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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1901
Page
8
A Victorian era guide outlines five skirt styles the seven gore and seven gore flare models. It explains layout on fabric using close lay, cutting on the fold, and the need for bias facings and tapes. The article notes finishing options in grass linen and other materials and comments on trouser-like tailor suits and hooped trims.
The 1931 census for England and Wales Isle of Man and Channel Islands sets March 31 as census night. Somerset House prepared 20 clerks over 12 months and divided counties into districts for 40 000 enumerators to record 300 households each. Temporary staff will tabulate at Millbank with about 200 workers. Mr Reginald McLeod leads the census under the registrar general.
In Philadelphia banking circles the fastest money counters have shifted from Norristown to the Girard National Bank on Third Street. E. C. Watt counted 1 060 Bland silver dollars in 1 1/2 minutes, and Shelley Teller counted 100 one dollar bills in 52 seconds. Their speed rivals and may exceed the former Norristown expert Benjamin Hughes. While counting, their swift and graceful hand movements draw customers to watch for 15 or 20 minutes during business hours.
Farmers in the Cape Colony report baboons raid lambs and shelter among clumps of cactus. The primates display cunning by avoiding humans and only retreat when men appear. Farmers adopt a tactic of wearing women’s clothing when shooting baboons.
A Troy Times report from Vermont claims the town electric light plant froze during a cold night, beating past records for freezing electricity in the Green Mountain State. The article references Bob Burdette’s Western petrified scene and jokes Vermont’s cold surpassing even gravitation.
A $1 bill bearing a stamp and no wrapper was sent through malls from Chicago as a wrapper for a written message sewn to a card. A white paper with a 2 cent stamp and the address was pasted on the bill and questions arose about the legality, but the ONL permitted it to proceed.
The New York Tribune notes uptown Chinese eateries grow fast with cheap menus and a loose atmosphere. Cooks are mostly Chinese, kitchens open to visitors, and patrons include bohemian and working-class crowds who enjoy bold flavors and lax rules.
A guest explains the term wedding breakfast noting the Church of England practice of receiving Holy Communion fasting before the ceremony and remaining fasting until after, with the meal served afterward described as nearly a breakfast.
A promotional notice claims most Americans suffer from dyspepsia and liver complaints with symptoms like sour stomach headaches heartburn and nausea. It advertises Rugust Flower at 75 cents and promises relief after two doses, with a sales pitch from Budd Drug Co and a promotion for Green's Prize Almanac.
Ambassdor to Great Britain Joseph Choate delivers a concise portrait of Abraham Lincoln from his early life to his later years and his administration. The speech, published by the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway, is available for six cents postage to F A Miller in Chicago.
A daily first class sleeper from the Twin Cities to Kansas City via the Milwaukee Hedrick Route departs Minneapolis at 7:50 a.m. and St. Paul at 8:00 a.m. and reaches Kansas City next morning at 7:00. Ideal for travel to the South Southwest and California with good connections at Kansas City. Inquiries to J. T. Conley Assistant General Passenger Agent St. Paul Minn for lowest rates and details.
The Game of Skat an illustrated treatise issued by the Passenger Department outlines up to date rules. Copies available for ten cents postage to F A Miller Chicago TN. Sleeper service to Kansas City via The Milwaukee Line leaves Minneapolis 7 50 a m St Paul 8 00 a m and arrives Kansas City 7 o clock next morning. Pullman tourist sleeper from Twin Cities weekly to Los Angeles and rates to all points south and west.
A Pullman tourist sleeper runs every Tuesday from the Twin Cities via the Milwaukee route to Los Angeles arriving Saturday mornings. Settlers' tickets cost 832.90. For details contact J. T. Conley Assistant General Passenger Agent St Paul or see Company ticket agents.
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