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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1901
Page
5
A compilation of scientific curiosities and travel feats from the era. It notes the best documented globe circumnavigation times, discusses the equator’s length, and mentions far flung challenges and a critic of the feasibility. It also includes a comic anecdote about Bible usage in China, naval captainage on ships, and a Brooklyn man’s cat volts prank.
Arley Ransome visits his daughter Hildred at Halby House where she vents fear that Lord Caraven loves her less than his wealth and indolence. She confesses a growing dislike for her husband and loneliness, while her father urges patience and warns of a worsening marriage.
John McCarty leads a hunting party from Phoenix toward the San Francisco Mountains about 150 miles north of Flagstaff to bag California lions. The effort aims to curb their numbers, with hunters paid $20 per scalp and totals exceeding $100,000 paid in the last decade.
A short report notes mosaic work discovered near the owner of a small property, described as a modest site in a Jewish neighborhood. The item appears to be newly exposed, with no further details provided about origins or significance.
The Octago University Museum in Dunedin holds the world’s only complete moa egg. Once a giant flightless bird of New Zealand, moa stood about fourteen feet tall and has been extinct since the mid seventeenth century. The egg was found by a gold dredge worker in auriferous sand along a New Zealand river.
An old Irish servant, once in India, recounts a battle incident in England where he saw a rider fall dead and his own pistol discharge into his horse. He recalls that what struck him most was the bullets that missed him.
A historical note on the shift from male control to the bachelor girl as women gain independent access to homes and doors. Keys, chains, and pocket designs evolve from traditional male prerogatives to jewelry attached to the dress, signaling new freedoms. The piece traces key rings, buttoned waistcoats, and decorative silver designs accompanying a liberated lifestyle and responsibility for securing personal spaces.
The Baltimore Sun notes a cotton mill near completion at Concord North Carolina owned exclusively by colored people. It will have 7000 to 10000 spindles and 150 to 250 looms in a three story brick building 120 by 80 feet with engine and boiler houses and a water tower. Operation expected by April first. Wilmington colored residents have invested about 4000 dollars.
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