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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1902
Page
3
An old column contains testimonials for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound used against menopause symptoms, plus notices about other remedies and products. It includes endorsements from Mrs. E Sayler and references to Mother Gray's Sweet Powders and various promotional lines.
An old advertisement promises a one day cure for colds using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It states all druggists refund money if the remedy fails and lists the price as 25 cents.
London based author publishes a set of satirical literary hints for the rich and cultured. The list, drawn from a German publisher with remarks on dowries books and reviewers, cautions a gentleman against ostentation, shallow reading, and ill use of books.
Mrs Lee S Sanders of Matthews Arkansas recounts kidney trouble improving after using Dodd's Kidney Pills, inspired by reading about cures in an 1908 almanac. She credits the almanac and pills for her recovery and urges others to try the remedy.
A Baltimore Herald quote notes a wife at the seashore who writes for money enclosing a stamped self-addressed envelope and a check already made out for her husband to sign. The speaker praises her wisdom and persistence.
Nearly everyone is suffering from a cold. The best remedy is Cole's Cough Cure marketed by druggists at 25 and 50 cents.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt features a boy and girl exchange about hand finishing shirtwaists and the price, with a quip comparing costs to having laundry work done by steam. The dialogue hints at the era’s domestic labor and gender roles in a street corner exchange.
One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Base powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy and cures swollen hot sweating aching feet ingrowing nails corns and bunions. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 25c. Trial package free by mail Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
A father and son exchange as the boy asks about Peter the Great. The father notes there is another name but says there is no use worrying now. He mentions Peter is out of training, whether dead or not is unclear.
The Woodward Company, the Gratin Commission firm of Minneapolis, promotes a Beautiful Picture at about half-price. It claims to be a legitimate effort to present itself positively to the public as the new crop season begins.
The Baltimore News quotes Deacon Smith and Zeke as they debate a labor-savin' device. The exchange features humor about cussing learned in New York and a mule in the field reacting to the device.
An 1900 advertisement from W. O. Endsley of Vuanburen Indiana praises Piso’s Cures as the best remedy for all throat ailments and other affections, claiming universal efficacy. The note adds a reflective future-ward musing on existence.
An old medical ad lists DN. J. Rindlaub as a specialist in eye ear nose throat and promotes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething pain and wind colic. A proverb notes a wise man is his own best friend and a fool his own worst enemy.
The account from England recalls Alice Ayres who awoke to a blaze in Southwark. She lowered a bed with three children to safety, saving two. she perished after leaping to the pavement and injuring her spine. Her brave act saved two lives and inspired courage.
The article portrays King Oscar as the most democratic monarch, noting his openness and humor. It recounts a visit with botanist M. Bonnier who, unaware of the king’s identity, was invited home for tea. The king jokes about entertaining at the palace gate and continues discussing botany with Bonnier in the afternoon.
A New York shopkeeper near the Waldorf Astoria crafts flowers and leaves from tropical fish scales using durable glue. The craft, once practiced in the West Indies and Florida, yields transparent, vivid pieces that mimic natural flora and gain notable local success.
Mules begin work two or three years earlier than horses and can pull hard by age three. With fair care they remain active for about forty years, sometimes fifty, while requiring far less feed than a horse. Horses reach peak work later and deteriorate sooner, making mules a longer lasting and cheaper draft animal.
Privy Councilor Emanuel Hermann, credited as the originator of the postal card, has died in Vienna after a long career in government service. The announcement notes his significant contributions to international postal history.
A reader claims ordinary hmna beans quench thirst and dandelions purify the blood and tone up the system, presenting folk remedies for wellness.
An Italian captain of the barque Lincelles writes from Pensacola that chronic stomach catarrh faded after using Peruna. A congressional testimonial from J D Botkin praises Peruna and Manalin for stomach catarrh relief, urging readers to seek Dr Hartman’s advice if results are not prompt.
A terse exchange suggests a dull election with troops out and no violence, as a Mississippi congressman asks about the local vote and a New Jersey colleague notes that only a few voters are dead and the scene remained quiet.
There is more Catarrh in this region than other diseases and for years was thought incurable. Hulls Catarrh Cure from Cheney Co Toledo is advertised as the only constitutional treatment taken internally. It claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces with a $1000 offer for cures that fail. Hall’s Family Pills are also recommended.
A heated dialogue unfolds where a mistress asserts control while a cook protests, leading to a sharp exchange about who holds command in the house. The confrontation ends with the mistress asserting authority.
A roundup lists inventors and places by patent title including windmill controller from William Banish Sheldon N D. clothes drainer John Bowman Wessington S C. railway gate Nels Erickson Red Wing Minn. home fastener Joseph Pfremmer Fountain Minn. traction engine Ferdinand Spiering Arlington Minn. garment supporter Augustus Wolvin Duluth Minn. ship construction noted. Lothrop and Johnson, patent attorneys of St Paul Minnesota.
A farmer complains I wish there were a sure plan of yid ding the country of the locusts. The postmaster bets that milliners trimming hats with stuffed locusts would wipe out every hatter inside a hundred years.
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