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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1901
Page
3
A collage of short items notes new amateur methods for printing on cotton from negatives and includes humorous vignettes about lost teeth, health tonics like Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and Garfield Tea, plus comments on washing with Russ’ Bleaching Blue. The West and the nation’s westward progress are celebrated in a poem by F A Murray praising expansion and burgeoning prosperity.
John D. Marberry, an attorney and real estate agent in Archer, contemplates selling out and returning East after a failed boom. He longs for Miss Ola Mann, daughter of a wealthy rancher, whose western charm tests his resolve to stay or depart. The dusty town and stalled development frame a crossroads moment for his future.
Mann, after an avowal failed to win Ola nah, resolves to leave. He inventories his office fixtures and books then crosses to rival Taylor, who owns substantial real estate and is amid the Archer Star copy he took just before the upheaval.
John D. Marberry, amid rumors of Mann’s assignment, renews his grip on Archer by reorganizing his office and pursuing an abstract of the county. He confesses love to Miss Ola Mann, and the pair plan a wedding at Mann's Ranch as Archer grows into a thriving western metropolis with Marberry honored as a prominent local figure.
The sovereigns have never been a favored currency in India among wealthy natives who prefer other forms of wealth. Recently a fad has emerged to use sovereigns as ornaments like earrings and brooches. Memphis, Tennessee is noted as the male metropolis of the South famed for banks and brays.
The article notes a jest about eyeglasses among Tennessee recruits in Nashville and cites Milwaukee's Allis Works building the world’s largest stationary engine for the Manhattan elevated road. It mentions a spectrum of ads and notices from cures, travel deals, and a catarrh remedy, reflecting a busy wartime and consumer-advertising page.
A promotional piece extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female ailments including bladder inflammation and nervous prostration. It cites testimonials from Mrs Mabel Gookin of Mechanic Falls Maine and Mrs J W J of Jamaica Plain Massachusetts praising cures and urging others to try the remedy.
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