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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1902
Page
6
Wordsworth recalls a field of daffodils that dance beside a lake. Ten thousand shimmering flowers create a joyful, endless procession. The sight fills the poet with bliss and turns solitude into happiness.
An elderly storyteller recalls a Civil War era tale of a enslaved man Uncle Jess and his son Jim. The master leaves to join Yankee troops, Jess plans escape with the coat, Jim flees into the swamp, pursued by soldiers, and is fatally shot. The slave Jim dies when captured.
The article recalls massive buffalo hunting from 1860s to 1880s with St Louis and other ports shipping millions of robes. It notes 100,000 robes from the fur trade in a year, trains halted to permit buffalo herds, and army reports of vast migrations from Arkansas toward Yellowstone. It cites 31 million buffalo bones shipped from St Louis between 1868 and 1881.
The account highlights Ulysses S. Grant as a decisive leader who acted quickly. Neighbors recall his practical habit of giving orders rather than speaking, exemplified when he directed men to gag and restrain a vicious bull, then left the scene as the mission proceeded.
A New York Times report describes a Houston street saloon where a younger girl, under the influence of dissipation, confronts an older man with a warning to leave and to go home. The bartender notes the younger girl is the older sister.
The Buffalo Commercial recalls Charles A. Dana defining news as priceless detail when a man bites a dog, and contrasts Doc Wood's idea that a dog with a tin can on Broadway is news worth a column. The anecdotes illustrate differing thresholds for a story’s significance.
A West Philadelphia boy questions family ties in a humorous exchange about step relations. He asks why Uncle Will cannot call grandpa father, learns Grandpa isn’t Uncle Will’s father, and puzzlingly concludes about being a half brother as the conversation reveals complex kinship.
The article notes Moscow's population more than doubles in thirty years, reaching about 1.1 million. It compares Moscow’s area to St. Petersburg and other capitals, noting Moscow’s population density is lower than St. Petersburg, Glasgow, London, Berlin, and Paris.
Herr Schuch offers a dictionary of 2 500 insulting expressions, carefully tabulated and classified in five heads including insults for men and women and for groups. The work reflects years of labor and would have been valuable to river pilots and teamsters for finding exact epithets.
Practical home care instructions for ironing a shirt waist with Defiance starch. Tips include damp cloth use, smoothing, rolling, and airing before storage, with steps from back to sleeves and neckband.
The piece notes that Hollander churchgoers smoke in church, a practice seen in parts of South America and Wales as late as 1850. It cites a Welsh church where the communion table sat in the aisle and farmers placed hats on it, lighting pipes at the start of services without reverence.
A French man named Jean Conon from Montlucon wears a remarkable beard. It extends ten feet ten and a half inches, with nearly five feet of it touching the floor when he stands. His mustache ends hang below his waist.
A humorous ad dialogue compares Defiance Starch to a hard to please landlady. The salesman promises one third more for the same money if the product pleases, noting it won’t stick to the front.
An old consumer notice claims deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and a promise of one hundred dollars for any catarrh deafness case not cured, inviting requests for a circulaire from Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. It also includes unrelated product pitches for Ball's Family Pills and Defiance Starch and a humorous dialogue about engagements and Sunday kissing laws.
Customers in Ohio Wisconsin report relief after using Peruna with four bottles. Miss Mamie Groth notes backache and headaches improved. Dr S B Hartman offers free advice on women diseases and personal medical guidance from The Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus Ohio.
An old-time collage of ad blurbs and comic bits shows Defiance starch promising whiter clothes and longer-lasting results while a village scene riffs on weather, medicines, and a cheeky exchange about a questionable proposal.
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