Local News Highlights From Big Timber Area
Long column lists local farm trades and sales in Big Timber Montana including harness shop offers and hay stacker for sale. Notes sidewalk work on Mc Leod Street and a new surveyor appointment for Henry Gerharz of Billings. Also reports water right filings, wool sale, and community notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Gerharz
Billings
Wilson
Montana
Jerome G. Locke
Livington
Myers and
Walsh
Big Timber Market Report
Timothy loose ten dollars. Timothy baled fourteen dollars. Alfalfa eight dollars. Wheat sixty five cents per bushel. Oats eighty five cents per hundredweight. Barley fifty eight cents per bushel. Flax one dollar twenty five cents per bushel. Butter ranch thirty cents per pound. Potatoes seventy five cents per hundred. Eggs fifteen cents per dozen.
Piano Strings Respond to Cold Temperatures
The pitch of piano strings rises in cold rooms as metal wires contract and tighten while fixed at both ends. This small timing change shifts tone, explaining why some prima donnas demand specific room temperatures for vocal adjustment and piano tuning.
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New York World
Cyrus a Canal Builder
Sir William Willcocks notes Cyrus the Great controlled the Gyndes tributary by digging thirty canals and damming the river. He divided waters among canals, repelled floods, and used a drowned horse to spur his soldiers to work. The Gyndes carried 40,000 cubic feet per second and ran about thirty feet deep in a sandy bed.
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Cyrus
William Willcocks
Cyrus the Great
Tigris
Babylonia
Jewel and Star Observation Quotation Note
A literary line links light and darkness to reveal value, noting that light may expose a jewel but darkness reveals a star as a metaphor. The attributed author is Vap Dyke.
A Rainbow Kiss Exchange in Yonkers Dialogue
A Yonkers Statesman quiz features a playful exchange about a rainbow kiss. Egbert asks what it is and Bacon I explains it as one that follows a storm.
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Egbert
Yonkers Statesman
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Glass Brothers Land Company
Big Timber
Big Timber Lumber Co
Skillman Harness Shop
Wallis Huidekoper
Wallis
Montado
Flanders
J. O. Cady
J. E. Barbour
Leod Street
First Avenue
Boozer Hardware
Teddy Neade
Gerharz
John B. Rice
Twedot
W. A. Elges
West Boulder
George Hare
Chicago
Bozeman
BE. A. Erickson
Palmer
Amelia Erickson
Springdale
Erickson
Georgia Jackson
Miles City
Dell Whitney
Sweet Grass Mercantile Co
Melville
Harrison Knight
Wellington P. Hammond
Sweet Grass Tribune
Livingston
Livingston Free Press
Northern Pacific
Lee W. Blackwell
Billings Gazette
Bessie Porter
Leander Blackwell
William Rothrock
Custer Avenue
Robinson
The
Christian Church
Blackwell
United States
Eugene Thomas
Spencer Jarrett
Jarrett
al Walker
R. S. Jarrett
James Duncan
Haynesville
Bucklen
Arnica
Soe
Illinois
Hippodrome
T. G. Blakeman
Screen Goods
H. M. Allen & CO
C. W. Allen
Big Timber Market Report
N. O. Troyer
Big Timber, Montana
Sixth Ave
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E. R. Patterson & Co
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