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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
7
In a tense escape scene, Gilbert Rickerby frees himself from a bed bound by fire then, with Olive, lowers to safety using a rope. Olive retrieves a razor to cut the ropes, and the couple flee through the burning chamber into the garden and into the night.
Nugent Leathwood escapes his peril by burning the deserted house room where he had left Gilbert Rickerby tied up. He savors the treacherous blaze as a clean end to Rickerby and his own rivals, declaring Rickeby’s folly finished. The room is crowded with decayed furniture and dust, curtains tossed aside, as fire takes hold.
In a burning house Nugent Leathwood pursues Olive and finds Ursula Sewell instead. Ursula warns of their doomed love and refuses escape as flames rise while outside neighbors close in and a murder warrant circles.
Berlin reports that Rudolph Bartelmus, an electrician, tested an automatic device to prevent collisions. It links the engine to signal boxes via a third rail enabling red lights and bells, with automatic red lights if trains approach within 2000 yards and a bell sounding in the signal box for trains within 3000 yards.
The London Truth notes a shift in wedding gift customs with brides giving substantial presents to grooms. Gifts have included jeweled pins studs sinks and more. The piece argues brides now feel some obligation to reward the man who provides establishment and social security.
The St. Petersburg cable reports a sharp rise in Russia’s prison population from 764,373 four years ago to 842,729 today. Including military prisons and labor camps, about 1,000,000 are incarcerated, with Siberian exiles at 77,160 and Saghalin convicts at 3,325. The budget allocates about $6 per prisoner annually, totaling $7.5 million, though $35.25 is cited as wasted on books and papers for the prisoners.
Ann Pence Dixturber relates a comic exchange in Hyde Park after Cyril boasts of a street fight. Cyril, marked by facial blemishes, claims to have defeated a North Side rival who mocked the local girls. Pulsatilla consoles him and applies balm to his bruises.
A balloon's maximum altitude hinges on size gas fill and payload. An ordinary 43,000 cubic feet craft with one person and illuminating gas climbs to about 20,000 feet. To rise higher, a 200,000 cubic feet balloon funded by the German emperor enabled Berlin’s Royal Meteorological Institute to study the upper atmosphere.
A Washington Star quip imagines a man asked to accept his wife remarrying after a sea voyage. The friend cites Enoch Arden as reference as Mr. Meekton responds that Henrietta would not be so careless as to let him go on such a voyage.
The Somerville Journal comments that Lawson Waite is a sort of elev enth hour man and that Dawson-Waite is worse. It cautions that Waite cannot be depended on to get around until the twelfth hour.
A soldier describes a dawn battle where spectral Hussars of Death ride beside his unit. He confronts a black rider who vows work, witnesses decayed troops, and endures shellfire as phantom troops swarm. He faints, wakes to a retreat, and finds the Hussars have vanished.
A western woman in Philadelphia hires a cook, a former slave, who refuses waffles for Sunday tea. The cook explains she has cooked in Philadelphia's premier households for thirty years and never served waffles on Sunday, underscoring class and racial boundaries in the city.
Judge Dickey of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn grew irritated as a defendant’s lawyer pressed the same question. He compared it to crabs that go sideways and fail to advance. The lawyer answered politely that he likes crabs but dislikes lobsters, especially lobsters a la Newburg.
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