31 Aug 1899
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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1899
Page
1
Bozeman Sanitarium promotes its surgical cases and patient care. It highlights separate surgical wards, advantages over general hospitals, trained nurses, and resident physicians affiliated with the facility. The notice emphasizes expertise and professional staff.
Notices of church festivals fairs dances concerts sociables and suppers inserted in the Pioneer with admission fees or profits from sales will be charged five cents per line. Cards of thanks five cents per line obituary poetry one dollar per line.
Newark New Jersey pharmacist Mr Charles Holzhauer touts Chamberlains as the safest and most effective cough remedy for all coughs colds and hoarseness sold by Budd Drug Co.
A Popular Science Monthly excerpt explains the fish air bladder acts as a hearing organ for catfish and other species. The closed sac fills with air and connects to the trachea and esophagus, aiding the ear like a tympanum in higher animals, though with limited sound range.
In a Kansas City Independent item Moonshine Jim admits killing a rival in a duel over a woman. Dr Poundtext condemns the act and asks for remorse as Jim reiterates his sorrow and fear of the consequence.
Emma explains to Ella that Charley asked to marry her last evening. She says she likes him but cannot marry him. The exchange records a personal suitor situation from the Boston Transcript.
A Brooklyn Life quip notes post office workers can read illegible handwriting and deliver letters where the address is a puzzle yet cannot help a man who forgets to mail his wife letters.
A Dallas News editorial extols home education as a superior influence, claiming no other educational institution rivals a well regulated home for shaping youth.
Modern medicine states goat milk is not more digestible than cow milk but rather less so and less nutritious overall. It contains more solids yet remains highly indigestible with a peculiar odor and flavor from biroic acid or bircine and is too rich for an infant diet due to excess fat.
An Austin colored waiter told a Boston man at a hotel that a white man had married a negro woman. The Bostonian asked if he was derided. The waiter replied he was, and that they drove him out of town on two rails. The exchange appears in Household Words.
New remedy from E. C. DeWitt & Co. Chicago digests food and strengthens exhausted digestive organs. It relieves and cures dyspepsia indigestion heartburn flatulence sour stomach nausea sick headache gastralgia cramps and other digestion problems.
A Welsh captain tells a dinner tale about a guest who eats boldly at first then claims he is not much of an eater. The narrator adds a bookbinding anecdote about unopened volume backs and a connoisseur who breaks a bound book by forcing it open.
During the 1884 85 New Orleans exposition Admiral Luce displayed a visitors book signature he claimed was authentic William Shakespeare. A learned Englishman doubted its authenticity, but the admiral showed a page bearing “William Shakespeare, mayor of New Orleans, Jan. 12, 1886,” leaving the guest in disbelief.
The article notes Romans used reverse carved wooden blocks to stamp words on unfired pottery and mentions riveted repairs. It cites a hand written daily newspaper and a Senate record akin to Congress Daily. It also remarks Roman boys in antiquity played with marble clay toys.
The Kobe Chronicle reports a Kanewon widower with eleven friends abducted a young widow from a hamlet near Kangwka city. They seized the wrong woman after a brief struggle, prompting pursuit by an angry crowd. the abductors escaped as the woman was returned to her husband with his party.
Residents of Gangutta in Bengal endure a barbarous ritual known as hook swinging. Victims pierce a wire through the tongue and dance for over 30 minutes with the wire in place. Some are sewn together by a wire needle, forming herring-like chains, often after being drugged to appear dazed.
Caspar Whitney in Tarper's Weekly describes a remaining interest in Hawaii at the temple site of Bawaihae. The ruin shows a substantial parallelogram temple about 220 by 100 feet with terraces and flat stone paving. A wall on the uphill side rises to 40 feet and the downhill wall to 20 feet, each 12 feet thick at the base.
A brief ruleset shows how long a person may expect to live by subtracting current age from eight and taking two thirds of the remainder. Examples: a 20 year old would gain about 40 years. a 40 year old about 27. a 60 year old just over 13. The rule is near accurate compared with official tables.
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