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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
3
The Midland Empire Fair features free for all trot and pace events with purses up to 1000 dollars, running races with total purses around 500 dollars, and a cowboy relay for cowboys and cow ponies. Entries close Sept 1 for relays and Sept 3 for first day harness races. extra prizes for cow boy and Indian races.
Readable lines describe a chaotic scene with references to people, places, and actions. Key names and entities are obscured, but the passage mentions a race, fraud, traffic issues, a slide rule, tables, and seeds. The text remains garbled and lacks a coherent single event.
Detroit News notes Covenhaven’s appointment of Boevedt as Danish minister to Iceland. It traces his bloodline through Icelandic Tulinius and Thorfinn Karlsefni, describing Karlsefni as the first white man in America and linking Boevedt to a long Norse heritage.
The Hood, the famed battleship, recently fitted with a large oil-fueled cooking galley from the Clyde. Oil propulsion has long been used in the navy, but cooking by oil is new. The galley serves 1,200 men and uses pressurized oil with atomizing air to produce a hot, clean white flame. No residue or odor remains, reducing contamination risk.
The article notes a major scientific effort to measure the earths crust, with studies in Hawaii Tuscany and Salvador highlighting shell composition and movement. Additional tests in New South Wales relate to a large water reservoir pressing on milted ground and instrumented crust movements. New light emerges on volcanic action.
An author reflects on fatigue being a feeling of weariness not laziness. He urges writing great thoughts immediately, noting posterity may read them. The piece contrasts misattribution by friends and stresses the value of capturing insight when first conceived.
Popular Mechanics highlights Professor J Q Arnald of Sheffield who first introduced vanadium into tool steel. His latest alloy replaces tungsten with molybdenum at six percent, delivering vastly greater cutting power and faster production than prior vanadium alloys.
Emma Gary Wallace notes Europe’s shift to typewriters postwar, with exports rising from 40 to 60 percent and France debating the legality of typed deeds. The piece argues credit and lower price rises will boost supplies, while stressing education and parental guidance to keep youths in school for future gains.
The article argues that in an era of specialists a young man must pursue training, experience, and study to rise beyond initial wages. Without formal preparation for a higher field his chances of advancement are negligible. It emphasizes ongoing self-improvement as essential for growth.
Air lines link Paris and London with aircraft carrying 12 to 50 passengers per flight. Police in some cities are training to fly to police the skies as air travel expands. The flying era is dawning.
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