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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1894
Page
3
The advertisement touts Fig Syrup as a healthful liquid that cleanses system and bowels, relieving aches and fevers without harsh drugs. It emphasizes its pleasant taste, purity, and patent approval by medical authorities, selling widely at $1 per bottle through California Fig Syrup Co.
A petty thief enters a store in a small Southern town while the owner is away and steals all. A family observing a young black helper is told the moral by a mistress who remarks on the boy’s lack of opportunity and future prospects. The exchange echoes crude stereotypes of the era as Harper's Magazine references surface in dialogue.
The article reports wolf and coyote bounty farming in several western Kansas counties. Last year one county paid over 4000 in wolf scalps and nearly bankrupted the county. Two hunters claim earnings of over 1900 yearly by breeding pests. A fence method keeps pups in, boosting scalps income. The coming legislature may make breeding wolves or coyotes and cross county scalp transfer a misdemeanor.
An odd mix of juvenile questions and dated social musings appears. A two minute boy’s dialogue ponders fur and tails on animals, Santa and sleds, medicine in green bottles, and water flowing to legs. It includes garbled remarks on Darwin and attire.
The passage portraits a beggared railroad receiver and ailing workers facing ruin, urging trust Ester Stomach Bitters as a remedy for malarial fevers, dyspepsia, nervous distress, and fatigue. It appeals to Providence and vigor while warning of bleak health prospects without aid.
Local applications cannot reach the disease seat. Catarrh is treated as a constitutional issue requiring internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is claimed to act on blood and mucous surfaces and is prescribed by leading physicians. It is marketed by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo and sold by druggists.
A collage of humorous maxims and ads from an old newspaper page. Includes quips on eggs and baskets, fortunes of a dog, oyster habits, Rome's Michelangelo, Fourth of July tool losses, kite tails, and a Carson City audience note about Geyserite soap. Also features ads for Hanson’s Magic Corn Salve and Southern California home-seeker appeals.
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