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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1902
Page
8
A dialogue contrasts crime and punishment with a father claiming penal servitude for life while joking about breaking hearts. Patrick teases his father about theft. a visiting woman learns a jailer describes a murderer as “too sweet to live” in a terse humor piece.
A fledgling actor recalls his stage entrance described in the Baltimore American. He explains he planned stealthy entry and exclamation but acknowledges he spoke as written, lingering on the contrast between intention and outcome.
A short exchange notes a wheel soaking and a tongue in cheek jab about wealth versus character. The line about wealth proves irrelevant if character is lacking, attributed to a New York Herald aside in a period voice.
The St. Louis Special through express of the Northern Pacific and Burlington changes schedule on May 4 improving Northwest to Southeast connections. It now departs Portland at 8 25 a m and stops at Tacoma Seattle Spokane Helena Billings and other cities, offering standard and tourist sleepers dining and chair cars from Portland to Kansas City and St Louis without change. The service remains the sole through train linking the Northwest with the Southeast.
Bluffton citizen BL P Anderson offers a reward to any respectable person who can identify those who mutilate or steal his cattle between Little Timber and Duck Creek. He warns of rascals on the range and pledges justice if they are caught. He notes his brand and 15 years of ownership and asks for reports to protect his stock.
A roundup of diverse personalities and events: Senator Hoar claims youth in the Senate, R Edouard Andre visits Washington to study parks, France’s President Loubet courted by the czar with a possible late May visit, Pablo the Montana cattle baron with 10000 cattle and 180 buffalo, Arnold Scott the blind mail carrier, Dr Fenger the famed surgeon famed for 7000 to 8000 postmortems, Professor Pickering named Carnegie astronomy chief after Harvard tenure, Mime Emoula Calve’s father dies in France, Justice Gray’s retirement due to stroke, Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected Harvard Crimson secretary, and a quip on a young doctor’s haste anecdote.
A dialogue passage presents a serious person taunting a pale young man about seizing chance while his parents favored a different fate. The man laments fate under the handicap of Reginald Claude de Vere Smithers. A separate anecdote from the Washington Star mocks a Sabbath School Teacher and a juvenile’s crude response to anger.
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