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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1901
Page
7
Local notes record farm, business, and social updates from Big Timber and surrounding towns. Items include county officer changes, church services, arrivals and departures, shipments of sheep, coal quality, and community events amid snow and upcoming elections.
Section Foreman William Houghton was killed near the water tank four miles from town when a freight train passed over him after he stepped onto coal cars. He attempted to climb away as the train started but his hold broke and he was dragged under the cars.
After a two week holiday scholars resume studies with Miss Lillian Harrison teaching the room vacated by Miss Stellah Walker the county superintendent. Ninth grade reading Hamlet, eighth grade geography and history to replace physiology and civics, and Friday debates in Mr. Connor's room. New scholars include Bessie Leasby Clyde Curtis Clara and Millie Forsythe and others. sickness absences noted among several students and staff. A recipe for freezer cream from January Ladies' Home Journal is included.
Ayeits the photographer announces a January promotion offering a free 16x20 Platino Portrait with every order of a dozen cabinet photos. The novelty portrait is pitched as superior to crayon portraits to promote advertising nationwide.
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