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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1898
Page
2
We Have Been Friends Together Poem Fragment
Fragmentary poem recounts long friendship through sun and shade with shared memories from childhood. The speaker notes a cloud over the friend's brow and questions whether a light word can part them, contrasting moments of laughter with fading joy and sorrow.
Insects as gardeners' allies battle pests with parasites
The article describes entomologists using natural parasites and fungi to control caterpillars in parks. Tiny wasp like parasites hatch in caterpillars and consume them, while spraying with gasoline engines and London purple flour mixes also helps. Risks include potential overreach beyond target pests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Odd Charities and Curious Legacies in Brooklyn and Beyond
Queer legacies and pro bate quirks emerge in Brooklyn as disinherited kin seek to overturn a $500,000 will tied to a church rite. Another tale concerns Sir Edward Bates who limited his daughter's income if she stays long in Scotland, while a Mons death leaves a $3,000 legacy to a residuary legatee under strange conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Sir Edward Bates
Mons
Quests and Prized Dinners and Odd Bequests Across Tales
A Paris tale describes five friends dining in black with a dinner plan featuring specific dishes and wine and toasting memory at dessert. A wealthy man leaves a fortune contingent on the heir visiting all countries and writing a book judged by Bonn and Heidelberg professors. In France a snuff loving widow orders tobacco in her coffin and mortuary chamber and tobacco scattered before her funeral procession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonn
Heidelberg
France
How to be Happy The Fairy Oriane
Fairy Oriane travels in a walnut shell carriage through Brocoliande. She returns from a baptism in a honeysuckle wall nest and helps creatures with gifts and kindness. Her good deeds spark happiness and she even makes ripening wheat for a lovers field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oriane
Diggs
Brocoliande
Orlane
Ivy
The Motor Sleigh Promises Horseless Carriage Expansion
A Canadian resident unveils a two seated horseless sleigh with operator rear seat and hand and foot controls. It runs at five to fifteen miles per hour on ordinary roads, uses a wooden rim drive wheel for traction, and claims affordable cost. Factories are planned nationwide to popularize the vehicle.
New Credit System Echoes in Town Bicycle Boom
A town buzzing with bikes hears a dealer joke about his sales boom. A woman asks if he profits, and he riffs on a "Kathleen Mavourneen" hire-purchase principle, implying payments stretch for years. The jest highlights local attitudes toward financing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathleen Mavourneen
Mean Man and biscuits spark a soldier's woes
A humorous exchange revolves around biscuits baked for soldiers, with one character defending the effort and another daringly suggesting the outcome if served to troops. The dialogue hints at wartime morale and kitchen humor.
Visual telegraphy on land and sea advances signaling
A new visual telegraph system by Melvin D Compton of New York claims practical, inexpensive signaling between land and sea. It uses a two row signal board with a keyboard and colored glass, enabling Morse characters to be read from 3 miles or more. Compton reports tests from the Palisades to city hall buildings over six miles with opera glasses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Melvin D. Compton
New York City
Navy Department
Compton
Palisades
Fort Lee
City Hall
Following Storms a Mile High The Mile High Weather Experiment
The United States Weather Bureau plans a high level storm study using 15 to 20 observing stations at about a mile above ground. Simultaneous readings aim to reveal diurnal temperature patterns and storm progress free from ground level disturbances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountains
Alleghenies
Swift Motor Cycle Sets Fast Etampes Chartres Record
Twenty eight motor cycles raced between Etampes and Chartres covering about sixty two miles round trip. The winner, an eight horsepower, two cylinder machine, completed the journey in under two hours by roughly two minutes ten seconds. Speed reached about thirty one and two thirds mph, said to surpass prior road carriage records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etampes
Chartres
France
Photographic Portraits of Wood Reveals Veins in Darkness
A description explains photographing wood in a dark place transfers its grain to a plate. A young larch sample shows distinct rings and veins with no interior detail visible. the method resembles X ray photography but does not reveal inner structures.
Liquid Hydrogen Liquefied by Professor Dewar at Royal Institution
Professor Dewar achieved liquefied hydrogen at the Royal Institution in London on May 10. He obtained about half a wine glassful with a boiling point near 400 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. A tube dipped into the liquid froze atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen instantly, forming solid air. Helium, previously resistant to liquefaction, was also liquefied the same day using liquid hydrogen as the cooling agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewar
Royal Institution
London
Lewar
Beavers Thrive in Washington National Zoo
Regular beaver colonies now established in the National Zoo garden. They build dams and houses, performing life processes as in the wild, while European beavers remain scarce and near extinction. Visitors can watch their ingenious work as they grow tame in the capital garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Den
Washington
Europe
Spectacles for Horses Patent Claims High-Stepping Training
Popular Science News reports new horse spectacles that do not improve sight but make the ground appear nearer. This illusion is said to cause horses to lift high steps and, after training, retain the habit of high stepping.
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John A. Salzer Seed CO
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Wiz
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Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
New York
J. L. Northhcott
Windsor
Ont
Canada
Dr. Kline
R. H. Kiang, Ltd
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Boston
Mas
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FORD
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Thompson
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