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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
2
Classified notices show real estate loans offered by E J Mo and C N Skillman, farm machinery from Big Timber Supply Co, and various sales including land relinquishments, 160 acre Big Timber property, and a renovated 1916 Ford car. Several local businesses and individuals advertise services from jewelry to laundry and piano sales.
Classified rural ads offer land exchanges and livestock deals in Big Timber Montana. Leo J. Cremer and F. J. Skala list farms, horses, cows, and harness gear for sale or barter, with trades for land or city property. Also notices on rents and lost items from Pioneer office listings.
In the western front and Canada tale a Private Mae from an Alberta regiment is shot in the breast but the rifle bullet is deflected by his Spurgeon's Sermons kept in his breast pocket. His comrade Private G- quips in a preacherlike rebuke praising the saved life and the strange mercy of fate.
A historical note on China as the Flowery kingdom cites a Scribner's writer and outlines China's rich flora estimated at about 12 000 species with 9 000 known, half indigenous. It highlights Emperor Shen ning and Emperor Wu Ti sending collectors to enrich imperial gardens with economically valuable and medicinal plants.
Suburbanites discover Uncle Sam parcel post can ship flowers to city friends over a long distance without losing fragrance if packed properly. Roses and some flowers survive best, while poppies and moonflowers may wilt. picked when partly blown and kept cool, they revive at journey’s end.
A nine year old Irvington cadet boasted at the United States Navy League branch at 40 Monument Circle while his mother shopped for wool. He claimed to be a real soldier and to smoke pills he had bought. A knitter asked if he could shoot craps. he replied he could shoot them in the neck with his pistol.
The survey estimates Colorado shale oil at 20 billion barrels. Contiguous states hold large shale stocks. Extraction is costly now, but higher gasoline prices could make recovery profitable and curb price spikes. Researchers consider cheaper methods and their potential impact.
War cables from Petrograd claim Russian forces include a unit called the Death Battalion with women fighting on the eastern front. Reports mention Hin siga Mile and Vera Butchkareff hospitalized for shell shock as female troops battle amid a crisis where many men retreat from the front.
The article notes Canadians overestimate exploration, citing Dawson 1890 estimates of 1,000,000 square miles, revised to about 642,000 square miles in western Canada plus 250,000 square miles in northern Quebec. Total Canada 3,729,665 square miles with 520,800 in Arctic islands. unexplored Damsett area about 901,000 square miles, nearly 28 percent of the country.
A New York letter, vouched by the Aionist committee, describes widespread starvation in Warsaw under German occupation. It claims mothers accept their infants’ deaths, wealthier families cut hair to buy bread, and four to five year olds are carried like babies as families fear collapse. It warns that without American aid, many families will be lost and fathers will return to find few surviving children.
The article debates royal naming customs, noting Czar Nicholas Romanoff uses a surname disputed by scholars. It traces when monarchs used surnames, argues Plantagenet and Tudor status, refutes Guelph as a surname, and questions if descendants of Queen Victoria inherit a family name.
England conducts an experiment using overhead electric current as artificial sunlight to boost crop yields. Led by W. H. Blackman at Huntington Court farm near Hereford, the project follows earlier Dumfries work showing oats grain up 50 percent and straw up 85 percent in 1916.
A dialogue notes planting pots in two separate gardens with the pots set two miles apart. The speaker confirms the two locations are far apart and describes the arrangement of the pots in each garden.
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