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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1901
Page
8
A fragmentary reminiscence lyric recalls a spinet in a corner where great grandmother played. Sunlight through a window highlights yellowed keys and the memory of silk shoes, lace, and delicate smiles, as the instrument’s mellow tones evoke past melodies and hopeful angels.
A Basuto leopard incident ends with the court awarding the skin and reward to the dog’s owner. The dog’s alert let hunters find and spear the animal, but the legal ruling credits the dog for the killing, reflecting Basuto tradition and law.
A young couple on a gate share a moonlit farewell as lovers not ready to part. He pledges deep memory even if death comes. She vows fidelity and to never love another. Six years pass and he returns to a party revealing hints of a changed life.
The historic bell from Old St. Johns Church in Richmond, linked to Patrick Henry and the Revolution era, reportedly rang through three centuries after being removed and later restored by the Virginia Historic Society. The piece is likened to the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia for longevity.
A string of curiosities and anecdotes features Curzon’s rhinoceros carriage ride in Junagadh, rulers like Louis XVI and Queen Victoria, Tyler family members in the twentieth century, Armour’s art taste,ambitions of empire, Shakespearean kinship rumors, and an 107 year old English octogenarian matriarch.
The New York Sun reports on fashion trends featuring embroidered Henrietta cloths in various colors for waists and negligee gowns. Materials like French camel’s hair serge and crêpe de chine sashes appear with lace chermisette fillings, while silk embroidery decorates evening gowns. Velvets, chiffons, and hand-worked decorations highlight hats with velvet bands and roses set near the brim.
The piece surveys wide topics from Canada road mileage and India's emerging metal wealth to Bengal tigers causing deaths in India. It notes historical newspaper counts in the US around 1800 and 1900, valuing Turner’s Grand Canal painting at $124000 today after Turner’s sale for $1600 and Vanderbilt’s rumored $75000. ends with reflections on monarchy and health habits among rulers.
Instructions for sewing a fashionable basque with a front seam to shoulder, featherbone trim, linings, and bound seams. Includes back pieces with a jog, postilion options, cuffs, and matched sleeves, plus a three piece circular skirt cut from the cloth fold with precise measurements and folding guidance.
The ad claims August Flower is the world’s largest selling medicine and a fix for indigestion biliousness and headaches. It touts history with mothers using it for digestion, liver function, and nervous system support, urging a few liquid doses from Buda Drug Co and to obtain Green’s Prize Almanac.
First class sleeper departs Minneapolis 7 50 a m and St Paul 8 00 a m, arriving Kansas City next morning at 7 60 o'clock. Route via Milwaukees Hedrick Line. Connects at Kansas City for South Southwest and California. J 2 Conley Asst Gen Pass Agent St Paul Minn.
The Pissgncor Department of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway issues an illustrated treatise on the popular German game Skat with updated rules. Interested readers can obtain a copy by sending ten cents in postage to I A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago IL.
The report notes service on the Northern Pacific Burlington Route via Willings and Alliance Nebraska with connections between Montana points and Denver and Eastern Colorado. It emphasizes good train service throughout the journey.
The new Northern Pacific Burlington route from Montana to Eastern Colorado New Mexico and Texas runs via Billings Alliance Neb and Denver. The line offers Montanans a direct connection to eastern markets and rail destinations.
A curious South African tree called sneeze wood cannot be cut without causing sneezing due to its fine dust. It repels insects, tastes bitter, sinks in water, and has light brown color with a tight hard grain. It is valued for dock work as a long lasting underwater timber.
A fragment notes the Turks' devotion to music and flutes, detailing seven kinds of this instrument. It also comments on a liveryman with a lighter chain and dog, comparing ease between carrying and dragging.
The Milwaukee’s sunshine Route runs a Tuesday Pullman tourist sleeper from the Twin Cities to Los Angeles with settlers’ tickets at 32.90. The Northern Pacific Burlington route via Billings becomes the shorter path to Denver and southern points. An address by Joseph Choate on Abraham Lincoln’s life and career is published by the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway for six cents.
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