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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1906
Page
2
The column surveys a collage of remarks on royalty science finance and society with playful jabs at Princess Ena Sir Carnegie and King Edward while noting a New Jersey judge ruling fear not essential to life and reports on whisky samples before a congressional committee. The tone mirrors a satirical roundup rather than a single event.
A lady of experience in the courts claims the stars oppose divorce but the record shows astronomical shares of ex spouses. The piece argues personal fate yields to law and social change rather than celestial influence.
A theater manager cried after New York critics ridiculed his latest production. He noted he might have preferred silence to mockery, implying criticism still carries weight even when harsh.
Report notes that whistling, while aiding physical development, is also said to foster a propensity toward violence and homicide according to certain doctors. The claim pairs health benefits with a grim behavioral warning.
The ex member Labondiere urges his successor to avoid eloquence and never deliver a grand peroration. He stresses practical speech and plain talk over rhetorical flourish.
The death claim for the Dowager Empress of China remains unconfirmed. It is reasonable to suppose the emperor remains in a horizontal position under the bed.
A garbled Washington note suggests the Austrian ambassador’s wife plans a run in a car that supposedly leaves scents tied to exotic places, reflecting a bizarre mixed report from the capital.
A fashion decree orders the removal of the floating auto veil as a nuisance on women, welcomed by men and readers alike who view it as a social improvement regardless of car ownership.
Officials delay confirmation of the Dowager Empress’s death amid a pattern of reactions to similar reports. Previous informants who trusted earlier notices faced dangerous consequences, underscoring caution in reporting unfolding imperial news.
A Vanderbilt woman bought a thimble once owned by Queen Elizabeth. She will not use the relic to make shirt waists this spring due to its high value as a keepsake.
A Brooklyn Eagle overview notes early summer home shopping for cottage decor. Willow furniture dominates with natural tones and new pieces like a canopy chair, ledger tables with deep pockets, a shirt waist chiffonier, and a wood magazine stand. Matching wallpaper and draperies emphasize cream bases with apricot and leaf motifs, plus latticed screens and assorted novelties, urging quick purchase due to limited imports.
A Kentucky Representative notes a local figure who studied synonyms to sharpen political language. He learns that "stipulation" can mean "condition" through a dictionary, revealing how phrasing may affect re election chances.
A Philadelphia real estate broker bought a car last summer and learned its workings. After a week of coaching he took a country spin without a tutor. To avoid being stranded he hitched his family horse to tow the car home. The horse buckled and fell, prompting the broker to call it exhausted. A passing farmer quipped the horse was asphyxiated by the oily air.
A young New York area doctor opens a store with help from the local undertaker who doubles as a hardware dealer. The undertaker offers a buy now pay later trial, later bills the doctor with a receipted invoice, and the barber shop erupts in laughter over the unusual barter in the small village.
An acquaintance turned physician recalls a failed nursing attempt in Harvard town. The minister fell seriously ill and a trained nurse was advised, but the minister's wife claimed she could manage after recounting family losses. The doctor gently pointed out the fatal outcomes of those efforts.
A book agent asks for five minutes in a business office. The man insists his time is worth ten dollars a minute. The agent offers twenty-five dollars to leave, joking he would only earn five dollars in commission even if he stayed for the five minutes.
Patrick Sherry of Lynn Massachusetts faced a wage dispute with stitchers. After failed talks he ended the conference by declaring, It’s turkey ye want but it’s yaller meal ye’ll get, illustrating a witty resolution to labor tensions.
The Count de Impeccune, despised by American brides, hides as Gaston Prunes to work as a chauffeur for Hildegarde's family. He wins her elopement and a $1,000,000 income gift, with a reconciliation hoped.
A man buys a pot of real Irish shamrock for his partner on St Patrick’s Day. She admires the fresh plants with dew. He blushes and says there is “a little dew” but notes it will all be paid off tomorrow.
The Chesapeake house at 223 East Pratt Street, a Baltimore landmark for eighty two years, is to be removed as rock improvements proceed. The building dated to 1824 and hosted famed filibusters and Confederate letters hidden in a clock, with planners like John D Hart and Capt Samuel Hughes in its upper rooms.
A humorous verse mixs romance with business talk as the speaker jests about marriage terms and dividends. The poem blends affectionate vows with financial imagery and hints at a humorous contract between lovers in a Baltimore American voice.
A Washington lawyer known for liberal religious views dies last summer. A friend rushing from Canada attends the wake and asks which part of the service is underway. A guest quips that the service has opened for the defense, reflecting the deceased’s contentious stance.
Alpine root grubbers seek gentian arnica puffballs and pine resin. An old man builds a hut high in the Alps and descends cliffs to harvest flowering roots then dries and packs six months of work into a valley journey. Gentian serves as brandy and elixir of life though income has declined.
Chicago man W Q Thompson owner of Windsor Clifton hotel and former Darrow partner toured Sioux Falls South Carolina on a business trip. He joked the city is a gossip mecca for divorce hunters and told a hotel clerk he would leave early because people talk too much.
A Houston Post verse laments urban life and urges readers to flee to the countryside. It extols shaded bayous, blooming fields, birdsong, and simple joy, inviting one to be a boy again where nature and God’s splendor reign.
A Kansas convention recounts a speaker waving a facsimile petition signed by thousands of women. He proclaims a “face smile” of the petition trampled in dirt by male detractors. The anecdote illustrates the heated push to add a prohibition plank to a party platform.
A New York Post item notes a curious circular received by local philatelists. The Belgium firm offers postage stamps from Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania and advertises an Extra-European Directory with 4 000 addresses. It promises work at a price and a justificative copy gratis, ending with the instruction to "Twirl the page please."
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