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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1900
Page
2
A fragment from Big Timber Montana reflects on luxury, gossip, and public opinion. The piece contrasts the New York coffee scare with local attitudes while noting time reveals deeds and misdeeds. It mentions a eyebrows-raising line about a Greater Joliet in criminal circles.
An aphorism notes that a man’s reputation for goodness often rests on his skill at concealing his bad traits. The observation implies moral ambiguity and the performative aspect of virtue.
A compact reflection on humor as enlightening in literature, wit as a bright spark, and sarcasm as a torch dimmed by prejudice, highlighting how language exposes bias and sharpens critique.
Chicago engineers design a steel palace for the crown prince of Japan with American steel, backed by a 3 million dollar appropriation. Foundations laid to start in February. granite and marble exterior will surpass any in the orient. The Tokyo palace adjoins the Mikado’s royal home, spanning 270 by 400 feet and 60 feet high, with French Renaissance styled architecture.
The piece warns that a $200 million sugar glucose trust merger will include several million dollars of stock backed by little real investment. It doubts promoters can avoid diluting property value and jokes a prize for anyone who can prove a share represents tangible investment after five more years of promotions.
The Russian government abandons plans to adopt the Gregorian calendar citing impossibility to harmonize religious festival dates with both calendars. The piece notes that England shifted twelve days a century and a half ago amid protests, contrasting with Russia’s restraint.
The contention that white men cannot acclimate to the tropics sparks debate with Dr. Manson and Dr. Rico supporting acclimatization. European death rates in tropics have fallen from 100–129 to about 12 per 1,000 in India, with Trinidad and Barbados showing lower mortality than home.
In a Chicago conflagration, Phelim O Leary risked his life to save Maggie Drennan from the Nenawbash flats blaze. He carried a fainting woman to safety, then descended with Maggie in his arms as onlookers cheered.
A Bloomington Pantograph anecdote recalls ticket window mishaps. A countryside man demanded refunds after buying two village tickets just as two ladies did, and a Western congressman clashed with an operator over telegrams. The piece ends with a minister’s ticket versus a farmer’s bid.
John L. Blackford, a state detective known along the Central Railroad line in New Jersey, openly wed Miss Alice Morgan in Westfield while still married to his first wife, Miss Ullrich. He borrowed money to keep up appearances, arranged a second ceremony, and even invited reporters to both weddings before arrest.
The London Mail outlines a regimen to ease insomnia caused by brain overactivity. It recommends slow breathing and a sequence of arm and leg stretches, performed before sleep, to improve circulation and warm extremities, aiding deeper rest.
A man asks a dentist to examine his teeth. The dentist calls them magnificent. When pressed the dentist reveals many teeth must be pulled filled or crowned, turning the praise into a practical verdict. The joke rests on misaligned expectations.
Mrs Flats asks why steam is in the pipes as Mr Flats explains the janitor is away and his wife cannot manage the systems leaving the house in disarray. The exchange appears in the Syracuse Herald as a humorous domestic moment.
Profile of Harry B. Smith as a prolific comic opera writer. He delivers multiple works each season, often finishing new pieces overnight. His output astonishes peers as he appears casually busy while producing four or five works before each opera is staged.
The article explains Sabbath as a Hebrew term meaning rest and notes its biblical use for yearly and seven year periods. It states the seventh day was a weekly Sabb orthod, and that additional days required rest. It asserts Sunday is named for the sun worship day, while Christians keep Sabbath on Sunday though Sabbath itself is not Sunday.
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