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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1893
Page
6
An advertorial note extols Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative improving health by cleansing the system and easing colds fevers and constipation. It claims the product benefits kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them and warns buyers to purchase only from California Fig Syrup Co with its name on each package.
C H Dear of Washington House Washington Va reports his wife suffered chronic indigestion for years. After trying August Flower, relief was immediate after the first dose and she fully recovered, now weighing 165 pounds and able to eat freely without harm.
A collection of light humor and cartoon captions with playful exchanges among children, parents, and a benevolent editor. Jokes cover runaway plans, propriety, New Year resolutions, garden schemes, rivalries, and a failed stage song, all in a breezy early 20th century tone.
A collage of light verse and comic exchanges on politics safety humor and daily life. Jests touch on legislators pay housekeeping servants pets children and a crafty bank burglar while offering practical tips on drapery and window treatments. Named speakers include Mr Oldtimer Mr Nowadays and Miss Upton among others.
The Notre Dame Scholastic reports Rev A Morrissey C S C is chosen to succeed the late Rev Walsh as president. Morrissey, longtime Notre Dame director of studies since age 12, is praised for intellect leadership and deep devotion to education, with a broad network of supporters nationwide.
The piece explains tallies used in the English exchequer before 1604. Hazel rods bore notches and Roman numerals, split into tally and counter tally halves to record cash value. After the Bank of England, payments moved to the bank and tallies were ordered destroyed, their burning linked to parliamentary fire damage.
A mixed item from a historical newspaper page praising Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for constipation and stomach issues, with contrasting crude purgatives. It also includes brief notes about travel ads for Union Pacific and Catarrh Cure claims, plus assorted anecdotes and college promotions from the era.
The Western Normal College at Lincoln reports seventeen hundred students for the past year, marking it as Lincoln's youngest and largest attendance center. Catalogues and circulars are available from Croan & Kinsley, Lincoln Neb. The piece references travel routes and the appeal of fast trains to Chicago, highlighting quick, single-day trips and the station's busy schedule.
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