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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1898
Page
6
A fragment notes Bin Cimber Pioneer associated with Big Timber Montana. The readable text is sparse, offering no clear event or date to establish a full news item. Further context is needed to determine the main action or outcome.
A Detroit woman suggests a simple separation might end disputes over divorce rather than lengthy court battles. She asked her husband to flip a cent to decide whether to stay together, questioning the legality and propriety of protracted court cases.
The text notes a Kipling ballad praising Field Marshal Lord Roberts known as Little Bobs. It remarks that officers prone to bluster might heed the verse and consider Roberts' reputation.
A New York Press correspondent contrasts clergymen praying for Spain to sink ships with the idea of prayers for the American navy. He muses that faith is fine but keeping powder dry is safer, since supplication might work both ways and equalize effects.
The Chicago Post reports a club treasurer solves balance problems by adding receipts, subtracting outlays, and asking her husband for a check to cover the net. The remark notes that many expatriated cashiers lack husbands to supply such funds.
Observers noted Prince Bismarck using a gold handled cane at his eighty third birthday celebration. The sight evoked memories of the first emperor William leaning on Bismarck as a strong staff guiding him toward the imperial throne.
A New York man gave his fiancée two brand new front teeth as a wedding gift to fill a gap. On the highway he tried to pluck them from the gap and was fined ten collars by the magistrate. The piece humorously suggests he should have given a full set, a wig, and a cork leg.
W S Gilbert sought five thousand dollars in damages after a London paper described him as pompous envious and ungrateful the jury disagreed. He notes his own satirical edge targets men women and ideas and views critics as fair game while implying critics should tolerate commentary in return.
Muncie and Richmond in Indiana adopt a city managed garden plan. Richmond has run multi year trials. the program hires the poor, allocates over 150 vacant lots, and provides seeds while the city covers costs. Families tend and harvest crops to winter food, reducing charity need.
A lyric fragment matching a poem about a girl who smiled in a crowded street. Lines evoke a bright moment guiding a lone observer toward hope. The passage cites Joseph Dana Miller and Atlanta Constitution as its source.
A Boston Sunday school teacher never gave up on a troubled pupil who grew reckless and defiant. After years he reformed, thanked her for patience, and, meeting again in California, revealed he owed his current manhood to her steadfast kindness and Christian teachings.
A reminiscence on Lake Superior’s peril and persistence as many drownings occur in rough seas. The writer recalls early French explorers and later victims, noting preserved bodies in cool water and heroic recoveries near shore. A clergyman recalls the ill fated Algoma wreck eight years ago.
A fragmentary quotation notes a man speaking at a funeral about one life saved by rescue from wreckage and a vessel tragedy with thirty eight lost, tied to a timbers incident and non sinking description.
The article describes feeding a dog from kitchen scraps to save on buying biscuits. It instructs saving soup residue, adding surplus milk, then mixing ground farm feed sifted to remove oats, and enriching with soda and baking powder. Bake into biscuits or drop batter on pans and bake until brown.
Herbert Spencer cites that his first twelve years of writing yielded no profits for papers or printing and left him poorer. Yet forty million readers demanded five gratis copies of each work, likening it to Lazarus begging alms. The London Times notes the paradox.
A Punch cartoon scene shows a witty exchange where a woman asks a major to guess her age and the major replies he cannot, noting she does not look her age. The caption labels the moment as gallantry personified.
Professor Alleson of the Berlin Geographical Society describes Dawson's Island in the Pacific as a vast flat tableland littered with decaying ruins. Gigantic volcanic rock heads, 10 to 30 feet high, line ledges on a mountain where ancient workshops stood. The site yields striking human-like faces with long chins and expanded nostrils, seen amid remarkable archaeological remains.
Mrs. E. V. Lewis spends four months chasing her spouse around the world. After following him from England to South Africa, Australia, and China, she sailed from Vancouver to Skaguay to confront him. The Englishman, said to be somewhat unreliable, sparked a police search with a flamboyant display aboard a previous voyage.
A historic note recalls Joseph Marsden in Hilo using legerdemain to palm a $10 gold piece during a church collection. The tale: the coin vanished from the bag, later returned by the deceiver. The fragment ends with a quip about Briggs and a club life.
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