24 Dec 1903
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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
1
Just received a carload of furniture carpets and bedding for the holiday trade. The stock includes chairs couches china closets tables music racks book cases paper racks curtains pictures and frames rugs and art squares. Also stocked in the Lumber Department are building materials sash and doors window glass paints oils varnishes alabastine lime cement stucco paper coal and wood.
Advertiser seeks 240 to 400 cattle for winter. Guarantee against all loss except disease. Will care for cattle with straw and hay as needed until April 10 at 84 per head. Address provided upon contact.
The M W of A Big Timber Camp No 10610 holds Saturdays at 8 30 at K P Hall with officers listed. Notices include a 1903 circular from McMillan Fur & Wool Co and a large bounty offer by J C Farrington of Melville for stolen stock and missing saddle horse. District Court terms for 1904 are announced for Park Carbon and Sweet Grass counties.
A writer in Everybody's Magazine muses on the mind as a gatekeeper between sane thoughts and a mob of irrational ideas. He describes how the inhibitive faculty filters content by day and how sleep loosens the gate, letting a flood of scrambled words fall apart as patterns fade from view.
A critic discusses how silhouette portraits reveal facial flaws in profile, noting that even slight deviations in the nose and lips can distort the figure. The piece questions whether American profiles surpass others and reflects on the difficulty of faithful delineation in shadow pictures.
The head hunter trade on Solo Mon involves killing targets for their heads or selling victims for sacrifices. Payment is often in native shell currency, with stealth and long-planned moves to strike while the victim trusts the killer as a close ally. A legend links a bell’s phantom tone to looming danger near Point Prim after a French attack.
A writer recalls a vivid natural encounter near Bordi where a black ant with brown wings clings to a cricket. a common brown lizard stalks and finally seizes the prey, then flees up a wall. The piece also notes Wall Caine’s publishing judgment and a budding author’s plea.
A German physician proposes that hunger stems from cripliness of stomach vessels and blood rush during digestion. He notes that anemia with no appetite shows congested vessels when stomach is empty and links appetite to nerves shared with mouth and tongue. A tongue stimulus can boost appetite while tongue nerve disease may suppress it.
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