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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1909
Page
6
All persons are warned against trespassing on the undersigned ranches located in Big Coulee Fish Creek and Melville country. Violators will be prosecuted according to law. Edward Veasey Melville, Munt.
Miami University plans its centennial with a June 16 program headlined by a possible appearance by President Taft and invitations to notable figures. The event will draw 2,500 alumni from across the nation for lectures, dinners, and reunions, with extensive campus pageantry and a tented visitor village.
The 1803 murder of Kinsley’s mayor is linked to a poem by Arnold that prompted clemency for two accomplices, as the governor praised the verse. Investigators found no source for the poem, leading even skeptics to consider that Arnold may have authored it.
First Lieutenant Winfield Halleck, Philippine scout retired, long confined at the Anacostia asylum in D C, made his twenty first escape by fashioning a wire key from a baseball mask. He slipped past three attendants and a doctor and planned to reach Atlantic City to visit his mother before being recaptured in Baltimore. He had repeatedly escaped for about two years and warned officials he would continue to flee.
Rear Admiral Robly D. Evans in Los Angeles reportedly walked without crutches after a one hour treatment by R. G. Poyle who claims healing powers. The healer allegedly chanted and used hands on the admiral, restoring motion to his left great toe and right thumb after two years of disability.
An American plans a 100 acre island pheasant farm near Kingston in Canada to raise 4000 to 5000 English golden pheasants. He claims the birds can be prevented from flying far and the surrounding water isolates the farm on the Thousand Islands.
William Doig of London promotes a chloride poultice that allegedly draws tuberculosis from affected organs through a near body ulcer. A 17 year old patient reportedly recovered. six new cases will be tested at a private hospital with $10,000 budget under expert supervision.
A letter mailed from Abbeville Georgia to only Sky of Tufts U S A was delivered to Irving Tolles a Tufts junior. Medford Massachusetts post office names Sky as Tolles nickname and forwards the missive to his frat house where Tolles confirms the intended recipient.
Under the will of Charles B. Ellis, a Philadelphia street railway man who died by suicide on April 6, more than 2.5 million dollars is left to establish a home for fatherless girls. The estate, probated recently, provides for his widow, married daughter, and household staff, then directs the residue to fund the home named Charles E. Ellis Home For Fatherless Girls. It is to be run similarly to Girard College for Boys in Philadelphia.
The District Court of the Sixth Judicial District in Sweet Grass County Montana summons Ben Rody to answer Gertrude Rody’s divorce complaint. Grounds include willful desertion habitual intemperance extreme cruelty and desire for dissolution of marriage. First publication April 21 1909.
In Sweet Grass County Montana the Sixth Judicial District hears a petition by Thomas Dooley heir at law of Mary Dooley Stevens for distribution of her estate. A hearing is set for June 28 1909 at 10 a m at the Big Timber Court House to determine the lands Lot 20 Block 21 Big Timber.
An electric organ is described with vibrators replacing reeds, and switches and magnets driving the mechanism. The invention suggests a new method for producing organ tones using electrical components.
The town council on May 3 1909 adopted a resolution standardizing water rate payments to the town treasurer. Rates are due by the 10th of January April July and October with disconnection after delinquency. The treasurer will report delinquents and receipts quarterly. signatures John F. Asbury and E C Hale. First publication May 12.
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