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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1901
Page
8
An exchange item recalls grocers complaining of professional tasters who sample goods from barrels and boxes daily, costing merchants hundreds yearly. It quotes the Bloomington World and blends in a country anecdote about a flood survivors pianist, and a nostalgic Purloined tale about a bootjack memory.
The article extols a merry heart as medicine for pain and sorrow. It asserts those who keep cheer through adversity inspire confidence and comfort others, noting both men and women benefit from hopeful, bright bearing. It ends with a call to cultivate this joy from birth.
The article notes a growing fad for collecting hotel bills of fare from special occasions. Hotels receive numerous requests, from locals and via mail, for artistic menus. Prices vary, menus often serve as souvenirs, and managers sometimes give them freely to advertise. Women lead the trend, though some men collect as well.
Frank Wilbert Stokes argues in the Saturday Evening Post that the expedition commander must choose men carefully, favoring wiry, physically capable, sanguine individuals. He notes Kane's resilience despite health issues, Peary's endurance, and the mind as the decisive factor in enduring polar hardship.
An English writer in the London Spectator calls Washington clean and beautiful and lauds Massachusetts Avenue as an exemplary residential street. He praises American domestic architecture for comfort and beauty, noting green lawns and tasteful gables, porches, and trees, with more charm than New York or Chicago.
Elizabeth Woodcock was trapped in a Cambridge snowdrift for eight days and nights after she signalled for aid with a handkerchief tied to a twig. She lacked food and was found alive, surviving the ordeal by six months. A Piedmont case recalls three women buried in a stable wreck by snow for thirty-seven hours who also survived.
President Fred M. Warner told the Michigan State Dairymen's association that farmers from the southern counties are abandoning rural life. He cited a population loss and an exodus to cities as twenty eight counties with about 40,000 rural residents last decade show no profit in farming.
Highlights include Montana’s 30 million acres of unoccupied public land, McKinley’s promise to open Buffalo Pan American Exposition on May 20, West Virginia’s $5,000 statue appropriation for Pierpont in Statuary Hall, and reports on injuries, weapons, and industry. Also noted are whisky import rules, Frank Rockefeller’s Texas cattle ranch, pension distributions, and Civil War veteran demographics by region.
The Epworth League convenes in San Francisco July 18 to 21 while the International Christian Endeavor convention gathers in Cincinnati July 6 to 10. Nationalities are shown in Endeavor World anniversary pictures. Endeavorers in Topeka aided a sick girl, raising 100 for her care and home. Dr. J Wilbur Chapman led a New York church group furnishing reading matter for Manila transports. A bronze tablet marks the Endeavor birthplace in Portland Me as leaders assembled for a four day national convention. Kentucky prisoners joined in a Christian Endeavor service with 1700 Christmas letters from state Endeavorers.
A compact, period sense guide on proper book care from Arthur L. Humphreys. It warns against bending pages and marking titles and urges careful handling to preserve volumes for future readers.
The Philadelphia Times notes machine stitching remains popular for spring street wear. Gowns use broadcloths and wash silks in many forms while India and China silks rival satin foulards. Summer shirts favor stripes and small figures in linen or silk. madras remains striped with bright contrasts. Pastel shades fade from use, renamed bonbon tints like soft blues greens reds and browns. A Scots lover scene closes with a playful quip on romance.
The notice promotes Second Hand Store items including nails wagon covers tents and farm land bargains with C B Thoman and Cal Downing for draying Also mentions Thoman as fire insurance agent and farm risks Dr A W Seabury physician offices in Irwin building East Main Street and endorses HERBINE tonic medicine at 50 cents by I H Myers
An old time medicinal ad claims a cold can be cured in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It notes refunds if the remedy fails and features E. W. Grove’s signature on each box. The price is 25 cents.
White s Cream Vermifuge claims to destroy worms and boost health in infants while advertising a 25 cent price from I H Myers. Also an offer of a first class water right in Fort Lyon Canal by B Tuoman. TABLER S BUCKEYE PILE OINTMENT sells for 50 cents in bottles and 75 cents in tubes, with I H Myers promoting relief for female weakness and piles.
An old travel pitch touts quick earnings in California through citrus groves vineyards ranches beet sugar oil wells and mines. It claims a 25 fare on the most direct line with departures on any Tuesday until April 30 and directs readers to inquire at De pot.
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets to cure a cold in one day with no cure no pay. It also promotes HERBINE for appetite and digestion, claiming it provides tone and vigor. I. H. Myers sells both products at 25 and 50 cents respectively.
Starting Tuesday March 12 the Santa Fe will run a stock train every Tuesday and Saturday from La Junta to Lamar, 1 p.m. to 2:45 p.m., carrying only stock. An annual Hot Springs Mexico tour fare is 14.70 round trip with a 90 day limit. Side trips from La Junta include Pueblo 2.60, Colorado Springs 4.35, Denver 7.25, 60 day limit with northbound stopovers. For details contact G J Garvin, Agent.
Travel deal offers $25 to California with weekly departures every Tuesday through April 30. Tickets are valid in tourist sleepers and reclining chair cars. Experience California scenery and buy tickets at the depot.
For sale or trade. South 14 of Lot 9 Block 10 and North 1 cent Lot 6 Block 16 in Samar. For details contact C. C. Miles in Pueblo Colorado.
Advertisement claims neuralgic pains rheumatism lumbago and sciatic pains yield to the penetrating influence of Ballard's Snow Liniment priced at 25 or 50 cents sold by I. H. Myers.
G. T. Feast advertises as the agent for reliable hail insurance for Prowers and eastern Bent county. See him before buying. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and BAL LARD'S HOREHOUND SYRUP priced at 25 and 50 cents is recommended. I. H. Myers.
The signature on every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo Quinine T claims to set the remedy that cures a cold and boosts immune day.
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