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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1900
Page
2
The article surveys Chinese secret societies and their goals including expelling the Tartar dynasty and installing a Chinese ruler. It notes groups like the Kolao Hui linked to the Boxer movement, the Hui Hui Jin, White Lotus ties, and the Wei Kenou mystics, with details on origins, structure, and notable figures.
T Fisher Arms, a Green Englishman, reacts with astonishment and disgust after drinking soda water at the St James Hotel Denver. Clerk Dailey explains the drink was offered not forced, while Arms laments soap suds and claims the experience was a prank. Dailey notes Arms’s unfamiliarity with American soda.
The article describes secret Hui societies and their influence on mandarins, including the Triad and Wei Kenou. It notes how such groups leverage protection, blackmail, and political pressure, with details on membership, practices, and historic leaders. A vivid anecdote relates a white lotus member’s wealth and a Western observer’s water-tasting misadventure.
A Scottish lunatic asylum confined madman insisted each day was Christmas and he dined on turkey and plum pudding in his mind, though his real meals were oatmeal porridge served twice daily. He described feasts to attendants and claimed everything he ate tasted of porridge.
A boy reports a dog bit him on the leg about a hundred feet from the barn. The wound is described as dangerous and he gives a shaken account asking what is the matter with him.
The Norwegian iron ship Superb carrying ore valued at 200000 dollars is being escorted to Gibraltar by six seamen from the British vessel Senator. Capt. Jones of the Chiverstone found the abandoned full rigged ship at latitude 36.04 north, longitude 20.04 west on May 24 and reported no distress. The Superb was moving about four knots toward Gibraltar, with signals indicating its destination and no requests for help.
A Buffalo News writer recalls meeting a wealthy Shanghai merchant cyclist. The man rode forward with baggy trousers tucked over knees to protect the chain, wore bare feet on rubber pedals, a large yellow shirt, and a pigtail under a tin-can cap. The observer notes the cyclist’s attire and success in wheeling.
Cape Nome lies on Behring sea shore south of Snake River in Seward peninsula Alaska at 65 N 166 W. From Seattle the sea voyage goes 1900 miles west across the North Pacific to Dutch Harbor then 800 miles north to the gold country, passing the Pribilof seal rookeries along the way.
Captain Alexander Nikolayevitch Ganetsky, late commander of Russian volunteers in the Boer army, belonged to a renowned family. His father was a famed general in the 1877 78 Turkish war.
A testimonial from Miss Mery J. Kennedy of Ar mour & Co. at the Trans Mississippi Exposition in Omaha credits Peruna with curing her summer catarrh by restoring digestion after eight years of dietary disruption. She claims three months on Peruna left her permanently cured and urges others to try the remedy, noting it also purifies blood and supports stomach and liver health. The Peruna Co. offers free samples of "Summer Catarrh."
The excerpt presents a witty London humor exchange where Miss Brown teases Mr. Greene about conversation and her father’s dull listening, noting the father’s delight at being listened to despite his lack of talk. The banter captures comic social dynamics and wit characteristic of Punch.
Notre Dame University in Notre Dame Indiana invites readers to request a free catalog with terms and course details. The ad highlights a thorough preparatory school for all grades and a commercial course for business training, plus St Edward's Hall for younger boys and strong classroom devotion to students. The institution marks fifty six years of active educational work nationwide.
The Boston Post notes Miss Gould uses a distinctive handshake to protect her hand while meeting hundreds. She grips the proffered hand at elbow level, holds briefly, lifts sharply in a near vertical line, then releases. She looks her partner in the eye, leaving most with the sense she enjoys the meeting.
Mr I N Ventor of Waverly claims to have invented a folding bed and asks how to publish the idea in the paper. He suggests folding the paper, unfolding the bed, then wrapping the Baltimore American.
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