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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1902
Page
2
A fragment from Frank H. Sweet in The Ram's Horn reflects on fleeting youth and time. It contemplates how brief life is and the hope to reclaim moments or learn more before years pass.
In a witty 1902 tale, Betty confesses her feigned passion to Mr. Carmichael. He travels from Saxminster to Paris to uncover Captain Archdeane’s fate, learning he wed Mildred Powell in Paris and left for India with their marriage confirmed by letters and family.
A Chicago Record Herald passage recalls a scene where a magazine editor funds a skeptical visitor who asks about a beggar at the door. The editor reveals the man is the department head for a feature on success, kept paid in dribbles to stretch the month, while the editor fears the man may collapse drunk or unconscious at the stairs.
David Williams, publisher of technical and trade newspapers, visited an editor who used the chance to demand wall papering and a new carpet. The editor quipped that he could not work well in a hog pen, prompting Williams to remark that he had never heard such a term applied to a gentleman’s own room.
The article explains the sun’s heat output would require vast energy if sustained, noting the sun’s mass would shrink by about thirty-five meters annually. It projects the solar radius shrinking by .01 percent in two millennia, implying heat could cease long before 10,000,000 years.
A poem by Tom Hood describes watching a loved one breathe through the night. The narrator reflects on shared strength and hope as the patient nears death and wakes to a morning beyond their own. The tone is somber, intimate, and reflective about life and loss.
A schoolboy headed to a party ignored his father's cab instruction in heavy rain. He rode home drenched and explained he rode on top with the driver because riding inside with his father would not be as grand.
The poem speaks of a solitary woman bereft of support yet soothed by nature and memory. A blackbird’s song, a calm lake, honeysuckle, and white doves frame her loneliness. She envisions Christ’s redemptive death and a welcoming gate granting restored youth and happiness beyond sin.
Princess Valerie endures jealousy as Countess Isobel's intrigue threatens her marriage to Duke Fritz. After a prince falls ill, Valerie's composure breaks and she saves the child with the doctor’s aid. The couple’s rift deepens until Isobel’s scheming is exposed, signaling Valerie’s inner awakening.
Poem urging resilience in face of scandal and hardship. The speaker counsels keeping dignity, flashing confidence, and confronting gossip to protect one’s honor and future success.
Minneapolis dramatic critic Miss Janet Priest faced a dare to perform and scored a hit in a Frawley company production. Though urged to pursue acting, she declined and returned to her Tribune duties.
A mining expert testifying under cross examination faces a sharp lawyer who asks about kidney lump ore shapes. The expert replies with wit noting the lumps are long like a head but not as thick, drawing laughter from the court and a proud smile from the witness.
A traveler in Tien-tsin reports the city walls were torn down mainly by former boxers hired for the job. Children taunted the workers with a two line doggerel about cakes and spoiling the wall, reflecting boxerism as a livelihood for many.
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