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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1909
Page
6
A series of conversations highlights why merchants should advertise. It argues that competition and changing markets demand advertising as an investment not a cost. Various traders dismiss advertising, revealing common misperceptions and urging future talks on improving ad effectiveness.
A narrator recalls Adana in Asiatic Turkey as a long battlefield of conquerors and empires. The Shenandoah retrieves a marble sarcophagus gifted to the United States by Tarsus official Abde Dabbas, with a Turkish camp and tales of Haroun al Rashid, Niftan, and ancient strife shaping the region.
Edward W. Very, late United States Navy, reflects in the New York Post on resting in a country unheard of and unsuspected when it was created.
The article notes alfalfa growing is impractical in northern states due to moisture and temperature issues. It recommends clover varieties, mammoth and medium red for drier lands and alsike for lower lands, as a substitute with similar renewing service. Clover seed is costly, but farmers see its long term benefits as worth the price.
Dr Myron T Scudder principal of Rutgers preparatory school at New Brunswick N J argues Sunday baseball could help boys. He says religion remains vital but Sunday school methods fail to engage youths and urges organized baseball for boys under adult supervision with play on Sundays as practiced at Yale divinity school and in Plainfield N J.
In a Missouri tale recalling 1849 grit, W. J. Abel near St. Joseph beds his last dollar into a mobile farm. He outfits a wagon with canvas, hay, a breakfast stove, and chicken coops for 25 hens, ties a cow to the tailboard, hitches his team, and heads toward Marvin to daily egg supply.
In Philadelphia and across Pennsylvania Taft carried the state by a plurality near 400000. Voter turnout was high due to legislative contests, with Republicans maintaining or increasing representation in Congress and little change in the state legislature. Philadelphia backed the national ticket by about 125000.
Washington voters gave Taft a 45000 margin and Republicans capture the governor’s race, with Wesley J. Jones set to succeed Antheney in the Senate. The piece notes campaign talk versus platform impact and mentions a government suit against American Sugar Refining seeking 5.6 million in duties.
H L Cramer of Chicago bought the entire stock of a large Atlantic City art store at auction for more than 165600. He bid from 2500 with other spectators and arranged shipment to his Tadiana country home claiming he wants to be prepared for Christmas. The stock includes European pictures and decorative wares.
Laurent Roquebert, veteran La Boca dredging foreman, was crushed between clapets and lies in critical condition at Ancon hospital. He quizzes records about March dredging totals and recalls the Gopher and Celon fist dredges that held earlier yardage records.
W P Read argues smoke benefits health and purifies air. He cites coal workers breathing coal dust and asserts only one died of tuberculosis in his experience. He dismisses Chicago health board claims that smoke is a nuisance.
A poetic plea questions paying vast sums to communicate with Mars and distant stars. The text riffs on wealth, access to space, and the idea of multimillionaires funding interstellar contact while hinting at fragmented lines and garbled phrases.
Captain Hans Anderson, last surviving crewman of the USS Monitor, died at his Brooklyn home. He recalled the ironclad Merrimack confrontation at Hampton Roads and helped deter Confederate success by assisting Captain Worden during the battle. He was born in Gothenberg Sweden eighty five years ago.
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