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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1909
Page
2
A traveler recalls a cholera outbreak in Buenos Ayres years ago. He describes a street scene where a man collapsed and a policeman allegedly used poison as a public health measure. The ambulance arrived too late and the witness labeled the action murder not medicine.
Fashionable women in London and Paris favor artificial flower fans. Mrs Potter Palmer popularized lilies of the valley fans with delicate cut petals and bare ribs. The crescent arrangement and silk bow create the appearance of a vase of flowers. They come in lilies of the valley Parma violets and roses and may appear in the United States soon.
The grill room at the Plaza hotel in New York will be transformed into an ice skating rink from June 16 until cold weather returns. An orchestra in white uniforms will perform daily, and skates will be provided to hotel guests and their friends. Ice will be laid over the tile floor using piping from the engine room.
A patriot calls a man’s vote too precious to waste while a senator notes that many people he knows value it highly to the point of not giving it away. The exchange reflects differing views on suffrage and civic responsibility.
In a Washington Star poem the baseball bug teases the lazy germ about a coming season. The piece likens crowds gathering for games to a blaze of flame and predicts the impact of baseball on politics and business as a leading firm in affairs.
A compilation of letters from Big Timber residents and businessmen detailing crop yields and profits in Sweet Grass County. Reports cover oats barley wheat potatoes alfalfa timothy and sugar beets on irrigated and dry land. Authors include Jacob L Rapstad Chas McDonnell Wesley Davis and Charles Lippy noting favorable climate and strong fruit production.
George W. Kinne of Massillon Ohio says he bought a pair of fleas in a Mexico City department store. The male wears trousers and a coat while the female has a short skirt and bodice. Both wear caps with aigrets and were reportedly dressed by native Indians. The fleas are small like typical U.S. fleas.
Berlin installs compass points in city sidewalks to aid perplexed pedestrians. The project marks an unusual street signage effort likely aiming at improving wayfinding for locals and visitors alike.
Ten years ago 556 Americans lived in Mexico City and the city’s directory shows 6745. A made in Baltimore exposition is planned for Monumental City next Easter. Lovelock Nevada burned wood to survive a fuel shortage as the mercury stood at 30 below. New York aims to be the world’s greatest city by 1920 with an estimated 9,848,000 residents versus London’s 8,940,000.
Returns of the railway clearing house in London show 1000 parcels a day lost on UK railways. US railroads report 47 000 engines 40 000 passenger cars and 1 760 000 freight cars. A Red Sea railway line from Suakin to Khartum is nearly done crossing the Atbara. Ancient oats noted by Hebrews and Egyptians as unfamiliar.
The example shows 2,400 grade Cotswald ewes produced 2,150 lambs and 19,200 pounds of wool sold for 4224. Buck lambs 350 head sold for 2800, 49 lambs remain, rest sold for 9175. Gross receipts 16199. Feeding costs include 200 tons alfalfa and 100000 pounds screenings valued at 1900.
Krupp director Baron von Bodenhausen, after touring New York skyscrapers, forecasts America will develop its own architecture within ten years. He notes Park Row’s past ugliness, praises the Metropolitan Life building, and sees harmony between body and tower shaping a distinctive national style.
In Paris a rising fad features humorous grotesque photographs. Several photographers publish surreal images such as a woman with her head in a peach basket hat, a man admiring his own face, and another in a coffin listening to a self delivered funeral oration.
A historical note traces boulevard and esplanade from military terms to civilian spaces. It cites the boulevard as the empty space between citadel glacis and town, and the esplanade from French and Latin roots meaning to smooth or level.
A terse classroom exchange about who gained from others' labor fills a damaged OCR page. The fragment hints at a lesson on the wrong of idleness with a rickety quote about corn and a student named Lane, but most details are unreadable.
A humorous Brooklyn Life item notes a couple's flirtation turning practical when one partner reconsiders love at first sight and opts for a second look. The bit reflects witty social observations in a light daily column.
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