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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1894
Page
2
An extraordinary woman learns of her husband’s deception and another woman’s murder. Despite grief and social pressure, she contemplates release for him while recognizing the harmed sister and infant. She guards her own heart as she departs alone to face the complex moral duty before her.
Grace Denison learns her husband killed a mistress in a fit of passion. She hides the truth to save his name, then sacrifices her own honor by destroying her wedding ring and Bible to shield the innocent victim. After days, her husband is freed as she faces an uncertain future.
The Boston Herald profiles Charley Jewell who ferries the Old North church chimes every Fourth of July. He and his family have plied chiming for years, using eight ropes like a keyboard. pealing requires a circle of English ringers and a half hour of strenuous effort.
A St. Louis operator drew at sight for 10 000 on the sultan of Turkey after a bank cashier told him to use someone far away. The draft traveled to New York London and Constantinople, reaching the sultan's chamberlain who asked if it would be paid. The sultan had it honored despite unknown beneficiary John Smith, leaving the cashier astonished.
Three major irrigation canals are under way in the northeast corner of Custer County drawing water from the Middle Loup river. The largest ditch runs fifty five miles across the county and will irrigate about forty thousand acres. The projects employ farmers at two fifty a day with bonds floated in Boston to fund construction. The three ditches together will irrigate about ten percent of Custer County’s area and are expected to boost future crops.
An article notes memory can stay intact after left brain damage and even removal, implying the right brain houses memory. It recounts Lt Brady wounded in Assam who later remembered white colleagues but not Black coworkers, illustrating selective memory loss by race.
Naggs recalls a night drive through the river woods where discussions of romance led to a self deprecating joke about a successful "hold up" during a ban ditti.
A first person account describes a one third acre onion patch on sandy loam and clay with haste and little manure. The author compares level culture to flooding and furrow irrigation, reporting a light stand but healthy plants and yields around eight ounce bulbs averaging large sizes.
Investigations into efficient irrigation abound at U.S. experiment stations. A Kearney Nebraska man built a two pump oak machine with a six inch outlet and a 13 000 gallon per hour capacity powered by a pony. An iron version with eighteen inch diameter will rise 37 000 gallons per hour. Cost total is 125 dollars and can be windmill or horse powered. It aims to irrigate 160 acre farms and higher arid lands on small plots.
Field and Farm notes explain that deep subsoiling loosens hard subsurface layers to increase reservoir capacity for rainfall. It claims irrigation plus subsoiling prevents topsoil hardening, stores moisture below the surface, and keeps crops hydrated through drought.
Quinnemore, former chief of the Coeur d Alene Indians, owned 167 acre farm on the Spokane river. The tax assessor tried to tax it, but Quinnemore produced a patent stating the title was inalienable and not subject to taxation for twenty years from January 16, 1381. The assessor withdrew in apology.
A visiting young woman, seeing a cow for the first time, panicked and waved her parasol, shouting in a stern tone for the animal to lie down. The scene showed her fright as she tried to calm the animal.
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