12 Oct 1899
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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1899
Page
1
Notices indicate future admission fees of five cents per line for church festivals fairs dances concerts suppers and social events. Personal thanks and obituary poetry listings incur five cents per line or card. ads for profit activities will be charged accordingly.
Budd Drug Co promotes Kodel Dyspepsia Cure as a comprehensive remedy that digests food, heals the stomach, and restores diseased digestion. The ad asserts it is the only remedy doing all three and guarantees permanent relief from dyspepsia.
A veteran horse trainer nicknamed Teddy's Terror shows off a cannibal-like horse named Pete in Washington Square. The ex-soldier demonstrates Pete's apple lure trick to calm the animal as onlookers watch and the driver doubles as narrator. The scene ends with cheers and a playful offer of ten dollars to the trainer.
A laborer recounts his string of failed ventures from Kansas well digging to Illinois lightning rods to Indiana windmills and a chicken venture that left him broke. He quits hard work, now hoping luck will turn up a big reward or inheritance as noted by the New York Sun.
A brief social exchange from the New York World depicts Mrs Breese greeting a distinguished lawyer at a reception. She praises his recovery while he wryly quips about not having “gone to pieces.”
A tea planter with a glass eye sought a day off for shooting. He claimed his eye would watch the workers, placing the eye on a tree stump. The natives pretended to work, then fell asleep once they believed they were unobserved. The tale, sourced from the Chicago Inter Ocean, is recounted with a humorous twist.
In a Chicago Evening News exchange, Tom comments on Miss Teller as having fine intellect while Jack notes her intellect does not match her commercial abilities. The dialogue emphasizes the contrast between mental capacity and business skill.
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