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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1900
Page
8
Fragmentary dialogue mentions Miss Highflyer opting to take the Water jump during a hunt dinner scene and Mr Hardryder-Some apollinaris with your tipple. The exchange suggests playful horse racing banter in a social setting.
A discussion of endurance compares the American working man with the Chinese, claiming American workers surpass them as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters surpass other remedies. The Bitters are said to aid digestion relieve constipation prevent malaria and improve general health.
A Philadelphia Press item notes a girl boasting she is a very good listener who loves to hear her own voice.
An advertising note promotes Allen's Foot-Ease as the sole remedy for swollen smarting burning sweating feet corns and bunions. The powder is shaken into shoes, and is sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. A free sample is offered, with a mailing address to Allen S. Olmsted in LeRoy New York.
A Detroit Free Press item notes a census official, Jones Gilbert, reduced town population figures compared with ten years prior, prompting mock exclamations about explosions or wrecks. The piece lampoons the enumeration to highlight counting discrepancies in the era.
An old advertisement touts Cascar ets Candy Cathartic as a universal health aid from headaches to cancer, claiming it cures without pain by regulating bowels. It promotes a 10 cent start and notes the genuine Cascar ets tablets with C. C. C. stamped on each metal box.
The London Mail notes that 400 million Chinese mostly have never practiced kissing. Greetings involve clasped hands raised to the face after which one asks if the other has eaten rice. Deep reverence may involve a kowtow. Some natives view Western kissing as disgusting.
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad offers Home seeker’s excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of July and August to Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Texas for $2.00 extra round trip. Tickets valid fifteen days from sale with stopover privileges in Home seeker territory. Returning tickets valid twenty one days from sale. A wide vestibuled train runs between Chicago and Fort Worth leaving Chicago daily at 1 50 p m with through Pullman sleeping cars and reclining chair cars. For details contact any agent of the railroad or Lt Stone G P and T A Chicago
A brief, dialogue driven exchange where a weary businessman reflects that his son learned the trade by teaching him. The line suggests a generational shift in the establishment and an ironic reversal of roles.
An advertising styled warning extols the global approval of Cascarets Candy Cathartic and warns readers to beware of substitutes sold by indifferent retailers. It argues that fake products aim to profit from credulity and damage a trusted reputation, urging customers to demand genuine Cascarets in metal boxes marked with a long tailed C and CCC on every tablet.
Rome letter reports Pietro Mascagni at work on a new opera titled Vestilla. The prologue with orchestral accompaniment is praised as a fine concept. The seaside scene is near Naples, while Acts unfold in Rome during Tiberius's reign with four dramatis personae Helius Vestius Livius and Canidia.
A concise reflection suggests the first human pair may have formed a friendship rooted in Platonic principles before broader interactions or romantic aspects emerged. The idea frames early human bonds as intellectual companionship.
The article reviews hairy or sand vetch Vicia villosa as a promising fodder plant for cool and dry soils, detailing its origins, winter hardiness, sowing windows, and seeding rates. It also describes minute bark lice on peach trees, advising kerosene emulsion spray, timing, selective targeting, and the need for repeat treatment after two days if any survivors remain.
The text explains how a tree dedicates energy to maturing pits to ensure reproduction, exhausting itself and leaving little strength for the edible fruit. It warns that excess pit production weakens wood, harms winter hardiness, reduces next year’s buds, and may cause limb breakage and an uneven shape unless supportive care is given.
An emergency circular from Prof Geo C Buts of the Pennsylvania Experiment Station warns southeastern Pennsylvania peach trees are heavily infested by a scale insect possibly San Jose scale. The Peach Lecanium forms dark hemispherical bodies about one eighth inch wide on twigs, with eggs numerous beneath. Young insects hatch and move over twigs in thousands.
The July Michigan crop report says apples show improved prospects but some orchard decline from canker worm and twig blight, while peaches look promising in many areas if properly cared for. Averaged prospects: apples 63 percent, peaches 42 percent, pears 52, plums 46, grapes 74, orchards cultivated 37, last spring’s tree setting 85.
Reports from Ohio indicate higher sugar content in beets this year extending the area suitable for sugar beet growth. If beet development continues, land once deemed outside the sugar-making zone may become usable, expanding production beyond historic boundaries.
Some soybean varieties mature seed in Ohio while others do not. Forage varieties grow larger and the beans yield ten to twenty bushels per acre. They are high in protein and can substitute linseed meal in rations. Kansas Experiment Station fed soybeans to hogs to save food per pound of pork, with similar results reported for sheep.
Groessman states that it pays to protect pigs against seasonal extremes. Feeding during the moderate season is more profitable than during very cold weather.
A United States Entomological Report details the gall louse Pempigus populicaulis. It forms globular galls at the leaf stalk junction with a mouthlike underside opening and a large cavity filled with dull-white lice and skins, plus winged lice that are blue-black. The fore wing rib vein is black and thick, measurements are given as 0.10 and wing tips reach 0.15.
From Frankfort April 23 1900 a German consular report analyzes 94 farms in Württemberg with total appraised value $2 970 000 and average $225 per acre. It shows 9 losses and varied returns with 16 earning interest on working capital 19 at 5 percent on working capital plus 3 percent on buildings 50 at 75 percent on working capital and 3 percent on buildings and two cases receiving grand rent up to 5.17 percent.
Sewage farming in England has grown so widespread that its produce now competes with land grown goods at local shows. The Birmingham Drainage farm has earned many prizes for both vegetables and livestock, with potatoes thriving on enriched land.
Advertisement text asserts Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures menstrual irregularity and related female ailments, tones general health, eases nerves, and relieves backaches.
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