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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1899
Page
2
The article notes the sexton’s monthly accounts with wholesalers, a 20 percent commission, and a $10 grave dig fee split in half. It argues the sexton profits from undertaker work without owning a shop, with annual gains around 10000 dollars for a large urban church. It compares tardy payments to a corner grocer and highlights weddings and pew rents as extra income sources.
In Heppner Oregon a collie owned by James Kinney and serving Mr Thomas Quade’s flock aided by guarding and tending a five pup litter seventeen days old. She made eleven trips through snow to care for pups, finally returning with a pup and prompting Kinney to retrieve the rest and shelter them at the farmhouse.
Agnes Neagle, a young Chicago athletic woman, saves mementos from burglars she captures. She has already seized three items a coat tail a hat and a tuft of hair left behind as burglars fled. Neagle volunteers for more cases and may become a special burglar policewoman.
The Trans Siberian route grows toward St Petersburg to Labrador, with 5400 miles planned and Vladivostok and Port Arthur as hubs. Russia and Britain plan heavy fortifications while Port Arthur becomes a major military station and Tallien Wan serves as the commercial terminus. Coal handling is being built, with Russia promising cheap fuel from Chinese mines.
Miss Susan Wymar of Richmond School Chicagoa IL extols Pe ru na for sleepless overwork relief and calls it a faithful friend to health. Mrs Margaretha Dauben Racine Wis says Peruna restores health during life changes and promises to use it if illness returns. A joke line follows about a woman breaking a plate and laughter.
A collage of comical quotes and early 20th century ads. Mentions Allen’s Foot-Ease for foot care and Piso’s Cure for coughs. Includes a jab about a hotel Windsor exit and a joke about a patent lawyer.
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