Fire Alarm Signals and Bell Taps
Readable notes describe two taps of a bell signaling a fire alarm. The brief item records a simple warning signal event with no further details on location time or responders.
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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1906
Page
4
Readable notes describe two taps of a bell signaling a fire alarm. The brief item records a simple warning signal event with no further details on location time or responders.
County commissioners header directs a June 2 vote on adopting a direct primary law. The piece notes mixed county sentiment, concerns over complexity, and urges voters to read the law and decide to support or oppose based on perceived need and costs.
A local building and loan association proposal relies on cooperative funding. Twenty men subscribing ten shares monthly at one dollar per share would form a series. Funds above one hundred dollars would loan to a member, with repayment structured through monthly payments and mortgage security, eventually transferring title after one hundred payments.
Memorial Day resolution urged peace and brotherhood while honoring the dead. The piece laments war and calls for a future without bloodshed, urging nations to lay down weapons and teach the next generation to seek harmony and progress.
A veteran, about five feet eight, with sandy hair and gray eyes, recounts losing his arm before a crossfire incident at the Wilderness. He explains that had he not lost his arm, he might have been killed when his regiment was exposed to canister fire.
A proposed cooperative loan plan outlines investment plus interest with 30 or 60 day notices for withdrawal but interest forfeited. Delinquents may reinstate by paying ten to fifteen cents per share monthly, up to four months, else forfeiture per by laws. Local members know loan recipients. after multiple payments stock gains collateral value. Salaries limited to a nominal secretary, other officers unpaid. conservative management deemed essential for success. Lost kitchen cabinet door between Big Timber and Dry Creek school reported. finder asked to leave at Second Hand Store.
Hail is cheap and can protect crops like wheat, barley, alfalfa, and cattle on ranches. The agency offers trial, cheap loans on ranch property for 3 5 7 or 10 years with prepayment privileges and a limited payment life insurance policy with guaranteed double annual allotment. Also advertising ranches for sale and large cattle offerings.
Department of the Interior announces George W. Moore assignee of David L. Thomas of Melville Montana will offer proof to perfect desert-land claim No 13 for the east half of section 1 in township 4 north range 14 east of Montana principal meridian before M. R. Wilson Register. Witnesses include James N. Hagan Edward H. Dahl Walter Tucker Christian Christianson all of Melville Montana. Publication May 21 1906.
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