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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1896
Page
3
Penloe and companion entered Musser's Mountain area north of Bellefonte seeking huckleberries. After Penloe fell into a pit lined with venomous copperheads, rescuers and Pouch returned at night and, with aid from a search party, burned the pit to roast the snakes alive.
A Mexican vender displayed a nearly black three foot rattlesnake in Pomona captured in a nearby canyon. Observer Jacob Morency, a veteran mining prospector, explains snakes mirror soil colors and recalls other color variants seen in California and Arizona. The rare white specimen sold alive for 25 dollars to King, a collector for eastern institutions.
A quip from the New York Home Journal notes the coming century change as 1900 nears. It questions how to abbreviate the year and imagines the awkwardness of dates like March 14, 1900 versus 1896.
The Burlington Route offers round trip Denver to Milwaukee tickets for 31.00 on August 22 and 23 with return by August 31. Open to the public for the National Republican League meeting, per General Agent W. Vallery.
A reader is invited to write to Pink Pills at P O Box 1802 Philadelphia PA to gain information about benefits and use of Dr Williams Pink Pills values and interest.
Fragmentary dialect lines describe a person not rising from a room and others bringing ice cream to comfort the ailing. The phrases suggest a domestic scene with a somber mood and possible illness as the focus. No clear names or places are identified in the text.
On August 15 17 and 18 Union Pacific will offer Omaha round trip tickets at a single fare. Tickets promise fast time dining cars chair cars Pullman cars and modern accommodations. Ticket office M1 17th St corner Curtin. The health club president has been taken to a sanitarium. Doctors say she broke down keeping flies out of her house.
Proba McKinney runs sixty Maryland farms totaling about 2000 acres and oversees them personally. The text notes a range of unrelated items from political desolation to dubious endorsements and miscellaneous ad copy, reflecting scattered OCR fragments.
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