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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1894
Page
7
The article outlines the rise of private detectives targeting married women, shading husbands, and selling reports to clients. Agencies profit from shadowing, with pay tied to the number of men hired. It notes police concern, the role of newspapers, and widespread fraud within detective operations.
A fable contrasts wealth and advertisement with a poor man and a rich man debating fortune. The tale ends noting fortunes reverse over time as both remain. A second vignette features a lawyer explaining his long day as drawing a conveyance to his weary wife, illustrating workplace humor.
A Detroit Free Press quip notes a boy explains his late return home as the result of a misunderstanding about geography. The joke centers on a misspoken term and a teacher keeping him after class.
The article argues post mortem studies show brain-like gray matter cells in blind nerves and suggests touch at finger tips could convey all senses. It asserts thought can occur throughout the body, especially via solar plexus and nerve endings in hands and feet, linking emotion to psychic sensation.
A German tale reports a man bought 1,000 high quality cigars and insured them. After smoking them he claimed 750 marks for total loss. The court ruled for the insured, then the insurer sued for conspiracy. The court sentenced the smoker to three months' imprisonment.
A colorful clipping warns of a barber in Idaho who refuses to shave Indians and mocks government authority. It promotes rye and winter wheat varieties from the John A. Salter Seed Co. and notes new mining news in Denver, a sample map offer, and a dairy separator advertisement with price and mail-in details.
Abolition in Brazil contrasts with ongoing market for baseball players. Ad copy interrupts with unrelated product pitches and humorous lines about laundry soap and tonics. The fragmentary text juxtaposes social change with commercial advertisements amid the era’s media mix.
An old advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets sealed in glass vials for biliousness indigestion and liver disorders. It promotes Dr Sage's Catarrh remedy claiming to cure chronic catarrh with thousands of cured cases and overall relief.
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