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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1898
Page
7
A humorous critique questions a candidate’s qualifications for the fire department. The speaker doubts brilliance but suggests the man could still perform well helping to fight a blaze.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets beauty candies as a blood cleansing product. It promises clearer skin and a healthier complexion by purging impurities with easy dosing and a satisfaction guarantee.
A playful line has a tack in a chair declaring it will not be sat upon for long. The cheeky remark adds whimsy to an everyday furniture scene.
A vintage ad touts Cosmos Buttermilk Toilet Soap as making skin soft white and healthy and claims it is sold everywhere while noting a caution that a single whisky can twist some men.
Summary of foreign affairs and incidents including Hawaii paying Japan 75000 indemnity. China ports opened to commerce. England may seize Tien Tsin and Peking. Rome cites pope urging sanction for release of Spanish prisoners. Japan plans a huge hexagonal porcelain pavilion for Paris exposition. Severe floods and landslides near Nainital Kumaon. A tornado sweeps Carmarthenshire causing major damage. A brewery destroyed and European residents escape. Details on army dietary reform plans approved by war department officials.
The stace department reports movements of Mdney Australia and Pekin to San Francisco and plans to organize a new military department near Porto Rico with Gen Brooke in command. McKinley and Faure exchange messages over a cable link, paymasters with 1.5 million dollars to reach Porto Rico to pay troops, Italy sends congratulations for victory, and pension rolls rise to 305,700 with a 12,260 increase.
A roundup of recent disasters and injuries includes Prof Citchfield the balloonist near Jamestown New York likely losing his life. Rail wrecks near Paris claimed seven dead and forty one injured. An elderly German couple suffocated in a Chicago dwelling fire. A cornice collapse in Philadelphia killed four men. James Rewark died from injuries in Idaho Springs after a boxing match with Robert Watkins. Horseman father Bill Daly injured at Sheepshead Bay. Two young farmers drowned in Ottawa Illinois. Two men killed and a third fatally injured by a train near Ellsbury Missouri. A ten year old boy smothered in an oats bin at Dubuque Iowa. Jacob Matheny died during a jury charge at Lancaster Ohio amid a Natural Gas case.
Boxing notes from the era report the Corbett McCoy fight delayed to Oct 1. Timed feats include Star Pointer running a mile in 1 59 1 2 at Joliet and James Ten Eyck winning a three mile single scull for 390 dollars at Nantasket Beach.
Col Hay to serve as secretary of state. Gen Tebernaieff dies at St Petersburg. A viceroy from the sister expected at Curzon home. Mrs Delilah Cromwell dies aged 120 at Table Rock Nebraska. Gen Fitzhugh plans US Senate run from Virginia. Halevy near death in Paris. George W Pullman elopes with Lynch Fernald of Chicago. Brig Gen Bancroft resigns from Seventh Army Corps. Red Cross to begin work in Havana. Stampede to Pine Creek Juneau and SE Alaska. Choctaw freedmen face disfranchisement fears. London Times predicts no Cuba peace soon. Metropolitan Street Railway dividend 11 4 percent due Oct 15. Peace celebrated in Piqua with McKinley telegram. Red Cross lemons to sick soldiers via San Mego. Klondiker: winter exodus from Dawson. Lafayette grave monument proposed for Paris exposition. Cerruti arbitration noted by London Times. San Bernardino hot wave with record temps. Flying squadron to meet Cervera at Southampton.
A chaotic week brings tales of murder in San Francisco and a deranged father, a Detroit counterfeiting raid, a Virginia kidnapping and assault, a Georgia posse confrontation with four killed, a Santa Fe train hold up prevented by guards, a Delaware coroner's inquest into candy poisonings, a sensational shooting cover up in Iowa, a California murder accusation against John W. Henders, and a self defense plea set for arraignment.
The Matthew Byrnes estate plans a fifteen story bachelor apartment building on the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty fifth Street in New York at a budget of 750000 dollars or more. Matthew Byrnes, a successful builder, bought the plot in 1857 for 80000 dollars and it is now valued at about 1000000 dollars.
A German built a bicycle with a nine foot diameter wheel and two riders. The machine is advertised as easy to ride thanks to its scientific construction. The piece also notes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as improving health and urges a bottle for the weak.
A brief quip notes there is only one successful argument with a woman, the Sage states dead silence as the Tyro asks for the answer. The exchange appears in a humorous puckish line.
Wheat at 40 cents a bushel featured with guidance to grow wheat for big profit and samples of Salzer's Red Cross winter wheat 80 bushels per acre along with rye oats clovers and a farm seed catalogue offered for 4 cents postage from John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wis. W D A. The note ends with an unrelated remark about a prisoner seeking bail and sponge cake.
A Philadelphia Bulletin item advertises Cosmo Buttermile Soap as a remedy for a perfect complexion and healthy skin sold everywhere. The note adds a dated social aside about women offering a hand in taxis, reflecting era attitudes.
An advertising note promotes Cascarets candy cathartic as a cure for constipation with a money back guarantee. It mocks that C C C fail and blames bicycles and anti fat for population decline.
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