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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
2
A cluttered advertisement page lists lost horses a brown colt and a bay gelding with brands on the left hips. It includes job bids for nursing care and at least one optical service visit by Dr Reivland at Grand Hotel, plus dozens of local sales and offers: tractors dress goods woolens farm machinery insurance poultry buyers hay and feed, real estate loans, and rental listings.
Household goods to be sold at private sale at the home on Third Avenue West on Saturday afternoon June 14. Conducted by Mrs. Jay Loving.
A 9.1 acre orchard in Washington will be sold on full payment terms. Livestock includes 0 head horses 15 head mules 20 Holstein milk cows 20 Shorthorn milk cows Mammoth Jack aged years. Seller Leo J. Cremer.
For sale our Oakland Six demonstrator Model 34 in first class condition looks like new. A bargain is taken soon. 2011 Douthett Williams.
Douthett & Williams advertise a 1917 Oakland Six touring car in first class condition with about 6000 miles. Includes a New Smith Form A Tractor attachment, special radiator, oil pump, and water circulator for Ford cars. Phone 73K.
Land listing offers 320 acres about two miles west of Big Timber adjoining H. O. Kellogg ranch on the east side. Terms described as easy. Inquire Glass Brothers 2011.
The Greek premier Venizelos is guarded by tall Cretan soldiers whose vivid uniforms outshine other nations. Guards arrive at the hotel and foreign office in rotating styles, featuring white tights, red blouses, turbans and long ivory knives, drawing curious crowds and mockery from onlookers.
Forbes Magazine notes Lord Curzon’s remark that allies rode to victory on a sea of oil and that four fifths of wartime petroleum came from America. It recalls the crisis when French and British forces faced fuel shortages and US aid under A C Bedford helped sustain naval and army operations, earning the Legion of Honor.
The term Jugo Slavs meaning South Slavs emerged as a political designation with unclear origin. It appeared perhaps first at a Corfu convention for a South Slav union. Archduke Francis Ferdinand had used the term for Slavic peoples of southern Austria Hungary Serbia and Montenegro. His plan aimed to unite South Slavs into one nation within Austria Hungary transforming the monarchy into three parts.
A seventeen year old high school cadet was recruited to train a group of grade school cadets in Indianapolis. The principal advised him to project importance so the boys would listen. He introduced himself as Captain Jones and asked the boys to salute him, and they complied.
At a friend's wedding the ceremony faced a mishap as the cake cutting stalled the knife midway and the table rocked dangerously, creating a moment of tension before stabilization.
The Athos peninsula in Greece, dominated by Mount Athos, hosts a thousand-year monastery realm where monks live in rigid ritual and vowed celibacy. Women are forbidden, rumors speak of escaped female visitors and a visiting English admiral’s daughter in disguise, highlighting the guardianship and myths surrounding the sacred ground.
The article traces early color tint discovery from English scientist Perkins in 1846 to the use of brown genesta plants by Irish and English dyers for yellows. It notes woad fermentation yields indigo, broom liquor achieves greens, and Scots use hehens for purples reds browns and yellows to dye clan tartans. It also mentions Tyrian purples and reds from lichens and lists plants like walnut green weed barberry and sea buckthorn used as dyestuffs in Ireland.
A Bath Maine man recalls his black cat swallowing a hooked minnow bait left on a kitchen hook. He cut the line leaving part of the hook and bait inside the animal, yet the cat shows no distress and remains healthy years later.
The piece notes that Japanese wrestlers come from fishing farming and forestry backgrounds and gain strength through training and hearty appetites. Trainers rally followers to banquets with large sake servings, echoing a Rabelaisian contrast to the foreign image of delicate tea sipping.
Fragmentary OCR text shows stray dialogue lines about a husband, horses and names with multiple typos and missing context. No coherent event or people are identifiable to summarize into a concrete news item.
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