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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1898
Page
3
A report notes M. Chacot’s enterprise to manufacture spiders silk. Spiders will be kept at regular hours, fed, and restored after use, with replacements taking their place on the bobbin.
Last week patents issued include a fabric turfing machine by Cameron from Minnes ot e e and a friction arch pulley by Ole Granum of Montevid Minn drill brace. The brief mentions St Paul Minnesota and other names in a terse inventor list.
The speaker, a writer, muses on a mental signal like a typewriter bell that warns when a line ends and a fresh start is needed. He admits he lacks a real brain bell but senses an inner cue guiding his work with less certainty.
Fragmentary notes describe a rainy parade and a soap promotion offering a gilt mantel clock as a prize. Mentions a worn umbrella and valuable prizes, with emphasis on promotional gimmicks and weather affecting events.
In Boston Pennsylvania, striking coal miners clash with plant boss Andrew Borland as eight women from Lovedale Hollow whitewash him after an insult. Borland, beaten and humiliated, plans assault and riot charges as the four week strike tests firm policy on pay and screen size.
A yokel on a fence is educated by a passing man about invisible messages and electric current. The conversation reveals two old telegraph workers who are installing new wires nearby.
A schoolmaster quotes an old precept to Willie Jones warning him about behavior. The boy responds with the witty comeback spare the rod and lose the fish, reflecting humorous dialect from Harper's Bazar.
A Detroit Free Press item quotes Little Jim eager for school to start not for study but to test his teacher on new geography. The playful remark captures school anticipation and curiosity about geographic knowledge.
A Detroit Free Press snippet notes Penelope’s new fall suit that becomes a fashion mishap. The piece playfully asks if rain caused the wreck, then reveals she attended a millinery opening that devolved into a chaotic bargain rush.
A Yonkers Statesman snippet shows Jill replying to Thea Bill about Small's 25-cent dinners. Jill says she ate three of them today at noon, highlighting a brisk lunch bargain amid a humorous exchange.
An old inn near Culpeper Court House Virginia supposedly inspired the cocktail. Col Carter of Culpeper Court House reportedly rejected a mishandled drink and created his own mixture of bitters sugar lemon peel and Holland gin. The tale claims this first cocktail sparked a lasting tradition.
An Indian Spectator summary notes a Bhattia widower about forty marries a Bhattia girl of about nine. The piece highlights the dramatic age gap and related tensions, including the widower’s daughter aged eight who teaches at a school run by the family. The nine year old’s objection creates a clash over schooling and social roles.
The editor in chief complains that books are sold at bookstalls while the managing editor explains the horse editor authored this week's reviews. The exchange reveals tensions within the Detroit Journal.
A New York Federated Women's Clubs meeting featured remarks on persistence and postage stamps as aids to success in literature. A speaker urged starting with ideas and warned against waiting for editors to recognize genius, noting stamps as a practical support rather than a sole path to achievement.
Indiana controls half the nation’s window glass plants and over one third of plate glass with a quarter of flint and green glass. The note suggests obtaining a complete prize list from Cudahy Packing Co. in Omaha. It ends with a quip about truth and a tramp preferring jail to publicity.
A parson comforts a desolate parishioner and discusses accepting providence despite trials. A poor man jokes that providence must stop it if it goes too far, while a woman vows to marry only a president who will christen battleships with water. The Chicago Record and Chicago Tribune anecdotes follow.
Great Britain leads in per capita beer consumption with 1.2 billion gallons yearly, about thirty gallons per person. Germany is second at 1.4 billion gallons or twenty seven gallons per inhabitant, while the average for the population is fifteen gallons per person.
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