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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
2
A dense montage of classified notices from Big Timber Montana offering property sales real estate loans and farm equipment from multiple firms. Ads include E J Moore Billy Miles & Bro J A Lowry Gust Nordquist F J Skala and others plus listings for livestock furniture sewing machines pianos and rental space and notices of lost property and relinquishments.
Notice states dental offices will close at 1 o clock on Saturdays from July 15 to Sept 1. Signatures include Dr. L H Lintz Dr M W Barr and Dr R J Piedalue. Also public notice lists for sale or trade items and property in Big Timber including engines machinery horses and lots with names Leo Cremer and others.
New piano offered for immediate sale at substantial reduction. Quality fully guaranteed. Located in Big Timber. Liberal terms to a responsible party. Details furnished upon contacting The Denver Music Company, Denver, Colorado.
W R Stokes advises consignors to have cattle in by a week before September 1 for shipments every 15 days. He will advance money for any amount, and reminds buyers of the September 1 date.
The alfalfa mill of the Alfalfa Products Co. or any part of the machinery will be sold at private sale by trustee G. M. Parker of Big Timber Montana. Disposal terms and details are noted in the notice.
Twelve fenced sections available for lease in Melville Montana. Running water. Hay supply of 150 tons. Contact E. B. Hanson at Melville, Montana.
Mr and Mrs J F McIntyre extend sincere thanks to friends and neighbors for kindness shown after the death of their loved one.
A London Tit-Bits writer notes the daily rituals in the United Kingdom House of Commons and Lords. On the first day of a session the outlawry bill is read first as a symbol of parliament’s independence from the crown. In the Lords the first bill read is the select vestries after the king’s speech.
A compact note highlights how famed leaders and thinkers like Napoleon Wellington Kitchener Pitt Newton Darwin Kelvin Tolstoi Balzac Beethoven Mozart Chopin Wagner Tennyson and Carlyle are remembered for brevity or silence. The passage surveys restraint in speech among scientists authors composers and statesmen.
A Northerners' hotel gathering in Louisville jokes about Southern titles like colonel and major. A colored attendant weighs in with humorous takes, noting birth, appointment, or kindness as ways to become a colonel, including a man who gives a dollar, as a lasting title.
Grandmas compete for prizes at the Midland Empire fair with a special first prize of 10 and a second prize of 8% offered by F W Woolworth Co Billings for the best general display in Class 12 open to ladies 60 or older. Other prizes listed include Belgian horses drafts beans butter and bean displays with varying cash awards.
The Midland Empire fair opens in Billings on September 19 for four days with major emphasis on business and industrial displays. The auditorium floor will host a grand display of vehicles and related exhibits while industrial displays fill the booths beneath the balcony area. Tens of thousands of dollars will be spent on decorative displays and entertainment aimed at attracting visitors.
Many flowers can be preserved in lifelike condition with wax. Melt chopped candles to liquid, dry petals completely, dip each bloom briefly, submerge the blossom and an inch of stem, then lift and let air dry.
The piece notes that smoking spans genders and classes and that pipes have long been common. It cites England where educated women recently took up smoking, Japan where women smoked with metal pipes, and Ireland where peasant women are seen with pipes revealing cultural variation in tobacco use.
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