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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
2
Texas horned toads are being bisected at a Waukegan Michigan metalizing plant to form hatpins. Each pin requires a fresh toad and the process aims to produce thousands of toad pins for fashion use.
Joe Mitchell Chapple reflects in National Magazine on June 1775 and the enduring legacy of Bunker Hill. The piece honors a women driven effort preserving the battlefield and describes the 1775 fight scenes with vivid imagery and historical reverence. It invites visitors to witness the monument and connects the battle to national identity.
A Reno ice company mailed fifteen pounds of ice to Dr Miller of Hawthorne Nevada to cool a sultry day. Eleven pounds arrived lost in transit. The recipient, a millionaire, telegraphed for the ice and received it wrapped in rubber.
Burlington dispatch reports a monument to Samuel de Champlain's discovery of Lake Champlain may be built at Split Rock Point. The site offers wide views of the lake and would allow a top light visible for over fifty miles, benefiting vessels travelling north or south. A separate note cites Sir Robert Hart recalling a warning from Wen Lsiang about sleep.
H. H. Weatherly plans a 2000 mile round trip from New York to Chicago and back on Esteban the six year old thoroughbred. The ride, starting at 10 o'clock from the Herald building, aims to prove modern race horses can endure beyond the track under cavalry style conditions. Weatherly will ride about eight hours daily, feed and care for Esteban, and favor soft earth roads to prevent footsoreness, targeting a forty day journey with an average of fifty miles per day. Weatherly, born in England, with service in the Tenth Hussars and Canadian police, weighs 132 pounds and is about forty five. The project draws interest from the war department and Jockey Club. CANINE MARATHON RACE.
A canine Marathon will headline the Queensboro bridge carnival in New York during June 12 to 19. Directed by Philo G. Andersen, the event invites trained dogs to race from the Manhattan end of the bridge to Hoffman boulevard near Glendale, with field dogs and hounds eligible for several races and a booby robe contest.
Rutland Vermont plans a September fair feature a full marathon race of 26 miles 285 yards likely held at night. Secretary W K Farnsworth has discussed the event with George W Brown manager of the Boston Athletic Association to attract top distance runners. The fairgrounds will be lit by electricity for the race.
United States Fish Commission aims to repopulate American waters with Danube sturgeon and sterlet after Minister Horace G Knowles secured Roumanian cooperation. Shipments of fry and cans of sterlet will be sent to the United States at no cost, to be raised in hatcheries and released into the Delaware Susquehanna and Potomac systems.
Smith College students at Northampton Massachusetts indulge in a millinery craze buying fifteen cent straw hats from a factory in Amherst. They bring back up to two dozen hats per shopper and decorate them at will, with the factory reporting about 1500 hats sold in a month as crowds travel daily to acquire new headgear.
Mrs Arthur Scott Burden introduces bronze footwear with suede fading from history. She wears bronze shoes both afternoon and evening, creating a tasteful, small effect that pairs with bright gowns and signals bronze shoes may become popular among women soon.
The New Haven Register remembers Charles Green Bush who died in Camden South Carolina. He was a leading satirical cartoonist admired for artful, reasoned humor that avoided vulgarity. His work inspired restraint and high standards in the profession and left a lasting legacy for future cartoonists.
Teachers in the Transvaal schools may use English or Dutch as the medium of instruction until children can follow English, after which English will be the sole medium. An unrelated paragraph notes Oxford’s 1274 birth and Cambridge’s 1276 foundation, and Yasaburo F. Sugita of Tokyo appointed chair of language and literature at Notre Dame at age twenty, described as fluent in English and brilliant in French conversation.
A statue commemorating Liebig will be erected in Darmstadt, his birthplace in 1903, honoring his scientific legacy.
The piece explains advertising as a four-part sales process using a clock as analogy. It stresses attention interest desire and buy decision, arguing that ads must pull money from readers and keep influence until purchase. It defines selling points as reasons and proofs that show superiority and dealer advantage. It urges logic over eloquence and cites sources for learning selling points.
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