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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
6
A Western post incident shows Lt Hearst, noted for betting, taking a $25 wager on a scar on his left shoulder with a colonel from Texas. The exchange ends with the colonel admitting the bet and another reply claiming the lieutenant would strip the colonel’s shirt in five minutes.
Earl L. Byers, nephew of H W Byers and Des Moines corporation counsel, lands a unique U S government contract to carry mail by air over a Nome to inland mining camp route in Alaska for 49500 dollars annually. The mountainous, snowbound route with no landing areas tested his Curtiss tractor and self devised navigation ideas during a trial with four passengers.
A new transparent glass sheet combines glass and a 0.021 inch celluloid interlayer to resist bullets and impacts. The composite is welded under heat and pressure, yielding a material described as as clear as plate glass yet as strong as metal. The article notes the sheet would not shatter or throw shards on impact.
A northeast coast town jails a man for striking matches in the street at night to light his pipe, claiming he endangered thousands by attracting a Zeppelin nearby. Another man is fined £2 for a similar offense.
Dialogue between Bill and Jill about timing for asking a father for his daughter's hand in marriage and a humorous kitchen moment with a cat.
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