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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
7
A December Woman's Home Companion piece by Anna Steele Richardson advises practical shopping for working women. It warns against shoddy bargain counters, stresses budgeting, and urges visiting reputable stores for efficient, businesslike purchasing to avoid waste and disappointment.
Superintendent Cooley reports to the Chicago board of education about initiation stunts imposed on high school girls by a society. Hazing acts include bending to touch floor a hundred times, breaking eggs on the head, molasses searches, eating unpleasant items, pouring water down sleeves, taking poison, walking on corn, candle grease branding on hands, and india ink branding. The report cites the severity and need for action.
A male student endures a sequence of risky stunts during an alleged initiation into a school fraternity. Authorities investigate the events amid concern over student safety and the school's handling of hazing practices.
Armed guards patrol the Blaine school district near Altoona Pennsylvania as ferocious bears raid farms nightly. Pigs and livestock are killed, children are chased, and fathers with shotguns escort pupils to school. A coordinated bear hunt by neighboring districts is planned to drive the animals back to the mountains.
The Washington Herald reports George B. McClelland of Big Horn County, famed as Bear George after a bear-hunting spree, will join Wyoming’s legislature this winter. He stands well over six feet, sports a blond mustache, and is reputed for riding “anything with hair on it.” He and W A Richards, soon-retiring land office official, own a Big Horn ranch where bears linger but sheep are reportedly undisturbed.
M Santos-Dumont predicts the Paris to London journey could be completed by steerable balloon in two hours. The London Globe notes the feat is possible but the public would still favor the six hour land and water trip plus a half hour wait at Charing Cross to confirm if any French cigars or cigarettes were imported.
Thomas F. Ryan announces in New York his resignation from numerous railroad and industrial company directorships as heavy duties and stockholder obligations overwhelm his capacity. He cites severing ties to better serve financial institutions with which he is associated. E. H. Harriman comments on railroads and expansion. Hill grants stock bonus to Great Northern stockholders and merges Burlington lines. Concessions in Kongo Free State involve American capitalists led by Ryan and Rockefeller Jr. in rubber and copper ventures. Lords strike education bill clause. Morocco tension grows with warships deployed.
The British foreign secretary warned Belgium of possible action if it fails to act in the Kongo Free State crisis. In Rome, a bomb exploded at St Petronilla during a Vatican mass, causing panic but no serious injuries. the attacker remains at large and the pope condemned the act while receiving assassination threats.
President Truesdale of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western announced a ten hour day for all trainmen after engineers and others had already received the concession. The move aims to apply where possible in railroad operations while firemen remained dissatisfied. Fall River strike averted as textile workers reject 5 percent offer, then accept 10 percent after employers grant the raise.
Secretary Hitchcock endorses Mellon & Co for a 7 million dollar pipeline from Bartlesville Indian Territory to Port Arthur Texas to challenge Standard Oil in the southwest. W L Mellon says the project will avoid Standard Oil and reach valuable Indian Territory oil. Eight inch pipe to cover a wide area. Also notes U S apple crop expected at over 36 million bushels, up 12.5 million from last year.
Dr Daniel of Austin Texas, president of the conference, argues tuberculosis prevention depends on strict science. He blames urban living for spread and claims neither contagious nor hereditary factors drive the disease. public spaces and churches he calls breeding grounds and “black holes of Calcutta” due to shared air in large congregations.
The fourteenth annual report of President Schurman shows Cornell enrollment at 3 461, double the size when he began. Women students total 871, about 10 percent. Public schools supply 58 percent of entrants while private schools yield 42 percent. failures are higher among private school graduates, prompting faculty to consider ending admission by certificate from private schools.
At Carnegie hall New York a meeting presided by Joseph H Choate planned a permanent bronze memorial for Carl Schurz and foundations to support public causes he championed. Speakers included ex President Cleveland Harvard President Eliot Secretary Bonaparte Booker T Washington and others. Accidents and Disasters summary of storms wrecks and deaths follows.
Mrs Elsie Clews Parsons argues for early complete marital disruption with breakable bonds, state supervised child training, and license details on health and experience. She favors stricter divorce laws for parents, equal moral accountability, and professional nursing oversight at home and school. Government efforts aim to combat tuberculosis with a new biennial congress in New York.
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