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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1898
Page
4
Deweny is named acting rear admiral while Tr Pope designates a day of prayer for Spain and the Queen Regent. The message urges extending the period to a month as Spain faces grave needs and calls for spiritual aid from religious leadership.
A U.S. fleet under Dewey destroyed nearly all Spanish ships in Manila harbor last week. After the white flag rose, sailors boarded the vessels and were met with gunfire, and the Spaniards were sunk by decisive American fire.
A critical reader calls last week's Express piece by W J Hannah the lowest form of journalism. The letter condemns personal malice and urges readers to judge the editor and article accordingly.
A verse piece adapts a Pall Mall Gazette lyric set near Crow Creek and Sweet Grass stream. It recalls a dusky maiden from the sage brush era, a tragic love, and a wyoming prairie scene with coyotes and wigwam doors, ending with bittersweet farewell.
The community notes higher costs as war prices hit Big Timber and Sweet Grass County. Merchants report stocking up before price hikes, with flour and canned goods surging 15 to 30 percent and sugar rising. Local shops aim to shield customers from sharp increases while wartime conditions persist.
A five year old boy with scrofula on face hands and arms improves after four bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla. The testimonial from South Bend Indiana claims the sores vanished and never returned. Drugstores are warned to supply only Hood's.
Co owners of the Dixie Portland and Helens quartz lode mining claims in Sweet Grass county Montana are notified under section 27324 of the Revised Statutes to contribute their share of labor and improvements for 1897 and 1898 or their interests will be forfeited to the contributors. Public notice dated April 1 1898 from W N Forercon J B MurnonuaND and settlement offices at Birch National Bank Big Timber Montana.
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