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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
2
A humorous Houston Chronicle vignette recounts St. Peter directing an aged Black man who served Gen. Washington to the lower gate due to the large number of body servants, implying they would all be grouped together in a roomy section.
The six year span of the nation’s greatest prosperity saw breadstuffs up 61 percent and dairy and garden products up 50.1 percent, meats 23.1 percent, clothing 24.1 percent, and metals 42.1 percent for miners. Freight rates fell 4.4 percent, while railroad employee pay rose about 8.5 percent as reported by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Ally Sloper joke sketches Mrs Stuckup trading visiting cards with a friend to swap her duplicates a lord and two baronets for a countess bishop or similar in a humorous London cartoon caption.
A Yorkshire gentleman and his gardener dispute the fate of the ivy on the porch end. The gardener offers four reasons for removal including a bird nuisance and a failed prior attempt, while the wife prefers to keep it. The gardener confesses he cut it down last night, a point the gentleman finds more persuasive than his wife’s arguments.
A Kansas City mother credits Postum with improving her health and increasing milk flow after coffee caused dizziness and stomach issues. She says coffee ruined milk and that tea and cocoa failed, but Postum cured her symptoms and she now drinks it for herself and her seven months old baby, supported by her husband and Postum Co. claims.
Poem praising a maiden's beauty with ornate imagery and vivid comparisons. The piece ends with a note from James J Kinsettla of the Chicago Postoffice Registry Division.
Dr. J Q Allen of Telluride recounts a Creede Colorado snowslide that swept a group along a ridge and into a gulch. He avoided injury by leaping as the mass passed beneath him and later helped dig out his companions with one fatality among them.
Excerpts from De Profundis recount Wilde's self critique and fall from grace. He reflects on his ascent, reckless pleasures, and eventual ruin while contrasting his life with Byron and noting the lasting impact of personal choices. He laments lost dignity and the need for absolute humility.
Leslie's Weekly describes liquid air as a nascent field with experiments showing a rubber ball shattering, ice cooling, and metals freezing or burning. It notes the low cost now, potential medical uses, garbage disposal, propulsion, and its promise as a powerful industrial agent.
A prose montage highlights childlike wit in compliments and definitions. It notes a boy's direct remark about eyes being new and a girl essay on boys, while a schoolmaster’s query about antipodes meets a blunt, Johnsonian retort. Spectator quotes enrich the charm.
An advertisement urges women to contact Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts for confidential advice on gynecological issues. It claims extensive experience and offers free guidance, citing letters from readers including Mrs. Mary Dimmick of Washington DC who reports relief after following Pinkham’s regimen.
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