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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1900
Page
3
An English front correspondent critiques British press portrayals of the Boers and explains the true difficulties of modern warfare. He argues soldiers must kill, not merely display bravery, and describes the "zone of fire" as the major obstacle to advance while noting Boer courage and home-front misperceptions.
A passage from Hannah More’s Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education argues that youth fades and women must learn to grow old gracefully. It warns education should enrich women for maturer life, not just youth, urging inward cultivation when flattery fades and crowds disperse.
A traveler in Rose Valley meets a settler who offers a blunt, humorous guide. The exchange includes a request for tobacco and drink, a proposal to contribute to a scale house, and a joke about stamps as they point the way with a wry nod to rough roads and mud.
A Chicago Tribune selection notes a writer who faces thrice rejected work and mails the manuscript to a fourth publisher as part of a soliloquy on creative struggle.
An elderly woman brings a pendulum to a watchmaker and insists the clock will run if the pendulum moves. The assistant points out the clock itself must be brought in, while the woman asserts the pendulum is the source of the problem.
A list of patents issued to Northwestern inventors includes Joseph C. Bissell bag holder for grain weighing machines Sterling Minnesota John J Cook elevator controlling apparatus Nickolaus Beckstein scraper attachment for gang plows Axel N Helstrom scaffold William H Hormel system of heating and ventilation Thomas Huber deau breast strap slide and Towle Syrup Co syrup and molasses trademark All rights assigned Merwin Lothrop Johnson patent attorneys Pioneer Press Building St Paul Minnesota.
Washington special cites Minister Conger reporting from Peking that China bans pheasant skin exports for a time due to rising plumage demand. Extermination fears grow for the birds once valued for their beauty.
A nostalgic ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to ease swollen burning feet and corns with 25c price and free sample. It lists Dr J H H Rindlaub, eye ear nose throat specialist in Farzo, North Dakota, among text snippets.
In a tense exchange Mr Crumso questions a visitor in the parlor and learns it is Mr Biggins, described as Margaret's old flame. Mrs Crumso orders him removed despite the revelation.
An advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal use affects blood and mucous membranes building up the body and offers one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Includes address F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio and mentions Hall's Family Pills.
Vintage advertisement for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup offering teething relief for children. Claims gum softening, reduced inflammation, pain relief, and wind colic cure. Price listed as 25 cents per bottle.
Local comments urge consistency between actions and words amid council discourse. Civic members stress integrity as debates focus on leadership conduct and public expectations.
An old advertisement fragment touts Parker's Hair Balsam to restore youth and comeliness and Hindercorns as a corn cure. A separate line oddly notes a hangings sentence and Christmas stockings.
A Nebraska contractor Carl T. Roberts praises Peruna curing his family illnesses from croup to stomach trouble. Testimonials from William Youngblood and T. G. Walker endorse Peruna as a preventive and cure for catarrh and other ailments. The ad declares Peruna a household safeguard with free literature from The Peruna Medicine Company in Columbus Ohio.
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