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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1898
Page
2
The note questions the value of holding indignation meetings in Madrid where Weyler attends, criticizing what it calls a perpetual indignation show and urging action against him.
In Lafayette Indiana a justice of the peace fined a young man fourteen dollars and seventy five cents for attempting to kiss a pretty Hoosier girl. The man failed to pay the sum.
A woman boasts she enjoys clever talk with men but avoids speaking to women to spare her own jealousy and envy, claiming women provoke her feelings because she belongs to the sex.
Reports from Dakota allege country dealers sell flour mixed with ground clay at half the product. suspicions grow that first class flour meant for national markets has leaked into open outlets.
The speaker asserts readiness to fight if unavoidable and vows no sectional divisions or party lines during the conflict until the trouble ends. The national spirit is proclaimed with flag imagery and patriotic songs as motivation.
President McKinley cites unwavering obligation to the flag on Washington's Birthday. He notes critics say the emblem has suffered desecration, fueling a society dedicated to preventing damage to the stars and stripes.
A Russian journal reports that the lower classes in tsarist lands have one third less to eat than their grandparents did. The widespread hunger undermines imperial splendor and highlights social hardship within the empire.
Mrs Hanaford argues women could have prevented war with rightful influence yet southern women, as bitter as men, lagged in recovery. Within three months, six women’s conventions formed and members argued themselves into irreparable enmity, prompting a sharp rebuke to Hanaford.
A pensive reflection on selfish behavior in a London fog. Two travelers find help from a lantern carried by strangers, then a warning to hide the light to avoid aiding those behind. The piece urges readers to consider their own decency as they move through life.
A Hartford man claiming to love raspberry jam jokes about a pure food bill. He asked his grocer for the recipe, prompting a chain from Boston to Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo manufacturers reveal the jam’s body is tomatoes, with aniline dye coloring and hay seed as seed.
The First Methodist church of Asbury Park has called Rev. Wesley A. Hunsberger and he views the call as a summons to comply. His departure will affect Milwaukee's hotels rail and lake transportation firms and various lovers, with newspapers losing a source of intrigue and sensational news.
A condensed digest of major events from around the world highlights political shifts, economic developments, and social stories. The week’s most notable happenings are summarized for quick reading by busy readers seeking an overview.
John B. Jackson, secretary of the U S embassy at Berlin, represented Miss Lena Barrison of the Barrison sisters to the foreign office about her expulsion as a notoriously obnoxious person. The foreign office said that if she remains within legal limits her public appearances would not be barred.
Noten offers to bet 5000 to 4000 that Joe Walcott can beat Jack Daly. Daly to perform at Wester & Bial's, New York. Fred Long likely to skip track duties in Sarnia. McDowell submits diamond sculls entry for Henley. George Dixon trains for March 31 bout with Tommy White in Syracuse. Kerwin defeats Lally in East St. Louis eight rounds. Green quits as boxing referee. Matthews and McKeever train for April 12 140 round bout in Cleveland with 1000 purse. McCulloch of Winnipeg retires from racing. Lavigne seeks a Daly match for 5000 a side. Daly agrees to wait months. Witzpatrick plans England trip for future bout.
A brisk rowing match ends with Oxford beating Cambridge in the annual boat race. Cambridge suffered from the loss as spectators gathered along the river to witness the tense finish and celebrate the victors.
Charles B. Wright once led the Northern Pacific railway and was deeply engaged in Northwest enterprises. He died in Philadelphia.
Prof. F C de Sumicharst chair of French at Harvard earns a rare Académie Française communication. It thanks him for translating Racine's Athalie and for services to the study of French language and literature.
Sensational arrests on charges of perjury are reported in Butte Montana as Louis J Koehler of Koehler Sand Co and Noah Leroe a laborer were buried alive in a sand pit near St Louis. Both were instantly killed. Nine Brooklyn city fraud indictments were arraigned in Kings County Court with all pleading not guilty and bail kept. A London Old Bailey sentence of ten years penal servitude was handed to Karazewski for the February 5 Whitechapel killings of Marta Wysocka and Clement Ixner mierowich, with notes of a Chicago connection to a husband.
A sealing steamer sinks in a storm with 48 crew lost and 50 to 60 frost bitten. James W. Buchanan grandson of ex-President Buchanan is killed by a train in Altoona Iowa. A Dayton water fire damages Craig Reynolds shops with acetylene gas risk. Ithaca residents resist Bankers Alliance Life and Accident notes claim on $5 to $500 sums from a defunct Los Angeles company.
The United States government announces a new navy recruiting office in Portland Oregon for enlistment. News items report other events including deaths, court delays, business losses, and investigations across the nation.
A period piece blends fashion and virtue listing spring jackets and the military jacket with household hints. Two maidens are described in contrasting tones, one radiant with jewels and pride, the other modest with a serene, spiritual grace, both eliciting awe from onlookers.
A catalog of affordable fabrics features costume serge with a smooth finish at under $1 a yard, French finetta, brown and green wool velours, striped London suitings, and brocaded taf fetas. Silk counter glitters with rich fabrics while cottons tempt with printed lawns and dimities at 10 cents. Extravagant dress patterns include white applique lawn boxed designs edged with black needlework and lavender iris motifs.
A fashion description presents a modified blouse jacket with a fitted back and pouched front. It can be worn open to reveal lace jabot or closed to the throat, using a high standing collar and hook and loop. Materials suggested include covert cloth in tan and green with a satin belt at the waist.
The suggestion argues for increasing egg consumption to replace meat in daily meals, noting eggs as a versatile protein source and pondering health, cost, and culinary practicality of more egg based meals.
The article breaks down egg composition into shell white and yolk and cites percentages of water in the white and yolk. It praises eggs as clean animal food without butchering, notes vegetarian use, and offers cooking advice from four minutes to hard boiling and eating with bread, butter, or toast.
A fashion note extols a striped silk jacket with horizontal stripes suggesting military braid. It features satin lapels, brass buttons, a leather belt, lace jabot, and a soft mull bow under the chin. Lace falls over the hand to temper the stiffness, suited for a pretty girl.
In a tone from a period column a writer links cat popularity to Delsartian ideas while noting the appeal of black cats. The piece ties feline grace to fashion, comparing a black cat to a beauty patch on a lady’s dressing gown and noting women’s keen attention to their surroundings.
Drain sixteen large oysters and melt butter in the blazer. Stir in flour, cook two minutes, then add milk and oyster liquor with salt white pepper. Cook till smooth, add oysters and heat briefly. Serve with crackers or over toast.
A fragment from a Detroit Free Press item shows a man crying “I am on the rack” while pleading “Darling, please answer me” in a parlor. An old gentleman with a gallery seat on the stairway shouts that even the hat is on the rack.
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