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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1897
Page
2
The piece mocks racial violence and a weather theory by comparing a hypothetical burning incident to a newspaper commissioner collecting a statement. It lampoons Li Hung Chang's grand army badge and a theosophist Mrs Besant suggesting burnt butter could stir rain, noting irrigation committees might study it.
An unemployed Chicago man supported two people besides himself, sometimes three, for three months on eighteen dollars. The experience shows how harsh times force thrift and practical budgeting.
The article notes Labouchere’s claim that a woman was cured of kleptomania by a whipping, presenting it as a note of endorsement for the Delaware whipping-post. It adds that the Delaware reforms record is not currently available.
The Duchess of Fife favors a black walnut spinning wheel mounted with brass. Age is no hindrance as a 100 year old wheel remains in excellent working condition. She spins her own yarn and knits golf stockings for her husband to wear with kilts.
The New York Supreme Court Justice Pryor declared marrying a woman solely for her money as infamous. A lawyer argued such motive could elevate a man’s social position, but the judge maintained the ethical breach without evidence of an appeal being filed.
A national movement in Japan pushes meat eating as a patriotic feature. The author notes Japanese imitation of European and American habits, suggesting meat may bring physical and mental gains over rice and cereals, and predicts meat eaters will celebrate if results prove favorable, opposing vegetarians.
The British Post Office Savings Bank completes thirty five years as the Pall Mall Gazette recalls the 1886 quarter century, noting 1861 deposits began with 435 accounts and £951, rising in 1835 to over 6.4 million deposits totaling £15 million, with year end credit of £47.7 million for 3.54 million depositors and 30,597 stockholders holding £2.45 million in government stock.
The Mississippi River rising to 17.7 feet prompts continued vigilance as levees hold. Tunica county reports a major Yazoo delta levee breach threatening Cotton Belt lands from Memphis Bluffs to the Yazoo. Memphis dispatch notes worsening conditions for the poor with thousands sheltering on levees. Rosedale and Tunica aid scarce as water covers dozens of towns.
Ex Lieutenant Governor Percy Daniels leads a Kansan push to tax inordinate wealth and push a constitutional amendment for federal power to levy such taxes. The Kansas Legislature and other states are urged to adopt resolutions, with plans for nationwide organization akin to the Farmers' Alliance, aiming for a nationwide vote by 1900.
Topeka dispatch says Governor Leedy favors directing Kansas spare corn to Mississippi flood victims rather than India. He criticizes England for India’s wealth being taken and opposes aiding famine in India. He believes England can afford to help and supports using Kansas corn at home.
A collage of brief items reports wrecks on the Atlantic coast, athletic club plans in New York, torpedo injuries to sailors, political shifts in Canada and Britain, rail and streetcar developments, school and training fund plans, weather frosts in the American South, mutinies in Morocco, a deadly steelworks wheel burst, horse racing legislation implications, and tax rulings on Missouri banks.
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