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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1908
Page
5
Advice on cleaning kitchen walls with light tinted coatings and alabastined finishes to reveal dirt. Warns against glue based plasters and horse hoofs in wall coatings. Recommends regular spring and fall coatings and yearly pantry brushing plus putty filling of ant and mouse holes to protect food areas.
A stranger asks if the rum demon still roams Georgia and is told no drinkers will find easy access. The response shifts to a challenge: to get a drink, one must hunt for it, implying strict enforcement or scarcity.
Mrs David Brown of Locke Ark describes two years of eczema worsened by two doctors and failing ointments. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills three times her ankles healed quickly and she slept, free of itch and pain, with no relapse after a year.
A playful exchange about a performer who claims a comic talent to wiggle ears and whistle through teeth. The dialogue hints at a lighthearted, high class comedy concept in development.
A humorous exchange in Skart Stories where a patient purchaser resists pressure while an automobile salesman urges focus on the finish. The back and forth captures classic sales banter with a hint of comic timing as the buyer stalls.
William Barringford Everston, head of the New Peerless Patagonian Mining Company, traps a burglar in his bedroom after a midnight intrusion. The magnate mocks cops, questions the thief, and ultimately tethers the captive while a shadowy second figure helps ransack Everston’s bureau.
A reporter notes that many Mexican professionals and middle class individuals routinely carry large sums of money, often 1000 to 2000 pesos, on their person, sometimes surprising travelers. An anecdote describes a man offering to change a $1000 bill and another producing nearly $2000 from his wallet.
A Newport dinner tale features a famed authoress joking about Russians. She claims they are ardent lovers with surrender or death as options, prompting the foreign guest to quip that he now believes in a resurrection.
In a colloquial note the speaker mocks doctors for finding another disease while muttering about rheumatism cures. The excerpt centers on Mrs Hayrix reading and Hiram reacting with impatience at medical discoveries.
In a humorous Washington musings piece the rival contest for the Senate reading clerk is recounted. An elevator incident in a large department building illustrates official overreach and commuter agitation as bureau officers pull runaway trips to the fifth floor while others are left waiting. A wedding reception moment adds contrast with a groom declaring his bride his violet and sheltering oak.
The piece notes seat assignments in the Senate described as a parade of figures. It calls Jeff Davis the first minority seat speaker who vowed not to feed from corporate hands, then mentions Bob Taylor, William James Bryan, William Pinckney White, John Bankhead, Gore, and Owen with brief, colorful labels.
Miss Sherife Mehmed Ali, nine, daughter of the Turkish minister to the United States, acts as interpreter for her father. She is fluent in English, educated in Constantinople high schools, and described as pretty with a cherub face and long braid.
In Washington a young man told the president he had married a year earlier and was already a father. The president replied I congratulate you stating it is pleasanter to be a loving sire than a sighing lover.
A brief dialogue contrasts Caroline and Pauline on truth and gossip. Caroline believes she speaks truth while Pauline notes truth can be the harsh form of gossip, signaling a meta view on characterization and rumor.
Mrs James M Long of Staunton Virginia testifies that Doans Kidney Pills cured her backache and urinary troubles in January 1908 and that by June 20 1907 four and a half years later she had no kidney trouble. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
A cryptic note describes a betrothed pair, a homely girl and a man named Tin. The fiancé worries the relationship hinges on money. A candid friend urges cheer, noting he must endure the situation for a year.
Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin advertises Salzer's Emperor William Oats and Silver King Barley claiming superior yields. The notice promises an original seed catalog with samples, a dry soil survival test, and a bonus seed package for sending 100 to receive the catalog.
A reflective line questions whether a girl reading fiction secretly imagines herself as the central heroine. The suggestion explores identity and literary self-perception in a concise vignette.
Advertising blurb touts Brown's Bronchial Troches as a 25 cent box that provides immediate relief for sore throats while asserting they contain nothing injurious. The ad closes with a humorous line about time, tide, and a woman putting on her hat.
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