a live snake adds to the scene.
Advertisement urges attendance at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago before it closes on the 31st of the month. It praises the event as a supreme display of world progress in art science and manufactures and urges readers to travel via the Burlington Route. The note also notes the quadrille is out of fashion and the waltz will rise in popularity.
A new service runs from Chicago to Seattle via the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul and Great Northern Railways. Daily departures at 11 30 P M arrive in Seattle at 10 30 P M on the fourth day. For timetables and maps, contact local agents or Gro H Heearroup, Geneva Fash Agent. The Lowell Courier notes this feature as an example of a cyclone’s level best.
The Topeka Journal urges travelers to use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters before sea voyages to prevent seasickness fatigue and illness from diet changes. It promotes the remedy as effective against dyspepsia rheumatism liver trouble nervousness and debility and notes a night’s excess leaves one feeling aimless and confused.
An agent for Johnson & Co. Richmond urges young men to seek employment with the firm and follow its guidance. A Buffalo Express note from Jackson Michigan jokes that love powers bicycle wheels in doping schemes. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is claimed to have cured a fifteen year catarrh in a testimonial, offered by a Druggist.
A fallen meteor object is described as dull in a ground hole. The text mocks medical ads for Hale's Honey of Horehound and Pike's Toothache Drops. Breenan's Pills are touted at 25 cents a box. A seasoned tar physician and a farmer fed by nature’s story-book are referenced in scattered quips.
Advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure laxative improving health through cleansing of kidneys liver and bowels. It claims widespread medical approval and notes bottles of 50c and 1 are sold by druggists, produced only by the California Fig Syrup Co with its name on every package.
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