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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1894
Page
7
Six friends in Louisville pledged not to marry until all did. A year later one couple became engaged but others remained single. Six months on a third pairing formed, but one woman balked until she finally yielded. The three weddings were held by a justice of the peace arranged in a horseshoe formation.
Thomas D. Bullinger of Govans owns an antique mechanism crafted by a venerable Nurnberg clockmaker. At each hour the clock emits two German airs while twelve five inch figures dance in couples. Musicians sit behind the dial playing cornet drum and clarinet as a clown claps. The piece performs twenty four German tunes.
A sharp critique of urban civilization noting the need for a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The piece denounces the mistreatment of horses and calls out those who pretend to be “a little lower than angels,” arguing protection is essential.
An advertisement touts pellets as a cure for bilious headaches dizziness and digestive distress with sugar coated granules sold as a daily dinner pill. It urges readers to request a free sample from the Worp's Dispensary Medical Association at 653 Main Street Buffalo New York.
William L. Douglas, president of the W L Douglas Shoe Co, provides every factory worker in Montello with a card to obtain free medical care. He champions employer concern and arbitration, hoping to reduce labor troubles by showing workers they are not enemies but partners.
An excerpt profiles plantation Christmas customs in Maryland with Dr John Williamson Palmer praising old church and rural life. It describes slave labor and joy of holidays including log fires, dances, corn songs, and kitchen gifts amid a festive Christmas week at Audley manor and surrounding quarters.
A Madison Avenue streetcar incident sparked a muttered remark about “them dudes is queer.” A mild young man sharing a cigar with two riders faced theft of his light and an accidental blaze when a firework sparked from a rival’s pipe. The exchange ended with a clipped defense of accidental mischief and the slur.
A 19th century classified style ad claims deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh deafness case cured only by Hall's Catarrh Cure and lists circulars, with products sold by Druggists at 75 cents and Family Pills at 25 cents.
R H Allen a florist at 34 Church Street has lived for over thirty years with an esophagus so blocked that food cannot pass. Doctors deemed the condition inexplicable and incurable, yet he maintains health by rapidly swallowing liquids to drive food into the stomach.
A humorous snippet shows Miss Ricketts and Sue in conversation with Miss Flypp remarking on a new pair of silk stockings and a dry spell. The odd image of a folding bed turning playful adds local color to the scene.
The tale recalls a drought when two Windham ponds housed rival bullfrogs. A twelve hour battle on the land bridge between ponds drew farmers and townsfolk, transforming a frog skirmish into local legend cited by Youth's Companion.
The Modern Mother notes that her children respond better to Syrup of Figs for gentle relief than to other laxatives. She finds children enjoy it and benefit from its mild effect. The California Fig Syrup Co. claims sole rights to the true remedy.
A jumble of clipped quotations and advertisements from an old publication. Items reference spurious Rubens works and a postal card offer by A. S. Fielding, with notices for Piso's Remedy, Hegeman's Camphart, Clariovo products, and Baby teething remedies. The tone matches a 19th century miscellany column.
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