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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1899
Page
3
A veteran lion tamer discusses the dangers and methods of handling large cats. He recalls injuries from lions in Manchester and New York, explains training steps from cage work to jaw-prying, and notes that lionesses can be deadly, having killed multiple keepers and horses.
A Brooklyn pastor, now elderly, recalls a five year old elopement with a young couple who paid him with two pennies after the ceremony. Years later the groom returns with his wife, presenting a $50 check as thanks, saying the bride proved valuable beyond the joke. The matter surfaces again as the son witnesses the reunion.
Springfield Missouri, a Chicago Record dispatch reports Skinch Painter a seventy year old man in Stone county near the Ozark mountains has never worked for his life. He believes the world owes a living to all and that labor is a sin. He has fished hunted and fiddled through life and says he has never suffered hunger or need of money. He was born in the Ozarks and has never married. His brothers nearby are prosperous farmers but Painter has not seen kin for twenty years though they live within fifty miles.
George J. Fuller trotting horse expert sails for Russia to teach the czar and royal family how to drive trotting horses. The Civil War veteran, over 60, says he knows nearly every trotting horse in the country and believes they know him.
In parts of Russia the food available to common people is severely limited to acorns leaves and the soft bark of trees. The report highlights hunger and scarcity affecting daily meals and survival.
In a country hotel tale, Joseph Fitzgerald woos Alice Devine while Tom Prince loves her from afar. Aunt Dinah, the housekeeper, reveals the ruse by lighting the hall to expose Fitzgerald’s claim, leaving him to flee by morning train to New York.
A French proposal seeks a practical beggar and tramp law to curb crime while aiding those able but unemployed. It would send able beggars to labor houses and require police to identify unknowns, with 25 000 tramp records noted in a single day in 1895 as part of ongoing inquiries.
The German Kaiser met one of his godchildren in Remscheid and a boy chosen to present a bouquet refused to give up the flowers. The Kaiser laughed, patted the boy, and awarded fifty marks for stubbornness.
A promotional offer by grocers gives the first five buyers of the Endless Chain Starch Book a free large 10c package of Red Cross starch or Hubinger's Best starch plus Shakespeare prints. After the first terms, others receive two large starch packages, and premiums like a Twenty Century Girl calendar. The campaign promotes Red Cross starch as a leading new product from J. C. Hubinger.
A child named Willie disappoints his father by bringing home a scrapbook titled Points Sacter, prompting a wary family moment about their reputation.
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