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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1913
Page
6
Agricultural guidance outlines a complete cropping rotation emphasizing soil fertility and steady farm income. It recommends combining cultivated crops like corn and potatoes with legume and grass crops, stresses timing to minimize workload, and advises on manure use and livestock feed to maintain productivity.
The article explains that plant diseases can pass from generation to generation through seed grain. It describes smut in wheat, barley, and oats, noting spores infect the kernel and cause disease, and compares flax wilt’s seedborne history to smut.
The guidance urges careful farming to preserve soil fertility for future generations. It warns that wealth extracted from the land must not ruin its ability to yield food for posterity, emphasizing sustainable practices and long term stewardship.
Cow pox spreads via milker contact and can affect teats and udders. Infected cows should be milked last and hands washed and disinfected. incubation ranges two to seven days with symptoms like heat and tenderness, swollen teats, and small pimples. Lesions mature by day ten, crust over, then heal in four to five days, with most cows recovering in about twenty days. Treat mild cases with carbolized Vaseline. avoid milk tubes if possible.
A Cleveland Leader op-ed contrasts the terms cyclone and tornado, noting experts label the weather event a tornado while the public uses cyclone. It describes the tornado’s narrow path and rapid rotating motion, versus the broad, sea-spanning cyclone.
A jail cipher created by a forger used narrow strips of paper with letter fragments. An officer noticed a prisoner wrapping draft around an octagon pencil, which when aligned on the pencil produced a readable sentence. The method hid letters on the flat sides of the strip.
A World War II era veteran recalls a Chattanooga incident where a comrade left action early and reappeared in camp unscathed. He faced accusations of cowardice but insisted he retreated in good order, joking that at home his wife would think she was sick if she saw him fleeing.
A lone historic fact notes the first stone laid for London St Pauls came from ruins of the former cathedral and carried the word Resurgam. The inscription symbolized restoration as marble creation rose from fire wreckage.
A Washington Star remark frames a theft scare around a gold handled diamond studded umbrella. An excited friend praises the item while the owner warns that anyone who takes it will face a grand larceny charge.
A summary of Alfred Nobel's will and the prize system. Five fields receive annual awards: physics chemistry medicine literature peace. Swedish institutions and Norwegian parliament select deputies to oversee prize distribution and fund management. Each prize averages about $10,000 and is distributed on December 10.
Professor Poffenberger notes in Strand Magazine that color vision varies with angle, creating yellow blue and red green zones. Tests for railroad engineers use this concept, showing color distinction is not limited to labs.
The article recounts holly’s past role in domestic medicine noting its berries as violent purgatives and emetics swallowed in groups to cure vapors spleen and other maladies. It mentions a once promoted decoction from holly leaves and bark called ilicine praised as a tonic and febrifuge by French physicians, but it faded after commercial issues and is no longer in the British Pharmacopoeia, per London Express.
The London Answers recounts an old superstition claiming April 1 was auld fools day. Young women entered a sacred grove at night and ran in circles as chants rose. A phantom man appeared, and if a bride would die that year a black man was seen. A lively old fool rumor followed, leading to the term auld fools gambol.
Nine hours from Jerusalem lies the Dead Sea a vast lake with almost no ripple barely transparent salt makes swimmers buoyant as a cork. The dreary surrounding scenery is grand in parts yet oppressive with no animal life or birdsong heard along the lonely shores.
The passage notes Shelley as supreme laureate of the kiss in his lyric style. It presents a stanza where mountains kiss high heaven waves clasp, sunlight clasps earth and moonbeams kiss the sea and asks what all those kissings are worth without her kiss.
Rev. Lucas G. Engelstad, pastor, announces Sunday School at Big Timber every Sunday. You are cordially invited to attend these services.
Flist Congregational Church invites all to Sunday School at 10 a m. Everyone welcome.
St Mark's Church with Rev G W G VanWinkle as rector maintains regular morning and evening services. The schedule calls for services on the first and third Sundays monthly, with Sunday school held every Sunday at 10 a.m.
Rev Thomas Clarkson leads St Pauls Methodist Church Reed Point with Sunday worship at 11 a m on the second fourth and fifth Sundays and evening services at 7 30 p m weekly Sunday school at 10 a m Epworth League at 7 p m and prayer meeting Thursdays at 8 p m Divine worship occurs on the first and third Sundays at 10 30 a m and 8 p m on Saturdays preceding these dates.
Directory notice invites all residents to attend Sunday and Wednesday services at the South M F Burlding located at Anderson Street and Fifth Avenue with everyone welcome.
A New York Journal note claims a man should feel shame for lying to his wife if she believes him, but says he is not ashamed and is encouraged instead. The remark frames marital trust as a moral failing and praises deception as acceptable behavior.
A London Tit-Bits anecdote notes a hospital nurse’s marriage to an elderly rich man. In a friend’s query about wedlock she quips that she might as well nurse one old man as a dozen.
Reminder notes that Rev Father Joseph Blacre will celebrate Mass on the third Saturday of each month at Wa..mm The fragment suggests a recurring church schedule with a local observance.
A terse proverb notes that a man can outsmart a single opponent yet cannot outwit everyone, reflecting on limits of strategy and deceit attributed to La Rochefoucauld.
A quotation from the Detroit Free Press defines an opportunist as a man who has achieved something worthwhile that others believe he could have done as well if not engaged elsewhere when chance arose.
Western and Atlantic express schedules listed for trains No 1 through No 6 including North Coast Limited North Coast te Felonite and Puget Sound Express with times around 2 65 a m and 4 69 p m trains do not stop via Helena or Butte and mention Miss Valley Express 6 08 a m.
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