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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1902
Page
2
Laura Kirkton, weary of society, travels to a remote coast where a life saving crew battles a fierce reef. Captain Wal said risks his life to save others, and Winnifred, moved by his bravery, nurses him back to health and falls in love as he asks to repay her with a life together.
A woman whispers her belief that life will be harder with her partner. After he leaves she smiles, thinking he isn’t marrying her for money and that he suspects nothing.
Mrs Sophronia Phelps of Rockville Orleans County New York marked her ninety third birthday with an old fashioned reception. A cane made from the wood of the first apple tree planted in western New York drew most attention, linked to Col Miles of Ruckville. The tree’s origin traces to Mrs Dunham who brought seeds from New York City and traveled via Albany and the Mohawk to the Erie County area.
Congressman Cummings and a friend visit a fashionable Southern winter resort hotel for rest. They enjoy a grand stay but are stunned by a large bill. A hostess offers a souvenir to ease memory, and he replies he wants one to forget the trip rather than remember it.
The Pittsburg Dispatch notes Mrs. Seton Thompson wore a belt of silver Chinese characters formed into a belt two years ago. A Chinese owner explains the two wishes the belt expresses, one wishing fifty sons and the other enemies to die by torture. The humorous exchange highlights language and cultural oddities in fashion.
The loving cup blends claret with other liquors and spices in a long held secret of wine masters. The ritual surrounding its passing and the guest’s double handed lift creates a rich fragrance and deep satisfaction, contrasting with critics who crave only a small sip of old brandy.
Two finback whales about 45 feet long became trapped in a narrow Eastport cove after wandering from Passamaquoddy Bay. Indian hunters and local riflemen fired, wounded the animals, and they were harpooned. the carcasses will be given to the Indians and sold for bones and oil once sightseeing ends.
In 1832 the Canter bury chapter opened Henry IV's royal tomb in Canterbury Cathedral revealing a lead wrapped body with preserved features before dust. A beard fragment was cut and later given to the Duke of Northumberland. hair now rests at Alnwick as recounted in Links with the Past by Mrs Bagot.
The article notes fogginess is worst over the Newfoundland banks and the east coast of England due to shallow, cold seas over sandbanks. It explains the gulf stream creates heighted temperature differences, causing visible vapor. Fogs peak in autumn as warm ground air rises into the cooler atmosphere.
The origin of pearls is explained by a living organism forming the nucleus. A French naturalist, M. Ralph Duvois, shows all pearls in mollusks are cysts housing distomes, tiny marine worms that become coated with lime to form pearls. In August young distomes appear as points, later becoming black specks, then pearls that persist until summer when they drop apart. The parasite then resumes activity. if it dies the crust remains, making a pearl the sarcophagus of a long dead worm.
Medical Examiner Dr Llewellyn Jordan of the U S Treasury and Dr George C Havener of Anacostia D C praise Peruna Medicine Co. Cols for relief from catarrh and general improvement. They urge readers to contact Dr Hartman for free advice if results are not prompt and satisfactory.
Winsted Connecticut correspondent reports Henry C. Gableman, who profited selling apples bearing a McKinley bust, purchased Schultz farm on Ellen's Hill with a premier local orchard. He plans to stamp a Roosevelt head with a shaved hat on apples for the coming season but will not reveal his process.
In a New York Mail and Express piece Harry explains a red tie as part of a system to draw attention away from his face and nose. He asserts the tie makes observers fix on his attire rather than scrutinize him, comparing the effect to battles and a life preserver on a boat. Ike questions the plan.
Lake Sarah Minnesota May 12 Readers learn that Mrs Hildebrandt of the town claims Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her rheumatism after many prior treatments. She describes relief from pain preventing sleep and notes she is now real well and grateful.
An advance agent confronts a man approaching and mistakes him for a hotel runner. The man offers terms to theatrical people from one to ten years. He insists he does not represent a hotel but the law, claiming to be a judge in the court over there.
The Northern Pacific crack train of the Northwest begins its third season on May 4. The service travels via Butte Spokane Seattle to Tacoma and Portland confirming its route and status as the line’s premier train.
The brief mentions Dr Rindlaurer a specialist in eye ear nose and throat based in Fargo North Dakota. It also includes a quip about money and perception of foolishness.
Advertisement promises a guaranteed cough remedy with a bottle and die, urging trial to avoid loss and promising reimbursement if relief is not achieved. The text includes promotional language and appeals to consumer risk.
IL 8S Hallenbeck of Chicago reports cure of boils after using Cole's Carbolisalve with no medicine. The message extols the salve and ends with a quip about women's tenderness, noting no woman would step on a mouse.
An ad from Monroe Drug Co of Unionville Missouri offers a ten cent refund for every package if customers are dissatisfied. The copy adds a note about necessity being the mother of invention and then misquotes a proverb about plenty.
The readable text mixes an old patent medicine claim about Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup with a quotation on revolutions distinguishing makers and profiteers. The fragment provides no identifiable persons, organizations, places, dates, or events to anchor a proper news item.
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