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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1913
Page
7
Officers and crew from a vessel anchored at Funcbal Madeira ride ashore for a island tour. A young petty officer Brown rides a lively horse with a stone tied to its tail as ballast, claiming it steadies the horse and makes it sail true like a clipper.
A compact verse excerpt by John Kendrick Bangs contrasts dreamers with reality. It reflects on bygone fancies fueling today’s truths and wise youth building a firm foundation for the future.
A Washington Star note recounts Kentucky Senator Ollie James, weighing about 400 pounds, expressing fear of upper berths after a past tumble. A 101 pound fellow passenger, timid and silent, slept in the upper as a note asked to take the lower berth.
A trolley car vanished for the afternoon after being assigned to a new motorman and conductor on a suburb run. Despite frantic calls, the car was found in the evening as the crew explained they sought more business by running to Brook Street and then the busy business street.
A traveler sought lodging but offended the magistrate by a profane word. The magistrate, acting as accuser, judge and sheriff, sentenced the offender to an hour in the stocks near the meeting house. With his son, the magistrate kept watch and entertained the prisoner, who was later released and hosted again before continuing on.
A Chicago story recounts Jake Schaefer in a New York billiard room who refused money bets. An old farmer challenged him, and they played a long game that ended with the farmer winning 1 to 0 as Schaefer accepted hospitality for the house. The crowd laughed at the reputed shortest game on record.
Beecher quote notes that many quarrels are worse when spoken than left unspoken. Silence may prevent harm more effectively than any amount of wisdom. The line emphasizes restraint and self control in disputes.
An conceited man who boasted of choosing a gentle devoted wife marries after thirty. An old acquaintance asks if she is the right sort and he responds she was indeed the right sort, implying meek obedience. The quip highlights his vanity and the irony of his choice.
A tippler with a red nose worked as a laborer in a boiler works and later showed the surgeon a smashed nose. He explained he put his nose through a boiler hole for air and a hammerer outside mistook it for a red hot rivet and bit once.
A man named Brown keeps a mechanical piano near his front window and spends hours daily pedaling melodies to please neighbors. A boy explains the act by noting his father is a great piano player, though his feet get sore.
Arthur Train describes how juror screening to a major criminal trial can reveal hidden connections. Prosecutors learn about jurors’ affiliations and may fear admitting a prior relationship with the accused or his relatives. The anecdote follows jurors like Ananinas who claim no knowledge yet seem connected.
Bids due May 12 1913 by 2 pm to H C Pound secretary of Sweet Grass County Free High School board for a basement addition. Plans from Link Haire Billings Montana. Bid must include five percent bid bond. Board may accept or reject any bid.
Edwin Thorpe is urged by his widow mother to marry his cousin Helen Willmarth to inherit the family fortune. Helen rejects the idea of accepting an inheritance, while Ned shifts from romantic dreams to a practical plan as his mother presses for a union. No romance follows, ending with Helen pledging to follow her mother’s demand as Ned agrees, leaving their fate unresolved.
A compact pastiche of lines defining a sonnet as a pearl shell of distant seas and a jewel carved with care. It likens the form to a tear of a poet, a two edged sword, a funeral bell, and writes of Dante Milton Shakespeare with grand maritime metaphor.
The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette notes physicians now emphasize prevention through sanitation and hygiene. It cites the Panama Canal, Cuba sanitation, yellow fever eradication, and plague stamping as examples. Still some doctors cling to drugs, but wiser practitioners favor non pharmacological methods.
John Coleman faced a difficult performance of Hamlet as a seafaring spectator in the fourth row mocked the show by leaving several times. Coleman halted the play and urged the man to stay then proceeded with the performance. The mariner used a telescope to watch Coleman’s movements and the audience heard the telescope reopen during key lines. Coleman's Hamlet failed to win lasting approval.
In arctic and antarctic regions explorers report steam rising from ocean and snow at extreme cold. Clouds freeze into ice particles and fall back as mist or rustling ice on ground. Sap in trees also freezes at minus forty, causing sharp cracking sounds.
In a trial a witness nods during a harsh cross exam. The court stenographer, trying to record every word, demands an answer. The witness says he answered by nodding. The stenographer retorts I heard it rattle but cannot tell its direction.
The piece explains that a single lightning flash lights an area two miles square and could require 13 000 horsepower for one second to produce that light. Although the bolt lasts only a fraction of a second, the eye perceives the brightness for about a tenth of a second, equating to roughly four horsepower when scaled to an hour. The notes cite Electric News.
A quirky stray line from the New York Sun riffs on winter weather with wordplay about open windows and stern snows. The fragment hints at a humorous, clipped exchange rather than a full report.
A reflective quotation attributed to Cervantes notes that each person earns his own fortune through his labor and choices, emphasizing personal responsibility and merit in shaping outcomes.
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