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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1920
Page
6
Sart and I Lewis as cashiers attest to the truth of the above named bank statement. The document was sworn before Notary Public E L Frang on November 23, 1920, in Big Timber Montana. Notary PP Campbell resides there. commission expires January 16, 1923.
The piece recounts an Italian settlement plan in Arkansas, led by Corbin and tied to Sunnyside, with malaria fears, appeals from Italian cities, and Father Guodintate’s aid. It notes settlers buying land near the Kansas and Oklahoma border, building homes, a chapel, and founding Tontitown, with pioneer Tonti linked to early steps.
The article reports that Doctor Gautlez of the Academy of Sciences endorses high-heeled shoes as a preventive for consumption. He cites a theory that nerve tension and breathing patterns linked to abdominal breathing contribute to lung disease, suggesting elevated footwear as beneficial.
A woman endures her partner’s constant store talk until one night when he idly scans the telephone book at her home. Her patience breaks as she cries out that his misplaced focus on customers is worse than his chatter about the shop.
A new tractor design features a four crankshaft system with sixteen legs that walk like a horse. It also includes four engine driven wheels that can be lowered to create a motor truck. The feet adapt to ground conditions and the machine can plow seed cultivate harrow mow harvest rake and power other machinery or haul on roads.
Polley the human fly who climbed 37 stories of the Woolworth Building in New York argues the act is a balance trick. He spent nine years acquiring the skill and says his living is safe. He told Capper's Weekly reporter he has never fallen except when another flyer above him toppled him to the ground. He avoids smoking drinking and unhealthy habits and denies taking foolish risks.
The Greenland Eskimo finds life pleasant with few needs and a rich home supply from the seal. Its meat and internal organs resemble mutton and provide fat nourishment. Skins furnish clothing and gear, driftwood supplies roof beams and tools, while leather, fur, and stone craft meet most luxuries.
Doctors J Diner and G Horstman tested stamps from 50 places for disease microbes and found infection on every stamp including colon bacilli staphylococci streptococci pneumococci and diphtheria bacilli. The Medical Times notes many people harbor these germs in mouths noses and throats making infection possible while stamping remains a dirty habit.
In 1919 on the Hudson River a canoe rode the ferry wake from shore to shore without propulsion. Observers noted the craft rode waves kicked up by paddle wheels on the forward side of each wave and kept pace with the ferry. A Scientific American writer explains the effect as the canoe riding the wave like a surfer.
A Florida landlord shouts to a departing guest rushing for a train that he has dropped a pocket book. The guest replies he has no further use for it and cannot stop. Besten Treaseriat
Modern medicine notes wartime disabilities largely arise from disease rather than wounds. English pensions data through Sept 1, 1918 show 58 percent of pensions for disease. Tuberculosis and chest issues 11.2 percent, rheumatism 65 percent, heart disease 9 percent. US figures incomplete but 87,710 cases handled by the federal board of vocation through Jan 31.
The study traces tattooing from ancient art in Marquesas Islands where facial ink signified status and survival. It notes white castaways adopting Marquesan styles, the permanence of ink, and dangers of charms. It contrasts South African reliance on witch doctors with limited missionary medical staff amid widespread beliefs.
In Edinburgh a West End owner reports an ancient Egyptian necklace moving on its own. After discarding it in a waste basket in 1913, sounds and pillow movements followed, with the beads allegedly shifting the bed and causing rustling, others claiming similar hauntings.
Wilber Crem argues in the Yale Review that George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, seen as moral formulists, fade in modern times while enduring works like Tom Jones and Vanity Fair prove lasting, suggesting immortality rests on masterful life depiction beyond didactic ethics.
The electric incubator is described as safer and more economical than oil heated units. Current passes through resistance elements at the top to distribute heat over 75 eggs. Double insulating walls minimize heat loss while a thermostat maintains constant temperature and ventilation is automatic.
In a Swiss mountain ceremony guides lay their old and new ropes at a mountain foot and blessing is offered by a pastor. The prayer asks that the aged cords bear strain safely and that new ropes endure stress and that guides remain safe to aid travelers who rely on them.
The article traces cotton cultivation in Egypt from 200 B C, notes Jumel’s 19th century suggestion of commercial varieties, and outlines 1822 sowing of American sea island cotton with a Brazilian variety five years later. It describes the hybrids that produced the prolific ashmuni and Mutaffi cottons.
The tenth century Arabian physician Albukasgen first mentions distilling in relation to whisky. The drink likely originated in Ireland, called ulagebetha or water of life, later contracted to usquebaugh and then whisky, known as usquebaugh in the 17th and 18th centuries in Ireland and Scotland.
A Parisian housekeeper, long without a servant, recently started work for a mistress. She performed well at first, cooking and serving an early dinner, but at 8 30 she returned with her hat on to explain she must leave to perform in a chorus at a music hall. The arrangement did not continue.
The article highlights the steep-bath therapy introduced on a thousand-acre Batham estate in Hampshire. It notes many convalescents are treated there with a range of baths and credits the large sedative bath as the most miraculous among cures produced by the war.
The piece portrays Selbo on Santo Domingo as a remote, dirty town with no hotels, ragged huts, a lone old crone servant, and a marine wireless station atop a centuries old church. It notes US marines nearby and villagers surprised by American civilians, with a medieval garrison house and surrounding wooded hills.
A Detroit News reprints a divorce case where a deaf mute wife uses sign language to express contempt for her husband. The court testimony highlights the couple’s dispute over communication, with the piece joking that men lack a remedy to silence a talkative partner.
Mayor King of Lone Jack Missouri blames a spate of calamities including the electric plant blast the jitney driver quitting his job the barber leaving and a bank robbery on a rising malign influence. The dispatch notes 25 percent of ill is preventable accident 25 percent crime of unusual magnitude and 50 percent labor troubles. Life in Lone Jack reflects wider national conditions.
A fragment recalls Kipling autographs fetching high prices, noting a bank check signature surpasses its amount. It mentions a Boston poet who sent a poetic contribution to a periodical, received a $3 check, and displayed it in his library rather than cashing it.
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