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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1902
Page
8
A publisher advocates Dr Price's cream of tartar baking powder as standard and warns against using alum baking powders. The note claims alum powders spoil food and endanger health, urging consumers to value health and pay for quality.
The article notes German soldiers receive six cents a day and officers enforce frugal spending. Soldiers must keep funds in a neck bag and inspectors may demand its contents. If spending exceeds means, soldiers are reprimanded and punished to ensure pay covers expenses.
The seventeenth century in Holland saw golf become largely a winter game as Dutch painters captured winter scenes. Painters like Van de Velde Van der Neer Avercamp and Van Goyen depicted golfers in bright skies and drifting clouds among sledding skating and social gatherings.
A Washington Star quip notes a customer asking for a medicine guarantee against side effects while a clerk explains the simple aim of curing a cold. The exchange highlights skeptical expectations about guaranteed outcomes.
A man questions the safety of a splash jump from a tower while the artist defends the stunt as his livelihood. The exchange appears in the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune with a witty retort about making a living from the leap.
In a witty exchange, Amanda rebukes her husband for giving a poor man only 10 cents. The Eminent Philanthropist plays along, noting the sum will become a full $10 when it appears in the anecdote column.
A fragmentary dialogue presents Aunt scolding Willie for taking missionary funds. Willie defends his action by claiming he was “saving the money for the heathen” and that “Grat served” first, revealing domestic tensions over charity and morality.
A fragmentary exchange notes a price of fifty marks for a service then a whispered remark about expensive consequences of mishandling china. The missing context suggests a tension between debt and potential losses over valuables.
The Giant's Causeway lies at the northern edge of County Antrim near Port Rush Ireland. Thousands of basalt pillars form a near perfect jointed structure with shapes from pentagon to octagon and lengths around eighty feet.
A Philadelphia Record clipping quotes a retired shipman who doubts joss is a Chinese word. He cites travel in the Orient and a Han kow priest who says the term stems from the Spanish Dios via missionaries, noting recognition only on China’s seaboard while inland Celestials reportedly know nothing of it.
A Detroit Free Press note contrasts American and European street manners. It says in America a gentleman waits for a bow of recognition before tipping his hat, while in Europe the rule favors the bow by the gentleman first. The piece advises against stopping strangers for chats and cautions against long street conversations.
The text explains coughing uses substantial energy. It cites a German statistician noting a patient coughing every fifteen minutes for ten hours expends about 250 heat units, comparable to three eggs or two glasses of milk. Normal breath exhalation is four feet per second, violent coughs reach 300 feet.
In a domestic exchange, a daughter reports to her father that Mr Nicefellow visited last night and they agreed to stop the parlor clock to save coal gas costs and reduce wear on the mechanism. The father remarks on the idea and the family contemplates economizing.
A French teacher in a large, disorderly school loses temper under heat and unruly pupils. After punishing several boys and sending one to the back, he erupts in a fit and shouts that the entire class should go to the bottom.
A feudal king is urged to have a rival removed though the lord high executioner warns the man is his cousin. The exchange shows palace intrigue and family ties shaping power.
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