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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1900
Page
2
The Washington Post notes a growing trend as travelers southward take up whittling for leisure. Bankers merchants and millionaires shape delicate pieces from laurel and rhododendron wood using knives sandpaper and glass. Knitting needles become carved keepsakes while an old man’s endless chain with revolving bail marks a pinnacle of the craft.
In a famed Crimean War duel, the English 58 pounder Jenny faced a Russian cannon. After synchronized pauses, Jenny's seventh shot toppled the Russian gun, prompting cheers from English sailors and reciprocated respect from the Russians as batteries resumed firing.
Cecil de Theirry notes a belief that the peerage is being Americanized but facts show few transatlantic marriages. Nine peers with American wives and six dowager peeresses total fifteen titled American brides. There are about eighty titled Americans versus twelve thousand peers, with colonial women of title outnumbering Americans by thirteen. nine colonial women are peeresses.
A teacher asks a rhetorical question about fleeing a burning city and a boy answers with a single word. The Washington Star cites a humorous classroom exchange in which a boy blurts Rubber as a reaction to the scenario.
Competition among colleges over shaping the ideal man emphasizes health as foundational. The item extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for regular bowels and a healthy stomach, claiming it prevents malaria fever and ague.
A short comic exchange notes Aunt Hannah wearing glasses straight, wryly contrasting youth and pose. The dialogue hints at expectations of portraiture and sightlines.
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to treat swollen smarting burning sweating feet coins and bunions. It urges shaking into shoes and notes 25 cents at druggists and shoe stores with a free sample offer.
An ad style notice touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy for catarrh, claiming it cleanses blood and mucous surfaces. It offers one hundred dollars to anyone who proves it fails and cites testimonials and multiple product mentions.
A Nebraska contractor Carl T. Roberts cites Peruna as curing his family illnesses including pneumonia pleurisy fever and stomach trouble and saving doctors bills. He states nineteen bottles used and praises the remedy as essential medicine widely trusted in Nebraska. Other letters from Dr Hartman and readers praise Peruna for catarrh and chronic ailments urging its preventative benefits.
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