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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1898
Page
6
A freight train derailment on the Burlington line sent one car laden with eggs into a ditch but every egg remained intact. The incident highlights the careful packing and handling now used in egg shipments.
The Topeka servant girls declare visitors will be admitted through the front door and hosted in the dining room, arguing that families are meant to serve servants rather than servants serving the family.
A German survey of sixty six army recruits finds twenty two unaware of Bismarck with misidentifications including the emperor of the French and dead ruler. One candidate even claims the Iron Chancellor is a Hohenzollern. The English journal notes similar ignorance elsewhere, but condemns lack of vision of Bismarck’s work.
As Mr. Buchanan returns to Buenos Ayres as United States minister he will be instructed to negotiate a parcel post treaty with Argentina. Small packages under eleven pounds could be mailed without consular invoices. Trade potential with South America and England is noted as a driving reason. Venezuela already has a treaty. Argentine government signals willingness to negotiate.
The piece argues headaches and nervous troubles stem from disorderly living and over stimulation. It cites a physician claiming 70 percent of nervous diseases come from tea and coffee, and Professor Spade warns these drinks are harmful to children, youths, and many adults.
Dispatches from Shanghai report China lacks a suitable naval port for five warships built abroad and due this summer. Wei Hai Wei’s potential evacuation by Japan leaves Pekin with nowhere to receive vessels, prompting remarks that China may have to sell its fleet to the highest bidder.
The speaker uses Job 37 21 to urge turning from melancholy to joy and to spot light in clouds. He warns that money can harm devotion, cites India wild animal deaths, and says financial misfortune can save souls and teach industry for children.
A minister urges making peace with loss, recasting death as a step toward heavenly joy. He contrasts earthly grief with the beauty of heaven, invites embracing eternal life, and uses vivid metaphors of spring and blossom week to comfort mourners.
McCarthy’s Life of Gladstone traces how the statesman’s visage shifts with age. In youth his face is pale and calm, later growing stern and resolute, then aging into a broad head with a genial smile.
A ranchman Samuel Dodge left Topeka area for Vinita Indian Territory on business. His five year old daughter Bessie wandered off to follow him. Mrs. Dodge and neighbors searched prairie and night for two days until an Indian man found the child asleep along an old road near Post Oak creek south of Post Oak.
A Newfoundland dog protecting a girl on a ranch was torn and bleeding as two wolves lay dead at his feet. The girl, dusty and tearful, was unharmed and escorted home twelve miles away. The dog died that night and a marble monument was ordered for his grave.
The Farmer Prosperity's Foundation outlook notes improved business and easier conditions than four years past. Granger Grip claims three gold brick sales, eight checks cashed, and sixteen jays shown around town versus last year's Central Park ticket sales.
A Modesty columnist quotes a history student remarking that greatness is harder to achieve today. Senator Sorghum agrees, adding that people seem to be better paid for greatness nowadays.
In a vivid old complaint, cigars are labeled weeds as scorchers and gossips spread rumors about neighbors. The column links tobacco slang to social scorn and community tensions.
An airy fleet of four sloops works with the wind to pump water from the Bronx river into a Williams Bridge farmhouse. They are built and rigged to glide on the wind, filling, jibbing, and tacking as they swing around the circle, often achieving great speed.
Six 1000 year old oak trunks were dredged from the river Maine near Karburg. The ebony black timbers drew scientist interest for their long underwater life. Such wood is rare and highly valuable for inlay work, given its durability and commercial worth.
The line notes that Shakespeare celebrated many heroines while featuring fewer male heroes, highlighting his affection for the fair sex across his plays.
French Sister of Mercy Marie Therese received the Legion of Honor in Tonquin as French troops paraded. Her brave career included wounds at Sebastopol Magenta and Worth and perilous acts aiding soldiers and the sick in Syria China and Mexico.
Moritz Kopsa of New York fixed a rubber tube to move gas from a bracket into a large refrigerator. He then entered the appliance, closed the door, and was found dead.
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