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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1906
Page
7
A hunter recalls a tale from Maryland on the eastern shore. After trying to shoot rabbits all day, he bought a live rabbit from two boys and tied it to a bush with a shoestring. He fired, the bullet snapped the string, and the rabbit escaped.
The city sword was carried before the lord mayor to church in state and placed in a stand during service. In his own church the stand was near his family pew, a common custom before the end of the sixteenth century, begun in Elizabeth I’s reign. State visits to city churches ended in 1883 under Sir R N Fowler.
In Ireland the Irish language is now taught in 3 500 schools. In the United States half the janitors earn more than half the teachers. Butte Montana pays the highest salaries to its women teachers excluding principals. President E M Gallaudet returns to Washington after attending Moris Hill centennial in Germany.
Do not eat cherries with milk or cheese with raw onions. Do not eat cheese after meat especially salt meat. Do not drink whisky after bananas. Do not eat salad with a hearty meal. Vinegar retards digestion and avoid salt and vinegar. A daily dose has caused death. Do not drink tea while eating meat as tea retards digestion of any food.
The record notes 186,561 freight cars ordered last year with 35,000 steel units. Philippines plans to add 1,000 miles of rail despite only 120 miles existing. Japan advances elevated rail projects from Giroyama to Unobay and Gifu to Nagi gaka, extending 18 and 43 miles respectively. Passenger travel and safety figures are referenced amid growing railroad construction.
A Memphis note reports about a hundred automobiles in the city as traffic speeds along. A Boston note argues educational problems require liberal appropriations and constant effort to meet demand. Pittsburg notes boast thirty four new churches last year leaving sinners with no excuse to stay home on Sunday.
Louisville markets glue bottles widely while New York sees daily traffic fatalities. Kalamazoo earns the celery capital nickname as Waycross proposes a new curfew idea favoring married men returning home.
Over forty wireless telegraph stations are in use in military establishments across the Atlantic. Wireless messages have been sent successfully between Chicago and Kansas City, a distance of 450 miles, with regular service expected soon. Axel Thollander of Chicago claims to have perfected an inventor who transmits light waves by electricity and can reproduce at one end of a telephone wire a scene enacted at the other.
The survey of short items mentions King Edward owning walking sticks, Boer colonel H. P. Mallan serving as a Kansas City streetcar conductor, Joseph Potter living near Potter Kansas for decades, and the late C. J. Hamlin leaving a large estate. It also notes ex-Governor Robie at 83, Dr. Parker composing music for a Lew Wallace drama, Goodyear joining an artists’ congress, King Oscar and Bjornson, Henry Fielding Dickens’s youth publication, Uganda’s young king Daud Chua, and J W Lowther’s peculiar eyeglass habit.
The Brooklyn Engle notes elbow sleeves and long gloves stay in vogue. Waists will have or omit yokes. sleeves stay broad but not crimped. Hand embroidery remains simple. tate summer shirt resembles wash suit, crepe de chine fabrics gain popularity with varied weights and durable finishes.
A new melodrama titled The Lighthouse by the Sea is announced with thrilling scenarios for patrons. Ernesta Delsarta joins the Düsseldorf Opera House after a quiet season at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Ivan Caryl, author of The Duchess of Dantzig and The Earl and the Girl, arrives in New York with Mrs. Caryl. The Duchess on Dantzig runs at Daly's Theatre in New York, while William A Brady and Joseph Q. Grismer tout Siberia at the Academy. The Kishineff Massacre is vividly staged with Russian dance novelty. The Boston company disbands, and old favorites struggle for success. Henry Clay Barnabee has not yet hit prosperity, and W. H. McDonald stumbles in A Ching Doll.
Jet trims reappear on evening dresses with medium and brilliant tones preferred over dull pastels. A single color hat and contrasting costume signal a new season’s color craze. Spangles on gauze form butterfly designs on Watteau fans. A chate laine watch hangs from a black silk ribbon, secured by a gold pin at the blouse left side.
In Dakota's early days a name battle among four county commissioners ended when Judd La Moure won a poker game over Edwards to decide the county name McKenzie County. The eighteen hour showdown drew revolvers and crowds as La Moure declared the designation amid applause. La Moure’s cards are preserved in county archives as “La Moure's Five Card Draw.”
During a summer in General Arthur's presidency aboard the Dispatch at Newport Secretary Chandler pressed for naming a new dispatch boat. Arthur favored Dolphin for speed, then mocked Chandler's Concord choice linking it to Concord in pronunciation and victory. The Dolphin secured the name while Concord appeared later, after Arthur's influence waned.
Naturalists note ants inhabit every region and assign roles within colonies. Males are smaller and winged initially, females resemble them, workers lack wings, and soldiers show armored heads as key identifiers.
A historical sketch recounts journalist and historian Thomas Froude’s last illness. Cancer slowly weakened his body yet his devotion to work persisted, with a brief recovery glimpsed before his decline.
The great Mogul Akbar, famed educator and ruler, tested whether Hebrew was the nascent language of unlearned children. He confined a dozen orphans in a distant castle, raised by a deaf nurse, and forbade entry by any helper. At twelve, scholars gathered, yet all children communicated only by gestures, proving they could not speak a common tongue.
In Hutton’s Literary Landmarks of London a Sunday quest to locate Charles Lamb’s grave at Edmonton exposes widespread unawareness. The rector initially cannot locate the burial site, apologizes later, and guides the author to Lamb’s grave in the dim churchyard.
A Chicago Journal note cites a critic’s derision of a poet and features a parody letter full of archaic and mock scientific terms. The piece argues Webster’s Dictionary contains many obsolete words and ends noting all are to be found in the lexicon.
John McClellen, a Mount Airy blacksmith, crafted a seven foot black Walnut freight wagon gear and chair by whittling with a penknife. He spent years at the craft, rising at 4 AM to work, and recently exhibited the finished piece in Hagerstown. The work used over $25 in penknives and showcased patient skill without additions.
A proposed cantilever bridge across the St Lawrence at Quebec would exceed any single span to date with a central span of 1 1 5 feet and total length of 4 220 feet. It features two approach spans of 210 feet each, two shore arms of 500 feet, and a foremast width of 50 feet including a double railroad and two vehicle roadways. The design emphasizes massive individual members and weighs heavy components such as the 70 ton lagin pets and other large parts.
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